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What a buyer sees

ACL AUTO REPAIRS LIMITED

Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles · Dudley · 11662207

4staff · FY2025
8years trading
38oldest owner on file
£40kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

4.9× spread
£59k
£291k

You file abbreviated accounts, as almost every company your size does, so the profit and loss account is not on public record. That band is what your balance sheet implies to anyone who looks: 4 figures against 188 companies in the same trade and size. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.

What your filings show moving

Staff4
2021442025
Cash at bank£40k
2021£58k£40k2025

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£15,916£61,763£114,818
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
1034104
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
92395
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
622120

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

  • Your turnover is not on fileYou file abbreviated accounts, as most companies your size do, so a buyer cannot see what the business turns over and has to estimate it. Working only from what you filed, the range lands between £59k and £291k. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • Headcount fell from 5 to 4A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
  • 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 0

Nothing stands out yet from the filings alone.

What the register says

Owners

  • 38since 2018
  • 38since 2018

Directors

No current directors loaded.

Accounts on public record
Year toFiledTurnoverStaffCash
2025-11-302026-08-26not filed4£40k
2023-11-30not filed5£6k
2022-11-30not filed4£83k
2021-11-30not filed4£58k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.40.9× sales
£20k
£260k

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.

Close the gap

The range above exists because your turnover is not on public record. Tell us what it actually is and we will place you exactly against your trade, and send it back.

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