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What a buyer sees

ROBERT NICHOLAS STEELS (BURNLEY) LIMITED

Wholesale of metals and metal ores · Accrington · 01188066

14staff · FY2024
52years trading
78oldest owner on file
£2.2Mcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£10Mfor 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

Staff14
202214 → 142024
Cash at bank£2.2M
2022£582k → £2.2M2024

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£749,100in the middle half
£749,100
£334,382£745,544£1,769,929
Debtor daysdays70in the middle half
70
436798
Creditor daysdays59
59
105170
Stock daysdays35in the middle half
35
2051128

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 31 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

  • 52 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
  • A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.

What the register says

Owners

  • 78since 2017

Directors

  • 81since 2000
  • 59since 2014
  • 58since 2014
  • 78
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2024-01-31£10M14£2.2M
2023-01-31not filed14£2.0M
2022-01-31not filed14£582k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.35–0.55× sales
£3.7M
£5.8M

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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