What a buyer sees
FOSTER PROPERTY MAINTENANCE LIMITED
Painting · Cockfosters · 04687488
132staff · FY2025
23years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.9Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£36Mfor the year to 2025
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
Staff132
2021135 → 1322025
Cash at bank£1.9M
2021£2.0M → £1.9M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£272,324in the top quarter
£20,454£61,553£302,831
Debtor daysdays35in the middle half
1138100
Creditor daysdays27
163564
Stock daysdays3below almost all
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 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 3
- 23 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 272,324 against 61,553 for the middle of 36 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 3 against 17 for the middle of 400 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 47since 2018
- 66since 2019
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 2026-06-30 | £36M | 132 | £1.9M |
| 2023-09-30 | — | £29M | 124 | £2.0M |
| 2022-09-30 | — | £27M | 119 | £2.2M |
| 2021-09-30 | — | £22M | 135 | £2.0M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.7× sales£14M£25M
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.