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What a buyer sees

SMEATON SERVICES (FIFE) LTD

Other engineering activities · Kirkcaldy · SC701265

12staff · FY2024
5years trading
61oldest owner on file
£432kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

11.1× spread
£582k
£6.5M

You file abbreviated accounts, as almost every company your size does, so the profit and loss account is not on public record. That band is what your balance sheet implies to anyone who looks: 2 figures against 40 companies in the same trade and size. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.

What your filings show moving

Staff12
202225 → 122024
Cash at bank£432k
2022£446k → £432k2024

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£81,769£150,730£471,809
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
1566140
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
102550
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
63197

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

  • Your turnover is not on fileYou file abbreviated accounts, as most companies your size do, so a buyer cannot see what the business turns over and has to estimate it. Working only from what you filed, the range lands between £582k and £6.5M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • The newest accounts on file are 26 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
  • Headcount fell from 18 to 12A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
  • 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 0

Nothing stands out yet from the filings alone.

What the register says

Owners

  • 56since 2021
  • 61since 2026

Directors

  • 56since 2021
  • 61since 2024
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2024-06-30not filed12£432k
2023-06-30not filed18£672k
2022-06-30not filed25£446k

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.

Close the gap

The range above exists because your turnover is not on public record. Tell us what it actually is and we will place you exactly against your trade, and send it back.

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