What a buyer sees
WATCH GURU LIMITED
Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet · Salisbury · 03510181
4staff · FY2024
28years trading
59oldest owner on file
£4.1Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£11Mfor 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
Staff4
20223 → 42024
Cash at bank£4.1M
2022£3.7M → £4.1M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£2,771,375above almost all
£10,768£61,150£492,693
Debtor daysdays37in the middle half
823149
Creditor daysdays2
1024128
Stock daysdays358in the top quarter
1279468
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.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 358 against 79 for the middle of 173 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 2
- 28 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2,771,375 against 61,150 for the middle of 108 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 59since 2016
Directors
No current directors loaded.
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £11M | 4 | £4.1M |
| 2023-03-31 | £21M | 4 | £3.9M |
| 2022-03-31 | not filed | 3 | £3.7M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£2.8M£5.5M
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.