What a buyer sees
M.R.S. SCIENTIFIC LIMITED
Wholesale of pharmaceutical goods · Leigh-On-Sea · 03217552
12staff · FY2024
30years trading
74oldest owner on file
£873kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£4.4Mfor 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
Staff12
202114 → 122024
Cash at bank£873k
2021£379k → £873k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£362,592in the bottom quarter
£262,123£642,600£1,529,295
Debtor daysdays27below almost all
3555103
Creditor daysdays41
103090
Stock daysdays22in the bottom quarter
1741104
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 25 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 3
- 30 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 27 against 55 for the middle of 35 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 22 against 41 for the middle of 36 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 74since 2016
- 73since 2016
Directors
- 73since 1996
- 50since 2017
- 46since 2017
- 40since 2017
- 38since 2017
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-07-31 | £4.4M | 12 | £873k |
| 2023-07-31 | £4.5M | 13 | £1.0M |
| 2022-07-31 | £3.7M | 14 | £690k |
| 2021-07-31 | £3.4M | 14 | £379k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£1.5M£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.