The Firmwatch take
Candle Shack Limited (07331656) currently shows: Watch signal detected, based on accounts to 31 July 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 Jul 2025·Refreshed 24 May 2026·Methodology and caveats
Firmwatch signals are generated from public filings and are not credit ratings or financial advice.
Pulse · Net assets, 2024–2025
↗ £0Incorporated
30 July 2010
15 years on the register
Sector
Other manufacturing
SIC 32990 · matched to division
Size
Not classified
Net assets
£100
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
50/100
elevated risk
Estimated public-data value
£75 - £135
medium confidence - net asset range
Sector comparison
Sector: Other Manufacturing
Sample: 36,698 companies
Negative net assets: 15.3%
- Net assets vs sector median
- -£6,346
- Working capital vs sector median
- -£1,403,253
- Sector median current ratio
- 1.36
Thin net asset buffer
The company reports a small visible net asset position.
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
Bottom 30% in sector · Sector medians shown for 36,698 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.
£1,651,162
Current liabilities
Amounts due within one year (short-term creditors).
£3,046,575
Working capital
Current assets minus current liabilities.
-£1,395,413
Median £8k
Fixed assets
Long-term tangible and intangible assets.
£95,374
Total assets less current liabilities
Fixed assets plus working capital.
-£1,300,039
Net assets
What's left after liabilities are deducted from assets.
£100
Median £6k
Equity (capital & reserves)
Shareholder funds.
£100
Current ratio
Current assets divided by current liabilities. Above 1.0× is usually easier to fund.
0.5×
Median 1.4×
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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