What a buyer sees
DR LOUISE MAY LIMITED
Other activities of employment placement agencies · Birkenhead · 08682364
53staff · FY2025
13years trading
62oldest owner on file
£173kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£2.7Mfor the year to 2025
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
Staff53
202161 → 532025
Cash at bank£173k
2021£159k → £173k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£50,409below almost all
£61,893£285,365£708,549
Debtor daysdays35in the bottom quarter
264872
Creditor daysdays1
81327
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
62077
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
- One director on the registerA buyer's first question about a company run by one person is what happens to it if that person stops. It is usually the first thing priced.
- 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.
- Headcount fell from 67 to 53A 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 35 against 48 for the middle of 71 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 62since 2016
Directors
- 62since 2013
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-09-05 | £2.7M | 53 | £173k |
| 2023-12-31 | — | not filed | 67 | £247k |
| 2022-09-30 | — | not filed | 62 | £144k |
| 2021-09-30 | — | not filed | 61 | £159k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.15–0.3× sales£400k£800k
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.