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What a buyer sees

ETHSTAT ETHICAL STATIONERY C.I.C.

Agents involved in the sale of a variety of goods · Croydon · 08161334

6staff · FY2021
14years trading
58oldest owner on file
£471kcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£372kfor the year to 2021

Unusual at this size, and it works in your favour: a buyer is reading your number rather than guessing at one.

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£61,950in the middle half
£61,950
£13,917£152,993£575,900
Debtor daysdays95in the top quarter
95
1246112
Creditor daysdays2
2
1023193
Stock daysdays42in the middle half
42
1847148

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 61 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 95 against 46 for the middle of 50 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 0

Nothing stands out yet from the filings alone.

What the register says

Owners

  • 58since 2016
  • 55since 2021

Directors

No current directors loaded.

Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2021-07-31£372k6£471k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.35–0.55× sales
£130k
£200k

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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