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What a buyer sees

WIELAND METALS BIRMINGHAM LTD.

Copper production · London · 00139599

147staff · FY2023
111years trading
71oldest owner on file
£30kcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£71Mfor 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

Staff147
2022148 → 1472023
Cash at bank£30k
2022£3.6M → £30k2023

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£483,961above almost all
£483,961
£88,871£162,513£362,127
Debtor daysdays11below almost all
11
265687
Creditor daysdays14
14
143363
Stock daysdays71in the middle half
71
1245115

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 35 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

  • 111 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 483,961 against 162,513 for the middle of 2,152 comparable companies.
  • Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 11 against 56 for the middle of 2,030 comparable companies.

What the register says

Owners

  • 71since 2022

Directors

  • 54since 2010
  • 58since 2017
  • 60since 2019
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-09-30£71M147£30k
2022-09-30£103M148£3.6M

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.9× sales
£28M
£64M

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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