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What a buyer sees

MOTOCADDY LIMITED

Manufacture of sports goods · Bishops Stortford · 05181858

45staff · FY2023
22years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.9Mcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£19Mfor the year to 2023

Unusual at this size, and it works in your favour: a buyer is reading your number rather than guessing at one.

What your filings show moving

Staff45
202145 → 452023
Cash at bank£1.9M
2021£2.0M → £1.9M2023

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£416,376in the middle half
£416,376
£75,818£268,200£906,093
Debtor daysdays17below almost all
17
225592
Creditor daysdays12
12
113064
Stock daysdays32in the middle half
32
1049126

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 2

  • The newest accounts on file are 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
  • 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 2

  • 22 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
  • Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 17 against 55 for the middle of 905 comparable companies.

What the register says

Owners

Nobody recorded with significant control.

Directors

  • 64since 2006
  • 61since 2011
  • 58since 2019
  • 66since 2019
  • 45since 2020
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-12-31£19M45£1.9M
2021-12-31£35M45£2.0M

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.9× sales
£7.5M
£17M

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.

Prepared by Qapital from public records, against 105,750 companies that did publish a turnover. No figure here was supplied by the company and none of it is advice. What it is missing is everything that actually sets a price: profitability, contracts, customer concentration, and whoever would run it next.

Tell us the rest

Your turnover is on file, but the things that set a price are not: margin, customer concentration, who would run it next. Tell us where you are and we will read it properly.

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