What a buyer sees
SOIL ENGINEERING GEOSERVICES LIMITED
Construction of other civil engineering projects n.e.c. · Burscough · 02727976
175,000staff · FY2023
34years trading
—oldest owner on file
£60kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£27Mfor the year to 2023
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
Staff175,000
2021185,000 → 175,0002023
Cash at bank£60k
2021£3.4M → £60k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£155below almost all
£76,326£277,376£1,094,025
Debtor daysdays74in the top quarter
144383
Creditor daysdays20
163569
Stock daysdays23in the middle half
61569
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 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 74 against 43 for the middle of 170 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
- 34 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
- since 2009
- 53since 2013
- 61since 2023
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £27M | 175000 | £60k |
| 2022-12-31 | £30M | 171000 | £3.1M |
| 2021-12-31 | £29M | 185000 | £3.4M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£11M£24M
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.