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What a buyer sees

M.PRICE LIMITED

Glazing · Northampton · 00604114

127staff · FY2021
68years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.7Mcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£29Mfor 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£228,595in the top quarter
£228,595
£44,226£138,517£327,235
Debtor daysdays27in the middle half
27
113559
Creditor daysdays47
47
122558
Stock daysdays1below almost all
1
51248

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 64 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

  • 68 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
  • Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 228,594 against 138,517 for the middle of 39 comparable companies.
  • Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 1 against 12 for the middle of 30 comparable companies.
  • A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.

What the register says

Owners

Nobody recorded with significant control.

Directors

  • 54since 1996
  • 49since 2004
  • since 2006
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2021-04-30£29M127£1.7M

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.7× sales
£12M
£20M

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.

Goes to one inbox. No list, no sequence, and we will not pass it on. We buy companies as well as advise on them, so if yours is one we would be interested in, we will tell you that before anything else happens.