What a buyer sees
DEAN FOREST RAILWAY COMPANY LIMITED
Passenger rail transport, interurban · Lydney · 01576461
6staff · FY2024
45years trading
—oldest owner on file
£454kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£972kfor the year to 2024
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
Staff6
20226 → 62024
Cash at bank£454k
2022£262k → £454k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£161,950in the top quarter
£10,980£40,603£330,505
Debtor daysdays9below almost all
1035122
Creditor daysdays11
925113
Stock daysdays6in the bottom quarter
516138
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 29 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 7 to 6A 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 4
- 45 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 161,950 against 40,603 for the middle of 438 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 8 against 35 for the middle of 347 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 6 against 16 for the middle of 66 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 71since 2012
- 70since 2018
- 43since 2021
- 33since 2024
- 84since 2024
- 68since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £972k | 6 | £454k |
| 2023-03-31 | £976k | 7 | £309k |
| 2022-03-31 | £786k | 6 | £262k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£390k£870k
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.