ASHTEAD HOLDINGS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-01-31 (in 8mo)
Last filed for 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-05 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-10-22
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
—
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£2B
+10.7% vs 2024
Employees
0
Average over period
Profit before tax
£895M
+41% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation — the current trading name was adopted 2025-10-28
- ASHTEAD HOLDINGS LIMITED 2025-10-28 → present
- ASHTEAD HOLDINGS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 2004-03-25 → 2025-10-28
- ASHTEAD HOLDINGS LIMITED 2003-09-11 → 2004-03-25
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 | £634,702,000 | £894,280,000 | |
| Operating profit | £634,502,000 | £894,929,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £634,502,000 | £894,929,000 | |
| Net profit | £634,552,000 | £894,767,000 | |
| Cash | — | — | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £1,826,469,000 | £2,021,236,000 | |
| Net assets | £1,826,469,000 | £2,021,236,000 | |
| Equity | £1,826,469,000 | £2,021,236,000 | |
| 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 | 2024-04-30 | 2025-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 100.0% | 100.1% | |
| Net margin | 100.0% | 100.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 34.7% | 44.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 36.2% | 32.9% | |
| Current ratio | 0.37x | 0.57x |
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
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“As a result, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operation for the foreseeable future and consequently, that it is appropriate to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- ASHTEAD HOLDINGS LIMITED · parent
- Ashtead US Holdings, Inc. 100%
- Ashtead Holdings, LLC 100%
- Sunbelt Rentals, Inc. 100%
- Sunbelt Rentals Industrial Services LLC 100%
- Sunbelt Rentals Scaffold Services, Inc. 100%
- Sunbelt Rentals Scaffold Services, LLC 100%
- Pride Corporation 100%
- Ashtead Capital, Inc. 100%
- Studio City Rentals (USA), Inc. 100%
- Sunbelt Rentals Exchange, Inc. 100%
- Colt Rentals LLC 40%
- Colt Sunbelt Rentals LLC 70%
- Sunbelt Rentals of the Virgin Islands, LLC 100%
- Sunbelt Rentals Limited 100%
- Ashtead Financing Limited 100%
- Accession Group Limited 100%
- Accession Holdings Limited 100%
- Acorn Film & Video Ltd 100%
- Alpha Grip (Cardiff) Limited 100%
- Alpha Grip (UK) Limited 100%
- Anglia Traffic Management Group Limited 100%
- Ashtead Canada Limited 100%
- Ashtead Plant Hire Company Limited 100%
- ATM Traffic Solutions Limited 100%
- Carter and Bradbury Limited 100%
- Digiset Limited 100%
- Eve Trakway Limited 100%
- JLLighting Limited 100%
- JLive Limited 100%
- Media Access Solutions (MAS) Limited 100%
- Movietech Camera Rentals Limited 100%
- Movietech Cymru Limited 100%
- Optimum Power Services Limited 100%
- PKE Lighting Holdings Limited 100%
- PKE Lighting Limited 100%
- Sunbelt Rentals of Canada Inc. 100%
- William F. White International Inc. 100%
- Ashtead Financing (Ireland) Unlimited Company 100%
- Sunbelt Rentals (Ireland) Limited 100%
- Sunbelt Rentals GmbH 100%
- Sunbelt Rentals SAS 100%
- Sunbelt Rentals of the Bahamas, Inc. 100%
Significant events
- “The comparative figures have been restated to reflect the reclassification of the amounts due from Sunbelt Rentals Limited from non-current assets to current assets. The balance relates predominantly to Group inter-company funding arrangements and the timing and historical pattern of fluctuations in the amounts due are more reflective of a current asset. As such, these non-trading related amounts have been re-classified in the balance sheet.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 13 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PORTER, Alan Fraser | Secretary | 2024-05-13 | — | — |
| HORGAN, Brendan Christopher | Director | 2019-05-01 | Nov 1973 | American |
Show 13 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLARK, Robert Edmund | Secretary | 2003-09-30 | 2004-08-03 |
| EDMUNDS, Paul Dowie | Secretary | 2003-09-11 | 2003-09-29 |
| ROBSON, Stuart Ian | Secretary | 2004-08-03 | 2004-10-11 |
| WATKINS, Eric | Secretary | 2004-10-11 | 2024-05-13 |
| SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 2003-09-11 | 2003-09-11 |
| BANKES, John Andre Digby | Director | 2003-09-11 | 2004-02-27 |
| BURNETT, George Barnett | Director | 2003-09-30 | 2006-12-31 |
| CLARK, Barbara Lesley | Director | 2019-03-28 | 2026-02-26 |
| CLARK, Robert Edmund | Director | 2003-09-30 | 2004-08-03 |
| DRABBLE, Geoffrey | Director | 2006-12-31 | 2019-05-01 |
| PRATT, Michael Richard | Director | 2012-07-16 | 2025-03-03 |
| ROBSON, Stuart Ian | Director | 2003-09-30 | 2012-07-13 |
| INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 2003-09-11 | 2003-09-11 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashtead Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 166 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2026-03-21 MA Memorandum articles
- 2026-03-21 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2026-03-11 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-10-28 CERT10 Certificate re registration public limited company to private
- 2025-10-28 RR02 Reregistration public to private company
- 2025-10-28 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-09 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2026-03-21 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2026-03-21 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2026-03-21 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2026-03-11 | SH20 | capital | Legacy | |
| 2026-03-11 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure | |
| 2026-03-11 | CAP-SS | insolvency | Legacy | |
| 2026-03-11 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2026-02-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-28 | CERT10 | change-of-name | Certificate re registration public limited company to private | |
| 2025-10-28 | RR02 | change-of-name | Reregistration public to private company | |
| 2025-10-28 | MAR | incorporation | Re registration memorandum articles | |
| 2025-10-28 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-10-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-10-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-10-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-03-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-02-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type interim | |
| 2024-09-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-09-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 16
- Capital events
- 3
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 1
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
-
Turnover
+40.9%
£634,702,000 £894,280,000
-
Cash
—
Not reported
-
Net assets
+10.7%
£1,826,469,000 £2,021,236,000
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
+41%
£634,502,000 £894,929,000
-
Profit before tax
+41%
£634,502,000 £894,929,000
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