What a buyer sees
ROOFING MEGASTORE LIMITED
Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet · Banbury · 07784484
9staff · FY2025
15years trading
—oldest owner on file
£385kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£4.4Mfor the year to 2025
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
Staff9
202124 → 92025
Cash at bank£385k
2021£2.6M → £385k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£487,700in the top quarter
£10,768£61,150£492,693
Debtor daysdays1below almost all
823149
Creditor daysdays56
1024128
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
1279468
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
- Headcount fell from 19 to 9A 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 2
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 487,700 against 61,150 for the middle of 108 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 1 against 23 for the middle of 56 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 58since 2011
- 29since 2025
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-09-15 | £4.4M | 9 | £385k |
| 2023-12-31 | — | not filed | 19 | £651k |
| 2022-08-31 | — | not filed | 24 | £1.7M |
| 2021-08-31 | — | not filed | 24 | £2.6M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£1.1M£2.2M
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.