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What a buyer sees

STEPHENSON SMART (EAST ANGLIA) LIMITED

Accounting and auditing activities · King'S Lynn · 08246853

140staff · FY2024
14years trading
—oldest owner on file
£31kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

10.1× spread
£2.3M
£23M

You file abbreviated accounts, as almost every company your size does, so the profit and loss account is not on public record. That band is what your balance sheet implies to anyone who looks: 3 figures against 142 companies in the same trade. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.

What your filings show moving

Staff140
2022109 → 1402024
Cash at bank£31k
2022£575k → £31k2024

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£13,708£43,607£122,523
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
2071226
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
817133
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
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 3

  • Your turnover is not on fileYou file abbreviated accounts, as most companies your size do, so a buyer cannot see what the business turns over and has to estimate it. Working only from what you filed, the range lands between £2.3M and £23M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • The newest accounts on file are 29 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
  • 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 121 to 140Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.

What the register says

Owners

Nobody recorded with significant control.

Directors

  • 57since 2013
  • 50since 2013
  • 44since 2014
  • 40since 2015
  • 48since 2017
  • 37since 2020
  • 38since 2026
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2024-03-31not filed140£31k
2023-03-31not filed121£36k
2022-03-31not filed109£575k

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.

Close the gap

The range above exists because your turnover is not on public record. Tell us what it actually is and we will place you exactly against your trade, and send it back.

Goes to one inbox. No list, no sequence, and we will not pass it on. We buy companies as well as advise on them, so if yours is one we would be interested in, we will tell you that before anything else happens.