What a buyer sees
ASHILL LAND LIMITED
Buying and selling of own real estate · Chertsey · 08680344
5staff · FY2023
13years trading
53oldest owner on file
£1.9Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£350kfor 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
Staff5
20219 → 52023
Cash at bank£1.9M
2021£3.9M → £1.9M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£70,000in the middle half
£8,700£69,917£849,783
Debtor daysdays2below almost all
1036215
Creditor daysdays24
926233
Stock daysdays5376above almost all
28225807
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 4
- The newest accounts on file are 35 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 6 to 5A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 5,376 against 225 for the middle of 108 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
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 36 for the middle of 193 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 53since 2016
Directors
- 53since 2013
- 46since 2013
- 76since 2013
- 47since 2018
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-30 | £350k | 5 | £1.9M |
| 2022-09-30 | £45M | 6 | £3.7M |
| 2021-09-30 | £14M | 9 | £3.9M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
3–8× sales£1.1M£2.8M
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.