What a buyer sees
M.J. ALLEN CASTINGS AND MACHINING LTD
Other engineering activities · Ashford · 02378447
68staff · FY2025
37years trading
—oldest owner on file
£2kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£6.4Mfor the year to 2025
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
Staff68
202288 → 682025
Cash at bank£2k
2022£231k → £2k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£93,666in the bottom quarter
£83,551£148,733£303,689
Debtor daysdays62in the middle half
206799
Creditor daysdays15
122470
Stock daysdays43in the middle half
63197
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
- Headcount fell from 92 to 68A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- 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
- 37 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 35since 2019
- 39since 2021
- 55since 2021
- 38since 2024
- 90
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 2026-06-30 | £6.4M | 68 | £2k |
| 2023-09-30 | — | £10.0M | 92 | £13k |
| 2022-09-30 | — | £7.6M | 88 | £231k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.6–1.5× sales£3.8M£9.6M
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.