IHS HOLDING LIMITED
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Cash
£428M
+96.7% highest in 3 filed years
Net assets
-£219M
-185.2% lowest in 3 filed years
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
-£1B
+14.4% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Audit opinion: Qualified
Latest auditor's report carried a non-clean opinion.
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Unclassified median
Accounts
3-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £1,453,891,030 | £1,575,640,474 | £1,268,513,714 | |
| Operating profit | £231,464,047 | £393,366,938 | £355,186,805 | |
| Profit before tax | -£403,246,108 | -£1,394,106,746 | -£1,193,657,524 | |
| Net profit | -£347,639,733 | -£1,473,816,160 | -£1,218,829,503 | |
| Cash | £381,080,801 | £217,808,006 | £428,432,913 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | £3,070,981,468 | £2,656,357,302 | |
| Net assets | £1,008,324,685 | £257,489,993 | -£219,280,208 | |
| Equity | £1,008,324,685 | £257,489,993 | -£219,280,208 | |
| Average employees | — | — | — | |
| Wages | £115,140,845 | £128,896,219 | £111,194,218 |
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 | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 15.9% | 25.0% | 28.0% | |
| Net margin | -23.9% | -93.5% | -96.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | — | 12.8% | 13.4% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | — | 93.5% | 106.9% | |
| Current ratio | — | 1.83x | 2.19x | |
| Interest cover | 0.36x | 0.22x | 0.23x |
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
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Audit opinion
- Qualified
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Whilst inherently uncertain, and we expect some impact to our operations and performance, we currently do not believe that the ongoing uncertainty with the Naira exchange rate will directly have a material adverse effect on our financial condition or liquidity for the foreseeable future, given the contractual revenue resets. Having carefully considered this and the other factors noted above, the Directors have a reasonable expectation that the Group and the Company have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for at least 12 months from the date of issuance of these consolidated financial statements and to operate within the covenant levels of its current debt facilities. The Directors therefore continue to consider it appropriate to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the consolidated financial statements.”
Group structure
- IHS HOLDING LIMITED · parent
- IHS Fiber Brasil - Cessão de Infraestruturas Ltda. 100%
- IHS Brasil - Cessão de Infraestruturas S.A. 100%
- IHS Cameroon S.A. 100%
- IHS Kuwait Limited 0%
Significant events
- “On December 19, 2024, the Group completed the sale of its 70% interest in IHS Kuwait Limited ("IHS Kuwait") to Zain Group.”
- “On January 21, 2025, IHS Zambia Limited entered into an agreement to renew and extend its Master Tower Service and License Agreement with Airtel Networks Zambia PLC until August 2035.”
- “On March 13, 2025, the Group acquired 100% of SPE Imóveis e Torres Selecionados as part of the Oi S.A. Judicial Recovery Plan. The acquisition effectively converts the 1,567 towers and 187 related land assets, already held by the Group as right-of use assets, to property, plant and equipment. The transaction was non-cash and was settled through discounts already given to Oi under the Judicial Recovery Plan agreed in April 2024.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 2 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BURNS, Ursula | Director | 2022-01-26 | Sep 1958 | American |
| BUSH, John Ellis | Director | 2022-01-26 | Feb 1953 | American |
| DARWISH, Sam | Director | 2022-01-26 | Jul 1971 | American |
| EL-RUFAI, Bashir Ahmad | Director | 2021-11-04 | Jun 1953 | Nigerian |
| LACERDA, Maria Carolina Ferreira | Director | 2022-01-26 | Aug 1972 | Brazilian |
| LAND, Nicholas Charles Edward | Director | 2022-01-26 | Feb 1948 | British |
| NHLEKO, Phuthuma | Director | 2022-01-26 | Apr 1960 | South African |
| SZIGETVARI, Aniko | Director | 2022-01-26 | Oct 1969 | Hungarian |
Show 2 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DANGEARD, Frank | Director | 2022-01-26 | 2025-08-18 |
| FORT, Bryce | Director | 2022-01-26 | 2023-08-09 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 11 of 11 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-05 | OSTM01 | officers | Termination person director overseas company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-04-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-04-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-09-19 | OSTM01 | officers | Termination person director overseas company with name termination date | |
| 2022-09-13 | AAMD | accounts | Accounts amended with accounts type full | |
| 2022-05-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-04-29 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous shortened | |
| 2022-03-29 | OSAP01 | officers | Appoint person director overseas company with name appointment date | |
| 2022-01-26 | OS-PAR | annual-return | Appointment at registration of person authorised to represent | |
| 2022-01-26 | OSIN01 | incorporation | Register overseas company |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 0
- 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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
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Turnover
-19.5%
£1,575,640,474 £1,268,513,714
lowest in 3 filed years
-
Cash
+96.7%
£217,808,006 £428,432,913
highest in 3 filed years
-
Net assets
-185.2%
£257,489,993 -£219,280,208
lowest in 3 filed years
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
-9.7%
£393,366,938 £355,186,805
-
Profit before tax
+14.4%
-£1,394,106,746 -£1,193,657,524
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Wages
-13.7%
£128,896,219 £111,194,218
lowest in 3 filed years
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