What a buyer sees
CITY OF DERRY HOTEL LIMITED
Hotels and similar accommodation · Co Derry · NI025615
163staff · FY2023
35years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.4Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£6.6Mfor the year to 2023
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
Staff163
2022192 → 1632023
Cash at bank£1.4M
2022£1.2M → £1.4M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£40,205in the bottom quarter
£34,449£52,234£92,550
Debtor daysdays5below almost all
71234
Creditor daysdays21
92050
Stock daysdays3below almost all
4632
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 4
- The newest accounts on file are 33 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- Headcount fell from 192 to 163A 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
- 35 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 5 against 12 for the middle of 136 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 6 for the middle of 123 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- since 1991
- 74since 1991
- 65since 2008
- 38since 2024
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £6.6M | 163 | £1.4M |
| 2022-12-31 | not filed | 192 | £1.2M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£2.6M£5.9M
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.