What a buyer sees
BUSINESS OIL PLATFORM LIMITED
Wholesale of petroleum and petroleum products · London · 06956515
5staff · FY2023
17years trading
47oldest owner on file
£20Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£232Mfor the year to 2023
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
Staff5
20217 → 52023
Cash at bank£20M
2021£12M → £20M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£46,368,620above almost all
£19,007£90,760£837,682
Debtor daysdays16in the bottom quarter
1042130
Creditor daysdays14
929126
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
1051263
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 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 6 to 5A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- 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
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 46,368,620 against 90,760 for the middle of 1,713 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 16 against 42 for the middle of 1,141 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 47since 2017
Directors
- 47since 2015
- 42since 2019
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £232M | 5 | £20M |
| 2022-12-31 | £304M | 6 | £21M |
| 2021-12-31 | £259M | 7 | £12M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£81M£128M
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.