What a buyer sees
V12 SPORTS & CLASSICS LTD
Sale of used cars and light motor vehicles · Hinckley · 05861786
215staff · FY2023
20years trading
49oldest owner on file
£2.9Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£196Mfor 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
Staff215
2021157 → 2152023
Cash at bank£2.9M
2021£773k → £2.9M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£909,347in the top quarter
£39,863£390,230£1,676,333
Debtor daysdays1below almost all
72180
Creditor daysdays5
81982
Stock daysdays64in the middle half
2260189
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 32 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 4
- 20 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 158 to 215Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 909,347 against 390,230 for the middle of 162 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 1 against 21 for the middle of 55 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 49since 2016
Directors
- 49since 2006
- since 2008
- 64since 2018
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £196M | 215 | £2.9M |
| 2022-12-31 | £166M | 158 | £3.1M |
| 2021-12-31 | £177M | 157 | £773k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£78M£176M
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.