PETRUS CAPITAL LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-12 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-09-28
Watchouts
Cash
£149K
-35.7% vs 2023
Net assets
£316K
-25.2% vs 2023
Employees
0
Average over period
Profit before tax
£29K
-77.8% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Material uncertainty over going concern
The Directors do not consider the Company to be a going concern and the financial statements have been prepared on a break up basis.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- PETRUS CAPITAL LIMITED 2015-04-17 → present
- NAMECO (NO.128) LIMITED 1997-09-26 → 2015-04-17
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Financials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £147,118 | £11,819 | |
| Operating profit | £158,800 | £31,899 | |
| Profit before tax | £130,691 | £29,072 | |
| Net profit | £102,419 | £24,237 | |
| Cash | £231,827 | £149,010 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £1,892,427 | £1,463,489 | |
| Net assets | £422,995 | £316,385 | |
| Equity | £422,995 | £316,385 | |
| 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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 107.9% | 269.9% | |
| Net margin | 69.6% | 205.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 8.4% | 2.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 79.7% | 80.2% | |
| Current ratio | 5.19x | 5.79x |
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
- PKF Littlejohn LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Material uncertainty disclosed
“The Directors do not consider the Company to be a going concern and the financial statements have been prepared on a break up basis.”
Significant events
- “The Company has ceased to write insurance business in the Lloyd's insurance market as a Lloyd's Corporate Capital Member.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 8 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARGENTA SECRETARIAT LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2015-03-12 | — | — |
| BOWLES, David Charles | Director | 2023-05-04 | Aug 1968 | British |
| NORTON, Frances Elizabeth Prioleau, Lady | Director | 2017-01-19 | Jun 1966 | British |
| NORTON, James Nigel Arden, Lord | Director | 2014-07-01 | Jun 1947 | British |
| APCL CORPORATE DIRECTOR NO.1 LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2023-05-04 | — | — |
| APCL CORPORATE DIRECTOR NO.2 LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2023-05-04 | — | — |
Show 8 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| EGREMONT, Louise | Secretary | 1998-02-04 | 2000-06-30 |
| EVANS, Jeremy Richard Holt | Secretary | 1997-09-26 | 1998-02-04 |
| HAMPDEN LEGAL PLC | Corporate Secretary | 2000-06-30 | 2015-01-01 |
| EVANS, Jeremy Richard Holt | Director | 2001-11-01 | 2015-01-01 |
| EVANS, Jeremy Richard Holt | Director | 1997-09-26 | 2001-07-04 |
| LONG, Gerald Albert | Director | 2009-04-01 | 2012-12-12 |
| NOMINA PLC | Corporate Director | 1997-09-26 | 2015-01-01 |
| NOMINA SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2001-07-04 | 2001-11-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lord James Nigel Arden Norton | Individual | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 394 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-10 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-01-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-05-05 | AP02 | officers | Appoint corporate director company with name date | |
| 2023-05-05 | AP02 | officers | Appoint corporate director company with name date | |
| 2023-05-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-10-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-11-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-10-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-01-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-10-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-10-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-09-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2018-10-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2018-10-11 | 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.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
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Turnover
-92%
£147,118 £11,819
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Cash
-35.7%
£231,827 £149,010
-
Net assets
-25.2%
£422,995 £316,385
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Employees
—
Not reported
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Operating profit
-79.9%
£158,800 £31,899
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Profit before tax
-77.8%
£130,691 £29,072
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