What a buyer sees
MA EDUCATION & MUSIC LIMITED
Publishing of consumer and business journals and periodicals · London · 04002826
56staff · FY2023
26years trading
—oldest owner on file
£856kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£7.3Mfor 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.
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£130,841in the middle half
£17,433£102,976£251,616
Debtor daysdays58in the middle half
1352133
Creditor daysdays6
82384
Stock daysdays1below almost all
62386
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 2
- The newest accounts on file are 41 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
- 26 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 1 against 23 for the middle of 109 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 69since 2000
- 82since 2000
- 81since 2000
- 51since 2005
- 65since 2012
- 53since 2013
- 48since 2013
- 53since 2014
- 41since 2018
- 38since 2023
- 51since 2024
- 64since 2024
- 62since 2024
- 48since 2024
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-03-31 | £7.3M | 56 | £856k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£2.9M£6.6M
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.