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What a buyer sees

GHEKKO LIMITED

Wholesale of electronic and telecommunications equipment and parts · Macclesfield · 02660956

24staff · FY2023
35years trading
59oldest owner on file
£458kcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£9.9Mfor 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

Staff24
202128 → 242023
Cash at bank£458k
2021£682k → £458k2023

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£413,067in the middle half
£413,067
£243,167£533,700£1,075,455
Debtor daysdays33in the bottom quarter
33
1462123
Creditor daysdays7
7
82977
Stock daysdays170above almost all
170
951128

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 4

  • 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.
  • Headcount fell from 28 to 24A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
  • Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 170 against 51 for the middle of 38 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

  • 35 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 33 against 62 for the middle of 40 comparable companies.

What the register says

Owners

  • 59since 2016

Directors

  • 59since 1991
  • since 2008
  • 60since 2020
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-12-31£9.9M24£458k
2021-12-31£13M28£682k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.35–0.55× sales
£3.5M
£5.5M

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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