What a buyer sees
HOSPITAL METALCRAFT LIMITED
Manufacture of other fabricated metal products n.e.c. · Dorset · 00524837
156staff · FY2023
73years trading
75oldest owner on file
£13Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£25Mfor 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
Staff156
2021159 → 1562023
Cash at bank£13M
2021£13M → £13M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£159,365in the middle half
£86,854£141,664£294,750
Debtor daysdays35in the bottom quarter
325886
Creditor daysdays27
153455
Stock daysdays16in the bottom quarter
1350112
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 35 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 3
- 73 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 35 against 58 for the middle of 131 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 16 against 50 for the middle of 126 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 75since 2016
Directors
- 75since 2000
- 52since 2001
- 54since 2010
- since 2022
- 48since 2022
- 75
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-30 | £25M | 156 | £13M |
| 2022-10-01 | £26M | 167 | £13M |
| 2021-10-02 | £26M | 159 | £13M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£9.9M£22M
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.