INVESTMENT COMPANY PLC(THE)
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-20 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-08-06
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£584K
+131.5% vs 2024
Net assets
£7M
-0.9% vs 2024
Employees
0
Average over period
Profit before tax
-£70K
-106.9% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Financials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-06-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-06-30 | 2025-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £328,576 | £152,783 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | £1,016,275 | -£70,425 | |
| Net profit | £1,012,646 | -£71,474 | |
| Cash | £252,293 | £584,176 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £7,376,741 | £7,313,735 | |
| Net assets | £7,376,741 | £7,313,735 | |
| Equity | £7,376,741 | £7,313,735 | |
| Average employees | 0 | 0 | |
| Wages | — | — |
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
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-06-30 | 2025-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | 308.2% | -46.8% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 2.8% | 1.5% | |
| Current ratio | 2.46x | 9.46x |
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
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- PKF Littlejohn LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors believe that the Company is well placed to manage its business risks and that the assets of the Company consist mainly of securities which are readily realisable. The Directors are of the opinion that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and that it is therefore appropriate to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- INVESTMENT COMPANY PLC(THE) · parent
- Abport Limited 100%
Significant events
- “On 10 March 2025, the Company announced a share split resulting in Shareholders receiving 5 new ordinary shares in exchange for each existing ordinary share held at the record date of 12 March 2025.”
- “Bids with another six companies agreeing to takeover offers in the period, being Alliance Pharma, Aquis Exchange, Eckoh, Learning Technologies, Renold and Windward.”
- “Alpha Group International, which had announced it was in bid talks, resulted in an agreed offer after the Company's year end; the same applied for Epwin.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 18 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ISCA ADMINISTRATION SERVICES LTD | Corporate Secretary | 2021-01-31 | — | — |
| DIGHE, Ian Robert | Director | 2018-07-06 | Sep 1955 | British |
| HORNER, David Alistair | Director | 2023-07-26 | Oct 1959 | British |
| METCALFE, Timothy Mark | Director | 2018-07-06 | Feb 1972 | British |
| PERRIN, Martin Henry Withers | Director | 2013-06-27 | May 1954 | British |
Show 18 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HARRISON, James Philip Quibell | Secretary | 2002-07-24 | 2013-11-22 |
| NEAL, Robert John Marcus | Secretary | 1996-10-30 | 2002-07-24 |
| OSBORN, Neil Ernest | Secretary | 1994-11-01 | 1996-10-30 |
| WALL, Freda | Secretary | — | 1994-10-31 |
| LINK COMPANY MATTERS LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2013-11-22 | 2018-04-01 |
| MAITLAND ADMINISTRATION SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2018-04-01 | 2021-01-31 |
| ALLEN, Peter Stanley | Director | 1996-08-19 | 2018-07-06 |
| CLEVERLY, Thomas William James | Director | 2020-11-04 | 2022-10-28 |
| COCKBURN, Stephen John | Director | — | 2018-07-06 |
| LOVEGROVE, Philip Albert | Director | 2006-11-09 | 2013-10-03 |
| MARSH, Charles Willis Garrett | Director | 2004-06-10 | 2007-11-21 |
| SIMMS, Paul Francis | Director | — | 2004-10-06 |
| THOMSON, Frederick Douglas David, Sir | Director | 2005-04-19 | 2018-07-06 |
| WALL, Freda | Director | — | 1993-08-12 |
| WEBB, George Lawrence, Major | Director | — | 1994-08-24 |
| WEBB, Joan Beryl | Director | — | 2013-10-03 |
| WEEKS, Michael Jeffrey | Director | 2020-11-04 | 2023-07-26 |
| WILD, Robert Brierley | Director | 1996-08-19 | 2003-12-04 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 238 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-10-21 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-11-23 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-01-09 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2023-08-15 MA Memorandum articles
- 2023-08-15 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-10-21 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-08-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-27 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2025-04-10 | CH04 | officers | Change corporate secretary company with change date | |
| 2025-04-10 | SH02 | capital | Capital alter shares subdivision | |
| 2024-11-23 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-11-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-08-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-02-09 | CH04 | officers | Change corporate secretary company with change date | |
| 2024-02-09 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-01-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-01-09 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-10-20 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2023-08-15 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2023-08-15 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-08-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-08-01 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2023-08-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 2
- 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.
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-06-30 vs 2024-06-30
-
Turnover
-53.5%
£328,576 £152,783
-
Cash
+131.5%
£252,293 £584,176
-
Net assets
-0.9%
£7,376,741 £7,313,735
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Profit before tax
-106.9%
£1,016,275 -£70,425
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