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What a buyer sees

WATERMAINS AND DRAINS UK LTD

Construction of utility projects for fluids · Stockport · 08933703

13staff · FY2024
12years trading
45oldest owner on file
£202kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over, including us

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We size companies from the rest of the balance sheet. For this one, what you have filed does not narrow it to anything worth quoting, and we would rather say so than put a number here. That is the position every buyer looking at you is in, and they price uncertainty rather than ask about it.

What your filings show moving

Staff13
202210 → 132024

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£70,889£394,964£1,254,166
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
164391
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
133369
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
622228

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

  • Your turnover is not on fileYou file abbreviated accounts, as most companies your size do, so a buyer cannot see what the business turns over and has to estimate it. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • 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 19 to 13A 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 0

Nothing stands out yet from the filings alone.

What the register says

Owners

  • 45since 2017
  • 33since 2016

Directors

  • since 2014
  • 45since 2017
  • 72since 2024
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2024-03-31not filed13£202k
2023-03-31not filed19—
2022-03-31not filed10—

Prepared by Qapital from public records, against 105,750 companies that did publish a turnover. No figure here was supplied by the company and none of it is advice. What it is missing is everything that actually sets a price: profitability, contracts, customer concentration, and whoever would run it next.

Close the gap

The range above exists because your turnover is not on public record. Tell us what it actually is and we will place you exactly against your trade, and send it back.

Goes to one inbox. No list, no sequence, and we will not pass it on. We buy companies as well as advise on them, so if yours is one we would be interested in, we will tell you that before anything else happens.