What a buyer sees
ARNOLD STANSBY & CO. LIMITED
Activities of financial services holding companies · Manchester · 07691778
10staff · FY2024
15years trading
—oldest owner on file
£482kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£1.7Mfor the year to 2024
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
Staff10
20229 → 102024
Cash at bank£482k
2022£33M → £482k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£174,440in the middle half
£65,401£187,221£689,307
Debtor daysdays187in the top quarter
1148227
Creditor daysdays193
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 29 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 187 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
- Headcount grew from 9 to 10Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 66since 2011
- 69since 2011
- 49since 2018
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £1.7M | 10 | £482k |
| 2023-03-31 | £1.4M | 9 | £21M |
| 2022-03-31 | £1.5M | 9 | £33M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
1.5–4× sales£2.6M£7.0M
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.