SMARTESTENERGY LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-26 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-09-12
Watchouts
Cash
£19M
-19.5% vs 2024
Net assets
£244M
-7.1% vs 2024
Employees
755
+13.2% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£161M
+3.1% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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4 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Utilities median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £500,138,000 | £761,278,000 | |
| Operating profit | £169,098,000 | £173,945,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £156,472,000 | £161,335,000 | |
| Net profit | £117,019,000 | £121,928,000 | |
| Cash | £23,507,000 | £18,922,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £521,318,000 | £446,473,000 | |
| Net assets | £263,016,000 | £244,277,000 | |
| Equity | £263,016,000 | £244,277,000 | |
| Average employees | 667 | 755 | |
| Wages | £59,447,000 | £72,037,000 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £1,526,000 | £1,195,000 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
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Turnover
+52.2%
£500,138,000 £761,278,000
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Cash
-19.5%
£23,507,000 £18,922,000
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Net assets
-7.1%
£263,016,000 £244,277,000
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Employees
+13.2%
667 755
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Operating profit
+2.9%
£169,098,000 £173,945,000
-
Profit before tax
+3.1%
£156,472,000 £161,335,000
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Wages
+21.2%
£59,447,000 £72,037,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 33.8% | 22.8% | |
| Net margin | 23.4% | 16.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | 32.4% | 39.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 87.8% | 86.6% | |
| Current ratio | 1.07x | 1.09x | |
| Interest cover | 9.68x | 10.74x |
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 1 time since incorporation
- SMARTESTENERGY LIMITED 2000-08-15 → present
- FIRESCAPE LIMITED 2000-05-16 → 2000-08-15
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Group has reasonable expectation that the Group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and for at least 12 months from the signing of the financial statements. Accordingly, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- SMARTESTENERGY LIMITED · parent
- SmartestEnergy US Holding Inc. 100%
- SmartestEnergy US LLC 100%
- SmartestEnergy Australia Pty Ltd 100%
- SmartestEnergy Financial Services PTY Ltd 100%
- SmartestEnergy Business Ltd 100%
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
9 active · 48 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BUTLIN, Joanna Louise | Director | 2025-06-01 | Aug 1968 | British |
| GROVES, Robert Sebastian | Director | 2006-04-01 | Oct 1965 | British |
| LLOYD, David Richard | Director | 2024-04-11 | Feb 1963 | British |
| NISHINO, Tomoki | Director | 2020-04-01 | Mar 1973 | Japanese |
| SAWADA, Hiroyuki | Director | 2025-06-01 | May 1963 | Japanese |
| SUDA, Akira | Director | 2026-04-01 | Apr 1975 | Japanese |
| TASHIRO, Kosuke | Director | 2026-04-01 | Nov 1976 | Japanese |
| TSUZAKI, Suguru | Director | 2024-04-11 | Mar 1979 | Japanese |
| YOKOTA, Yoshiaki | Director | 2026-04-01 | May 1964 | Japanese |
Show 48 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HALLIDAY, Mark Liddell | Secretary | 2000-07-31 | 2001-07-13 |
| MATSUDA, Jun | Secretary | 2008-06-02 | 2013-04-01 |
| NAKAKI, Yasuhiro | Secretary | 2006-04-18 | 2007-06-02 |
| SONODA, Mitsugi | Secretary | 2001-07-13 | 2006-04-18 |
| YAMASAKI, Kentaro | Secretary | 2013-04-01 | 2017-04-01 |
| SAME-DAY COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 2000-05-16 | 2000-07-31 |
| ARMITAGE, Steven Martin | Director | 2007-04-02 | 2010-05-17 |
| CLARKE, James Andrew | Director | 2010-07-08 | 2017-04-30 |
| COCKSHOTT, David Martyn | Director | 2018-04-01 | 2020-03-17 |
| FUJINAGA, Takashi | Director | 2013-04-01 | 2014-04-01 |
| HARADA, Satoru | Director | 2016-04-01 | 2020-03-31 |
| HAYASHI, Yutaka | Director | 2002-08-22 | 2006-04-01 |
| HIRANO, Tomohiko | Director | 2017-04-01 | 2019-04-01 |
| ICHINOKAWA, Satoru | Director | 2024-04-11 | 2026-04-01 |
| IMAZATO, Masao | Director | 2019-04-01 | 2020-03-31 |
| ISHIZUKI, Mutsumi | Director | 2019-04-01 | 2020-03-31 |
| ITO, Naoki | Director | 2022-04-01 | 2025-04-25 |
| ITO, Naoki | Director | 2013-04-01 | 2019-04-01 |
| IWASHITA, Naoya | Director | 2015-07-27 | 2017-04-01 |
| KAKINOKI, Masumi | Director | 2006-04-01 | 2008-06-17 |
| KIKUCHI, Isao | Director | 2000-07-31 | 2002-03-25 |
| KUWATA, Seiichi | Director | 2022-04-01 | 2024-04-11 |
| MARUO, Toshihiro | Director | 2010-12-15 | 2013-04-01 |
| MEGATA, Yoshihiro | Director | 2003-04-01 | 2007-04-02 |
| MIYATA, Hirohisa | Director | 2006-04-01 | 2013-04-01 |
| NAKAYAMA, Hiroki | Director | 2025-04-25 | 2026-04-01 |
| NATORI, Kenji | Director | 2001-06-14 | 2006-04-01 |
| NISHIYAMA, Daisuke | Director | 2020-04-01 | 2021-09-15 |
| NOYAMA, Ryuichi | Director | 2021-12-01 | 2024-04-11 |
| NOYAMA, Ryuichi | Director | 2013-04-01 | 2019-09-03 |
| OMOTO, Masayuki | Director | 2014-04-01 | 2016-04-01 |
| OZONO, Tatsuya | Director | 2019-09-04 | 2020-03-31 |
| OZONO, Tatsuya | Director | 2005-04-01 | 2007-04-02 |
| PRINGLE, Robert Ferguson | Director | 2020-05-15 | 2026-05-05 |
| SAWADA, Hiroyuki | Director | 2007-04-02 | 2022-04-01 |
| SHIBUYA, Akira | Director | 2001-06-14 | 2002-08-22 |
| SHIGEMURA, Takafumi | Director | 2018-04-01 | 2026-04-01 |
| SHIKARMA, Chihiro | Director | 2001-06-14 | 2003-04-01 |
| STEIN, Peter Hadden | Director | 2000-09-10 | 2001-07-13 |
| TACHIGAMI, Hiroshi | Director | 2020-04-01 | 2022-04-01 |
| TACHIGAMI, Hiroshi, Mister | Director | 2013-04-01 | 2015-07-27 |
| TAKEDA, Kazunori | Director | 2001-06-14 | 2008-06-17 |
| TOYOSHIMA, Hiroshi | Director | 2004-04-01 | 2010-07-15 |
| TOYOSHIMA, Hiroshi | Director | 2000-08-10 | 2001-07-13 |
| YABE, Nobuhiro | Director | 2020-04-01 | 2022-04-01 |
| YAMAZOE, Shigeru | Director | 2002-08-22 | 2007-04-02 |
| YOKOTA, Yoshiaki | Director | 2008-06-17 | 2013-04-01 |
| WILDMAN & BATTELL LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 2000-05-16 | 2000-07-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marubeni Corporation | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-05-16 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 216 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-04-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-04-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-04-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-04-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-04-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-04-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-12-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-09-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-06-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-04-25 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-04-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-10-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-05-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-04-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-04-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-04-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-04-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 11
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 5
- Officers resigned
- 4
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.