What a buyer sees
H.V. WOODING LIMITED
Other non-ferrous metal production · Hythe · 00921793
89staff · FY2024
59years trading
84oldest owner on file
£885kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£9.6Mfor 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
Staff89
202284 → 892024
Cash at bank£885k
2022£641k → £885k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£108,349in the bottom quarter
£88,871£162,513£362,127
Debtor daysdays32in the bottom quarter
265687
Creditor daysdays28
143363
Stock daysdays56in the middle half
1245115
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 2
- 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.
- 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
- 59 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 32 against 56 for the middle of 2,030 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 58since 2016
- 84since 2016
- 63since 2016
- 53since 2016
- 55since 2016
Directors
- 58since 1998
- 63since 2005
- 53since 2014
- 55since 2015
- 84since 2018
- since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £9.6M | 89 | £885k |
| 2023-03-31 | £12M | 93 | £496k |
| 2022-03-31 | £12M | 84 | £641k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£3.9M£8.7M
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.