ROWANPOINT LIMITED
Opportunity 71/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -54% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (58/100).
Data confidence
Overall: medium (78/100)Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.
Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.
Signals from accounts
Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declaredKey financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsHover to see exact values · click legend to toggle series
Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2025-08-31 | 2024-08-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets | £91.8k | £106.2k |
| Current assets | £39.5k | £72.9k |
| Cash | £32.4k | £70.5k |
| Debtors | £7.2k | £2.4k |
| Net assets | £89.6k | £104.0k |
Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.
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.
See pricing →Recent activity
- • 1 accounts
Corporate timeline (17 events)Click to expand
- 2025-12-10📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-12-11📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-09-13📍change-sail-address-company-with-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD02
- 2024-09-12📍move-registers-to-sail-company-with-new-addressaddress · AD03
- 2024-07-22📍move-registers-to-registered-office-company-with-new-addressaddress · AD04
- 2024-01-24📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-04-06📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-05-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-07-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-02-28📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-05-02📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-09-20📍move-registers-to-sail-company-with-new-addressaddress · AD03
- 2017-09-20📍change-sail-address-company-with-new-addressaddress · AD02
- 2017-08-02🏢Company incorporatedAs ROWANPOINT LIMITED
- 2017-08-02➕IRVINE, Derek John appointeddirector
- 2017-08-02➕IRVINE, Sally Anne appointeddirector
- 2017-08-02📄incorporation-companyincorporation · NEWINC
Owner dependency
Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
- +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
- +No director turnover: Company is 9 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.
Succession & seller-readiness
Limited succession signal. Not a near-term off-market candidate.
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
Red flags
1 lowMultiple address changes in a short period can indicate operational instability or admin disorder.
Shareholders & ownership
2 active beneficial owners| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Derek John Irvine Individual · British · DOB 06/1974 · age 52 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 02/08/2017 |
Sally Anne Irvine Individual · British · DOB 09/1972 · age 54 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 02/08/2017 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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6 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)
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