What a buyer sees
J. SUTTLE TRANSPORT LIMITED
Quarrying of ornamental and building stone, limestone, gypsum, chalk and slate · Swanage · 02794353
40staff · FY2024
33years trading
75oldest owner on file
£971kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£5.4Mfor the year to 2024
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
Staff40
202250 → 402024
Cash at bank£971k
2022£1.6M → £971k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£134,028in the bottom quarter
£106,674£319,065£519,851
Debtor daysdays45in the middle half
2753100
Creditor daysdays32
113162
Stock daysdays15in the middle half
618122
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 29 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 1
- 33 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
- 75since 2016
Directors
- 75since 1993
- 62since 2007
- 58since 2011
- 46since 2015
- 40since 2016
- 37since 2019
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £5.4M | 40 | £971k |
| 2023-03-31 | £6.2M | 44 | £1.2M |
| 2022-03-31 | £6.9M | 50 | £1.6M |
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.