What a buyer sees
E. MCINTYRE & SONS LIMITED
Wholesale of machine tools · Coleraine · NI038690
86staff · FY2025
26years trading
—oldest owner on file
£3.0Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£20Mfor 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
Staff86
202176 → 862025
Cash at bank£3.0M
2021£3.0M → £3.0M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£228,615in the middle half
£98,596£257,484£692,330
Debtor daysdays68in the top quarter
123977
Creditor daysdays18
133163
Stock daysdays117above almost all
1248117
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
- 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.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 68 against 39 for the middle of 1,162 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 117 against 48 for the middle of 1,442 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 2
- 26 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 61since 2000
- since 2007
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-31 | 2026-08-01 | £20M | 86 | £3.0M |
| 2023-10-31 | — | £19M | 81 | £5.2M |
| 2022-10-31 | — | £19M | 78 | £2.2M |
| 2021-10-31 | — | £17M | 76 | £3.0M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£6.9M£11M
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.