What a buyer sees
MERCURY SECURITY & FACILITIES MANAGEMENT LIMITED
Private security activities · Lisburn · NI054346
532staff · FY2023
21years trading
—oldest owner on file
£224kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£15Mfor 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
Staff532
2021474 → 5322023
Cash at bank£224k
2021£13k → £224k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£28,158in the middle half
£12,504£39,548£214,578
Debtor daysdays79in the middle half
165792
Creditor daysdays18
82174
Stock daysdays4in the bottom quarter
4933
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 32 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.
- 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
- 21 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 474 to 532Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 4 against 9 for the middle of 31 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 39since 2010
- since 2022
- 29since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £15M | 532 | £224k |
| 2021-12-31 | £11M | 474 | £13k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£6.0M£13M
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.