What a buyer sees
J T ATKINSON & SONS LIMITED
Agents involved in the sale of timber and building materials · Middlesbrough · 01027936
537staff · FY2023
55years trading
—oldest owner on file
£208kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£134Mfor 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
Staff537
2021471 → 5372023
Cash at bank£208k
2021£67k → £208k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£249,675in the middle half
£146,892£285,967£856,934
Debtor daysdays33in the bottom quarter
234783
Creditor daysdays26
193862
Stock daysdays53in the middle half
254174
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 32 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
- 55 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 33 against 47 for the middle of 113 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 69since 1995
- 71since 2000
- 59since 2001
- 58since 2013
- 41since 2013
- 38since 2020
- since 2020
- 53since 2021
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £134M | 537 | £208k |
| 2022-12-31 | £129M | 527 | £36k |
| 2021-12-31 | £124M | 471 | £67k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£47M£74M
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.