What a buyer sees
JAMES PATERSON & SONS (PLUMBING & HEATING) LIMITED
Plumbing, heat and air-conditioning installation · Denny · SC104349
62staff · FY2025
39years trading
44oldest owner on file
£1.1Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£9.4Mfor 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
Staff62
202188 → 622025
Cash at bank£1.1M
2021£1.1M → £1.1M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£151,337in the bottom quarter
£130,029£202,329£333,136
Debtor daysdays1below almost all
225687
Creditor daysdays44
223864
Stock daysdays5in the bottom quarter
51260
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 81 to 62A 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
- 39 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 1 against 56 for the middle of 37 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 5 against 12 for the middle of 97 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 44since 2018
Directors
- 50since 2005
- 41since 2005
- 44since 2005
- 29since 2020
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-30 | 2026-09-01 | £9.4M | 62 | £1.1M |
| 2023-05-31 | — | not filed | 81 | £872k |
| 2022-05-31 | — | not filed | 84 | £1.2M |
| 2021-05-31 | — | not filed | 88 | £1.1M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.7× sales£3.8M£6.6M
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.