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What a buyer sees

MKS INSTRUMENTS UK LIMITED

Manufacture of other fabricated metal products n.e.c. · Crewe · 06391618

88staff · FY2021
19years trading
—oldest owner on file
£7.7Mcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£43Mfor the year to 2021

Unusual at this size, and it works in your favour: a buyer is reading your number rather than guessing at one.

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£484,432above almost all
£484,432
£86,854£141,664£294,750
Debtor daysdays19below almost all
19
325886
Creditor daysdays6
6
153455
Stock daysdays49in the middle half
49
1350112

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 3

  • The newest accounts on file are 56 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
  • 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 2

  • Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 484,432 against 141,664 for the middle of 135 comparable companies.
  • Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 19 against 58 for the middle of 131 comparable companies.

What the register says

Owners

Nobody recorded with significant control.

Directors

  • 62since 2023
  • 66since 2023
  • since 2026
  • 51since 2026
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2021-12-31£43M88£7.7M

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.

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.

Tell us the rest

Your turnover is on file, but the things that set a price are not: margin, customer concentration, who would run it next. Tell us where you are and we will read it properly.

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