MOLLOY METALS LTD

🌳Matureactive
NI070356 · ltd · incorporated 2008-09-03
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 15.5y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Sept 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 38320
Sector: Water supply & waste
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 70). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 15.5y

65/100
clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

  • · Oldest live charge is 15.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile
address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
3 officers (2 active, 3 linked, 2 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
52 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Sept 2023Sept 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-09-302023-09-30
Average employees00

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-06-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-04-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-06-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  4. 2022-05-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  5. 2021-09-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-06-16
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    gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
    gazette · DISS40
  7. 2021-06-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-06-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-05-14
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    dissolved-compulsory-strike-off-suspended
    dissolution · DISS16(SOAS)
  10. 2021-04-20
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    gazette-notice-compulsory
    gazette · GAZ1
  11. 2019-09-07
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    gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
    gazette · DISS40
  12. 2019-08-27
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    gazette-notice-compulsory
    gazette · GAZ1
  13. 2018-06-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  14. 2017-10-05
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    accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AAMD
  15. 2017-06-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  16. 2017-03-15
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    accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AAMD
  17. 2010-11-17
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Ulster Bank Limited
  18. 2008-09-03
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    Company incorporated
    As MOLLOY METALS LTD
  19. 2008-09-03
    ➕
    MOLLOY, Gerard Thomas appointed
    director
  20. 2008-09-03
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    MOLLOY, Thomas appointed
    director
  21. 2008-09-03
    ➕
    CS DIRECTOR SERVICES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-director
  22. 2008-09-03
    ➖
    CS DIRECTOR SERVICES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-director

Owner dependency

100/100
Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "MOLLOY" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 18 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

89/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 70 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 18 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 18 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
  • supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

clean
No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Gerard Molloy
Individual · Irish · DOB 02/1956 · age 70
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting06/04/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2008-09-03
Jurisdictionnorthern-ireland
Primary SIC38320 — SIC 38320

Registered office

185 Monaghan Road
Armagh
Co Armagh
BT60 4EZ

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-06-30
Last made up to: 2024-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-17
Last: 2025-09-03

Officers (2 active · 1 resigned)

MOLLOY, Gerard Thomas→
director · ~70y · appointed 2008-09-03
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Active
MOLLOY, Thomas→
director · ~46y · appointed 2008-09-03
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Active
CS DIRECTOR SERVICES LIMITED→
corporate-director · appointed 2008-09-03 · resigned 2008-09-03
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
NatWest Group
Ulster Bank Limited
Mortgage debenture1 property17/11/2010—
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Recent filings (52 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2025-06-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2024-04-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2023-06-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-05-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-09-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-09-08
gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
gazette · DISS40
2021-06-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-06-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-06-15
dissolved-compulsory-strike-off-suspended
dissolution · DISS16(SOAS)
2021-05-14
gazette-notice-compulsory
gazette · GAZ1
2021-04-20