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What a buyer sees

F B TAYLOR (CABLE CONTRACTORS) LIMITED

Electrical installation · North Yorkshire · 01271884

159staff · FY2023
50years trading
—oldest owner on file
£710kcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£15Mfor 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.

What your filings show moving

Staff159
2021133 → 1592023
Cash at bank£710k
2021£627k → £710k2023

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£93,515below almost all
£93,515
£102,858£198,982£467,730
Debtor daysdays56in the middle half
56
184694
Creditor daysdays20
20
214071
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
52349

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 36 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 2

  • 50 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
  • Headcount grew from 142 to 159Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.

What the register says

Owners

Nobody recorded with significant control.

Directors

  • 62since 2018
  • 46since 2018
  • 40since 2023
  • 40since 2023
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-08-31£15M159£710k
2022-08-31£12M142£640k
2021-08-31£9.5M133£627k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.7× sales
£6.0M
£10M

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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