What a buyer sees
WESTCOTTS (SW) LLP
Exeter · OC432402
229staff · FY2024
6years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.1Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£16Mfor the year to 2024
Unusual at this size, and it works in your favour: a buyer is reading your number rather than guessing at one.
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£71,697in the middle half
£19,100£114,401£651,101
Debtor daysdays75in the top quarter
1245110
Creditor daysdays9
102888
Stock daysdays0below almost all
738149
Each spread is companies in the same trade and size that did publish a turnover. Creditor days are shown but not marked: neither end of that one is plainly good.
What a buyer would ask 4
- The newest accounts on file are 29 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 75 against 45 for the middle of 24,350 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- No website on file against the companyThe first thing anyone does with a company number is look for the business behind it. Finding nothing is its own answer.
What a buyer would like 1
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 0 against 38 for the middle of 14,704 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 59since 2020
- 56since 2020
- 48since 2021
- 55since 2022
- 51since 2022
- 58since 2022
- 58since 2022
- 56since 2022
- 39since 2022
- 38since 2022
- 57since 2022
- 52since 2022
- 52since 2022
- 63since 2022
- 57since 2022
- 42since 2022
- 44since 2022
- 64since 2022
- 59since 2022
- 65since 2022
- 59since 2022
- 38since 2022
- 41since 2023
- 34since 2023
- 39since 2023
- 48since 2023
- 41since 2024
- 42since 2024
- 33since 2025
- 55since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £16M | 229 | £1.1M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£6.6M£15M
The turnover range is fitted on UK companies that did file one. The multiple is a published sector average from Dutch mid-market deals, not from your own numbers and not from your own market. Treat this as the opening bracket of a conversation, not a valuation.