What a buyer sees
SUPERIOR SDI LIMITED
Management consultancy activities other than financial management · London · 04287955
7staff · FY2023
25years trading
63oldest owner on file
£582kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£1.3Mfor 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
Staff7
20221 → 72023
Cash at bank£582k
2022£199k → £582k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£189,243in the top quarter
£12,197£52,550£356,702
Debtor daysdays468above almost all
1546188
Creditor daysdays419
828185
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
519163
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 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- 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.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 468 against 46 for the middle of 348 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 4
- 25 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 1 to 7Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 189,243 against 52,550 for the middle of 250 comparable companies.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
- 63since 2016
Directors
- 63since 2001
- since 2008
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £1.3M | 7 | £582k |
| 2022-12-31 | £1.0M | 1 | £199k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.8–2× sales£1.1M£2.6M
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.