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What a buyer sees

STUART'S OF CARLUKE LTD.

Other passenger land transport · SC258633

1staff · FY2024
23years trading
38oldest owner on file
£912kcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£390kfor 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

Staff1
20221 → 12024
Cash at bank£912k
2022£339k → £912k2024

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£390,000above almost all
£390,000
£15,752£89,358£162,922
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
92980
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
91972
Stock daysdays170above almost all
170
516138

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.
  • Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 170 against 16 for the middle of 66 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 2

  • 23 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 390,000 against 89,358 for the middle of 65 comparable companies.

What the register says

Owners

  • 38since 2021

Directors

No current directors loaded.

Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2024-03-31£390k1£912k
2023-03-31£543k1£723k
2022-03-31£176k1£339k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.9× sales
£160k
£350k

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.

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.

Tell us the rest

Your turnover is on file, but the things that set a price are not: margin, customer concentration, who would run it next. Tell us where you are and we will read it properly.

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