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What a buyer sees

SWAIN TRANSPORT LTD

Freight transport by road · Brigg · 07445072

16staff · FY2024
16years trading
77oldest owner on file
£695kcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£1.3Mfor 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

Staff16
202215 → 162024
Cash at bank£695k
2022£624k → £695k2024

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£79,519in the bottom quarter
£79,519
£63,749£242,467£1,106,886
Debtor daysdays29in the bottom quarter
29
245486
Creditor daysdays19
19
92547
Stock daysdays2below almost all
2
41036

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 2

  • 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.
  • 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

  • Headcount grew from 14 to 16Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
  • Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 29 against 54 for the middle of 71 comparable companies.
  • Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 10 for the middle of 64 comparable companies.
  • A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.

What the register says

Owners

  • 77since 2016

Directors

  • 54since 2010
  • 58since 2010
  • 78since 2010
  • 77since 2010
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2024-03-31£1.3M16£695k
2023-03-31£1.3M14£663k
2022-03-31£1.2M15£624k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.9× sales
£510k
£1.1M

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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