What a buyer sees
DART VALLEY RAILWAY LTD
Passenger rail transport, interurban · Paignton · 00852020
64staff · FY2025
61years trading
68oldest owner on file
£1.0Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£3.6Mfor the year to 2025
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
Staff64
202370 → 642025
Cash at bank£1.0M
2023£1.3M → £1.0M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£57,008below almost all
£79,910£143,513£387,774
Debtor daysdays6below almost all
235378
Creditor daysdays12
122648
Stock daysdays29in the top quarter
41036
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 2
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 29 against 10 for the middle of 80 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 2
- 61 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 6 against 53 for the middle of 459 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 68since 2016
Directors
- 72since 2002
- 64since 2011
- 67since 2013
- 55since 2013
- 56since 2017
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-09-03 | £3.6M | 64 | £1.0M |
| 2023-12-31 | — | not filed | 70 | £1.3M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£1.5M£3.3M
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.