What a buyer sees
HALSALL MECHANICAL & ELECTRICAL LIMITED
Electrical installation · Cannock · 03299063
108staff · FY2024
29years trading
64oldest owner on file
£6.8Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£70Mfor the year to 2024
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
Staff108
2021105 → 1082024
Cash at bank£6.8M
2021£5.3M → £6.8M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£651,919above almost all
£102,858£198,982£467,730
Debtor daysdays23in the bottom quarter
184694
Creditor daysdays88
214071
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
52349
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 3
- The newest accounts on file are 31 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- 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
- 29 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 651,919 against 198,982 for the middle of 110 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 23 against 46 for the middle of 94 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 64since 2016
Directors
- 64since 1997
- since 2002
- 58since 2005
- 60since 2007
- 63since 2013
- 48since 2022
- 43since 2026
- 37since 2026
- 34since 2026
- 43since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-31 | £70M | 108 | £6.8M |
| 2023-01-31 | £86M | 107 | £12M |
| 2022-01-31 | £53M | 106 | £5.4M |
| 2021-01-31 | £53M | 105 | £5.3M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.7× sales£28M£49M
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.