What a buyer sees
E T M CONTRACTORS LIMITED
Construction of roads and motorways · Bristol · 02970707
61staff · FY2025
32years trading
—oldest owner on file
£139kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£20Mfor 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
Staff61
202161 → 612025
Cash at bank£139k
2021£111k → £139k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£327,174in the middle half
£146,959£305,437£486,183
Debtor daysdays69in the top quarter
134299
Creditor daysdays66
234076
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
51785
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
- Headcount fell from 69 to 61A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 69 against 42 for the middle of 65 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 2
- 32 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- 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
- 72since 1995
- since 1995
- 44since 2015
- 41since 2015
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-31 | 2026-07-31 | £20M | 61 | £139k |
| 2023-10-31 | — | £16M | 69 | £340k |
| 2022-10-31 | — | £13M | 51 | £145k |
| 2021-10-31 | — | £12M | 61 | £111k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£8.0M£18M
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.