What a buyer sees
STONE HARDY LIMITED
Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles · Stanstead Abbotts · 02171820
124staff · FY2023
39years trading
90oldest owner on file
£56kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£11Mfor 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
Staff124
2021126 → 1242023
Cash at bank£56k
2021£184k → £56k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£90,426below almost all
£92,614£133,647£252,522
Debtor daysdays60in the top quarter
163968
Creditor daysdays29
203358
Stock daysdays35in the middle half
62371
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 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 60 against 39 for the middle of 57 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- 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 1
- 39 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
- 90since 2016
Directors
- since 2007
- 58since 2019
- 55since 2023
- 43since 2025
- 90
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £11M | 124 | £56k |
| 2021-12-31 | £10.0M | 126 | £184k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£4.5M£10M
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.