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What a buyer sees

JAMES GALT & CO. LIMITED

Manufacture of other games and toys, n.e.c. · Cheadle · 00135476

41staff · FY2021
112years trading
74oldest owner on file
£565kcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£21Mfor the year to 2021

Unusual at this size, and it works in your favour: a buyer is reading your number rather than guessing at one.

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£505,500in the top quarter
£505,500
£75,818£268,200£906,093
Debtor daysdays132above almost all
132
225592
Creditor daysdays70
70
113064
Stock daysdays96in the top quarter
96
1049126

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 5

  • The newest accounts on file are 56 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
  • A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
  • Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 132 against 55 for the middle of 905 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
  • Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 96 against 48 for the middle of 890 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 2

  • 112 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
  • Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 505,500 against 268,200 for the middle of 1,029 comparable companies.

What the register says

Owners

  • 74since 2019

Directors

  • since 2020
  • since 2022
  • 57since 2026
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2021-12-31£21M41£565k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.9× sales
£8.3M
£19M

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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