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What a buyer sees

LIGHTWOOD CONSTRUCTION LIMITED

Construction of commercial buildings · London · 07769526

8staff · FY2024
15years trading
52oldest owner on file
£36kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

11.2× spread
£174k
£1.9M

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: 3 figures against 96 companies in the same trade and size. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.

What your filings show moving

Staff8
202114 → 82024
Cash at bank£36k
2021£25k → £36k2024

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£12,128£47,400£449,791
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
92999
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
82378
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
112499

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 5

  • 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 £174k and £1.9M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • The newest accounts on file are 29 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
  • One director on the registerA buyer's first question about a company run by one person is what happens to it if that person stops. It is usually the first thing priced.
  • Headcount fell from 10 to 8A 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

  • 48since 2018
  • 52since 2016

Directors

  • 52since 2011
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2024-03-31not filed8£36k
2023-03-31not filed10£37k
2022-03-31not filed11£44k
2021-03-31not filed14£25k

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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