DELPHIC COMPUTER SERVICES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
02590021 · ltd · incorporated 1991-03-08
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 28.5y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jun 2025
Net worth
£81.9k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 35110
Sector: Electricity, gas & energy
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 63-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 63). 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 (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 28.5y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 28.5 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: medium (79/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

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
8 officers (3 active, 8 linked, 4 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
85 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £81,944
Net assets shrinking
Down £37,952 YoY
Cash YoY
+356%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£60k
↑ 356% YoY
Net Worth
£82k
↓ 32% YoY
Current Assets
£191k
↑ 19% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£38k£77k£115k£153k£191kJun 2024Jun 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-06-302024-06-30
Total assets£81.9k£119.9k
Current assets£191.4k£160.9k
Cash£60.1k£13.2k
Debtors£131.3k£147.7k
Net assets£81.9k£119.9k

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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filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (30 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-27
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  2. 2024-12-23
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  3. 2024-01-22
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  4. 2023-01-19
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  5. 2022-01-18
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    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-02-22
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    accounts · AA
  7. 2020-01-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  8. 2019-03-15
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    accounts · AA
  9. 2018-02-02
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    accounts · AA
  10. 2017-02-03
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2016-03-17
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  12. 2016-02-04
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  13. 2015-03-16
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  14. 2015-01-29
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2014-03-13
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    annual-return · AR01
  16. 1998-01-07
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  17. 1991-04-19
    ➕
    DENT, Diana Lucy appointed
    secretary
  18. 1991-04-19
    ➕
    DENT, Diana Lucy appointed
    director
  19. 1991-04-19
    ➕
    DENT, Simon Charles John appointed
    director
  20. 1991-04-19
    ➖
    DENT, Elizabeth Ann resigned
    secretary
  21. 1991-04-19
    ➖
    DENT, Elizabeth Ann resigned
    director
  22. 1991-04-19
    ➖
    DENT, John William Millar resigned
    director
  23. 1991-03-21
    ➕
    DENT, Elizabeth Ann appointed
    secretary
  24. 1991-03-21
    ➖
    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  25. 1991-03-21
    ➕
    DENT, Elizabeth Ann appointed
    director
  26. 1991-03-21
    ➕
    DENT, John William Millar appointed
    director
  27. 1991-03-21
    ➖
    INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  28. 1991-03-08
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    Company incorporated
    As DELPHIC COMPUTER SERVICES LIMITED
  29. 1991-03-08
    ➕
    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  30. 1991-03-08
    ➕
    INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

84/100
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.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 35 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 63. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 35 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 35 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 Simon Charles John Dent
Individual · British · DOB 07/1963 · age 63
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting30/06/2016

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

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1991-03-08
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC35110 — SIC 35110

Registered office

White House
Preston Wynne
Herefordshire
HR1 3PB

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last made up to: 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-22
Last: 2026-03-08

Officers (3 active · 5 resigned)

DENT, Diana Lucy→
secretary · appointed 1991-04-19
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Active
DENT, Diana Lucy→
director · ~61y · appointed 1991-04-19
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Active
DENT, Simon Charles John→
director · ~63y · appointed 1991-04-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
DENT, Elizabeth Ann→
secretary · appointed 1991-03-21 · resigned 1991-04-19
Resigned
SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1991-03-08 · resigned 1991-03-21
Resigned
DENT, Elizabeth Ann→
director · ~89y · appointed 1991-03-21 · resigned 1991-04-19
Resigned
DENT, John William Millar→
director · ~92y · appointed 1991-03-21 · resigned 1991-04-19
Resigned
INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1991-03-08 · resigned 1991-03-21
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Deed of charge over credit balances1 property07/01/1998—
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Recent filings (85 total)

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accounts · AA
2026-03-27
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-12-23
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-01-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-01-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-01-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-02-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-03-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2020-01-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-03-22