What a buyer sees
VICON INDUSTRIES LIMITED
Manufacture of other electrical equipment · Southampton · 01551194
11staff · FY2023
45years trading
—oldest owner on file
£387kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£2.7Mfor 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
Staff11
202110 → 112023
Cash at bank£387k
2021£226k → £387k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£244,727in the middle half
£97,477£168,845£471,920
Debtor daysdays48in the middle half
3064107
Creditor daysdays6
103173
Stock daysdays112in the top quarter
1780171
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 35 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 112 against 80 for the middle of 66 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 1
- 45 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 40since 2020
- 58since 2022
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-30 | £2.7M | 11 | £387k |
| 2022-09-30 | £1.6M | 11 | £92k |
| 2021-09-30 | £2.8M | 10 | £226k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£1.1M£2.4M
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.