What a buyer sees
LEVERTONHELM LIMITED
Manufacture of other inorganic basic chemicals · Basingstoke · 01265610
72staff · FY2023
50years trading
—oldest owner on file
£6.7Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£104Mfor 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
Staff72
202136 → 722023
Cash at bank£6.7M
2021£1.7M → £6.7M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£1,437,656above almost all
£88,871£162,513£362,127
Debtor daysdays18below almost all
265687
Creditor daysdays19
143363
Stock daysdays21in the bottom quarter
1245115
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 5
- 50 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 46 to 72Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 1,437,656 against 162,513 for the middle of 2,152 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 18 against 56 for the middle of 2,030 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 21 against 45 for the middle of 2,028 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 60since 2021
- 39since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £104M | 72 | £6.7M |
| 2022-12-31 | £135M | 46 | £13M |
| 2021-12-31 | £20M | 36 | £1.7M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£41M£93M
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.