What a buyer sees
GREENS COMBUSTION LIMITED
Manufacture of other special-purpose machinery n.e.c. · Poole · 05733303
19staff · FY2024
20years trading
58oldest owner on file
£1.3Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£6.6Mfor the year to 2024
Unusual at this size, and it works in your favour: a buyer is reading your number rather than guessing at one.
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£349,511in the top quarter
£86,387£161,407£453,678
Debtor daysdays97in the top quarter
2255106
Creditor daysdays42
132560
Stock daysdays2below almost all
2472158
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
- The newest accounts on file are 29 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 97 against 55 for the middle of 89 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 4
- 20 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 349,510 against 161,407 for the middle of 95 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 72 for the middle of 88 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
- 58since 2017
- 57since 2017
Directors
- 57since 2012
- 59since 2012
- 60since 2016
- 58since 2016
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £6.6M | 19 | £1.3M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£2.7M£6.0M
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.