What a buyer sees
DARLOW LLOYD & SONS LIMITED
Collection of non-hazardous waste · Nr Bridgend · 01132524
191staff · FY2023
53years trading
82oldest owner on file
£51kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£28Mfor 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
Staff191
2021183 → 1912023
Cash at bank£51k
2021£598k → £51k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£147,081in the middle half
£104,145£187,862£306,258
Debtor daysdays68in the top quarter
365176
Creditor daysdays44
183348
Stock daysdays3below almost all
51444
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 38 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 68 against 51 for the middle of 43 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 3
- 53 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 3 against 14 for the middle of 41 comparable companies.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
- 82since 2016
- 56since 2016
- 57since 2016
Directors
- 56since 2005
- 58since 2005
- since 2007
- 82
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-30 | £28M | 191 | £51k |
| 2022-06-30 | £32M | 185 | £102k |
| 2021-06-30 | £20M | 183 | £598k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£11M£25M
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.