The Firmwatch take
Lbs Holdings (uk) Limited (05031473) currently shows: Watch signal detected, based on accounts to 31 December 2024; 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 Dec 2024·Refreshed 24 May 2026·Methodology and caveats
Firmwatch signals are generated from public filings and are not credit ratings or financial advice.
Incorporated
2 February 2004
22 years on the register
Sector
Wholesale trade
SIC 46130 · matched to division
Size
Not classified
Net assets
£5.9m
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
42/100
elevated risk
Estimated public-data value
£4,389,764 - £7,901,576
medium confidence - net asset range
Sector comparison
Sector: Wholesale
Sample: 66,765 companies
Negative net assets: 18.8%
- Net assets vs sector median
- £5,851,033
- Working capital vs sector median
- -£8,536,870
- Sector median current ratio
- 1.27
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.
Weak current ratio
Current assets are less than 75% of 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 66,765 wholesalers (2024).
Cash at bank
Bank balances disclosed in the public accounts.
Not disclosed
Current assets
Assets expected to turn into cash within one year.
£826,539
Current liabilities
Amounts due within one year (short-term creditors).
£9,353,710
Working capital
Current assets minus current liabilities.
-£8,527,171
Median £10k
Fixed assets
Long-term tangible and intangible assets.
£15,135,430
Total assets less current liabilities
Fixed assets plus working capital.
£6,608,259
Net assets
What's left after liabilities are deducted from assets.
£5,853,019
Median £2k
Equity (capital & reserves)
Shareholder funds.
£2,352
Current ratio
Current assets divided by current liabilities. Above 1.0× is usually easier to fund.
0.1×
Median 1.3×
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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