What a buyer sees
ESTUARY WASTE MANAGEMENT LIMITED
Sea and coastal freight water transport · Leigh-On-Sea · 08227457
10staff · FY2023
14years trading
51oldest owner on file
£224kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£4.1Mfor 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
Staff10
202111 → 102023
Cash at bank£224k
2021£560k → £224k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£410,960in the middle half
£103,366£523,088£2,669,000
Debtor daysdays34in the middle half
1441118
Creditor daysdays40
92277
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
41464
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
- 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.
- 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 0
Nothing stands out yet from the filings alone.
What the register says
Owners
- 51since 2016
Directors
- 39since 2015
- 46since 2015
- 51since 2021
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £4.1M | 10 | £224k |
| 2022-12-31 | not filed | 10 | £988k |
| 2021-12-31 | not filed | 11 | £560k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£1.6M£3.7M
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.