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What a buyer sees

JOSH'S CARE COMPANY LTD

Residential care activities for learning difficulties, mental health and substance abuse · Lincoln · 12362176

268staff · FY2026
7years trading
—oldest owner on file
£867kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

4.3× spread
£2.7M
£12M

You file abbreviated accounts, as almost every company your size does, so the profit and loss account is not on public record. That band is what your balance sheet implies to anyone who looks: 3 figures against 108 companies in the same trade. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.

What your filings show moving

Staff268
202144 → 2682026
Cash at bank£867k
2021£121k → £867k2026

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£22,399£41,450£66,966
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
82460
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
7920
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
620142

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

  • 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. Working only from what you filed, the range lands between £2.7M and £12M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • 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 144 to 268Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.

What the register says

Owners

Nobody recorded with significant control.

Directors

  • 57since 2019
  • 60since 2022
Accounts on public record
Year toFiledTurnoverStaffCash
2026-03-312026-09-10not filed268£867k
2024-03-31—not filed144£492k
2023-03-31—not filed68£298k
2021-12-31—not filed44£121k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.9× sales
£1.1M
£11M

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.

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.