What a buyer sees
SMITH & SONS (BLETCHINGTON) LIMITED
Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds · Oxford · 00430620
122staff · FY2022
79years trading
68oldest owner on file
£9.0Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£37Mfor the year to 2022
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£302,626in the middle half
£63,258£224,820£685,018
Debtor daysdays65in the top quarter
153776
Creditor daysdays15
112574
Stock daysdays17below almost all
2061205
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 3
- The newest accounts on file are 53 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 65 against 37 for the middle of 54 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 2
- 79 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 17 against 61 for the middle of 67 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 66since 2016
- 66since 2016
- 59since 2016
- 68since 2016
Directors
- 66since 1995
- 68since 1995
- 65since 2019
- 54since 2020
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-31 | £37M | 122 | £9.0M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£15M£33M
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.