What a buyer sees
ATKINSON EQUIPMENT LIMITED
Agents specialized in the sale of other particular products · West Wilts Trading Estate, · 01050233
36staff · FY2024
54years trading
—oldest owner on file
£477kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£3.5Mfor 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
202234 → 362024
Cash at bank£477k
2022£145k → £477k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£96,069below almost all
£149,299£348,080£932,423
Debtor daysdays65in the middle half
235585
Creditor daysdays39
102778
Stock daysdays112in the top quarter
1449112
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
- 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.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 112 against 49 for the middle of 40 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
- 54 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 68since 1994
- 56since 2009
- 41since 2018
- 43since 2018
- 71
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £3.5M | 36 | £477k |
| 2023-03-31 | £3.4M | 34 | £480k |
| 2022-03-31 | £3.7M | 34 | £145k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£1.2M£1.9M
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.