What a buyer sees
C.G.MURRAY & SON LIMITED
Dispensing chemist in specialised stores · Manchester · 00647407
221staff · FY2022
66years trading
—oldest owner on file
£3.4Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£7.6Mfor the year to 2022
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
Staff221
2021214 → 2212022
Cash at bank£3.4M
2021£3.4M → £3.4M2022
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£34,289below almost all
£95,753£142,090£223,271
Debtor daysdays168above almost all
263053
Creditor daysdays155
284463
Stock daysdays71above almost all
131935
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 6
- The newest accounts on file are 45 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- 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.
- 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.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 168 against 30 for the middle of 33 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 71 against 19 for the middle of 38 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
- 66 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 74since 2021
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-11-30 | £7.6M | 221 | £3.4M |
| 2021-11-30 | £21M | 214 | £3.4M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£1.9M£3.8M
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.