What a buyer sees
ROBSON FRANKHAM LIMITED
Other engineering activities · Sidcup · 12634095
6staff · FY2024
6years trading
—oldest owner on file
£20kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£1.1Mfor the year to 2024
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
Staff6
20224 → 62024
Cash at bank£20k
2022£0k → £20k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£176,383in the top quarter
£17,897£63,250£395,961
Debtor daysdays83in the middle half
1161129
Creditor daysdays0
112568
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
63197
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 29 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.
- 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
- Headcount grew from 5 to 6Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 176,383 against 63,250 for the middle of 32 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 58since 2020
- 65since 2020
- 41since 2020
- 53since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £1.1M | 6 | £20k |
| 2023-03-31 | £966k | 5 | £0k |
| 2022-03-31 | not filed | 4 | £0k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.6–1.5× sales£630k£1.6M
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.