BRAEMAR PLC
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Cash
£20M
-26.7% vs 2024
Net assets
£84M
+5.7% vs 2024
Employees
411
+0.5% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£13M
+78.6% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-02-28
| Metric | Trend | 2024-02-29 | 2025-02-28 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £152,751,000 | £141,860,000 | -7.1% | |
| Operating profit | £9,044,000 | £15,597,000 | +72.5% | |
| Profit before tax | £7,523,000 | £13,433,000 | +78.6% | |
| Net profit | £4,624,000 | £9,840,000 | +112.8% | |
| Cash | £27,951,000 | £20,477,000 | -26.7% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £79,621,000 | £84,155,000 | +5.7% | |
| Net assets | £79,621,000 | £84,155,000 | +5.7% | |
| Equity | £79,621,000 | £84,155,000 | +5.7% | |
| Average employees | 409 | 411 | +0.5% | |
| Wages | £93,644,000 | £84,456,000 | -9.8% | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — | — |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. The Δ column is the change from the prior filed period as a percentage of |prior|; lines a company doesn't report show —. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-02-29 | 2025-02-28 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 5.9% | 11.0% | |
| Net margin | 3.0% | 6.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | 11.4% | 18.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 50.7% | 46.5% | |
| Current ratio | 1.35x | 1.00x | |
| Interest cover | 3.20x | 5.74x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Name history
Renamed 4 times since incorporation
- BRAEMAR PLC 2022-09-12 → present
- BRAEMAR SHIPPING SERVICES PLC 2007-06-21 → 2022-09-12
- BRAEMAR SEASCOPE GROUP PLC 2002-08-01 → 2007-06-21
- SEASCOPE SHIPPING HOLDINGS PLC 1988-12-07 → 2002-08-01
- SINORD 14 LIMITED 1988-08-11 → 1988-12-07
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors confirm that they have a reasonable expectation that the Group will be able to continue in operation and meet its liabilities set out on page 48.”
Group structure
- BRAEMAR PLC · parent
- Braemar Plc 100%
- Braemar Securities Holdings Limited 100%
- Braemar Financial Holdings Limited 100%
- Braemar Shipbroking Limited 100%
- Braemar Shipping Services Limited 100%
Significant events
- “We have continued to invest throughout the year, opening our new office in South Korea and establishing presences in Connecticut (USA) and Morocco.”
- “The Group is announcing a further detailed strategic framework... to achieve revenues of at least £200 million by FY30.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 43 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WEKWETE, Rebecca-Joy Nozipho | Secretary | 2023-01-24 | — | — |
| FOLEY, Grant Jeffrey | Director | 2023-08-01 | Oct 1972 | British |
| GOOCH, Elizabeth Ann | Director | 2021-08-01 | Jan 1961 | British |
| GUNDY, James Christopher Duchar | Director | 2021-01-01 | Apr 1965 | British |
| LAKE, Joanne Carolyn | Director | 2022-03-01 | Nov 1963 | British |
| PAYNE, Nigel Terrence | Director | 2021-05-01 | Mar 1960 | British |
| VALENTINE, Catriona Louise | Director | 2023-05-16 | Feb 1970 | British |
Show 43 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEER, Martin Francis Stafford | Secretary | 2013-10-31 | 2015-06-24 |
| BOLLAND, Julian Raymond Fearne | Secretary | 1997-05-20 | 2000-11-30 |
| BUGDEN, Laura Mary | Secretary | 2010-03-05 | 2013-10-31 |
| CAMILLERI, Emma Louise | Secretary | 2022-07-25 | 2023-01-24 |
| KIDWELL, James Richard De Villeneuve | Secretary | 2002-08-01 | 2010-03-05 |
| MASON, Peter Timothy James | Secretary | 2017-08-02 | 2022-07-14 |
| SOUTHERN, James Charles | Secretary | — | 1997-05-20 |
| VANE, Alexander Chandos Tempest | Secretary | 2015-06-24 | 2017-08-02 |
| WALTER, Derek Edmund Piers | Secretary | 2000-11-30 | 2002-07-31 |
| AGUTTER, Richard Devenish | Director | 2001-11-06 | 2011-12-13 |
| AUSTIN, Thomas Terence | Director | — | 1996-12-16 |
| BEER, Martin Francis Stafford | Director | 2012-10-15 | 2015-06-24 |
| BODKIN, John Hunter | Director | 1997-01-08 | 2001-03-07 |
| BOLLAND, Julian Raymond Fearne | Director | 1992-02-28 | 2000-11-30 |
| BREUER, Juergen Heinz | Director | 2014-07-25 | 2021-08-26 |
| BUCKLEY, Christopher | Director | — | 2001-03-07 |
| CAZALET, Peter Grenville, Sir | Director | 1997-06-10 | 2002-11-30 |
| DENHOLM, John Stephen | Director | 2002-07-25 | 2014-07-04 |
| DIXON, Tony Fredwyn | Director | — | 1997-01-08 |
| EVANS, Louise Margaret | Director | 2015-06-24 | 2018-06-22 |
| FARLEY, Alastair Hugh | Director | 2011-01-11 | 2017-12-14 |
| HEARNE, Graham James, Sir | Director | 1999-10-07 | 2015-06-24 |
| HILL, Duncan John | Director | 1998-09-21 | 2000-06-22 |
| JAQUES, Timothy Walder | Director | 2014-07-25 | 2015-06-24 |
| KIDWELL, James Richard De Villeneuve | Director | 2002-08-01 | 2019-07-27 |
| KINROSS, Julian Macalister | Director | — | 2001-01-05 |
| KUNZER, Stephen John | Director | 2019-02-26 | 2023-01-31 |
| MARSH, Alan Robert William | Director | 2001-03-07 | 2012-07-31 |
| MARSHALL, Alexander Badenoch | Director | 1997-06-10 | 1999-12-31 |
| MOORHOUSE, David George | Director | 2005-01-19 | 2019-04-14 |
| PETROPOULOS, Denis Andreas | Director | 2007-01-10 | 2015-06-24 |
| PLUMBE, John Lawrence | Director | 2014-07-25 | 2015-06-24 |
| SERIES, Ronald Charles | Director | 2019-04-15 | 2021-04-30 |
| SHAW, Iain Malcolm | Director | — | 2006-06-21 |
| SIMMONDS, Tristram Peter | Director | 2021-08-01 | 2025-03-07 |
| SOANES, Quentin Bruce | Director | 2007-01-10 | 2012-07-31 |
| STONE, Nicholas Philip | Director | 2019-04-01 | 2023-07-31 |
| TRACEY, Mark Jason | Director | 2014-07-25 | 2018-09-26 |
| WALTER, Derek Edmund Piers | Director | 2000-11-30 | 2002-07-31 |
| WARD, Vincent Glendower | Director | — | 2000-11-30 |
| WATKINS, Lesley Susan | Director | 2017-06-23 | 2022-03-31 |
| WILLIAMS, Andrew Michael Glyndwr | Director | 1998-06-18 | 2001-03-07 |
| YOUNG, Thomas David Hayward | Director | — | 2000-11-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 475 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-09 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-12-23 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-12-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-10-28 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2025-10-27 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2025-10-27 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2025-10-27 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2025-10-27 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2025-10-27 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2025-10-27 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2025-10-27 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2025-10-27 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2025-10-27 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2025-10-27 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2025-10-27 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2025-10-27 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2025-10-27 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2025-10-27 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2025-10-27 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2025-10-27 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 20
- Capital events
- 19
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.