A.E. SEXTON LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
02470401 · ltd · incorporated 1990-02-15
Investment thesis
Established operating company — standard diligence applies, no dominant angle.
Why interesting: Live, filing, normal profile.
Why risky: No standout signals in either direction.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 33.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 82-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 70/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 82). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 4 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

4 live charges · oldest 33.0y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 33.0 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
4 charges (4/4 with lender, 4/4 with type)
90
Directors & officers
8 officers (3 active, 8 linked, 6 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
113 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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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees400400

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

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

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
5
filings
  • • 3 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 address
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
5
filings
  • • 3 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 address
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (30 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-05-07
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  2. 2026-05-07
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  5. 2025-12-05
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  6. 2025-08-21
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  10. 2024-10-24
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  11. 2023-11-10
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  12. 2022-11-07
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  13. 2021-11-05
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  14. 2020-09-30
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  15. 2019-10-07
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  16. 2018-10-02
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  17. 2013-05-04
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    SEXTON, Carol Margaret resigned
    secretary
  18. 2013-05-04
    ➖
    SEXTON, Carol Margaret resigned
    director
  19. 2010-07-22
    ➖
    SEXTON, Alfred Edward resigned
    director
  20. 2002-03-14
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    SEXTON, Doreen Christine resigned
    director
  21. 1999-12-06
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    SEXTON, Carol Margaret appointed
    secretary
  22. 1999-12-06
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    SEXTON, Doreen Christine resigned
    secretary
  23. 1998-01-27
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    Charge registered #4
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  24. 1995-10-01
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    SEXTON, Carol Margaret appointed
    director
  25. 1994-10-03
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    SEXTON, Benjamin John appointed
    director
  26. 1994-10-03
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    SEXTON, David Toby William appointed
    director
  27. 1993-09-24
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  28. 1993-06-18
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  29. 1993-06-18
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  30. 1990-02-15
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    Company incorporated
    As A.E. SEXTON LIMITED

Owner dependency

98/100
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
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "SEXTON" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 32 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 82 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100
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 82 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 32 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 36 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

3 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr David Toby William Sexton
Individual · British · DOB 07/1967 · age 59
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016
Mr Benjamin John Sexton
Individual · British · DOB 05/1969 · age 57
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016
Mr David John Sexton
Individual · British · DOB 10/1944 · age 82
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016

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

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Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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8 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
Incorporated1990-02-15
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC01110 — Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds

Registered office

Unit 21 Horsleys Fields
King's Lynn
Norfolk
PE30 5DD
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-22
Last: 2026-04-08

Officers (3 active · 5 resigned)

SEXTON, Benjamin John→
director · ~57y · appointed 1994-10-03
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SEXTON, David Toby William→
director · ~59y · appointed 1994-10-03
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SEXTON, David John→
director · ~82y
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SEXTON, Carol Margaret→
secretary · appointed 1999-12-06 · resigned 2013-05-04
Resigned
SEXTON, Doreen Christine→
secretary · resigned 1999-12-06
Resigned
SEXTON, Alfred Edward→
director · ~110y · resigned 2010-07-22
Resigned
SEXTON, Carol Margaret→
director · ~82y · appointed 1995-10-01 · resigned 2013-05-04
Resigned
SEXTON, Doreen Christine→
director · ~108y · resigned 2002-03-14
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

4
Total charges
4
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:4 of 4 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Legal charge2 properties27/01/1998—
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Legal charge1 property24/09/1993—
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Legal charge1 property18/06/1993—
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Debenture1 property18/06/1993—
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Recent filings (113 total)

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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-05-07
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-05-07
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-05-07
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2026-05-07
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-05
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-08-21
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-08-21
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-08-21
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-08-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-10-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-11-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-19