What a buyer sees
AVALON METALS LIMITED
Treatment and disposal of non-hazardous waste · Rotherwas Ind Estate Hereford · 03232713
71staff · FY2023
30years trading
65oldest owner on file
£890kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£24Mfor 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
Staff71
202163 → 712023
Cash at bank£890k
2021£2.2M → £890k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£332,434in the top quarter
£80,809£210,683£730,663
Debtor daysdays88above almost all
174885
Creditor daysdays17
132652
Stock daysdays36in the top quarter
51444
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 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.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 88 against 48 for the middle of 53 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 36 against 14 for the middle of 41 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 2
- 30 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 332,434 against 210,683 for the middle of 55 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 65since 2016
- 63since 2016
Directors
- 65since 1996
- since 1996
- 42since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-31 | £24M | 71 | £890k |
| 2022-08-31 | £23M | 65 | £5.8M |
| 2021-08-31 | £24M | 63 | £2.2M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£9.4M£21M
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.