What a buyer sees
CLAYDON YIELD-O-METER LIMITED
Manufacture of agricultural and forestry machinery other than tractors · Newmarket · 01576479
66staff · FY2025
45years trading
72oldest owner on file
£1.9Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£8.5Mfor the year to 2025
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
Staff66
202150 → 662025
Cash at bank£1.9M
2021£3.2M → £1.9M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£128,317in the middle half
£88,871£162,513£362,127
Debtor daysdays19below almost all
265687
Creditor daysdays17
143363
Stock daysdays201above almost all
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 2
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 201 against 45 for the middle of 2,028 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 3
- 45 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 19 against 56 for the middle of 2,030 comparable companies.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
- 46since 2016
- 72since 2016
- 44since 2016
Directors
- 46since 2012
- 44since 2012
- 72
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-31 | 2026-08-01 | £8.5M | 66 | £1.9M |
| 2023-10-31 | — | £14M | 68 | £1.2M |
| 2022-10-31 | — | not filed | 60 | £2.6M |
| 2021-11-30 | — | not filed | 50 | £3.2M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£3.4M£7.6M
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.