What a buyer sees
SYMS AUTOMOTIVE DESIGNS LIMITED
Engineering related scientific and technical consulting activities · Basildon · 03724716
1staff · FY2026
27years trading
63oldest owner on file
£6kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£72kfor the year to 2026
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
Staff1
20221 → 12026
Cash at bank£6k
2022£7k → £6k2026
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£72,100in the middle half
£18,395£105,468£330,411
Debtor daysdays28in the middle half
1241104
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
112881
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
632182
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 1
- 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
- 27 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
- 63since 2016
Directors
No current directors loaded.
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-31 | 2026-06-24 | £72k | 1 | £6k |
| 2024-03-31 | — | £75k | 1 | £9k |
| 2023-03-31 | — | £73k | 1 | £9k |
| 2022-03-31 | — | £76k | 1 | £7k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.6–1.5× sales£40k£110k
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.