What a buyer sees
HORATIO INVESTMENTS LIMITED
Activities of venture and development capital companies · Bristol · 07081047
197staff · FY2023
17years trading
55oldest owner on file
£2.2Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£27Mfor 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
Staff197
2022308 → 1972023
Cash at bank£2.2M
2022£7.6M → £2.2M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£134,596in the middle half
£58,281£126,361£389,887
Debtor daysdays22in the middle half
1142221
Creditor daysdays10
835271
Stock daysdays71in the middle half
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 43 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 308 to 197A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- 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 0
Nothing stands out yet from the filings alone.
What the register says
Owners
- 55since 2016
Directors
- since 2016
- 55since 2017
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-02-28 | £27M | 197 | £2.2M |
| 2022-02-28 | £35M | 308 | £7.6M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
1.5–4× sales£40M£106M
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.