What a buyer sees
OWEN CONTRACTORS LIMITED
Development of building projects · Hailsham · 03748413
14staff · FY2025
27years trading
—oldest owner on file
£249kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£19Mfor 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
Staff14
202216 → 142025
Cash at bank£249k
2022£534k → £249k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£1,387,171in the top quarter
£58,215£454,148£1,404,438
Debtor daysdays61in the top quarter
123488
Creditor daysdays9
113273
Stock daysdays1below almost all
942471
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
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- Headcount fell from 16 to 14A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 61 against 34 for the middle of 90 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
- 27 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 1,387,171 against 454,148 for the middle of 137 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 0 against 42 for the middle of 67 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 67since 1999
- 62since 2009
- 61since 2022
- since 2023
- 52since 2024
- 32since 2024
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-31 | 2026-07-25 | £19M | 14 | £249k |
| 2022-10-31 | — | £22M | 16 | £534k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.2–0.45× sales£3.9M£8.7M
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.