What a buyer sees
ZETA ALARMS LIMITED
Manufacture of other electrical equipment · Swansea · 01952631
34staff · FY2023
41years trading
72oldest owner on file
£3.3Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£12Mfor 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
Staff34
202136 → 342023
Cash at bank£3.3M
2021£4.1M → £3.3M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£339,162in the top quarter
£97,477£168,845£471,920
Debtor daysdays91in the top quarter
3064107
Creditor daysdays11
103173
Stock daysdays152in the top quarter
1780171
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 34 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 91 against 64 for the middle of 69 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 152 against 80 for the middle of 66 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
- 41 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 339,162 against 168,845 for the middle of 67 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 69since 2016
- 72since 2016
Directors
- since 1994
- 34since 2022
- 59since 2022
- 69
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-10-31 | £12M | 34 | £3.3M |
| 2022-10-31 | not filed | 35 | £3.3M |
| 2021-10-31 | £7.8M | 36 | £4.1M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£4.6M£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.