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What a buyer sees

NEIL SULLIVAN & SONS LIMITED

Renting and leasing of construction and civil engineering machinery and equipment · Bromley · 04288372

12staff · FY2023
25years trading
56oldest owner on file
£3kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

9.1× spread
£787k
£7.1M

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: 2 figures against 52 companies in the same trade. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.

What your filings show moving

Staff12
20215 → 122023
Cash at bank£3k
2021£134k → £3k2023

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£114,646£198,081£570,143
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
286189
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
1331102
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
637138

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 5

  • 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 £787k and £7.1M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • The newest accounts on file are 35 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.
  • Headcount fell from 14 to 12A 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 1

  • 25 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.

What the register says

Owners

  • 56since 2016

Directors

  • 56since 2001
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-09-29not filed12£3k
2022-09-30not filed14£48k
2021-09-30not filed5£134k

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.

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