The Firmwatch take
Scottco Ltd is a 14-year-old construction main contractors, subject to strike-off action. The latest filed accounts (year to 31 August 2025) show £5k in net assets, with 1 cautionary signal worth monitoring. Most recent public risk event: first gazette notice.
Auto-generated from filings·Refreshed 24 May 2026
1 public risk event on file
Pulse · Net assets, 2024–2025
↗ £2kIncorporated
26 August 2011
14 years on the register
Sector
Development of building projects
SIC 41100
Size
Not classified
Net assets
£5k
£4,527
Cash at bank
Not disclosed
Not required for this filing type
Risk events
1 on file
Public Gazette / Companies House
Analytics
Risk, value and sector comparison
Insolvency risk
32/100
watch risk
Estimated public-data value
£3,395 - £6,111
medium confidence - net asset range
Sector comparison
Sector: Construction Main Contractors
Sample: 47,972 companies
Negative net assets: 20.2%
- Net assets vs sector median
- £3,514
- Working capital vs sector median
- -£2,667
- Sector median current ratio
- 1.10
Thin net asset buffer
The company reports a small visible net asset position.
Limited working capital
The short-term asset buffer is positive but small.
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
Cash at bank
Bank balances disclosed in the public accounts.
Not disclosed
Current assets
Assets expected to turn into cash within one year.
£4,106
Current liabilities
Amounts due within one year (short-term creditors).
£4,388
Working capital
Current assets minus current liabilities.
£282
Fixed assets
Long-term tangible and intangible assets.
£4,809
Total assets less current liabilities
Fixed assets plus working capital.
£4,527
Net assets
What's left after liabilities are deducted from assets.
£4,527
Equity (capital & reserves)
Shareholder funds.
£4,527
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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