What a buyer sees
BIGNEAT LIMITED
Other manufacturing n.e.c. · Waterlooville · 01137691
34staff · FY2025
53years trading
—oldest owner on file
£236kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£4.8Mfor 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
Staff34
202175 → 342025
Cash at bank£236k
2021£55k → £236k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£139,974in the middle half
£90,438£219,207£692,212
Debtor daysdays27in the bottom quarter
205395
Creditor daysdays17
133060
Stock daysdays29in the middle half
1144103
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
- One director on the registerA buyer's first question about a company run by one person is what happens to it if that person stops. It is usually the first thing priced.
- Headcount fell from 75 to 34A 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 2
- 53 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 26 against 53 for the middle of 94 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 35since 2021
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-09-08 | £4.8M | 34 | £236k |
| 2021-08-12 | — | £7.9M | 75 | £55k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£1.9M£4.3M
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.