ANNAT BURN HYDRO LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC492807 · ltd · incorporated 2014-12-05

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 10.9y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Jun 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

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 74-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 74). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 10.9y

85/100

ready

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

· Oldest live charge is 10.9 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (84/100)

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

Lenders & charges

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

Directors & officers

9 officers (7 active, 9 linked, 8 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

16 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

35 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

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

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-06-30	2024-06-30
Average employees	0	0

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

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 officers

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (29 events)Click to expand

2026-03-27
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2025-12-16
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officers · TM01
2025-11-03
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STUART COUNTESS OF MORAY, Malvina Dorothea resigned
director
2025-03-27
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accounts · AA
2024-12-12
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officers · AP01
2024-12-12
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2024-12-11
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officers · AP01
2024-12-11
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officers · TM01
2024-12-04
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MARTIN, Alastair Gilbert appointed
director
2024-12-04
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STUART, Catherine Jane, Countess Of Moray appointed
director
2024-12-04
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STUART, James Douglas, Lord Doune appointed
director
2024-12-04
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YOUNG, Colin resigned
director
2024-03-25
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accounts · AA
2023-12-13
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2023-03-23
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2022-03-29
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2021-03-11
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2019-12-23
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2019-03-11
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2018-04-03
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2017-03-02
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2015-06-24
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
2014-12-05
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Company incorporated
As ANNAT BURN HYDRO LIMITED
2014-12-05
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GILLESPIE MACANDREW SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
corporate-secretary
2014-12-05
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HOWARD, Andrew William appointed
director
2014-12-05
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LESLIE, Simon Alexander appointed
director
2014-12-05
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STUART EARL OF MORAY, John Douglas appointed
director
2014-12-05
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STUART COUNTESS OF MORAY, Malvina Dorothea appointed
director
2014-12-05
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YOUNG, Colin appointed
director

Owner dependency

63/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-6 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 74 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

65/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 74 years old. Natural succession window is now.
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%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Earl Of Moray John Douglas Stuart Individual · British · DOB 08/1966 · age 60	75–100%	75–100%	board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control	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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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2014-12-05

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC35110 — SIC 35110

Registered office

5 Atholl Crescent

Edinburgh

EH3 8EJ

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-03-31

Last made up to: 2025-06-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-12-19

Last: 2025-12-05