What a buyer sees
OSPREY SHIPPING LIMITED
Sea and coastal freight water transport · Bristol · 01440983
34staff · FY2021
47years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.6Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£6.8Mfor the year to 2021
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 youSales per employee£200,706in the middle half
£103,366£523,088£2,669,000
Debtor daysdays87in the top quarter
1441118
Creditor daysdays77
92277
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
41464
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 65 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 87 against 41 for the middle of 63 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 1
- 47 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 60since 1998
- since 2024
- 39since 2026
- 38since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-03-31 | £6.8M | 34 | £1.6M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£2.7M£6.1M
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.