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What a buyer sees

T.W. WARD C.N.C. MACHINERY LIMITED

Installation of industrial machinery and equipment · Sheffield · 01762383

36staff · FY2024
43years trading
65oldest owner on file
£586kcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£12Mfor the year to 2024

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

Staff36
202235 → 362024
Cash at bank£586k
2022£899k → £586k2024

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£337,611in the middle half
£337,611
£58,419£229,755£589,619
Debtor daysdays51in the middle half
51
2759117
Creditor daysdays59
59
133576
Stock daysdays123above almost all
123
1045104

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 5

  • The newest accounts on file are 29 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.
  • The register shows an owner past retirement age and little elseWithout directors on file, a buyer cannot tell who actually runs the business day to day.
  • Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 123 against 45 for the middle of 46 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 1

  • 43 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.

What the register says

Owners

  • 65since 2016

Directors

  • since 2004
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2024-03-31£12M36£586k
2023-03-31£9.9M34£655k
2022-03-31£12M35£899k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.9× sales
£4.9M
£11M

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.

Prepared by Qapital from public records, against 105,750 companies that did publish a turnover. No figure here was supplied by the company and none of it is advice. What it is missing is everything that actually sets a price: profitability, contracts, customer concentration, and whoever would run it next.

Tell us the rest

Your turnover is on file, but the things that set a price are not: margin, customer concentration, who would run it next. Tell us where you are and we will read it properly.

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