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What a buyer sees

SEAFOOD TRADING LIMITED

Hotels and similar accommodation · Padstow · 03031916

398,000staff · FY2023
31years trading
79oldest owner on file
£530kcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£20Mfor 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.

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£51below almost all
£51
£40,411£48,015£81,664
Debtor daysdays4below almost all
4
71368
Creditor daysdays13
13
112039
Stock daysdays15in the top quarter
15
4634

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 4

  • The newest accounts on file are 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
  • A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
  • Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 15 against 6 for the middle of 184 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
  • 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

  • 31 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 4 against 13 for the middle of 252 comparable companies.

What the register says

Owners

  • 79since 2017
  • 79since 2017

Directors

  • 79since 1995
  • 79since 1995
  • 41since 2020
  • 47since 2020
  • 46since 2020
  • 42since 2023
  • 41since 2026
  • 49since 2026
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-12-31£20M398000£530k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.9× sales
£8.1M
£18M

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.

Tell us the rest

Your turnover is on file, but the things that set a price are not: margin, customer concentration, who would run it next. Tell us where you are and we will read it properly.

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