← Look up another company

What a buyer sees

DARO ENGINEERING (STAFFORD) LIMITED

Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures · Wolverhampton · 02492614

6staff · FY2024
36years trading
81oldest owner on file
£23kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

11.5× spread
£282k
£3.2M

You file abbreviated accounts, as almost every company your size does, so the profit and loss account is not on public record. That band is what your balance sheet implies to anyone who looks: 1 figure against 139 companies in the same trade. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.

What your filings show moving

Staff6
20227 → 62024
Cash at bank£23k
2022£281k → £23k2024

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£73,648£159,502£337,000
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
246199
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
174478
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
52893

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

  • Your turnover is not on fileYou file abbreviated accounts, as most companies your size do, so a buyer cannot see what the business turns over and has to estimate it. Working only from what you filed, the range lands between £282k and £3.2M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • The newest accounts on file are 25 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.
  • Headcount fell from 7 to 6A 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 1

  • 36 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.

What the register says

Owners

  • 81since 2016

Directors

  • 81
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2024-07-31not filed6£23k
2023-07-31not filed7£99k
2022-07-31not filed7£281k

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.

Close the gap

The range above exists because your turnover is not on public record. Tell us what it actually is and we will place you exactly against your trade, and send it back.

Goes to one inbox. No list, no sequence, and we will not pass it on. We buy companies as well as advise on them, so if yours is one we would be interested in, we will tell you that before anything else happens.