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What a buyer sees

FEDERAL WELDER INTERNATIONAL LIMITED

Manufacture of other special-purpose machinery n.e.c. · Kingswinford · 05752950

8staff · FY2024
20years trading
78oldest owner on file
£86kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

7.2× spread
£1.1M
£8.0M

You file abbreviated accounts, as almost every company your size does, so the profit and loss account is not on public record. That band is what your balance sheet implies to anyone who looks: 3 figures against 89 companies in the same trade. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.

What your filings show moving

Staff8
20229 → 82024
Cash at bank£86k
2022£17k → £86k2024

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£86,387£161,407£453,678
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
2255106
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
132560
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
2472158

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 6

  • Your turnover is not on fileYou file abbreviated accounts, as most companies your size do, so a buyer cannot see what the business turns over and has to estimate it. Working only from what you filed, the range lands between £1.1M and £8.0M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • The newest accounts on file are 29 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
  • One director on the registerA buyer's first question about a company run by one person is what happens to it if that person stops. It is usually the first thing priced.
  • The register shows an owner past retirement age and little elseWithout directors on file, a buyer cannot tell who actually runs the business day to day.
  • A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
  • 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

  • 20 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.

What the register says

Owners

  • 62since 2017
  • 78since 2017

Directors

  • since 2006
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2024-03-31not filed8£86k
2023-03-31not filed8£8k
2022-03-31not filed9£17k

Prepared by Qapital from public records, against 105,750 companies that did publish a turnover. No figure here was supplied by the company and none of it is advice. What it is missing is everything that actually sets a price: profitability, contracts, customer concentration, and whoever would run it next.

Close the gap

The range above exists because your turnover is not on public record. Tell us what it actually is and we will place you exactly against your trade, and send it back.

Goes to one inbox. No list, no sequence, and we will not pass it on. We buy companies as well as advise on them, so if yours is one we would be interested in, we will tell you that before anything else happens.