What a buyer sees
SPEEDIER SCAFFOLDING LIMITED
Scaffold erection · Bolton · 01609213
76staff · FY2024
44years trading
63oldest owner on file
£204kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£5.8Mfor the year to 2024
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
Staff76
202264 → 762024
Cash at bank£204k
2022£99k → £204k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£76,112in the middle half
£41,722£109,162£460,236
Debtor daysdays4below almost all
2056108
Creditor daysdays7
101740
Stock daysdays0below almost all
51785
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 29 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.
- 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 3
- 44 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 4 against 56 for the middle of 49 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 0 against 17 for the middle of 400 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 63since 2016
Directors
- 63since 1996
- 61since 2018
- 66since 2018
- 62since 2018
- 64since 2018
- since 2018
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £5.8M | 76 | £204k |
| 2023-03-31 | £5.6M | 78 | £143k |
| 2022-03-31 | £5.2M | 64 | £99k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.7× sales£2.3M£4.0M
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.