What a buyer sees
BLUE CAT MECHANICAL LIMITED
Engineering related scientific and technical consulting activities · Newport Pagnell · 13501965
6staff · FY2025
5years trading
66oldest owner on file
£121kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£1.4Mfor the year to 2025
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
Staff6
20224 → 62025
Cash at bank£121k
2022£87k → £121k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£227,600in the top quarter
£18,395£105,468£330,411
Debtor daysdays49in the middle half
1241104
Creditor daysdays82
112881
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
632182
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 last accounts went in 13 months after year endThe allowance is nine. A buyer reads a late filing as a question about the finance function rather than about the trading.
- 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.
- Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
- 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
- Headcount grew from 5 to 6Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 227,600 against 105,468 for the middle of 65 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 66since 2021
Directors
- 66since 2021
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-31 | 2026-09-01 | £1.4M | 6 | £121k |
| 2023-07-31 | — | £1.7M | 5 | £81k |
| 2022-07-31 | — | £2.1M | 4 | £87k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.6–1.5× sales£820k£2.0M
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.