What a buyer sees
IST POWER LIMITED
Manufacture of electric motors, generators and transformers · Leicestershire · 02614179
104staff · FY2025
35years trading
—oldest owner on file
£3.6Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£18Mfor 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
Staff104
202194 → 1042025
Cash at bank£3.6M
2021£984k → £3.6M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£174,031in the middle half
£88,871£162,513£362,127
Debtor daysdays75in the top quarter
265687
Creditor daysdays41
143363
Stock daysdays47in 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 3
- Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 75 against 56 for the middle of 2,030 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 3
- 35 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 94 to 104Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 64since 1991
- 66since 1991
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 2026-06-23 | £18M | 104 | £3.6M |
| 2023-09-30 | — | £17M | 94 | £2.9M |
| 2022-09-30 | — | £14M | 94 | £1.4M |
| 2021-09-30 | — | £11M | 94 | £984k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£7.2M£16M
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.