What a buyer sees
WATERCO (EUROPE) LIMITED
Manufacture of other general-purpose machinery n.e.c. · Teynham Sittingbourne · 04704318
14staff · FY2026
23years trading
—oldest owner on file
£770kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£7.2Mfor the year to 2026
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
202216 → 142026
Cash at bank£770k
2022£314k → £770k2026
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£511,300above almost all
£57,054£148,617£482,804
Debtor daysdays68in the middle half
225592
Creditor daysdays10
113064
Stock daysdays97in the top quarter
1049126
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
- Headcount fell from 17 to 14A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 97 against 48 for the middle of 890 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- 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
- 23 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 511,300 against 148,617 for the middle of 32 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 75since 2003
- 57since 2005
- 51since 2010
- since 2025
- since 2025
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 2026-08-15 | £7.2M | 14 | £770k |
| 2024-06-30 | — | £7.1M | 17 | £279k |
| 2023-06-30 | — | £6.9M | 18 | £330k |
| 2022-06-30 | — | £7.8M | 16 | £314k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£2.9M£6.4M
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.