What a buyer sees
AL. MURAD D.I.Y. LIMITED
Retail sale of hardware, paints and glass in specialised stores · Leeds · 02635068
181staff · FY2023
35years trading
45oldest owner on file
£2.9Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£39Mfor 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
Staff181
2022183 → 1812023
Cash at bank£2.9M
2022£8.4M → £2.9M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£214,939in the middle half
£98,596£257,484£692,330
Debtor daysdays16in the bottom quarter
123977
Creditor daysdays29
133163
Stock daysdays64in the middle half
1248117
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 41 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 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 16 against 39 for the middle of 1,162 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 45since 2021
Directors
- since 2005
- 45since 2021
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-03-31 | £39M | 181 | £2.9M |
| 2022-03-31 | £40M | 183 | £8.4M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£9.7M£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.