PERSONAL ASSETS TRUST PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
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Next accounts due
2026-10-31 (in 5mo)
Last filed for 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-11 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-07-28
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£168M
+471.2% vs 2024
Net assets
£2B
-2.1% vs 2024
Employees
0
Average over period
Profit before tax
£121M
+136.7% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Financials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-04-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-04-30 | 2025-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | |
| Operating profit | £40,810,000 | £37,533,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £51,252,000 | £121,305,000 | |
| Net profit | £44,260,000 | £114,918,000 | |
| Cash | £29,475,000 | £168,362,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £1,667,281,000 | £1,632,404,000 | |
| Net assets | £1,667,281,000 | £1,632,404,000 | |
| Equity | £1,667,281,000 | £1,632,404,000 | |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on capital employed | 2.4% | 2.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 0.7% | 1.8% | |
| Current ratio | 3.11x | 6.48x |
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
“The Directors believe, in the light of the controls and review processes reported in the Report of the Audit and Risk Committee on pages 33 and 34 and bearing in mind the nature of the Company's business and assets, which are considered to be readily realisable if required, that the Company has adequate resources to continue operating for at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements. For this reason, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the accounts.”
Significant events
- “During the year we bought back 26,087,000 Ordinary shares into Treasury, and issued 600,000 Ordinary shares from Treasury, under the Company's discount control policy, for a net outflow of £126 million.”
- “Sharon Brown will be joining the Board as a Director and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee, with effect from the conclusion of the AGM.”
- “promotion of Charlotte Yonge as Co-Manager of PAT, which became effective on 1 May.”
- “the Board has resolved to pay an additional special dividend for the year to 30 April 2025 of 1.60p per share.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 17 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JUNIPER PARTNERS LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2020-04-01 | — | — |
| BROWN, Sharon Mary | Director | 2025-07-18 | Nov 1968 | British |
| CLEMENTS, Mandy Jane | Director | 2020-09-18 | Sep 1966 | British |
| FERGUSON, Iain George Thomas | Director | 2017-12-01 | Jul 1955 | British |
| NEILLY, Gordon Joseph | Director | 1997-04-30 | Jul 1960 | British |
| READ, Paul Edward | Director | 2017-12-01 | Nov 1961 | British |
| ROBERTSON, Robert James | Director | 2020-09-18 | Apr 1958 | British |
| THOMAS, Jennifer Natasha | Director | 2024-05-01 | Mar 1975 | British |
Show 17 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| AITKEN, William Alexander | Secretary | 1997-02-20 | 1999-06-03 |
| DAVIDSON, Steven Kean | Secretary | 2006-01-18 | 2020-04-01 |
| HAY SMITH, Gordon Robert | Secretary | 2001-05-17 | 2006-01-18 |
| MITCHELL, Rona Helen | Secretary | 1999-06-03 | 2000-11-24 |
| NEILLY, Gordon Joseph | Secretary | — | 1997-02-20 |
| FRIENDS IVORY & SIME PLC | Corporate Secretary | 2000-11-24 | 2001-05-17 |
| ANDERSON, Richard Boscawen | Director | — | 1997-07-04 |
| ANGUS, Robin John | Director | — | 2020-09-18 |
| BUCHAN, Hamish Noble | Director | 2001-07-05 | 2020-09-18 |
| DE SALABERRY, Pascal D'Irumberry | Director | — | 1993-06-11 |
| HAMILTON-SHARP, John Martin Graham | Director | 1990-11-16 | 2013-07-25 |
| MENZIES, John Maxwell | Director | — | 1992-12-31 |
| PAUL, Stuart Watson | Director | 2009-07-16 | 2017-07-20 |
| RUSHBROOK, Frank Paul | Director | 2009-07-16 | 2019-07-11 |
| RUSHBROOK, Ian Frank | Director | 1990-06-11 | 2008-10-12 |
| SHARP, Jean Mary | Director | 2016-07-21 | 2025-07-18 |
| WHITE, Robert Pringle | Director | 1994-02-01 | 2009-07-16 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 855 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-30 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2026-04-28 | SH04 | capital | Capital sale or transfer treasury shares with date currency capital figure | |
| 2026-04-20 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2026-02-25 | SH04 | capital | Capital sale or transfer treasury shares with date currency capital figure | |
| 2026-02-18 | SH04 | capital | Capital sale or transfer treasury shares with date currency capital figure | |
| 2026-02-16 | SH04 | capital | Capital sale or transfer treasury shares with date currency capital figure | |
| 2026-01-15 | SH04 | capital | Capital sale or transfer treasury shares with date currency capital figure | |
| 2026-01-09 | SH04 | capital | Capital sale or transfer treasury shares with date currency capital figure | |
| 2025-12-31 | SH04 | capital | Capital sale or transfer treasury shares with date currency capital figure | |
| 2025-12-16 | SH04 | capital | Capital sale or transfer treasury shares with date currency capital figure | |
| 2025-12-01 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2025-11-20 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2025-11-07 | SH04 | capital | Capital sale or transfer treasury shares with date currency capital figure | |
| 2025-10-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-10-14 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2025-10-13 | SH04 | capital | Capital sale or transfer treasury shares with date currency capital figure | |
| 2025-09-23 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2025-08-26 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2025-08-15 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2025-08-14 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 20
- Capital events
- 19
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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
—
Not reported
-
Cash
+471.2%
£29,475,000 £168,362,000
-
Net assets
-2.1%
£1,667,281,000 £1,632,404,000
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
-8%
£40,810,000 £37,533,000
-
Profit before tax
+136.7%
£51,252,000 £121,305,000
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