What a buyer sees
PROFILE BOOKS LIMITED
Book publishing · London · 03120147
64staff · FY2024
31years trading
—oldest owner on file
£12Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£24Mfor 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
Staff64
202363 → 642024
Cash at bank£12M
2023£8.6M → £12M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£367,248in the top quarter
£14,762£136,270£435,530
Debtor daysdays73in the middle half
1361113
Creditor daysdays24
929100
Stock daysdays29in the bottom quarter
1660345
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 2
- The newest accounts on file are 29 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- 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
- 31 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 367,248 against 136,270 for the middle of 47 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 29 against 60 for the middle of 44 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 69since 1996
- 46since 2023
- 59since 2024
- 56since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £24M | 64 | £12M |
| 2023-03-31 | £19M | 63 | £8.6M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£9.4M£21M
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.