What a buyer sees
LONDON AND OXFORD CAPITAL MARKETS LIMITED
Administration of financial markets · London · 02816999
25staff · FY2023
33years trading
44oldest owner on file
£13Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£3.2Mfor 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
Staff25
202123 → 252023
Cash at bank£13M
2021£12M → £13M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£128,232in the middle half
£65,401£187,221£689,307
Debtor daysdays294above almost all
1148227
Creditor daysdays6
925293
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
637132
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 33 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 294 against 48 for the middle of 160 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
- 33 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
- 44since 2020
Directors
- 44since 2016
- 45since 2021
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £3.2M | 25 | £13M |
| 2022-12-31 | £3.2M | 24 | £12M |
| 2021-12-31 | not filed | 23 | £12M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£1.3M£2.9M
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.