What a buyer sees
PRINCE PETROLEUM LIMITED
Wholesale of petroleum and petroleum products · Melton Mowbray · 00749966
28staff · FY2024
63years trading
—oldest owner on file
£629kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£89Mfor the year to 2024
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
Staff28
202118 → 282024
Cash at bank£629k
2021£252k → £629k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£3,169,868above almost all
£87,459£464,006£1,513,474
Debtor daysdays31in the middle half
154790
Creditor daysdays24
102974
Stock daysdays0below almost all
1150141
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 26 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 4
- 63 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 21 to 28Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 3,169,868 against 464,006 for the middle of 1,880 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 0 against 50 for the middle of 1,657 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 31since 2020
- 43since 2020
- 55since 2020
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-30 | £89M | 28 | £629k |
| 2022-06-30 | £67M | 21 | £207k |
| 2021-06-30 | £39M | 18 | £252k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£31M£49M
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.