What a buyer sees
STRESSLINE LIMITED
Manufacture of concrete products for construction purposes · Leicestershire · 00819180
72staff · FY2023
62years trading
—oldest owner on file
£287kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£9.3Mfor 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
Staff72
202179 → 722023
Cash at bank£287k
2021£1.6M → £287k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£129,721in the middle half
£88,871£162,513£362,127
Debtor daysdays42in the middle half
265687
Creditor daysdays30
143363
Stock daysdays64in the middle half
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 3
- The newest accounts on file are 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- 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.
- 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
- 62 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
- 58since 1997
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £9.3M | 72 | £287k |
| 2022-12-31 | £11M | 78 | £1.1M |
| 2021-12-31 | £10M | 79 | £1.6M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£3.7M£8.4M
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.