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What a buyer sees

THE LUCKY ONION LLP

Cheltenham · OC356004

106staff · FY2024
16years trading
61oldest owner on file
£346kcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£6.6Mfor 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

Staff106
2023124 → 1062024
Cash at bank£346k
2023£320k → £346k2024

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£61,951in the middle half
£61,951
£19,100£114,401£651,101
Debtor daysdays4below almost all
4
1245110
Creditor daysdays53
53
102888
Stock daysdays7in the bottom quarter
7
738149

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 29 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
  • Headcount fell from 124 to 106A 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 2

  • Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 4 against 45 for the middle of 24,350 comparable companies.
  • Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 7 against 38 for the middle of 14,704 comparable companies.

What the register says

Owners

  • 61since 2016
  • 40since 2025

Directors

  • 61since 2010
  • since 2010
  • 40since 2026
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2024-03-31£6.6M106£346k
2023-03-31£7.1M124£320k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.9× sales
£2.6M
£5.9M

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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