What a buyer sees
TALBOT TOOL COMPANY LIMITED
Manufacture of machinery for metallurgy · Beckenham · 00362496
9staff · FY2025
86years trading
94oldest owner on file
£1.0Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£1.0Mfor 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
Staff9
20219 → 92025
Cash at bank£1.0M
2021£873k → £1.0M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£112,678in the middle half
£19,570£79,800£652,860
Debtor daysdays39in the middle half
1552127
Creditor daysdays4
1033119
Stock daysdays93in the top quarter
944216
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
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 93 against 44 for the middle of 533 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- 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
- 86 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
- 64since 2016
- 94since 2016
Directors
- 64since 1995
- 53since 2004
- since 2017
- 94
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-07-23 | £1.0M | 9 | £1.0M |
| 2023-12-31 | — | £839k | 10 | £949k |
| 2022-12-31 | — | £944k | 10 | £859k |
| 2021-12-31 | — | £1,000k | 9 | £873k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£410k£910k
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.