What a buyer sees
CLAYMORE HOMES LIMITED
Construction of commercial buildings · Aberdeenshire · SC315255
58staff · FY2023
19years trading
—oldest owner on file
£606kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£13Mfor 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
Staff58
202167 → 582023
Cash at bank£606k
2021£2.0M → £606k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£225,205in the middle half
£151,371£336,133£959,123
Debtor daysdays0below almost all
123474
Creditor daysdays40
183880
Stock daysdays655above almost all
525634
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 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 65 to 58A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 655 against 25 for the middle of 40 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
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 0 against 34 for the middle of 106 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 48since 2008
- 51since 2012
- 48since 2018
- 43since 2018
- since 2020
- 52since 2020
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £13M | 58 | £606k |
| 2022-12-31 | £20M | 65 | £581k |
| 2021-12-31 | £18M | 67 | £2.0M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.2–0.45× sales£2.6M£5.9M
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.