What a buyer sees
PETERS LIMITED
Non-specialised wholesale trade · 02452340
95staff · FY2022
37years trading
—oldest owner on file
£2.3Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£15Mfor the year to 2022
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 youSales per employee£162,046in the bottom quarter
£121,758£262,690£455,471
Debtor daysdays27in the bottom quarter
195078
Creditor daysdays27
113257
Stock daysdays17below almost all
2052120
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 52 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
- 37 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 50 for the middle of 118 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 17 against 52 for the middle of 124 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 54since 2009
- 42since 2020
- 50since 2020
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-04-30 | £15M | 95 | £2.3M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£5.4M£8.5M
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.