What a buyer sees
EMSC (UK) LIMITED
Manufacture of other electrical equipment · Sheffield · 04209907
125staff · FY2023
25years trading
—oldest owner on file
£435kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£15Mfor 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.
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£122,824in the middle half
£111,296£152,547£303,795
Debtor daysdays51in the middle half
306498
Creditor daysdays58
82252
Stock daysdays264above almost all
1580188
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 3
- The newest accounts on file are 39 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 264 against 80 for the middle of 33 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 1
- 25 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 34since 2017
- 57since 2023
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-05-31 | £15M | 125 | £435k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£6.1M£14M
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.