What a buyer sees
DACO SCIENTIFIC LIMITED
Manufacture of computers and peripheral equipment · Aldermaston · 02151964
73staff · FY2023
39years trading
77oldest owner on file
£2.3Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£9.7Mfor 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
Staff73
202175 → 732023
Cash at bank£2.3M
2021£6.1M → £2.3M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£132,271in the middle half
£88,871£162,513£362,127
Debtor daysdays102above almost all
265687
Creditor daysdays17
143363
Stock daysdays200above almost all
1245115
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
- 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.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 102 against 56 for the middle of 2,030 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 200 against 45 for the middle of 2,028 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- 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
- 39 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
- 63since 2016
- 67since 2016
- 77since 2016
Directors
- 65since 2002
- 63since 2002
- since 2002
- 38since 2024
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-30 | £9.7M | 73 | £2.3M |
| 2022-09-30 | £6.8M | 73 | £4.2M |
| 2021-09-30 | £9.3M | 75 | £6.1M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£3.9M£8.7M
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.