What a buyer sees
MACLEAN PLASTERING COMPANY LIMITED
Plastering · Inverness · SC154514
7staff · FY2023
32years trading
52oldest owner on file
£192kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£2.0Mfor 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
Staff7
202111 → 72023
Cash at bank£192k
2021£109k → £192k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£283,071in the top quarter
£14,600£72,080£515,127
Debtor daysdays19in the middle half
112389
Creditor daysdays20
824104
Stock daysdays8in the bottom quarter
839429
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
- 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.
- 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.
- Headcount fell from 9 to 7A 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 3
- 32 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 283,071 against 72,080 for the middle of 1,435 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 8 against 39 for the middle of 647 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 52since 2021
Directors
- 52since 2020
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £2.0M | 7 | £192k |
| 2022-12-31 | not filed | 9 | £158k |
| 2021-12-31 | not filed | 11 | £109k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.7× sales£790k£1.4M
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.