The Firmwatch take
A. Hammond & Sons Limited is a 66-year-old construction main contractors, active on the Companies House register. The latest filed accounts (year to 31 October 2024) show GBP 6.4m in net assets, with 1 cautionary signal worth monitoring. No insolvency or strike-off filings appear in our public Companies House and Gazette data.
Refreshed 24 May 2026
Incorporated
7 October 1959
66 years on the register
Sector
Development of building projects
SIC 41100
Size
Not classified
Net assets
£6.4m
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
£4,765,122 - £8,577,220
medium confidence - net asset range
Sector comparison
Sector: Construction Main Contractors
Sample: 86,521 companies
Negative net assets: 20.0%
- Net assets vs sector median
- £6,352,130
- Working capital vs sector median
- £3,269,099
- Sector median current ratio
- 1.12
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 86,521 filers in this sector (2024).
Cash at bank
Bank balances disclosed in the public accounts.
Not disclosed
Current assets
Assets expected to turn into cash within one year.
£5,800,860
Current liabilities
Amounts due within one year (short-term creditors).
£2,527,276
Working capital
Current assets minus current liabilities.
£3,273,584
Median £4k
Fixed assets
Long-term tangible and intangible assets.
£3,136,253
Total assets less current liabilities
Fixed assets plus working capital.
£6,409,837
Net assets
What's left after liabilities are deducted from assets.
£6,353,496
Median £1k
Equity (capital & reserves)
Shareholder funds.
£4,500
Current ratio
Current assets divided by current liabilities. Above 1.0× is usually easier to fund.
2.3×
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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