4BASEBIO PLC
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Next accounts due
2026-06-30 (in 1mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-04 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2025-12-21
Watchouts
Cash
£35M
+1,027.5% vs 2023
Net assets
£26M
+5,461.8% vs 2023
Employees
100
+29.9% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£13M
-51.5% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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3 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
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 | £506,000 | £933,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£8,052,000 | -£12,042,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£8,354,000 | -£12,654,000 | |
| Net profit | -£7,665,000 | -£12,333,000 | |
| Cash | £3,069,000 | £34,604,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £9,645,000 | £41,462,000 | |
| Net assets | -£492,000 | £26,380,000 | |
| Equity | -£492,000 | £26,380,000 | |
| Average employees | 77 | 100 | |
| Wages | £3,900,000 | £5,303,000 |
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 | -1591.3% | -1290.7% | |
| Net margin | -1514.8% | -1321.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | -83.5% | -29.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 104.1% | 41.0% | |
| Current ratio | 2.21x | 11.30x | |
| Interest cover | -26.66x | -16.01x |
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
- UK adopted International Accounting Standards
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Crowe U.K. LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have, at the time of approving the financial statements, made a thorough assessment of the Group's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements. In assessing the Group's going concern status, the Directors are confident that the Group has sufficient liquidity available to continue in operation for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- 4BASEBIO PLC · parent
- 4basebio S.L.U. 100%
- 4basebio UK Limited 100%
- 4basebio Discovery Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The Group doubled its revenues from DNA sales against the previous year, with overall revenues of £933k.”
- “4basebio supplied opDNA™ to its client HelixNano Technologies Inc. for the manufacture of an mRNA vaccine product for use in a first in human trial.”
- “The Group commenced supply of HQ and GMP grade synthetic DNA into a tier one pharma company's vaccine programme.”
- “The Group received its GMP manufacturing licence from the UK regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.”
- “The Group's intellectual property portfolio now comprises 29 patent families.”
- “A £40 million primary equity investment concluded in November 2024.”
- “The Group formed a Strategic Advisory Board during the year.”
- “On 20 March 2025 the Company issued 18,998 shares in relation to an Employee Share Incentive Plan.”
- “On 7 April 2025, 4basebio Inc. was incorporated in the US state of Delaware. It is currently dormant.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 6 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOERMAN, Manja Hermina Elisabeth Maria, Dr. | Director | 2025-07-08 | Jan 1966 | Dutch |
| LANCKRIET, Heikki, Dr. | Director | 2021-07-20 | May 1977 | Belgian |
| LINK, Alexander Christian Ansgar | Director | 2024-11-13 | Jul 1971 | German |
| MALUS, Alan | Director | 2024-12-16 | Nov 1959 | American |
| PLAGGEMARS, Hansjoerg | Director | 2024-11-13 | Jun 1970 | American |
| WALKER, Amy Jo, Dr. | Director | 2024-08-05 | Jul 1993 | British |
| WASSERMAN, Michael Jason, Dr | Director | 2024-11-13 | Sep 1974 | Canadian,American |
Show 6 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROTH, David John | Secretary | 2021-07-20 | 2026-02-10 |
| DE LA HUERTA, Maria Del Pilar | Director | 2021-07-20 | 2024-11-13 |
| FERNANDEZ, Joseph | Director | 2021-07-20 | 2024-11-13 |
| MCCARTHY, Timothy Paul | Director | 2021-07-20 | 2025-07-07 |
| PLAGGEMARS, Hansjoerg | Director | 2021-07-20 | 2024-06-28 |
| ROTH, David John | Director | 2021-07-20 | 2026-02-10 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2invest Ag | Corporate entity | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2021-07-20 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 32 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-09-16 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-09-11 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-02-10 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2026-02-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-02-05 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2026-02-05 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-07-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-06-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-05-14 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-01-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-01-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-01 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-09-16 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-09-11 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-09-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 9
- Capital events
- 4
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 3
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
+84.4%
£506,000 £933,000
-
Cash
+1,027.5%
£3,069,000 £34,604,000
-
Net assets
+5,461.8%
-£492,000 £26,380,000
-
Employees
+29.9%
77 100
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Operating profit
-49.6%
-£8,052,000 -£12,042,000
-
Profit before tax
-51.5%
-£8,354,000 -£12,654,000
-
Wages
+36%
£3,900,000 £5,303,000
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