The Firmwatch take
Henry Ling Limited is a 98-year-old wood, paper and print manufacturing, active on the Companies House register. The latest filed accounts (year to 30 June 2025) show GBP 5.7m in net assets, with no distress signals detected. No insolvency or strike-off filings appear in our public Companies House and Gazette data.
Refreshed 24 May 2026
Pulse · Net assets, 2024–2025
↘ £213kIncorporated
28 September 1927
98 years on the register
Sector
Printing and reproduction of recorded media
SIC 18129 · matched to division
Size
Not classified
Net assets
£5.7m
Top 10% in sector
Cash at bank
Not disclosed
Not required for this filing type
Latest filing
None yet
Analytics
Risk, value and sector comparison
Insolvency risk
4/100
low risk
Estimated public-data value
£4,241,276 - £7,634,296
medium confidence - net asset range
Sector comparison
Sector: Wood, Paper and Print Manufacturing
Sample: 14,097 companies
Negative net assets: 16.3%
- Net assets vs sector median
- £5,650,906
- Working capital vs sector median
- £3,587,752
- Sector median current ratio
- 1.22
Positive net assets
The latest extracted accounts show assets exceeding liabilities.
Risk and value are estimates from public accounts only. They are not a credit score, valuation opinion or insolvency prediction guarantee. See methodology.
Balance sheet
Full extracted balance sheet
Top 10% in sector · Sector medians shown for 14,097 filers in this sector (2025).
Cash at bank
Bank balances disclosed in the public accounts.
Not disclosed
Current assets
Assets expected to turn into cash within one year.
£4,520,213
Current liabilities
Amounts due within one year (short-term creditors).
£928,411
Working capital
Current assets minus current liabilities.
£3,591,802
Median £4k
Fixed assets
Long-term tangible and intangible assets.
£2,485,574
Total assets less current liabilities
Fixed assets plus working capital.
£6,077,376
Net assets
What's left after liabilities are deducted from assets.
£5,655,034
Median £4k
Equity (capital & reserves)
Shareholder funds.
£1,900
Current ratio
Current assets divided by current liabilities. Above 1.0× is usually easier to fund.
4.9×
Median 1.2×
Figures extracted from the company's public XBRL/iXBRL filing. Fields shown as Not disclosed are not legally required for this filing type and are absent from the source document — they are not necessarily zero.
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