What a buyer sees
GRATTE BROTHERS LIMITED
Electrical installation · London · 00411138
178staff · FY2022
80years trading
—oldest owner on file
£5.9Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£98Mfor the year to 2022
Unusual at this size, and it works in your favour: a buyer is reading your number rather than guessing at one.
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£550,346above almost all
£102,858£198,982£467,730
Debtor daysdays10below almost all
184694
Creditor daysdays50
214071
Stock daysdays1below almost all
52349
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 53 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 4
- 80 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 550,346 against 198,982 for the middle of 110 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 10 against 46 for the middle of 94 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 0 against 23 for the middle of 37 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 68since 1996
- 62since 2009
- 65since 2014
- 57since 2014
- 45since 2017
- 50since 2018
- since 2019
- 56since 2019
- 30since 2023
- 52since 2023
- 54since 2024
- 47since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-31 | £98M | 178 | £5.9M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.7× sales£39M£69M
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.