AQUA COMMS MANAGEMENT (UK) LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-25 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-12-11
Watchouts
Cash
£191K
-66.4% vs 2023
Net assets
£1M
+45.5% vs 2023
Employees
32
+52.4% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£291K
-3.9% 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
Consequently, the directors have concluded that the uncertainty over the outcome of the potential transaction and its potential impact on the requirement for continuing financial support from the ultimate parent represents a material uncertainty which may cast significant doubt about the group and company's ability to continue as a going concern. The company may, as a consequence, be unable to realise its assets and discharge its liabilities in the normal course of business.
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £4,457,376 | £4,484,062 | |
| Operating profit | £303,188 | £302,446 | |
| Profit before tax | £303,256 | £291,319 | |
| Net profit | £303,255 | £291,319 | |
| Cash | £569,311 | £191,253 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £735,360 | £1,237,213 | |
| Net assets | £735,360 | £1,069,681 | |
| Equity | £735,385 | £1,069,341 | |
| Average employees | 21 | 32 | |
| Wages | £3,182,066 | £2,543,033 |
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 | 6.8% | 6.7% | |
| Net margin | 6.8% | 6.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 41.2% | 24.4% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 73.4% | 70.0% | |
| Current ratio | 1.29x | 1.15x | |
| Interest cover | — | 26.41x |
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
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Material uncertainty disclosed
“Consequently, the directors have concluded that the uncertainty over the outcome of the potential transaction and its potential impact on the requirement for continuing financial support from the ultimate parent represents a material uncertainty which may cast significant doubt about the group and company's ability to continue as a going concern. The company may, as a consequence, be unable to realise its assets and discharge its liabilities in the normal course of business.”
Significant events
- “In January 2025, the board of Digital 9 Infrastructure fund announced it had signed a binding agreement with EXA Infrastructure, for the divestment of the Aqua Comms Group. The Transaction is subject to multi-jurisdictional regulatory approvals, including competition & merger clearance, which are expected to take approximately 12 months from the date of the binding agreement.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 4 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DELANY, Sandra | Secretary | 2023-11-30 | — | — |
| DELANY, Sandra | Director | 2022-05-31 | Sep 1968 | Irish |
| KELLY, Mark | Director | 2023-11-30 | Jan 1976 | Irish |
Show 4 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOLEY, Kevin | Secretary | 2019-12-12 | 2023-11-30 |
| BAYLIFF, Christopher Nigel | Director | 2019-12-12 | 2023-03-13 |
| FOLEY, Kevin | Director | 2019-12-12 | 2023-11-30 |
| JOHNSEN, Thorsten Philip- Stuart | Director | 2019-12-12 | 2022-05-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exa Infrastructure Uk Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, ownership-of-shares-75-to-100-percent-as-firm, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2025-12-31 | Active |
| Digital 9 Subsea Holdco Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2022-04-29 | Ceased 2025-12-31 |
| Digital 9 Holdco Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2021-04-01 | Ceased 2022-04-29 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 33 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-02 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2026-02-02 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-12-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-11-26 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-09-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-17 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-03-07 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-12-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-02-12 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-12-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-12-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-12-19 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2023-12-19 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-08-23 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-08-22 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-05-12 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-04-26 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- 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
+0.6%
£4,457,376 £4,484,062
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Cash
-66.4%
£569,311 £191,253
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Net assets
+45.5%
£735,360 £1,069,681
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Employees
+52.4%
21 32
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Operating profit
-0.2%
£303,188 £302,446
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Profit before tax
-3.9%
£303,256 £291,319
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Wages
-20.1%
£3,182,066 £2,543,033
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