HEWITSON LIMITED
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Cash
£5.5m
-24.8% vs 2025
Net assets
£4.1m
+6.3% highest in 6 filed years
Employees
104
-3.7% vs 2025
Profit before tax
£1.5m
-36.1% vs 2025
Net assets
6-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
6-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2026-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2020-11-30 | 2021-11-30 | 2023-03-31 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 | 2026-03-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £19,397,047 | £20,202,251 | £32,094,989 | £30,611,553 | £30,370,699 | £27,601,985 | -9.1% | |
| Operating profit | £888,211 | £1,060,903 | £2,029,027 | £2,871,660 | £2,002,803 | £1,378,896 | -31.2% | |
| Profit before tax | £886,830 | £1,035,058 | £2,041,130 | £3,154,331 | £2,364,333 | £1,509,720 | -36.1% | |
| Net profit | £774,863 | £1,026,118 | £1,829,626 | £3,047,527 | £2,097,203 | £1,245,778 | -40.6% | |
| Cash | £2,500,693 | £3,461,179 | £4,790,766 | £8,923,516 | £7,353,597 | £5,531,895 | -24.8% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £3,271,980 | £3,361,790 | £2,803,705 | £2,992,487 | £4,601,516 | £5,499,481 | +19.5% | |
| Net assets | £1,917,278 | £2,243,396 | £2,523,022 | £2,800,549 | £3,897,752 | £4,143,530 | +6.3% | |
| Equity | £1,917,278 | £2,243,396 | £2,523,022 | £2,800,549 | £3,897,752 | £4,143,530 | +6.3% | |
| Average employees | 105 | 103 | 105 | 108 | 108 | 104 | -3.7% | |
| Wages | £4,196,015 | £4,004,237 | £6,485,217 | £5,543,433 | £5,725,553 | £5,296,745 | -7.5% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £96,239 | £220,585 | £434,798 | £272,071 | £147,290 | £35,000 | -76.2% | |
| Directors' pension contributions | — | — | — | — | £30,347 | £863 | -97.2% |
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 | 2020-11-30 | 2021-11-30 | 2023-03-31 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 | 2026-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 4.6% | 5.3% | 6.3% | 9.4% | 6.6% | 5.0% | |
| Net margin | 4.0% | 5.1% | 5.7% | 10.0% | 6.9% | 4.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 27.1% | 31.6% | 72.4% | 96.0% | 43.5% | 25.1% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 73.9% | 71.2% | 78.0% | 81.3% | 69.3% | 69.2% | |
| Current ratio | — | — | — | — | 1.41x | 1.43x | |
| Interest cover | — | 39.02x | 81.31x | 89.56x | — | 26.46x |
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.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Waltons Business Advisers Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared under the going concern basis of accounting.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 1 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GIBSON, Brian | Director | 2015-01-08 | Mar 1971 | British |
| HEWITSON, Henry Michael | Director | 2015-01-08 | Oct 1993 | British |
| HEWITSON, Michael Edward | Director | 2004-11-02 | Nov 1960 | British |
Show 1 resigned officer
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| MONAGHAN, Jennifer Jane | Secretary | 2004-11-02 | 2010-01-06 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hewitson Group Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 64 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-11-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type medium | |
| 2024-11-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-08-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-05-21 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-05-21 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-05-21 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-05-21 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-05-21 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-11-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-08-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-31 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous extended | |
| 2022-11-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-06-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-11-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-05-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-11-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-05-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-11-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 0
- 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.