What a buyer sees
HUYTON ASPHALT LIMITED
Construction of roads and motorways · St Helens · 01012629
86staff · FY2023
55years trading
46oldest owner on file
£4.9Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£42Mfor 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
Staff86
202284 → 862023
Cash at bank£4.9M
2022£11M → £4.9M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£484,456in the top quarter
£146,959£305,437£486,183
Debtor daysdays62in the middle half
134299
Creditor daysdays38
234076
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
51785
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 41 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
- 55 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 484,456 against 305,437 for the middle of 30 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
- 46since 2016
Directors
- since 2004
- 46since 2015
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-03-31 | £42M | 86 | £4.9M |
| 2022-03-31 | £38M | 84 | £11M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£17M£38M
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.