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What a buyer sees

DEVONCOURT HOTELS LIMITED

Hotels and similar accommodation · Exmouth · 00849026

36staff · FY2024
61years trading
90oldest owner on file
£169kcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£1.5Mfor 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.

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£41,033in the middle half
£41,033
£29,898£61,265£204,705
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
71368
Creditor daysdays43
43
1023117
Stock daysdays2below almost all
2
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 last accounts went in 20 months after year endThe allowance is nine. A buyer reads a late filing as a question about the finance function rather than about the trading.
  • The newest accounts on file are 20 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
  • Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
  • 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

  • 61 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
  • Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 6 for the middle of 184 comparable companies.

What the register says

Owners

  • 73since 2016
  • 90since 2016
  • 78since 2016

Directors

  • 90
  • 78
Accounts on public record
Year toFiledTurnoverStaffCash
2024-12-312026-09-08£1.5M36£169k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.9× sales
£590k
£1.3M

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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