What a buyer sees
A M PHILLIP TRUCKTECH LIMITED
Sale of other motor vehicles · Angus · SC287764
176staff · FY2023
21years trading
—oldest owner on file
£4.8Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£73Mfor 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
Staff176
2022160 → 1762023
Cash at bank£4.8M
2022£6.5M → £4.8M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£414,688in the middle half
£128,118£529,542£1,661,812
Debtor daysdays21in the middle half
122174
Creditor daysdays125
1142120
Stock daysdays132in the top quarter
2381193
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 newest accounts on file are 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- 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.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 132 against 81 for the middle of 91 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
- 21 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
- since 2005
- 72since 2005
- 61since 2005
- 70since 2006
- 62since 2020
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £73M | 176 | £4.8M |
| 2022-12-31 | £63M | 160 | £6.5M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£29M£66M
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.