What a buyer sees
AUGHTON AUTOMATION LIMITED
Technical testing and analysis · Liverpool · 03872570
105staff · FY2023
27years trading
—oldest owner on file
£2.5Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£10Mfor 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
Staff105
2021175 → 1052023
Cash at bank£2.5M
2021£1.8M → £2.5M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£99,494in the middle half
£48,739£108,056£339,465
Debtor daysdays72in the middle half
2061109
Creditor daysdays27
82162
Stock daysdays0below almost all
730102
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 3
- 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.
- Headcount fell from 133 to 105A 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 2
- 27 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 0 against 30 for the middle of 138 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- since 1999
- 69since 2003
- 45since 2026
- 36since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-30 | £10M | 105 | £2.5M |
| 2022-09-30 | £12M | 133 | £2.2M |
| 2021-09-30 | £15M | 175 | £1.8M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.6–1.5× sales£6.3M£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.