What a buyer sees
EDBURTON CONTRACTORS LIMITED
Construction of other civil engineering projects n.e.c. · Maidstone · 00771790
70staff · FY2023
63years trading
67oldest owner on file
£0kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£11Mfor 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
Staff70
202272 → 702023
Cash at bank£0k
2022£110k → £0k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£153,874in the bottom quarter
£139,733£268,029£692,339
Debtor daysdays35in the middle half
144773
Creditor daysdays17
183659
Stock daysdays19in the top quarter
51038
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 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 19 against 10 for the middle of 36 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
- 63 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
- 67since 2016
Directors
- 67since 2007
- since 2018
- 58since 2021
- 41since 2021
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £11M | 70 | £0k |
| 2022-12-31 | £11M | 72 | £110k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£4.3M£9.7M
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.