What a buyer sees
CARPENTER & PATERSON LIMITED
Manufacture of other fabricated metal products n.e.c. · Welshpool · 00559771
112staff · FY2025
70years trading
63oldest owner on file
£723kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£8.8Mfor 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
Staff112
2021113 → 1122025
Cash at bank£723k
2021£663k → £723k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£78,999below almost all
£86,854£141,664£294,750
Debtor daysdays55in the middle half
325886
Creditor daysdays19
153455
Stock daysdays38in the middle half
1350112
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
- 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.
- 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
- 70 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 96 to 112Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
What the register says
Owners
- 63since 2016
Directors
- 63since 1992
- 61since 2016
- 65since 2016
- since 2026
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-08-14 | £8.8M | 112 | £723k |
| 2023-12-31 | — | £7.4M | 96 | £516k |
| 2022-12-31 | — | £8.1M | 108 | £295k |
| 2021-12-31 | — | £7.5M | 113 | £663k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£3.5M£8.0M
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.