What a buyer sees
AUSCOT HOLDINGS LIMITED
Activities of head offices · Hawkhurst · 02145699
39staff · FY2023
39years trading
50oldest owner on file
£1.5Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£42Mfor 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
Staff39
202241 → 392023
Cash at bank£1.5M
2022£1.3M → £1.5M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£1,072,469above almost all
£39,757£148,370£807,775
Debtor daysdays43in the middle half
1957131
Creditor daysdays34
102481
Stock daysdays79in the top quarter
734122
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.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 79 against 34 for the middle of 119 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 2
- 39 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 1,072,469 against 148,370 for the middle of 505 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 50since 2021
Directors
- 70since 2010
- 50since 2010
- 48since 2022
- 69
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £42M | 39 | £1.5M |
| 2022-12-31 | £47M | 41 | £1.3M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.8–2× sales£33M£84M
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.