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What a buyer sees

OSPREY MARITIME LIMITED

Sea and coastal freight water transport · Bristol · 03082850

35staff · FY2021
31years trading
64oldest owner on file
£1.7Mcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£7.3Mfor the year to 2021

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 you
Sales per employee£209,589in the middle half
£209,589
£103,366£523,088£2,669,000
Debtor daysdays107in the top quarter
107
1441118
Creditor daysdays73
73
92277
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
41464

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 65 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 107 against 41 for the middle of 63 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 1

  • 31 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.

What the register says

Owners

  • 60since 2016
  • 64since 2026

Directors

  • 60since 1998
  • since 2024
  • 64since 2026
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2021-03-31£7.3M35£1.7M

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.9× sales
£2.9M
£6.6M

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.

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.

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.