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What a buyer sees

RUTHIN CASTLE HOTEL LTD

Hotels and similar accommodation · Ruthin · 09077120

68staff · FY2021
12years trading
—oldest owner on file
£73kcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£2.4Mfor 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 you
Sales per employee£34,821in the bottom quarter
£34,821
£34,449£52,234£92,550
Debtor daysdays26in the top quarter
26
71234
Creditor daysdays22
22
92050
Stock daysdays2below almost all
2
4632

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 56 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
  • One director on the registerA buyer's first question about a company run by one person is what happens to it if that person stops. It is usually the first thing priced.
  • Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 26 against 12 for the middle of 136 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

  • Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 6 for the middle of 123 comparable companies.

What the register says

Owners

Nobody recorded with significant control.

Directors

  • 54since 2019
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2021-12-31£2.4M68£73k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.9× sales
£950k
£2.1M

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.

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.

Tell us the rest

Your turnover is on file, but the things that set a price are not: margin, customer concentration, who would run it next. Tell us where you are and we will read it properly.

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