What a buyer sees
THE TODD GROUP LIMITED
Activities of head offices · Watford · 05264188
97staff · FY2023
22years trading
52oldest owner on file
£1.1Mcash 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.
What your filings show moving
Staff97
202185 → 972023
Cash at bank£1.1M
2021£484k → £1.1M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£205,250in the middle half
£57,344£130,826£323,155
Debtor daysdays6below almost all
2061109
Creditor daysdays13
82162
Stock daysdays99in the top quarter
730102
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 3
- 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.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 99 against 30 for the middle of 138 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
- 22 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 6 against 61 for the middle of 479 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 52since 2016
- 50since 2016
Directors
- 52since 2004
- since 2019
- 50since 2019
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £20M | 97 | £1.1M |
| 2022-12-31 | £19M | 91 | £292k |
| 2021-12-31 | £15M | 85 | £484k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.8–2× sales£16M£40M
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.