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What a buyer sees

SOUTHWARK METALS LIMITED

Recovery of sorted materials · London · 01651205

19staff · FY2023
44years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.1Mcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£17Mfor 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 you
Sales per employee£913,742in the top quarter
£913,742
£103,767£334,257£1,115,355
Debtor daysdays12below almost all
12
154161
Creditor daysdays7
7
102751
Stock daysdays2below almost all
2
61791

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 2

  • The newest accounts on file are 35 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
  • 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 5

  • 44 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
  • Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 913,742 against 334,257 for the middle of 65 comparable companies.
  • Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 12 against 41 for the middle of 62 comparable companies.
  • Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 17 for the middle of 43 comparable companies.
  • 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

  • since 1995
  • 53since 2006
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-09-30£17M19£1.1M

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.9× sales
£6.9M
£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.

Prepared by Qapital from public records, against 105,750 companies that did publish a turnover. No figure here was supplied by the company and none of it is advice. What it is missing is everything that actually sets a price: profitability, contracts, customer concentration, and whoever would run it next.

Tell us the rest

Your turnover is on file, but the things that set a price are not: margin, customer concentration, who would run it next. Tell us where you are and we will read it properly.

Goes to one inbox. No list, no sequence, and we will not pass it on. We buy companies as well as advise on them, so if yours is one we would be interested in, we will tell you that before anything else happens.