What a buyer sees
LEVIDIAN NANOSYSTEMS LIMITED
Other research and experimental development on natural sciences and engineering · Cambridge · 08186993
52staff · FY2023
14years trading
51oldest owner on file
£13Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£841kfor 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
Staff52
20215 → 522023
Cash at bank£13M
2021£2.0M → £13M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£16,165in the bottom quarter
£16,018£98,546£291,958
Debtor daysdays110in the middle half
2677152
Creditor daysdays485
1231270
Stock daysdays1624above almost all
730102
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.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 1,624 against 30 for the middle of 138 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 1
- Headcount grew from 20 to 52Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
What the register says
Owners
- 51since 2020
Directors
- 51since 2020
- 49since 2020
- 39since 2021
- 54since 2022
- 47since 2024
- 50since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £841k | 52 | £13M |
| 2022-12-31 | £228k | 20 | £7.4M |
| 2021-12-31 | not filed | 5 | £2.0M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£340k£760k
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.