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What a buyer sees

KIRSTALL LIMITED

Other professional, scientific and technical activities n.e.c. · Wolverhampton · 04869974

78staff · FY2024
23years trading
72oldest owner on file
£7.0Mcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£18Mfor 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

Staff78
202258 → 782024
Cash at bank£7.0M
2022£8.4M → £7.0M2024

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£236,235in the top quarter
£236,235
£64,803£129,842£319,449
Debtor daysdays176above almost all
176
1852105
Creditor daysdays29
29
81843
Stock daysdays0below almost all
0
830209

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 29 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 176 against 52 for the middle of 72 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 5

  • 23 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
  • Headcount grew from 70 to 78Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
  • Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 236,235 against 129,842 for the middle of 83 comparable companies.
  • Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 0 against 30 for the middle of 91 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

  • 72since 2016

Directors

  • 72since 2005
  • since 2006
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2024-03-31£18M78£7.0M
2023-03-31£11M70£9.3M
2022-03-31£7.6M58£8.4M

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.9× sales
£7.4M
£17M

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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