What a buyer sees
WILLIAM THOMPSON & SON (DUMBARTON) LIMITED
Other mining and quarrying n.e.c. · SC025901
61staff · FY2022
79years trading
46oldest owner on file
£220kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£12Mfor the year to 2022
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
Staff61
202163 → 612022
Cash at bank£220k
2021£222k → £220k2022
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£199,756in the middle half
£102,684£207,025£441,872
Debtor daysdays49in the middle half
335787
Creditor daysdays30
152872
Stock daysdays13in the middle half
721111
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 46 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- 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.
- 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
- 79 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
- 46since 2016
Directors
- 46since 2011
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-10-31 | £12M | 61 | £220k |
| 2021-10-31 | not filed | 63 | £222k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£4.9M£11M
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.