The Firmwatch take
Alvis Brothers Limited (00502230) currently shows: Watch signal detected, based on accounts to 31 March 2025; last refreshed 24 May 2026. Negative working capital plus 1 more cautionary signal — extracted from the latest filed accounts.
Companies House source·Accounts to 31 Mar 2025·Refreshed 24 May 2026·Methodology and caveats
Firmwatch signals are generated from public filings and are not credit ratings or financial advice.
Incorporated
12 December 1951
74 years on the register
Sector
Agriculture
SIC 01410 · matched to division
Size
Not classified
Net assets
£18m
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
36/100
watch risk
Estimated public-data value
£13,394,664 - £24,110,395
medium confidence - net asset range
Sector comparison
Sector: Agriculture and Food Production
Sample: 24,704 companies
Negative net assets: 16.1%
- Net assets vs sector median
- £17,834,557
- Working capital vs sector median
- -£584,186
- Sector median current ratio
- 1.12
Positive net assets
The latest extracted accounts show assets exceeding liabilities.
Negative working capital
Short-term liabilities are higher than short-term assets in the public balance sheet.
Current ratio below 1.0
Current assets are below current 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 24,704 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.
£11,591,110
Current liabilities
Amounts due within one year (short-term creditors).
£12,170,383
Working capital
Current assets minus current liabilities.
-£579,273
Median £5k
Fixed assets
Long-term tangible and intangible assets.
£24,707,596
Total assets less current liabilities
Fixed assets plus working capital.
£24,128,323
Net assets
What's left after liabilities are deducted from assets.
£17,859,552
Median £25k
Equity (capital & reserves)
Shareholder funds.
£30,000
Current ratio
Current assets divided by current liabilities. Above 1.0× is usually easier to fund.
1.0×
Median 1.1×
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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