What a buyer sees
DOWDS ELECTRICAL (HOLDINGS) LIMITED
Non-trading company · Ballymena · NI051219
211staff · FY2024
22years trading
47oldest owner on file
£6.6Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£73Mfor 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.
What your filings show moving
Staff211
2022193 → 2112024
Cash at bank£6.6M
2022£6.8M → £6.6M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£344,583in the top quarter
£56,681£195,582£354,448
Debtor daysdays18below almost all
204779
Creditor daysdays17
112948
Stock daysdays0below almost all
735121
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.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- 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
- 22 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 344,583 against 195,582 for the middle of 40 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 18 against 47 for the middle of 30 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 0 against 35 for the middle of 69 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 47since 2016
Directors
- 47since 2004
- 54since 2004
- 53since 2015
- 63since 2019
- 51since 2019
- since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £73M | 211 | £6.6M |
| 2023-03-31 | £54M | 206 | £2.1M |
| 2022-03-31 | £41M | 193 | £6.8M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£29M£65M
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.