What a buyer sees
WEST MIDLANDS SPECTRUM LTD
Manufacture of electronic measuring, testing etc. equipment, not for industrial process control · Harborne · 07905308
1staff · FY2024
14years trading
57oldest owner on file
£28kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£95kfor 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
Staff1
20222 → 12024
Cash at bank£28k
2022£25k → £28k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£94,700in the bottom quarter
£69,612£139,091£471,088
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
2251107
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
112356
Stock daysdays7below almost all
1766186
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 31 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 1
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 7 against 66 for the middle of 40 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 57since 2017
Directors
No current directors loaded.
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-31 | £95k | 1 | £28k |
| 2023-01-31 | not filed | 1 | £28k |
| 2022-01-31 | not filed | 2 | £25k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£40k£90k
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.