What a buyer sees
ANCALA WATER SERVICES (DEFENCE) LIMITED
Sewerage · Barnsley · 04617059
141staff · FY2024
24years trading
—oldest owner on file
£4.8Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£64Mfor the year to 2024
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
Staff141
2023130 → 1412024
Cash at bank£4.8M
2023£824k → £4.8M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£456,979above almost all
£103,449£178,384£335,031
Debtor daysdays1below almost all
205176
Creditor daysdays17
152948
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
51444
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 29 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 3
- 24 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 456,979 against 178,384 for the middle of 125 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 1 against 51 for the middle of 121 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 54since 2018
- 43since 2019
- 48since 2020
- 59since 2021
- 42since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £64M | 141 | £4.8M |
| 2023-03-31 | £67M | 130 | £824k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£26M£58M
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.