What a buyer sees
ALIDE PLANT SERVICES LIMITED
Renting and leasing of construction and civil engineering machinery and equipment · Keynsham · 01588338
60staff · FY2024
45years trading
—oldest owner on file
£595kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£6.9Mfor 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
Staff60
202254 → 602024
Cash at bank£595k
2022£555k → £595k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£115,778below almost all
£115,778£166,099£408,981
Debtor daysdays54in the middle half
346698
Creditor daysdays25
132973
Stock daysdays2below almost all
62077
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 29 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
- 45 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 2 against 20 for the middle of 194 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 63since 1992
- 42since 2013
- 34since 2018
- 52since 2021
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £6.9M | 60 | £595k |
| 2023-03-31 | £6.4M | 57 | £533k |
| 2022-03-31 | not filed | 54 | £555k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£2.8M£6.3M
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.