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What a buyer sees

R. DAVIES METALS AND SONS LIMITED

Wholesale of waste and scrap · Brierley Hill · 06700823

38staff · FY2023
18years trading
63oldest owner on file
£469kcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£19Mfor 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

Staff38
202239 → 382023
Cash at bank£469k
2022£1.0M → £469k2023

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£493,666in the middle half
£493,666
£87,459£464,006£1,513,474
Debtor daysdays19in the bottom quarter
19
154790
Creditor daysdays16
16
102974
Stock daysdays9below almost all
9
1150141

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 32 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 2

  • Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 19 against 47 for the middle of 1,452 comparable companies.
  • Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 9 against 50 for the middle of 1,657 comparable companies.

What the register says

Owners

  • 63since 2016

Directors

  • since 2008
  • 36since 2008
  • 63since 2008
  • 40since 2019
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-12-31£19M38£469k
2022-09-30not filed39£1.0M

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.35–0.55× sales
£6.6M
£10M

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.

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