What a buyer sees
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE CARERS
Social work activities without accommodation for the elderly and disabled · Wellingborough · 03328459
96staff · FY2022
29years trading
—oldest owner on file
£963kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£3.5Mfor the year to 2022
Unusual at this size, and it works in your favour: a buyer is reading your number rather than guessing at one.
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£36,968in the top quarter
£10,458£21,513£41,808
Debtor daysdays6below almost all
92573
Creditor daysdays8
71436
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
62476
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 53 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- 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 3
- 29 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 36,968 against 21,513 for the middle of 98 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 6 against 25 for the middle of 52 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 71since 2012
- 73since 2017
- 75since 2021
- 62since 2021
- 74since 2023
- 58since 2024
- 56since 2025
- 63since 2025
- 72since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-31 | £3.5M | 96 | £963k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£1.4M£3.2M
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.