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What a buyer sees

WDJ LIMITED

Other service activities n.e.c. · Belfast · NI047824

134staff · FY2023
23years trading
57oldest owner on file
£1.2Mcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£56Mfor 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

Staff134
2022138 → 1342023
Cash at bank£1.2M
2022£1.3M → £1.2M2023

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£416,522in the top quarter
£416,522
£37,711£134,349£421,751
Debtor daysdays9below almost all
9
174687
Creditor daysdays67
67
132773
Stock daysdays87above almost all
87
62282

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

  • The newest accounts on file are 41 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.
  • A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
  • Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 86 against 22 for the middle of 55 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 3

  • 23 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
  • Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 416,522 against 134,349 for the middle of 112 comparable companies.
  • Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 9 against 46 for the middle of 91 comparable companies.

What the register says

Owners

  • 57since 2016

Directors

  • since 2003
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-03-31£56M134£1.2M
2022-03-31£41M138£1.3M

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.9× sales
£22M
£50M

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.

Tell us the rest

Your turnover is on file, but the things that set a price are not: margin, customer concentration, who would run it next. Tell us where you are and we will read it properly.

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