What a buyer sees
THE GOOD OIL LIMITED
Licensed restaurants · London · 07755179
84staff · FY2023
15years trading
—oldest owner on file
£724kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£5.3Mfor 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
Staff84
202177 → 842023
Cash at bank£724k
2021£971k → £724k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£63,232in the middle half
£33,428£64,574£86,748
Debtor daysdays6below almost all
61079
Creditor daysdays30
112244
Stock daysdays2below almost all
5817
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 39 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 104 to 84A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- 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
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 6 against 10 for the middle of 64 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 8 for the middle of 49 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 59since 2011
- 48since 2011
- 53since 2011
- since 2019
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-25 | £5.3M | 84 | £724k |
| 2022-06-26 | not filed | 104 | £931k |
| 2021-06-27 | not filed | 77 | £971k |
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.