SIBCAS LIMITED

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SC052604 · ltd · incorporated 1973-03-19

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 52.3y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Renting and leasing of other machinery, equipment and tangible goods n.e.c.

Sector: Administrative & support services

Investor take

Pursue

Conservative operator with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 68). 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: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 52.3y

75/100

ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

· Oldest live charge is 52.3 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 30/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
· Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (73/100)

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

1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

17 officers (8 active, 17 linked, 16 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

2 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

126 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

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

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Profitable

Profit before tax £423,780

Key financials

1 year 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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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31
Profit before tax	£423.8k
Average employees	165

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 signals 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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (40 events)Click to expand

2025-10-21
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2025-10-07
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officers · AP01
2025-10-01
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JOHNSTON, Douglas Thom appointed
director
2025-04-25
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officers · TM01
2025-04-22
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STORRIE, Alisdair Robb resigned
director
2024-12-11
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accounts · AA
2024-04-12
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officers · AP01
2024-04-12
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officers · CH01
2024-04-11
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MACLEOD, Ewen Donald Kerr appointed
director
2024-03-20
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officers · TM01
2024-03-19
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ROBINSON, Neil Douglas resigned
director
2023-12-08
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accounts · AA
2022-12-05
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accounts · AA
2021-12-16
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accounts · AA
2021-04-06
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officers · TM01
2021-03-31
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MACLEOD, Ewen Donald Kerr resigned
director
2020-12-13
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accounts · AA
2019-12-16
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accounts · AA
2018-11-27
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accounts · AA
2018-04-26
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officers · AP01
2018-04-25
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STORRIE, Jordan Justina appointed
director
2017-11-22
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accounts · AA
2017-03-31
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LIGHTBODY, William resigned
director
2014-08-29
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WHITEHEAD, Stuart resigned
director
2013-03-28
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BURRELL, Peter resigned
director
2013-01-11
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SMITH, Matthew Alexander appointed
director
2011-05-31
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MEIKLE, Ross Stewart resigned
director
2010-04-16
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SWAN, William John resigned
director
2007-12-07
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MEIKLE, Ross Stewart appointed
director
2007-12-07
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ROBINSON, Neil Douglas appointed
director
2000-11-27
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STORRIE, Robb Alisdair appointed
director
2000-11-27
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BURRELL, Peter appointed
director
2000-11-27
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WHITEHEAD, Stuart appointed
director
1998-09-01
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STORRIE, Justin appointed
director
1998-09-01
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LIGHTBODY, William appointed
director
1998-09-01
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MACLEOD, Ewen Donald Kerr appointed
director
1998-09-01
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SWAN, William John appointed
director
1998-03-31
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SMILLIE, Donald Leitch Ferguson resigned
director
1974-01-31
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Charge registered #1
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
1973-03-19
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Company incorporated
As SIBCAS LIMITED

Owner dependency

73/100

High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS

-7 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 28 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

70/100

Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 68. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 28 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
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.)

Group structure

Sibcas (Holdings) Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Sibcas (Holdings) Ltd

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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SIBCAS LIMITED

This company · SC052604

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Sibcas (Holdings) Ltd Corporate entity	75–100%	—	75-100% shares	06/04/2016

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

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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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

Incorporated1973-03-19

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC77390 — Renting and leasing of other machinery, equipment and tangible goods n.e.c.

Registered office

Easton Road

Bathgate

West Lothian

EH48 2SF

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-12-11

Last: 2025-11-27