What a buyer sees
LAND & WATER SERVICES LTD
Other professional, scientific and technical activities n.e.c. · Sidcup · 02776439
135staff · FY2023
34years trading
80oldest owner on file
£-882kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£29Mfor 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
Staff135
2021125 → 1352023
Cash at bank£-882k
2021£1.4M → £-882k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£216,120in the middle half
£64,803£129,842£319,449
Debtor daysdays41in the middle half
1852105
Creditor daysdays33
81843
Stock daysdays4below almost all
830209
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 2
- 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.
- 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
- 34 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 4 against 30 for the middle of 91 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 80since 2016
- 57since 2018
Directors
- 80since 1993
- 57since 1995
- 59since 2001
- 52since 2017
- since 2022
- 39since 2023
- 55since 2026
- 49since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £29M | 135 | £-882k |
| 2022-12-31 | £40M | 130 | £428k |
| 2021-12-31 | £33M | 125 | £1.4M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£12M£26M
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.