What a buyer sees
B & W PLANT HIRE AND SALES LIMITED
Non-specialised wholesale trade · Blackburn · 04086465
71staff · FY2022
26years trading
—oldest owner on file
£37kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£7.5Mfor the year to 2022
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
Staff71
202267 → 712022
Cash at bank£37k
2022£129k → £37k2022
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£105,972below almost all
£121,758£262,690£455,471
Debtor daysdays198above almost all
195078
Creditor daysdays78
113257
Stock daysdays8below almost all
2052120
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
- The newest accounts on file are 48 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- 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.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 198 against 50 for the middle of 118 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 2
- 26 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 8 against 52 for the middle of 124 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 56since 2000
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-08-31 | £7.5M | 71 | £37k |
| 2022-03-31 | £16M | 67 | £129k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£2.6M£4.1M
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.