What a buyer sees
JOHN ROBSON (METALS) LIMITED
Wholesale of waste and scrap · Preston · 01149471
71staff · FY2024
53years trading
56oldest owner on file
£630kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£8.6Mfor 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
Staff71
202269 → 712024
Cash at bank£630k
2022£2.5M → £630k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£121,489in the bottom quarter
£98,596£257,484£692,330
Debtor daysdays21in the bottom quarter
123977
Creditor daysdays22
133163
Stock daysdays21in the bottom quarter
1248117
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 28 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 4
- 53 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 21 against 39 for the middle of 1,162 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 20 against 48 for the middle of 1,442 comparable companies.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
- 56since 2016
Directors
- since 1999
- 49since 2010
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-30 | £8.6M | 71 | £630k |
| 2023-04-30 | £6.8M | 70 | £978k |
| 2022-04-30 | £12M | 69 | £2.5M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£3.0M£4.7M
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.