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What a buyer sees

THE PROFITABLE FIRM LTD

Other service activities n.e.c. · Manchester · 10026597

13staff · FY2024
10years trading
—oldest owner on file
£200kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over, including us

unknowable
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We size companies from the rest of the balance sheet. For this one, what you have filed does not narrow it to anything worth quoting, and we would rather say so than put a number here. That is the position every buyer looking at you is in, and they price uncertainty rather than ask about it.

What your filings show moving

Staff13
20229 → 132024
Cash at bank£200k
2022£275k → £200k2024

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£29,383£100,320£558,377
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
113377
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
103361
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
71498

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

  • 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. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • The newest accounts on file are 29 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.
  • 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

  • Headcount grew from 11 to 13Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.

What the register says

Owners

Nobody recorded with significant control.

Directors

  • 50since 2016
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2024-03-31not filed13£200k
2023-03-31not filed11£209k
2022-03-31not filed9£275k

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.