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What a buyer sees

PORTLAND STONE FIRMS LIMITED

Quarrying of ornamental and building stone, limestone, gypsum, chalk and slate · Portland · 02912016

69staff · FY2023
32years trading
82oldest owner on file
£679kcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£4.6Mfor 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.

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£67,020below almost all
£67,020
£102,684£207,025£441,872
Debtor daysdays54in the middle half
54
335787
Creditor daysdays30
30
152872
Stock daysdays123above almost all
123
721111

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 42 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 122 against 21 for the middle of 31 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

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

What the register says

Owners

  • 69since 2023
  • 55since 2023
  • 64since 2023
  • 82since 2016
  • 72since 2016

Directors

  • since 2014
  • 39since 2019
  • 55since 2023
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-03-31£4.6M69£679k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.9× sales
£1.9M
£4.2M

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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