What a buyer sees
ROBERTS & PROWSE (SWINDON) LIMITED
Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures · Exeter · 03834098
108staff · FY2025
27years trading
—oldest owner on file
£3.4Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£19Mfor the year to 2025
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
Staff108
202258 → 1082025
Cash at bank£3.4M
2022£1.1M → £3.4M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£174,732in the middle half
£102,718£170,458£318,709
Debtor daysdays53in the middle half
276084
Creditor daysdays31
184368
Stock daysdays4below almost all
73199
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 last accounts went in 10 months after year endThe allowance is nine. A buyer reads a late filing as a question about the finance function rather than about the trading.
- One director on the registerA buyer's first question about a company run by one person is what happens to it if that person stops. It is usually the first thing priced.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- 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
- 27 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 63 to 108Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 4 against 31 for the middle of 68 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 39since 2023
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 2026-08-21 | £19M | 108 | £3.4M |
| 2023-09-30 | — | £20M | 63 | £428k |
| 2022-03-31 | — | not filed | 58 | £1.1M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£7.5M£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.