What a buyer sees
CABOT CARBON LIMITED
Manufacture of other inorganic basic chemicals · Penarth · 00462857
90staff · FY2023
78years trading
—oldest owner on file
£0kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£18Mfor 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.
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£201,367in the middle half
£88,871£162,513£362,127
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
265687
Creditor daysdays18
143363
Stock daysdays37in the middle half
1245115
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 35 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 1
- 78 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
- 55since 2017
- 58since 2025
- 31since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-30 | £18M | 90 | £0k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£7.3M£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.