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What a buyer sees

VALENTINE EQUIPMENT LIMITED

Wholesale of other machinery and equipment · Reading · 00589763

12staff · FY2023
69years trading
70oldest owner on file
£2.2Mcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

8.7× spread
£723k
£6.3M

You file abbreviated accounts, as almost every company your size does, so the profit and loss account is not on public record. That band is what your balance sheet implies to anyone who looks: 4 figures against 81 companies in the same trade. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.

What your filings show moving

Staff12
20218 → 122023
Cash at bank£2.2M
2021£2.3M → £2.2M2023

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£113,986£253,764£722,745
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
3062109
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
103775
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
2062141

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

  • Your turnover is not on fileYou file abbreviated accounts, as most companies your size do, so a buyer cannot see what the business turns over and has to estimate it. Working only from what you filed, the range lands between £723k and £6.3M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • The newest accounts on file are 34 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 2

  • 69 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
  • Headcount grew from 10 to 12Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.

What the register says

Owners

  • 70since 2016
  • 58since 2023

Directors

  • 72since 2005
  • since 2019
  • 58since 2023
  • 44since 2024
  • 70since 2024
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-10-31not filed12£2.2M
2022-10-31not filed10£2.4M
2021-10-31not filed8£2.3M

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.

Close the gap

The range above exists because your turnover is not on public record. Tell us what it actually is and we will place you exactly against your trade, and send it back.

Goes to one inbox. No list, no sequence, and we will not pass it on. We buy companies as well as advise on them, so if yours is one we would be interested in, we will tell you that before anything else happens.