What a buyer sees
STOCKS AG LIMITED
Other manufacturing n.e.c. · Bourne · 01344421
29staff · FY2023
49years trading
—oldest owner on file
£187kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£3.8Mfor 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
Staff29
202129 → 292023
Cash at bank£187k
2021£151k → £187k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£131,024in the middle half
£90,438£219,207£692,212
Debtor daysdays40in the middle half
205395
Creditor daysdays25
133060
Stock daysdays136above almost all
1144103
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 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 136 against 44 for the middle of 103 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
- 49 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 55since 2020
- 51since 2024
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £3.8M | 29 | £187k |
| 2022-12-31 | not filed | 29 | £225k |
| 2021-12-31 | not filed | 29 | £151k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£1.5M£3.4M
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.