What a buyer sees
BLAKE COURT LIMITED
Other residential care activities n.e.c. · Warwick · 03419558
35staff · FY2024
29years trading
—oldest owner on file
£176kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£756kfor 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
Staff35
202235 → 352024
Cash at bank£176k
2022£218k → £176k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£21,594in the bottom quarter
£15,898£43,036£84,032
Debtor daysdays69above almost all
122862
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
71236
Stock daysdays2below almost all
520103
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 4
- 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.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 69 against 28 for the middle of 49 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
- 29 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 20 for the middle of 37 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- since 1997
- 84since 2020
- 59since 2022
- 93since 2023
- 87since 2024
- 81since 2026
- 71since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £756k | 35 | £176k |
| 2023-03-31 | £704k | 35 | £228k |
| 2022-03-31 | £697k | 35 | £218k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£300k£680k
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.