What a buyer sees
CMT EQUIPMENT LIMITED
Wholesale of machine tools · Dartford · 07291374
111staff · FY2024
16years trading
42oldest owner on file
£632kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£44Mfor 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
Staff111
2021152 → 1112024
Cash at bank£632k
2021£4.4M → £632k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£400,412in the middle half
£98,596£257,484£692,330
Debtor daysdays81above almost all
123977
Creditor daysdays38
133163
Stock daysdays70in the middle half
1248117
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 29 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 81 against 39 for the middle of 1,162 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 1
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
- 42since 2016
Directors
- 42since 2012
- 41since 2012
- since 2012
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £44M | 111 | £632k |
| 2023-03-31 | £57M | 114 | £2.5M |
| 2022-03-31 | £40M | 147 | £741k |
| 2021-03-31 | £53M | 152 | £4.4M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£16M£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.