What a buyer sees
STOKEY PLANT HIRE LIMITED
Support activities for other mining and quarrying · Telford · 01769089
29staff · FY2024
43years trading
53oldest owner on file
£8kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£14Mfor 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
Staff29
202132 → 292024
Cash at bank£8k
2021£14k → £8k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£480,707in the top quarter
£106,674£319,065£519,851
Debtor daysdays46in the middle half
2753100
Creditor daysdays51
113162
Stock daysdays3below almost all
618122
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 3
- 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.
- Headcount fell from 39 to 29A 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 4
- 43 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 480,707 against 319,065 for the middle of 36 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 3 against 18 for the middle of 65 comparable companies.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
- 53since 2016
Directors
- 53since 2000
- 54since 2001
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £14M | 29 | £8k |
| 2022-12-31 | not filed | 39 | £9k |
| 2021-12-31 | not filed | 32 | £14k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£5.6M£13M
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.