What a buyer sees
HELIX ROOFING CONTRACTORS LIMITED
Roofing activities · Bootle · 03093855
25staff · FY2023
31years trading
—oldest owner on file
£2.1Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£9.9Mfor 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
Staff25
202127 → 252023
Cash at bank£2.1M
2021£1.9M → £2.1M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£394,964in the middle half
£72,519£255,086£712,512
Debtor daysdays99above almost all
154392
Creditor daysdays20
183770
Stock daysdays0below almost all
61887
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.
- Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 99 against 43 for the middle of 58 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
- 31 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 0 against 18 for the middle of 36 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 65since 2019
- 66since 2019
- 61since 2019
- 64since 2024
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-10-31 | £9.9M | 25 | £2.1M |
| 2022-10-31 | £12M | 27 | £1.3M |
| 2021-10-31 | not filed | 27 | £1.9M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.7× sales£4.0M£6.9M
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.