What a buyer sees
CENTRAL ROOFING AND BUILDING SERVICES LIMITED
Roofing activities · Hereford · 03746288
131staff · FY2023
27years trading
—oldest owner on file
£4.2Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£24Mfor the year to 2023
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
Staff131
2021108 → 1312023
Cash at bank£4.2M
2021£3.9M → £4.2M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£183,882in the middle half
£72,519£255,086£712,512
Debtor daysdays83in the top quarter
154392
Creditor daysdays29
183770
Stock daysdays2below almost all
61887
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 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 83 against 43 for the middle of 58 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
- 27 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 18 for the middle of 36 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 52since 2005
- 51since 2013
- 44since 2014
- 53since 2014
- 48since 2017
- 42since 2017
- 56since 2023
- since 2024
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £24M | 131 | £4.2M |
| 2023-04-30 | £27M | 120 | £2.4M |
| 2022-04-30 | £30M | 123 | £2.1M |
| 2021-04-30 | £22M | 108 | £3.9M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.7× sales£9.6M£17M
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.