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What a buyer sees

WAS VEHICLES (UK) LIMITED

Sale of used cars and light motor vehicles · Derby · 04199432

8staff · FY2023
25years trading
82oldest owner on file
£52kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

6.8× spread
£2.5M
£17M

You file abbreviated accounts, as almost every company your size does, so the profit and loss account is not on public record. That band is what your balance sheet implies to anyone who looks: 4 figures against 55 companies in the same trade. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.

What your filings show moving

Staff8
20215 → 82023
Cash at bank£52k
2021£180k → £52k2023

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£20,851£143,100£1,531,640
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
72180
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
71393
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
2165265

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

  • Your turnover is not on fileYou file abbreviated accounts, as most companies your size do, so a buyer cannot see what the business turns over and has to estimate it. Working only from what you filed, the range lands between £2.5M and £17M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • 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.
  • 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 2

  • 25 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
  • Headcount grew from 6 to 8Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.

What the register says

Owners

  • 58since 2021
  • 82since 2021
  • 55since 2021

Directors

  • 47since 2022
  • 68since 2025
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-12-31not filed8£52k
2022-12-31not filed6£120k
2021-12-31not filed5£180k

Prepared by Qapital from public records, against 105,750 companies that did publish a turnover. No figure here was supplied by the company and none of it is advice. What it is missing is everything that actually sets a price: profitability, contracts, customer concentration, and whoever would run it next.

Close the gap

The range above exists because your turnover is not on public record. Tell us what it actually is and we will place you exactly against your trade, and send it back.

Goes to one inbox. No list, no sequence, and we will not pass it on. We buy companies as well as advise on them, so if yours is one we would be interested in, we will tell you that before anything else happens.