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What a buyer sees

OGDENS SCAFFOLDING SERVICES LIMITED

Scaffold erection · Devon · 05891680

7staff · FY2023
20years trading
57oldest owner on file
£767kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

10.1× spread
£136k
£1.4M

You file abbreviated accounts, as almost every company your size does, so the profit and loss account is not on public record. That band is what your balance sheet implies to anyone who looks: 2 figures against 49 companies in the same trade. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.

What your filings show moving

Staff7
20216 → 72023
Cash at bank£767k
2021£564k → £767k2023

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£41,722£109,162£460,236
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
2056108
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
101740
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
839429

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

  • Your turnover is not on fileYou file abbreviated accounts, as most companies your size do, so a buyer cannot see what the business turns over and has to estimate it. Working only from what you filed, the range lands between £136k and £1.4M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • The newest accounts on file are 35 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
  • 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

  • 20 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
  • A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.

What the register says

Owners

  • 57since 2016
  • 56since 2016

Directors

  • 57since 2006
  • 56since 2006
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-09-30not filed7£767k
2022-09-30not filed7£636k
2021-09-30not filed6£564k

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.

Close the gap

The range above exists because your turnover is not on public record. Tell us what it actually is and we will place you exactly against your trade, and send it back.

Goes to one inbox. No list, no sequence, and we will not pass it on. We buy companies as well as advise on them, so if yours is one we would be interested in, we will tell you that before anything else happens.