What a buyer sees
WILLIAM HUGHES LIMITED
Forging, pressing, stamping and roll-forming of metal; powder metallurgy · Stalbridge · 00243035
99staff · FY2025
97years trading
—oldest owner on file
£751kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£10.0Mfor 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
Staff99
2022117 → 992025
Cash at bank£751k
2022£511k → £751k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£100,665in the bottom quarter
£88,871£162,513£362,127
Debtor daysdays66in the middle half
265687
Creditor daysdays11
143363
Stock daysdays9below almost all
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 2
- Headcount fell from 117 to 99A 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 3
- 97 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 9 against 45 for the middle of 2,028 comparable companies.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- since 1992
- 79since 1993
- 51since 2005
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-08-27 | £10.0M | 99 | £751k |
| 2023-12-31 | — | £12M | 117 | £621k |
| 2022-12-31 | — | £12M | 117 | £511k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£4.0M£9.0M
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.