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What a buyer sees

ORATORY PREPARATORY SCHOOL LIMITED

Primary education · London · 12267555

102staff · FY2023
7years trading
—oldest owner on file
£298kcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£5.3Mfor 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

Staff102
2021120 → 1022023
Cash at bank£298k
2021£207k → £298k2023

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£52,243in the middle half
£52,243
£44,731£58,938£87,531
Debtor daysdays11in the bottom quarter
11
94299
Creditor daysdays16
16
71462
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
419161

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 36 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
  • Headcount fell from 120 to 102A 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 1

  • Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 11 against 42 for the middle of 39 comparable companies.

What the register says

Owners

Nobody recorded with significant control.

Directors

  • since 2019
  • 52since 2019
  • 56since 2019
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-08-31£5.3M102£298k
2021-08-31£4.7M120£207k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.9× sales
£2.1M
£4.8M

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.

Prepared by Qapital from public records, against 105,750 companies that did publish a turnover. No figure here was supplied by the company and none of it is advice. What it is missing is everything that actually sets a price: profitability, contracts, customer concentration, and whoever would run it next.

Tell us the rest

Your turnover is on file, but the things that set a price are not: margin, customer concentration, who would run it next. Tell us where you are and we will read it properly.

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