SUNBELT RENTALS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-01-31 (in 8mo)
Last filed for 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement due
2027-02-15 (in 9mo)
Last made up 2026-02-01
Watchouts
Cash
£3M
+38.8% vs 2024
Net assets
£210M
+4.9% vs 2024
Employees
4,332
+0.3% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£14M
-26.9% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- SUNBELT RENTALS LIMITED 2020-06-03 → present
- ASHTEAD PLANT HIRE COMPANY LIMITED 1947-11-01 → 2020-06-03
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-04-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-04-30 | 2025-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £691,845,000 | £680,157,000 | |
| Operating profit | £48,026,000 | £41,306,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £19,032,000 | £13,917,000 | |
| Net profit | £13,510,000 | £10,190,000 | |
| Cash | £1,859,000 | £2,581,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | — | |
| Net assets | £200,315,000 | £210,200,000 | |
| Equity | £200,315,000 | £210,200,000 | |
| Average employees | 4,318 | 4,332 | |
| Wages | £168,057,000 | £173,810,000 |
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
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-04-30 | 2025-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 6.9% | 6.1% | |
| Net margin | 2.0% | 1.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 84.1% | 83.0% | |
| Current ratio | 1.38x | 1.57x | |
| Interest cover | 1.62x | 1.51x |
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 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Based on this analysis, and the directors' regular monitoring and review of risk management and internal control systems, we do not believe there are any reasonably foreseeable events that could not be mitigated through the Company's ability to flex its capital expenditure plans and cost base, which would result in the Company not being able to meet its liabilities as they fall due. As a result, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operation for the foreseeable future and that it is appropriate to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- SUNBELT RENTALS LIMITED · parent
- Accession Group Limited
- Accession Holdings Limited
- Acorn Film & Video Ltd
- Alpha Grip (Cardiff) Limited
- Alpha Grip (UK) Limited
- Anglia Traffic Management Group Limited
- Ashtead Plant Hire Company Limited
- ATM Traffic Solutions Limited
- Digiset Limited
- Eve Trakway Limited
- JLLighting Limited
- JLLive Ltd
- Media Access Solutions (MAS) Limited
- Movietech Camera Rentals Limited
- Movietech Cymru Limited
- Optimum Power Services Limited
- PKE Lighting Holdings Limited
- PKE Lighting Limited
- Sunbelt Rentals (Ireland) Limited
- Sunbelt Rentals GmbH
- Sunbelt Rentals SAS
Significant events
- “During the year, the Company made one acquisition within the specialty division (Note 24).”
- “Subsequent to the balance sheet date, Sunbelt Rentals Limited initiated an operational restructure, which was formally approved by management in September 2025 and involves the consolidation of some regional operations and reallocation of resources to improve cost efficiency and strategic alignment.”
- “As part of a wider intra-group reorganisation ahead of the Group's proposed US listing, the Group has undertaken the following transactions on 9 January 2026 which impacts the Company in the following manner: Transferred the entire share capital of the Company from Ashtead Holdings Limited to Ashtead US Holdings, Inc.; Re-assigned the amount payable by the Company to Ashtead Holdings Inc.; and The Company has issued 270,923 shares of £1.00 each to Ashtead US Holdings, Inc: in exchange for the outstanding amount payable as at 9 January 2026.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 29 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PORTER, Alan Fraser | Secretary | 2024-05-13 | — | — |
| HARDY, Philip Geoffrey | Director | 2023-06-05 | Feb 1981 | British |
| HORGAN, Brendan Christopher | Director | 2019-05-01 | Nov 1973 | American |
| PARKER, Philip John | Director | 2016-02-26 | Jan 1979 | British |
Show 29 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANDERSON, Alan | Secretary | — | 1997-05-20 |
| CLARK, Robert Edmund | Secretary | 1997-05-20 | 2004-08-03 |
| ROBSON, Stuart Ian | Secretary | 2004-08-03 | 2004-10-11 |
| WATKINS, Eric | Secretary | 2004-10-11 | 2024-05-13 |
| ANDERSON, Alan | Director | — | 2000-06-26 |
| BANKES, John Andre Digby | Director | 2000-10-02 | 2004-02-27 |
| BURNETT, George Barnett | Director | — | 2006-12-31 |
| CLIFFORD, John Joseph | Director | 1996-02-29 | 1997-02-28 |
| DEY, Richard William | Director | 2002-05-01 | 2005-11-24 |
| DHAIWAL, Satpal Singh | Director | 1998-05-01 | 2018-07-31 |
| DRABBLE, Geoffrey | Director | 2006-12-31 | 2019-05-01 |
| DURANT, Tony Frank | Director | 2000-10-02 | 2011-09-08 |
| FEREDAY, Paul Martin | Director | 2002-05-21 | 2011-05-23 |
| FORSHAW, Edward James | Director | — | 2002-03-04 |
| GARDINER, Joseph | Director | — | 1994-12-31 |
| HAZEL, Tracey | Director | 1999-08-02 | 2002-05-10 |
| LEWIS, Peter Donald | Director | — | 2001-01-30 |
| MOONEY, Paul Charles | Director | 1999-03-22 | 2004-10-31 |
| PRATT, Michael Richard | Director | 2012-07-27 | 2025-03-03 |
| RICHARDSON, John Aidan | Director | — | 1999-07-11 |
| ROBSON, Stuart Ian | Director | 2000-07-04 | 2012-07-13 |
| SHARKEY, Mark Duncan | Director | 2002-05-01 | 2004-01-15 |
| SHAUGHNESSY, Stephen Andrew | Director | 2006-05-01 | 2007-10-31 |
| TAIT, Timothy Stafford | Director | — | 2002-03-22 |
| THOMAS, Richard David | Director | 2012-07-27 | 2019-08-14 |
| THOMPSON, Gary | Director | 2002-05-01 | 2007-05-14 |
| WATTS, Robert John | Director | 1997-05-01 | 2004-01-16 |
| WINFIELD, Richard James | Director | 2002-05-01 | 2007-05-09 |
| WRIGHT, Andrew John | Director | 2019-08-27 | 2024-05-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunbelt Rentals Holdings, Inc. | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2026-03-10 | Active |
| Ashtead Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2026-03-10 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 238 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2026-01-15 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-09 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2026-04-09 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2026-02-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2026-02-26 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2026-01-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-01-15 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2026-01-12 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-03-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-02-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-02-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-05-14 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-05-14 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-05-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-02-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-08-08 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-06-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-02-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-12-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-02-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 1
- 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 2025-04-30 vs 2024-04-30
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Turnover
-1.7%
£691,845,000 £680,157,000
-
Cash
+38.8%
£1,859,000 £2,581,000
-
Net assets
+4.9%
£200,315,000 £210,200,000
-
Employees
+0.3%
4,318 4,332
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Operating profit
-14%
£48,026,000 £41,306,000
-
Profit before tax
-26.9%
£19,032,000 £13,917,000
-
Wages
+3.4%
£168,057,000 £173,810,000
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