What a buyer sees
AJS PROPERTY MAINTENANCE LTD
Other building completion and finishing · Exeter · 04986238
1staff · FY2023
23years trading
60oldest owner on file
—cash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£207kfor 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
Staff1
20211 → 12023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£207,100in the top quarter
£11,786£64,580£404,006
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
102997
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
82274
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
533368
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.
- Headcount fell from 2 to 1A 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 2
- 23 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 207,100 against 64,580 for the middle of 94 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 60since 2016
Directors
No current directors loaded.
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £207k | 1 | — |
| 2022-12-31 | £76k | 2 | — |
| 2021-12-31 | £56k | 1 | — |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.7× sales£80k£140k
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.