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What a buyer sees

ESOS ENERGY LTD

Other business support service activities n.e.c. · Bristol · 09341763

16staff · FY2024
12years trading
56oldest owner on file
£294kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

8.6× spread
£578k
£4.9M

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: 3 figures against 254 companies in the same trade and size. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.

What your filings show moving

Staff16
202213 → 162024
Cash at bank£294k
2022£158k → £294k2024

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£41,286£229,589£1,187,347
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
1451109
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
92679
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
744146

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 4

  • 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 £578k and £4.9M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • 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.
  • A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
  • 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

  • Headcount grew from 13 to 16Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
  • A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.

What the register says

Owners

  • 56since 2016

Directors

  • 56since 2014
  • 45since 2014
  • 46since 2014
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2024-03-31not filed16£294k
2023-03-31not filed13£432k
2022-03-31not filed13£158k

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.