What a buyer sees
SOUTHEND UNITED FOOTBALL CLUB LIMITED(THE)
Operation of sports facilities · Benfleet · 00089767
98staff · FY2023
120years trading
—oldest owner on file
£88kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£2.9Mfor 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
Staff98
2020142 → 982023
Cash at bank£88k
2020£8k → £88k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£29,867in the bottom quarter
£24,143£43,524£78,280
Debtor daysdays34in the middle half
82489
Creditor daysdays303
112681
Stock daysdays2below almost all
51129
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 newest accounts on file are 38 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- Headcount fell from 121 to 98A 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
- 120 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 11 for the middle of 52 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 44since 2024
- 58since 2024
- 45since 2024
- since 2024
- 39since 2024
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-31 | £2.9M | 98 | £88k |
| 2022-07-31 | £3.4M | 121 | £19k |
| 2021-07-31 | £4.0M | 122 | £24k |
| 2020-07-31 | £5.1M | 142 | £8k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£1.2M£2.6M
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.