What a buyer sees
ROCK CHEMICALS LIMITED
Other treatment of petroleum products (excluding petrochemicals manufacture) · Cheshire · 00835494
61staff · FY2024
61years trading
—oldest owner on file
£525kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£26Mfor 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
Staff61
202175 → 612024
Cash at bank£525k
2021£264k → £525k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£424,102above almost all
£88,871£162,513£362,127
Debtor daysdays38in the bottom quarter
265687
Creditor daysdays52
143363
Stock daysdays63in the middle half
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 29 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 4
- 61 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 424,102 against 162,513 for the middle of 2,152 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 38 against 56 for the middle of 2,030 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
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 47since 2008
- 73
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £26M | 61 | £525k |
| 2023-03-31 | £24M | 66 | £348k |
| 2022-03-31 | £23M | 70 | £248k |
| 2021-03-31 | £21M | 75 | £264k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£10M£23M
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.