What a buyer sees
BEARINGS & DRIVES (2004) LIMITED
Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures · Cambridgeshire · 05235277
0staff · FY2025
22years trading
53oldest owner on file
£174kcash at bank
Nobody can see what you turn over
6.9× spread£498k£3.4M
You file abbreviated accounts, as almost every company your size does, so the profit and loss account is not on public record. That band is what your balance sheet implies to anyone who looks: 2 figures against 120 companies in the same trade. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.
What your filings show moving
Staff0
20207 → 02025
Cash at bank£174k
2020£134k → £174k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employeenot on your filings
£73,648£159,502£337,000
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
246199
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
174478
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
52893
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
- Your turnover is not on fileYou file abbreviated accounts, as most companies your size do, so a buyer cannot see what the business turns over and has to estimate it. Working only from what you filed, the range lands between £498k and £3.4M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
- 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 1
- 22 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
- 53since 2016
- 51since 2016
Directors
No current directors loaded.
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 2026-07-01 | not filed | 0 | £174k |
| 2023-09-30 | — | not filed | 8 | £583k |
| 2022-09-30 | — | not filed | 8 | £490k |
| 2021-09-30 | — | not filed | 7 | £320k |
| 2020-09-30 | — | not filed | 7 | £134k |