What a buyer sees
ALBERT HILL COMMERCIALS LIMITED
Sale of other motor vehicles · Darlington · 03915247
14staff · FY2025
26years trading
55oldest owner on file
£219kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£22Mfor 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
20219 → 142025
Cash at bank£219k
2021£1.2M → £219k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£1,592,236in the top quarter
£336,913£806,870£1,935,113
Debtor daysdays15in the bottom quarter
122174
Creditor daysdays11
1142120
Stock daysdays227in the top quarter
3682242
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
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 227 against 82 for the middle of 38 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 4
- 26 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 12 to 14Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 1,592,236 against 806,870 for the middle of 39 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 15 against 21 for the middle of 59 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 55since 2016
- 53since 2017
Directors
- 55since 2000
- since 2026
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-07-21 | £22M | 14 | £219k |
| 2023-12-31 | — | £23M | 12 | £262k |
| 2022-12-31 | — | not filed | 8 | £2.0M |
| 2021-12-31 | — | not filed | 9 | £1.2M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£8.9M£20M
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.