OWN ENERGY IP LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC489894 · ltd · incorporated 2014-10-27
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 Oct 2024
Net worth
£-3.5k
book net assets
Opportunity
79/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 35140
Sector: Electricity, gas & energy
Investor take
Pass (distressed without resilience)
Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 80). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (83/100)

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
12 connected companies via shared directors
81
Filing history
40 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
79/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
75
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 105 (micro)
Negative net assets
Liabilities exceed assets by £3,525

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
Net Worth
-£4k
~ YoY
Current Assets
£1
~ YoY
Current Liabilities
-£4k-£3k-£2k-£1k-£704£1Oct 2023Oct 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 105 (micro)
Metric2024-10-312023-10-31
Total assets£-3.5k£-3.5k
Current assets£1£1
Net assets£-3.5k£-3.5k

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
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filings
Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-07-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-07-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-11-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-07-10
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  5. 2022-07-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-07-06
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  7. 2022-07-06
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  8. 2022-06-17
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  9. 2022-06-13
    MCGHEE, Anya appointed
    director
  10. 2022-01-21
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    capital-allotment-shares
    capital · SH01
  11. 2022-01-21
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    capital-alter-shares-subdivision
    capital · SH02
  12. 2022-01-21
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    capital-alter-shares-subdivision
    capital · SH02
  13. 2022-01-12
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    capital-name-of-class-of-shares
    capital · SH08
  14. 2022-01-12
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    memorandum-articles
    incorporation · MA
  15. 2022-01-12
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    gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
    gazette · DISS40
  16. 2022-01-11
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  17. 2022-01-11
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    gazette-notice-compulsory
    gazette · GAZ1
  18. 2021-07-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  19. 2021-01-05
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    capital-allotment-shares
    capital · SH01
  20. 2020-12-31
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    capital-alter-shares-subdivision
    capital · SH02
  21. 2020-12-17
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    capital-name-of-class-of-shares
    capital · SH08
  22. 2014-10-27
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    Company incorporated
    As OWN ENERGY IP LIMITED
  23. 2014-10-27
    GORDON, David appointed
    director

Owner dependency

78/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 80 — succession pressure is live.
  • +No director turnover: Company is 12 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

71/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 80 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • 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

Own Energy Holdings Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

🏛️
Own Energy Holdings Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
OWN ENERGY IP LIMITED
This company · SC489894

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%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Own Energy Holdings Ltd
Corporate entity
75100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control13/06/2022
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr David Gordonceased 13/06/2022· 75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control

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
Incorporated2014-10-27
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC35140 — SIC 35140

Registered office

9 Glasgow Road
Paisley
PA1 3QS

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-07-30
Last made up to: 2024-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-07-20
Last: 2025-07-06

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

GORDON, David
director · ~80y · appointed 2014-10-27
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Active
MCGHEE, Anya
director · ~49y · appointed 2022-06-13
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Active

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Recent filings (40 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-07-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-07-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-07-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-11-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-15
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2023-07-10
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-07-28
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2022-07-06
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2022-07-06
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-06-17
capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2022-01-21
capital-alter-shares-subdivision
capital · SH02
2022-01-21
capital-alter-shares-subdivision
capital · SH02
2022-01-21