FACEBOOK UK LTD
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-20 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-06
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£338M
-24.4% vs 2023
Net assets
£871M
-18.2% vs 2023
Employees
5,679
-10.4% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£362M
+2% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £2,805,609,000 | £3,110,246,000 | |
| Operating profit | £360,239,000 | £365,687,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £355,439,000 | £362,401,000 | |
| Net profit | £312,459,000 | £247,835,000 | |
| Cash | £447,252,000 | £337,948,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £1,884,431,000 | £1,573,724,000 | |
| Net assets | £1,065,561,000 | £871,396,000 | |
| Equity | £1,065,561,000 | £871,396,000 | |
| Average employees | 6,338 | 5,679 | |
| Wages | £1,023,869,000 | £923,837,000 |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 12.8% | 11.8% | |
| Net margin | 11.1% | 8.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | 19.1% | 23.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 64.2% | 70.3% | |
| Current ratio | 1.98x | 1.64x | |
| Interest cover | 15.57x | 20.79x |
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 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have evaluated the relevant conditions and events that are known and reasonably knowable at the date that the financial statements are approved. The Company's ultimate parent undertaking, Meta Platforms, Inc., has also indicated that it will provide such financial support to the Company, in the event that funds are not otherwise available, to enable it to meet its obligations as they fall due for a period of twelve months from the date of approval of the financial statements. The Company therefore continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing its financial statements.”
Significant events
- “The Company has recorded a gain on disposal of tangible assets of £22.6 million (2023: £97.6 million) as a result of implementing a facilities consolidation strategy impacting leased office buildings. See note 11 for further details.”
- “Since January 2025 the Company participates in an intercompany cash pooling program which involves the transfer of cash amounts and/or bank overdrafts with another group company cash pooling entity.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 14 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANDERSON, Christopher Patrick | Director | 2024-03-21 | Aug 1969 | American |
| GENG, Bo | Director | 2022-12-14 | Dec 1971 | American |
| KELLY, Katherine Reynolds | Director | 2022-05-13 | Oct 1976 | American |
Show 14 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| YU, Gideon | Secretary | 2007-08-23 | 2009-04-06 |
| JORDAN COMPANY SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2007-08-01 | 2009-02-02 |
| JORDAN COSEC LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2009-02-02 | 2015-08-12 |
| ATHWAL, Jaspal Singh | Director | 2013-07-01 | 2017-02-01 |
| CREHAN, Shane Hugh | Director | 2013-07-01 | 2018-06-14 |
| HERMAN, Cipora Rachel | Director | 2008-11-03 | 2012-11-20 |
| JOHNSON, Michael Lee | Director | 2021-06-01 | 2022-05-13 |
| KLING, David William | Director | 2013-07-01 | 2021-06-01 |
| MURPHY, Michael Patrick | Director | 2008-11-03 | 2010-12-01 |
| SANDBERG, Sheryl | Director | 2008-04-11 | 2008-11-03 |
| TAYLOR, Susan Jennifer Simone | Director | 2017-05-30 | 2022-12-14 |
| ULLYOT, Theodore Warren | Director | 2011-02-25 | 2013-07-05 |
| VAN NATTA, Owen | Director | 2007-08-01 | 2008-03-12 |
| YU, Gideon | Director | 2007-08-01 | 2008-11-03 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meta Platforms, Inc. | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 82 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-11-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-08 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-07-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-02 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-07-02 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-04-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-10-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-04-17 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2022-12-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-12-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-10-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-06-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-05-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-05-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-12-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-11-09 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2021-07-26 | 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
-
Turnover
+10.9%
£2,805,609,000 £3,110,246,000
-
Cash
-24.4%
£447,252,000 £337,948,000
-
Net assets
-18.2%
£1,065,561,000 £871,396,000
-
Employees
-10.4%
6,338 5,679
-
Operating profit
+1.5%
£360,239,000 £365,687,000
-
Profit before tax
+2%
£355,439,000 £362,401,000
-
Wages
-9.8%
£1,023,869,000 £923,837,000
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