ORBITAL EQUIPMENT LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-04-30
Overdue
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-20 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-09-06
Watchouts
Cash
£197K
-16.1% vs 2023
Net assets
£7M
+10.6% vs 2023
Employees
31
+3.3% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£1M
+7.7% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Annual accounts overdue
Due 2026-04-30.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- ORBITAL EQUIPMENT LIMITED 1999-05-18 → present
- NORTHOLT PLANT HIRE LIMITED 1999-03-30 → 1999-05-18
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-07-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-07-31 | 2024-07-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £13,197,314 | £13,157,014 | |
| Operating profit | £1,193,356 | £1,321,563 | |
| Profit before tax | £948,147 | £1,021,262 | |
| Net profit | £576,481 | £741,242 | |
| Cash | £234,663 | £196,924 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £10,042,198 | £10,726,525 | |
| Net assets | £6,405,281 | £7,086,523 | |
| Equity | £6,405,281 | £7,086,523 | |
| Average employees | 30 | 31 | |
| Wages | £1,293,498 | £1,350,354 |
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 | 2023-07-31 | 2024-07-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 9.0% | 10.0% | |
| Net margin | 4.4% | 5.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | 11.9% | 12.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 60.9% | 58.7% | |
| Current ratio | 0.70x | 0.64x | |
| Interest cover | 4.87x | 4.40x |
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
- Xeinadin Audit Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Group structure
- ORBITAL EQUIPMENT LIMITED · parent
- S & W Plant Limited
- Orbital Civil Engineering Limited
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 7 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LANE, Phillip Joseph | Director | 2025-11-25 | Mar 1988 | British |
| THOMAS, Lowri Lloyd | Director | 2025-11-25 | Mar 1988 | British |
| THOMAS, Wyn Lloyd | Director | 2025-11-25 | Oct 1967 | British |
Show 7 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLANNERY, Martin Christopher | Secretary | 1999-04-06 | 2010-03-16 |
| HIGHSTONE SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1999-03-30 | 1999-03-31 |
| FLANNERY, Martin Christopher | Director | 1999-04-06 | 2010-03-16 |
| LANE, Philip Joseph | Director | 2020-05-01 | 2025-11-25 |
| SMITH, Noel Patrick | Director | 1999-05-25 | 2025-11-25 |
| WILLIAMS, Darren Michael | Director | 2011-07-01 | 2020-07-22 |
| HIGHSTONE DIRECTORS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 1999-03-30 | 1999-03-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orbital Equipment Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2023-02-06 | Active |
| Sarah-Ann Smith | Individual | Shares 50–75%, Voting 50–75%, Appoints directors | 2016-12-22 | Ceased 2023-02-06 |
| Noel Patrick Smith | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2016-07-01 | Ceased 2023-02-06 |
| S & W Plant Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 25–50% | 2016-07-01 | Ceased 2023-02-06 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 106 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2026-02-02 MA Memorandum articles
- 2026-02-02 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-02 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2026-02-02 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-12-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-12-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-12-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-12-02 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-11-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-26 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-11-26 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-11-26 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-11-20 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-11-20 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-11-04 | RP04PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Second filing notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-10-30 | RP04PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Second filing cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-10-30 | RP04PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Second filing cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-10-24 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-10-24 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-10-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 19
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 3
- Officers resigned
- 2
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 2024-07-31 vs 2023-07-31
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Turnover
-0.3%
£13,197,314 £13,157,014
-
Cash
-16.1%
£234,663 £196,924
-
Net assets
+10.6%
£6,405,281 £7,086,523
-
Employees
+3.3%
30 31
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Operating profit
+10.7%
£1,193,356 £1,321,563
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Profit before tax
+7.7%
£948,147 £1,021,262
-
Wages
+4.4%
£1,293,498 £1,350,354
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