What a buyer sees
WADDELL HAULAGE LIMITED
Freight transport by road · Edinburgh · SC585590
16staff · FY2023
8years trading
37oldest owner on file
£306kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£9.9Mfor 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
Staff16
20212 → 162023
Cash at bank£306k
2021£3k → £306k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£617,988in the middle half
£63,749£242,467£1,106,886
Debtor daysdays4below almost all
245486
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
92547
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
41036
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
- Headcount grew from 11 to 16Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 4 against 54 for the middle of 71 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 35since 2022
- 37since 2018
Directors
- 37since 2018
- 35since 2022
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £9.9M | 16 | £306k |
| 2022-12-31 | £2.7M | 11 | £31k |
| 2021-12-31 | £345k | 2 | £3k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£4.0M£8.9M
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.