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What a buyer sees

PATON CAPITAL LIMITED

Activities of head offices · Camberley · 07453589

22staff · FY2024
16years trading
60oldest owner on file
£776kcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£14Mfor 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.

What your filings show moving

Staff22
202222 → 222024
Cash at bank£776k
2022£592k → £776k2024

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£629,282in the top quarter
£629,282
£39,757£148,370£807,775
Debtor daysdays46in the middle half
46
1957131
Creditor daysdays36
36
102481
Stock daysdays13in the bottom quarter
13
734122

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 29 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
  • Headcount fell from 29 to 22A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
  • 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 3

  • Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 629,282 against 148,370 for the middle of 505 comparable companies.
  • Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 13 against 34 for the middle of 119 comparable companies.
  • A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.

What the register says

Owners

  • 60since 2016

Directors

  • 54since 2010
  • 60since 2010
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2024-03-31£14M22£776k
2023-03-31£10M29£210k
2022-03-31£14M22£592k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.8–2× sales
£11M
£28M

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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