The Firmwatch take
Big Owen's Bar Limited (SC252805) 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
↘ £24kIncorporated
16 July 2003
22 years on the register
Sector
Public houses and bars
SIC 56302
Size
Not classified
Net assets
£252k
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
36/100
watch risk
Estimated public-data value
£188,887 - £339,996
medium confidence - net asset range
Sector comparison
Sector: Food and Drink
Sample: 85,373 companies
Negative net assets: 27.0%
- Net assets vs sector median
- £251,093
- Working capital vs sector median
- -£16,244
- Sector median current ratio
- 0.86
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.
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
Top 10% in sector · Sector medians shown for 85,373 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.
£158,011
Current liabilities
Amounts due within one year (short-term creditors).
£173,585
Working capital
Current assets minus current liabilities.
-£15,574
Median £670
Fixed assets
Long-term tangible and intangible assets.
£533,489
Total assets less current liabilities
Fixed assets plus working capital.
£517,915
Net assets
What's left after liabilities are deducted from assets.
£251,849
Median £756
Equity (capital & reserves)
Shareholder funds.
£3
Current ratio
Current assets divided by current liabilities. Above 1.0× is usually easier to fund.
0.9×
Median 0.9×
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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