What a buyer sees
BROOKSBANK VALVES LIMITED
Manufacture of taps and valves · Keighley · 01004518
59staff · FY2024
55years trading
—oldest owner on file
£94kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£7.0Mfor the year to 2024
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
Staff59
202260 → 592024
Cash at bank£94k
2022£0k → £94k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£118,722in the middle half
£88,871£162,513£362,127
Debtor daysdays188above almost all
265687
Creditor daysdays82
143363
Stock daysdays247above almost all
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 5
- The newest accounts on file are 29 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- 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.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 188 against 56 for the middle of 2,030 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 247 against 45 for the middle of 2,028 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- 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
- 55 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
- 61since 1992
- 60since 1995
- since 2017
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £7.0M | 59 | £94k |
| 2023-03-31 | £5.3M | 60 | £256k |
| 2022-03-31 | £4.8M | 60 | £0k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£2.8M£6.3M
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.