What a buyer sees
JJ LOUGHRAN LTD
Installation of industrial machinery and equipment · Cookstown · NI618205
68staff · FY2023
13years trading
—oldest owner on file
£211kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£11Mfor 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
Staff68
202173 → 682023
Cash at bank£211k
2021£1.2M → £211k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£168,831in the middle half
£58,419£229,755£589,619
Debtor daysdays74in the middle half
2759117
Creditor daysdays77
133576
Stock daysdays88in the top quarter
1045104
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 39 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 81 to 68A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 88 against 45 for the middle of 46 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 0
Nothing stands out yet from the filings alone.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 84since 2013
- 43since 2013
- 43since 2013
- 76since 2013
- 40since 2021
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-05-31 | £11M | 68 | £211k |
| 2022-05-31 | £9.3M | 81 | £450k |
| 2021-05-31 | £7.9M | 73 | £1.2M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£4.6M£10M
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.