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What a buyer sees

SULLIVAN BUS & COACH LIMITED

Other urban, suburban or metropolitan passenger land transport (not underground, metro or similar) · Brighton · 03574547

285staff · FY2021
28years trading
64oldest owner on file
£400kcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£15Mfor the year to 2021

Unusual at this size, and it works in your favour: a buyer is reading your number rather than guessing at one.

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£51,052in the bottom quarter
£51,052
£31,820£93,809£191,788
Debtor daysdays8below almost all
8
235477
Creditor daysdays30
30
102955
Stock daysdays7in the middle half
7
41165

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 3

  • The newest accounts on file are 56 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
  • The register shows an owner past retirement age and little elseWithout directors on file, a buyer cannot tell who actually runs the business day to day.
  • 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

  • 28 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 8 against 54 for the middle of 66 comparable companies.

What the register says

Owners

  • 64since 2016

Directors

No current directors loaded.

Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2021-12-31£15M285£400k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.9× sales
£5.8M
£13M

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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