What a buyer sees
POUNDBURY (MANCO 3) LIMITED
Residents property management · Dorchester · 04969598
6staff · FY2023
23years trading
44oldest owner on file
£381kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£134kfor 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
Staff6
20216 → 62023
Cash at bank£381k
2021£359k → £381k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£22,350in the middle half
£6,108£14,367£97,372
Debtor daysdays1below almost all
1150311
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
1140186
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
738149
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 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- 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
- 23 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 1 against 50 for the middle of 222 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 44since 2022
Directors
- 63since 2017
- 61since 2019
- 71since 2023
- 76since 2025
- 64since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £134k | 6 | £381k |
| 2022-12-31 | £108k | 6 | £371k |
| 2021-12-31 | £107k | 6 | £359k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£50k£120k
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.