What a buyer sees
LOWESTOFT OFFSHORE SERVICES LIMITED
Repair of electrical equipment · Lowestoft · 01644630
21staff · FY2023
44years trading
43oldest owner on file
£504kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£3.2Mfor 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.
What your filings show moving
Staff21
202113 → 212023
Cash at bank£504k
2021£212k → £504k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£150,833in the middle half
£23,514£114,789£461,859
Debtor daysdays73in the middle half
225592
Creditor daysdays32
113064
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
1049126
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 39 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 1
- 44 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
- 43since 2020
- 41since 2020
- 40since 2020
Directors
No current directors loaded.
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-05-31 | £3.2M | 21 | £504k |
| 2022-05-31 | £2.3M | 21 | £349k |
| 2021-05-31 | £2.0M | 13 | £212k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£1.3M£2.9M
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.