What a buyer sees
SIGMA ASL LIMITED
Engineering design activities for industrial process and production · Leigh On Sea · 02913195
18staff · FY2023
32years trading
—oldest owner on file
£508kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£16Mfor 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
Staff18
202128 → 182023
Cash at bank£508k
2021£2.6M → £508k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£885,094above almost all
£42,635£130,814£632,725
Debtor daysdays98in the top quarter
2264117
Creditor daysdays267
1229212
Stock daysdays24in the middle half
734122
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 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.
- Headcount fell from 23 to 18A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 98 against 64 for the middle of 39 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
- 32 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 885,094 against 130,814 for the middle of 39 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- since 2025
- 37since 2025
- 51since 2025
- 58since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £16M | 18 | £508k |
| 2023-06-30 | £61M | 23 | £1.7M |
| 2021-12-31 | £36M | 28 | £2.6M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.6–1.5× sales£9.6M£24M
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.