What a buyer sees
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Wholesale of hardware, plumbing and heating equipment and supplies · Ardrossan · SC121685
43staff · FY2023
37years trading
79oldest owner on file
£403kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£11Mfor 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
Staff43
202146 → 432023
Cash at bank£403k
2021£623k → £403k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£256,621in the middle half
£164,704£318,647£587,390
Debtor daysdays17below almost all
245387
Creditor daysdays34
143760
Stock daysdays132in the top quarter
2762132
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 132 against 62 for the middle of 71 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
- 37 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 17 against 53 for the middle of 69 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 79since 2018
Directors
- 63since 1999
- 54since 2018
- 55since 2018
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £11M | 43 | £403k |
| 2022-12-31 | £12M | 42 | £772k |
| 2021-12-31 | not filed | 46 | £623k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£3.9M£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.