What a buyer sees
JAMES LEWIS LIMITED
Temporary employment agency activities · Hampton · 05194170
18staff · FY2025
22years trading
52oldest owner on file
£5.2Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£16Mfor the year to 2025
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
Staff18
202122 → 182025
Cash at bank£5.2M
2021£2.1M → £5.2M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£896,633above almost all
£12,863£365,915£891,661
Debtor daysdays26in the bottom quarter
255073
Creditor daysdays2
81745
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
637138
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 last accounts went in 12 months after year endThe allowance is nine. A buyer reads a late filing as a question about the finance function rather than about the trading.
- One director on the registerA buyer's first question about a company run by one person is what happens to it if that person stops. It is usually the first thing priced.
- 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 4
- 22 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 16 to 18Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 896,633 against 365,915 for the middle of 82 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 26 against 50 for the middle of 58 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 52since 2016
Directors
- 52since 2005
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-31 | 2026-08-01 | £16M | 18 | £5.2M |
| 2023-07-31 | — | not filed | 16 | £2.2M |
| 2022-07-31 | — | not filed | 15 | £2.3M |
| 2021-07-31 | — | not filed | 22 | £2.1M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.15–0.3× sales£2.4M£4.8M
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.