What a buyer sees
TOM WHITE WASTE LIMITED
Collection of non-hazardous waste · Coventry · 01201361
137staff · FY2022
51years trading
—oldest owner on file
£471kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£17Mfor the year to 2022
Unusual at this size, and it works in your favour: a buyer is reading your number rather than guessing at one.
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£125,642in the bottom quarter
£104,145£187,862£306,258
Debtor daysdays70in the top quarter
365176
Creditor daysdays78
183348
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
51444
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 53 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 70 against 51 for the middle of 43 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- 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
- 51 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 57since 2020
- 48since 2020
- since 2021
- 45since 2025
- 58since 2026
- 41since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-31 | £17M | 137 | £471k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£6.9M£15M
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.