What a buyer sees
STERMAT HARDWARE (GWYNEDD) LIMITED
Other retail sale in non-specialised stores · Anglesey · 01379735
73staff · FY2022
48years trading
55oldest owner on file
£309kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£12Mfor the year to 2022
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
Staff73
2021115 → 732022
Cash at bank£309k
2021£1.4M → £309k2022
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£159,733in the middle half
£61,651£116,680£308,862
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
82777
Creditor daysdays19
143162
Stock daysdays2below almost all
196993
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 4
- The newest accounts on file are 44 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.
- Headcount fell from 115 to 73A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- 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
- 48 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 69 for the middle of 38 comparable companies.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
- 55since 2025
- 52since 2025
- 51since 2025
Directors
- 55since 2014
- 52since 2014
- 51since 2014
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-12-31 | £12M | 73 | £309k |
| 2021-12-31 | £11M | 115 | £1.4M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£2.9M£5.8M
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.