What a buyer sees
PENTLAND HOMES LIMITED
Construction of domestic buildings · Folkestone · 01031651
37staff · FY2024
55years trading
53oldest owner on file
£1.9Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£21Mfor the year to 2024
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
Staff37
202257 → 372024
Cash at bank£1.9M
2022£5.2M → £1.9M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£565,768in the middle half
£24,070£474,623£1,956,335
Debtor daysdays3below almost all
92760
Creditor daysdays12
122962
Stock daysdays762in the top quarter
10192799
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 31 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 53 to 37A 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 762 against 192 for the middle of 38 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 2
- 55 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 3 against 26 for the middle of 30 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 53since 2016
Directors
- 53since 1997
- 53since 2003
- 53since 2019
- 62since 2022
- since 2022
- 46since 2022
- 49since 2023
- 87
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-31 | £21M | 37 | £1.9M |
| 2023-01-31 | £51M | 53 | £4.7M |
| 2022-01-31 | not filed | 57 | £5.2M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.2–0.45× sales£4.2M£9.4M
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.