← Look up another company

What a buyer sees

ACT ASSOCIATES LIMITED

Book publishing · Stourbridge · 02606201

11staff · FY2024
35years trading
72oldest owner on file
£193kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

10.1× spread
£195k
£2.0M

You file abbreviated accounts, as almost every company your size does, so the profit and loss account is not on public record. That band is what your balance sheet implies to anyone who looks: 3 figures against 39 companies in the same trade. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.

What your filings show moving

Staff11
202213 → 112024
Cash at bank£193k
2022£155k → £193k2024

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£14,762£136,270£435,530
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
1361113
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
929100
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
1660345

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 5

  • Your turnover is not on fileYou file abbreviated accounts, as most companies your size do, so a buyer cannot see what the business turns over and has to estimate it. Working only from what you filed, the range lands between £195k and £2.0M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • The newest accounts on file are 27 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
  • Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
  • Headcount fell from 13 to 11A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
  • 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

  • 35 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.

What the register says

Owners

  • 72since 2016
  • 66since 2025

Directors

  • 72
  • 66
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2024-05-31not filed11£193k
2023-05-31not filed13£159k
2022-05-31not filed13£155k

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.

Close the gap

The range above exists because your turnover is not on public record. Tell us what it actually is and we will place you exactly against your trade, and send it back.

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.