What a buyer sees
SPECIAL QUALITY ALLOYS LIMITED
Other non-ferrous metal production · 01985443
97staff · FY2024
40years trading
52oldest owner on file
£11Mcash at bank
Nobody can see what you turn over
7.3× spread£24M£172M
You file abbreviated accounts, as almost every company your size does, so the profit and loss account is not on public record. That band is what your balance sheet implies to anyone who looks: 3 figures against 2,030 companies in the same sector and size. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.
What your filings show moving
Staff97
2021108 → 972024
Cash at bank£11M
2021£6.0M → £11M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employeenot on your filings
£88,871£162,513£362,127
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
265687
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
143363
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
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 3
- Your turnover is not on fileYou file abbreviated accounts, as most companies your size do, so a buyer cannot see what the business turns over and has to estimate it. Working only from what you filed, the range lands between £24M and £172M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
- The newest accounts on file are 27 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 1
- 40 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
- 52since 2025
- 49since 2025
Directors
- 61since 1998
- 52since 2005
- 49since 2005
- 57since 2006
- 55since 2015
- 53since 2022
- 36since 2023
- 78
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-31 | not filed | 97 | £11M |
| 2023-05-31 | not filed | 92 | £5.1M |
| 2022-05-31 | £28M | 92 | £8.8M |
| 2021-05-31 | £30M | 108 | £6.0M |