What a buyer sees
CHRYSTAL CONSULTING LIMITED
Financial leasing · Cheadle · 03438042
22staff · FY2023
29years trading
—oldest owner on file
£13Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£75Mfor 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
Staff22
202115 → 222023
Cash at bank£13M
2021£2.5M → £13M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£3,396,886above almost all
£65,401£187,221£689,307
Debtor daysdays36in the middle half
1148227
Creditor daysdays40
925293
Stock daysdays5below almost all
637132
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 4
- 29 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 19 to 22Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 3,396,886 against 187,221 for the middle of 282 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 5 against 37 for the middle of 50 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 58since 2020
- 64since 2023
- since 2023
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £75M | 22 | £13M |
| 2022-12-31 | £71M | 19 | £11M |
| 2021-12-31 | £75M | 15 | £2.5M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
1.5–4× sales£112M£299M
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.