What a buyer sees
WILSON PROPERTIES (LONDON) LTD
Development of building projects · Welwyn Garden City · 04028526
5staff · FY2023
26years trading
67oldest owner on file
£3.4Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£29Mfor 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
Staff5
20206 → 52023
Cash at bank£3.4M
2020£3.4M → £3.4M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£5,797,020above almost all
£14,093£106,917£1,225,073
Debtor daysdays2below almost all
1239184
Creditor daysdays20
927189
Stock daysdays1377above almost all
10137909
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 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 6 to 5A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 1,377 against 137 for the middle of 190 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 3
- 26 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 5,797,020 against 106,917 for the middle of 218 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 39 for the middle of 259 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 67since 2016
- 36since 2018
Directors
- 67since 2000
- 36since 2011
- 51since 2012
- since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £29M | 5 | £3.4M |
| 2022-12-31 | £45M | 6 | £4.9M |
| 2021-12-31 | not filed | 6 | £7.6M |
| 2020-12-31 | not filed | 6 | £3.4M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.2–0.45× sales£5.8M£13M
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.