What a buyer sees
MERCURY BEARINGS LIMITED
Non-specialised wholesale trade · Halesowen · 03598993
33staff · FY2023
28years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.5Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£13Mfor 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
Staff33
202133 → 332023
Cash at bank£1.5M
2021£295k → £1.5M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£390,824in the middle half
£165,955£424,674£1,097,429
Debtor daysdays71in the middle half
225791
Creditor daysdays18
92661
Stock daysdays22in the bottom quarter
2262151
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 32 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 2
- 28 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 22 against 62 for the middle of 208 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 60since 2022
- 41since 2022
- since 2022
- 47since 2024
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £13M | 33 | £1.5M |
| 2022-12-31 | £12M | 34 | £943k |
| 2021-12-31 | £11M | 33 | £295k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£4.5M£7.1M
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.