What a buyer sees
C.F.STRUTHERS LIMITED
Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures · Hull · 00262479
57staff · FY2025
94years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.3Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£6.5Mfor the year to 2025
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
Staff57
202162 → 572025
Cash at bank£1.3M
2021£272k → £1.3M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£113,997in the bottom quarter
£102,718£170,458£318,709
Debtor daysdays16below almost all
276084
Creditor daysdays57
184368
Stock daysdays72in the top quarter
73199
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 4
- The last accounts went in 13 months after year endThe allowance is nine. A buyer reads a late filing as a question about the finance function rather than about the trading.
- Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 72 against 31 for the middle of 68 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
- 94 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 16 against 60 for the middle of 74 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 67since 1991
- since 2018
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-30 | 2026-08-14 | £6.5M | 57 | £1.3M |
| 2023-06-30 | — | £6.0M | 54 | £171k |
| 2022-06-30 | — | £5.2M | 56 | £758k |
| 2021-06-30 | — | £4.6M | 62 | £272k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£2.6M£5.8M
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.