What a buyer sees
CPD BODIES LIMITED
Manufacture of other transport equipment n.e.c. · Cleveland · 04453844
87staff · FY2023
24years trading
—oldest owner on file
£6.9Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£38Mfor 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
Staff87
202193 → 872023
Cash at bank£6.9M
2021£607k → £6.9M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£435,787above almost all
£88,871£162,513£362,127
Debtor daysdays20below almost all
265687
Creditor daysdays37
143363
Stock daysdays7below almost all
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 38 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 4
- 24 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 435,787 against 162,513 for the middle of 2,152 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 20 against 56 for the middle of 2,030 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 7 against 45 for the middle of 2,028 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- since 2002
- 43since 2006
- 42since 2019
- 34since 2019
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-30 | £38M | 87 | £6.9M |
| 2021-06-30 | not filed | 93 | £607k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£15M£34M
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.