What a buyer sees
ANT INDUSTRIES LIMITED
Other engineering activities · 01116596
60staff · FY2022
53years trading
—oldest owner on file
£281kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£6.2Mfor the year to 2022
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
Staff60
202170 → 602022
Cash at bank£281k
2021£751k → £281k2022
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£102,800in the bottom quarter
£83,551£148,733£303,689
Debtor daysdays66in the middle half
206799
Creditor daysdays24
122470
Stock daysdays107above almost all
63197
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 6
- The newest accounts on file are 44 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- One director on the registerA buyer's first question about a company run by one person is what happens to it if that person stops. It is usually the first thing priced.
- Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
- Headcount fell from 70 to 60A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 107 against 31 for the middle of 70 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
- 53 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 66
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-12-31 | £6.2M | 60 | £281k |
| 2021-12-31 | £7.9M | 70 | £751k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.6–1.5× sales£3.7M£9.3M
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.