What a buyer sees
A.P.D. TRUCK MIXER REPAIRS LTD
Repair and maintenance of other transport equipment n.e.c. · Darlaston · 07442456
5staff · FY2024
16years trading
54oldest owner on file
£583kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£2.8Mfor 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
Staff5
20229 → 52024
Cash at bank£583k
2022£742k → £583k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£568,940above almost all
£23,493£101,250£243,711
Debtor daysdays52in the middle half
1552127
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
1033119
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
944216
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.
- Headcount fell from 13 to 5A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- 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
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 568,940 against 101,250 for the middle of 37 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 54since 2016
Directors
- since 2010
- 54since 2010
- 74since 2011
- 55since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £2.8M | 5 | £583k |
| 2023-03-31 | £2.6M | 13 | £521k |
| 2022-03-31 | £2.4M | 9 | £742k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£1.1M£2.6M
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.