What a buyer sees
COTSWOLD OAK LIMITED
Construction of domestic buildings · Evesham · 05041616
24staff · FY2023
22years trading
—oldest owner on file
£2.2Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£27Mfor 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
Staff24
202121 → 242023
Cash at bank£2.2M
2021£702k → £2.2M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£1,108,467in the top quarter
£24,070£474,623£1,956,335
Debtor daysdays1below almost all
92760
Creditor daysdays48
122962
Stock daysdays37in the middle half
10192799
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 32 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
- 22 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 1,108,467 against 474,623 for the middle of 67 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 1 against 26 for the middle of 30 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- since 2004
- 51since 2004
- 55since 2016
- 40since 2016
- 60since 2021
- 50since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £27M | 24 | £2.2M |
| 2022-12-31 | £27M | 25 | £1.1M |
| 2021-12-31 | not filed | 21 | £702k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.2–0.45× sales£5.3M£12M
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.