What a buyer sees
R.J. PARKER & SON LIMITED
Photographic activities not elsewhere classified · Southampton · 00899218
9staff · FY2024
59years trading
83oldest owner on file
£16kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£203kfor the year to 2024
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
Staff9
20220 → 92024
Cash at bank£16k
2022£24k → £16k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£22,511in the bottom quarter
£13,430£52,888£374,443
Debtor daysdays2below almost all
1348186
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
930166
Stock daysdays90in the top quarter
632182
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 31 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 90 against 32 for the middle of 232 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 4
- 59 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 8 to 9Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 48 for the middle of 1,163 comparable companies.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
- 83since 2016
- 56since 2017
Directors
- 56since 2010
- 83
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-31 | £203k | 9 | £16k |
| 2023-01-31 | not filed | 8 | £25k |
| 2022-01-31 | not filed | 0 | £24k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£80k£180k
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.