WAID LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC326516 · ltd · incorporated 2007-06-28

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.

🔒Estimated value

—

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Turnover

—

year to Jun 2025

Net worth

£-805

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other information technology service activities

Sector: Information & communication

Investor take

Pass (distressed without resilience)

Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 66). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

3 officers (2 active, 3 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

45 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

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

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Negative net assets

Liabilities exceed assets by £805

Cash YoY

+217%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£15k

↑ 217% YoY

Net Worth

-£805

↑ 43% YoY

Current Assets

£30k

↑ 6.7% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-06-30	2024-06-30
Total assets	£-805	£-1.4k
Current assets	£29.7k	£27.8k
Cash	£14.6k	£4.6k
Debtors	£14.9k	£23.0k
Net assets	£-805	£-1.4k

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

• 1 address
• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 address
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand

2026-03-23
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address · AD01
2026-03-18
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accounts · AA
2025-06-27
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-03-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-04-26
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-03-31
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-26
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-03-20
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accounts · AA
2019-03-15
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2018-01-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2017-07-10
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2017-04-05
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officers · TM02
2017-03-02
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RALTON, Carole Anne resigned
secretary
2016-09-08
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accounts · AA
2016-06-28
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annual-return · AR01
2015-09-14
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
accounts · AA
2015-07-03
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annual-return · AR01
2011-04-06
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RALTON, Andrew John appointed
director
2007-06-28
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Company incorporated
As WAID LIMITED
2007-06-28
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RALTON, Brian Thomas appointed
director
2007-06-28
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RALTON, Carole Anne appointed
secretary

Owner dependency

91/100

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 19 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

79/100

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 66. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 19 years.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 19 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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Brian Thomas Ralton Individual · British · DOB 09/1960 · age 66	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	06/04/2016

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

Incorporated2007-06-28

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC62090 — Other information technology service activities

Registered office

14 The Mount

Motherwell

ML1 3SW

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-03-31

Last made up to: 2025-06-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-07-12

Last: 2025-06-28

Officers (2 active · 1 resigned)

RALTON, Andrew John→

director · ~44y · appointed 2011-04-06

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Active

RALTON, Brian Thomas→

director · ~66y · appointed 2007-06-28

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Active

RALTON, Carole Anne→

secretary · appointed 2007-06-28 · resigned 2017-03-02

Resigned

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Recent filings (45 total)

change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address

address · AD01

2026-03-23

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2026-03-18