What a buyer sees
C.P.S. FUELS LIMITED
Agents involved in the sale of fuels, ores, metals and industrial chemicals · London · 06241896
14staff · FY2025
19years trading
—oldest owner on file
£-988kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£82Mfor the year to 2025
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
Staff14
202132 → 142025
Cash at bank£-988k
2021£-1,184k → £-988k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£5,837,000above almost all
£87,459£464,006£1,513,474
Debtor daysdays19in the bottom quarter
154790
Creditor daysdays16
102974
Stock daysdays3below almost all
1150141
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
- Headcount fell from 19 to 14A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- 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 3
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 5,837,000 against 464,006 for the middle of 1,880 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 19 against 47 for the middle of 1,452 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 50 for the middle of 1,657 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- since 2007
- 72since 2007
- 41since 2019
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 2026-06-30 | £82M | 14 | £-988k |
| 2023-09-30 | — | £66M | 19 | £718k |
| 2022-09-30 | — | £76M | 19 | £-32k |
| 2021-09-30 | — | £47M | 32 | £-1,184k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£29M£45M
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.