What a buyer sees
ORBITAL FABRICATIONS LIMITED
Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures · St Ives · 02223162
89staff · FY2026
38years trading
—oldest owner on file
£6.5Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£18Mfor the year to 2026
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
Staff89
202257 → 892026
Cash at bank£6.5M
2022£450k → £6.5M2026
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£200,853in the middle half
£102,718£170,458£318,709
Debtor daysdays53in the middle half
276084
Creditor daysdays18
184368
Stock daysdays53in the middle half
73199
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 1
- 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
- 38 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
- 68since 1995
- 64since 1995
- 52since 2025
- 54since 2025
- 60since 2026
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-31 | 2026-07-28 | £18M | 89 | £6.5M |
| 2024-03-31 | — | £15M | 87 | £3.5M |
| 2023-03-31 | — | £14M | 80 | £1.7M |
| 2022-03-31 | — | not filed | 57 | £450k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£7.2M£16M
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.