What a buyer sees
SILVERWOOD ENTERPRISE LIMITED
Treatment and coating of metals · Craigavon · NI051451
50staff · FY2023
22years trading
64oldest owner on file
£5.6Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£10Mfor 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
Staff50
202163 → 502023
Cash at bank£5.6M
2021£6.7M → £5.6M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£205,888in the middle half
£88,871£162,513£362,127
Debtor daysdays68in the middle half
265687
Creditor daysdays15
143363
Stock daysdays4below almost all
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 3
- The newest accounts on file are 36 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 64 to 50A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- 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
- 22 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 4 against 45 for the middle of 2,028 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 56since 2022
- 64since 2016
Directors
- since 2004
- 64since 2004
- 56since 2005
- 63since 2018
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-31 | £10M | 50 | £5.6M |
| 2022-08-31 | £9.7M | 64 | £6.0M |
| 2021-08-31 | £10M | 63 | £6.7M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£4.1M£9.3M
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.