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What a buyer sees

1ST STEPS DAY CARE LTD

Child day-care activities · Sheffield · 10924186

28staff · FY2023
9years trading
66oldest owner on file
—cash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£507kfor 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

Staff28
202125 → 282023

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£18,104in the middle half
£18,104
£10,950£21,383£35,497
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
92979
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
71543
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
520103

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 35 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.
  • Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
  • 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 22 to 28Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.

What the register says

Owners

  • 66since 2017

Directors

  • 66since 2017
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-09-30£507k28—
2022-09-30£374k22—
2021-09-30not filed25£4k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.9× sales
£200k
£460k

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.

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.

Tell us the rest

Your turnover is on file, but the things that set a price are not: margin, customer concentration, who would run it next. Tell us where you are and we will read it properly.

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