The Firmwatch take
Mcdonald & Sons (swanage) Ltd is a 20-year-old specialist trades, active on the Companies House register. The latest filed accounts (year to 30 June 2024) show GBP 781 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 25 May 2026
Incorporated
7 November 2005
20 years on the register
Sector
Other building completion and finishing
SIC 43390
Size
Not classified
Net assets
£781
Bottom 30% 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
23/100
watch risk
Estimated public-data value
£586 - £1,054
medium confidence - net asset range
Sector comparison
Sector: Specialist Trades
Sample: 113,141 companies
Negative net assets: 13.7%
- Net assets vs sector median
- -£4,833
- Working capital vs sector median
- £9,596
- Sector median current ratio
- 1.31
Thin net asset buffer
The company reports a small visible net asset position.
Accounts are ageing
The latest extracted accounts period is more than 21 months old.
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
Bottom 30% in sector · Sector medians shown for 113,141 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.
£40,087
Current liabilities
Amounts due within one year (short-term creditors).
£31,278
Working capital
Current assets minus current liabilities.
£16,809
Median £7k
Fixed assets
Long-term tangible and intangible assets.
£21,051
Total assets less current liabilities
Fixed assets plus working capital.
£37,860
Net assets
What's left after liabilities are deducted from assets.
£781
Median £6k
Equity (capital & reserves)
Shareholder funds.
£781
Current ratio
Current assets divided by current liabilities. Above 1.0× is usually easier to fund.
1.3×
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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