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Analyst Alpha Generation Limited

Filleted Financial Statements

for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

 

Analyst Alpha Generation Limited

Contents

Company Information

1

Balance Sheet

2

Notes to the Financial Statements

3 to 11

 

Analyst Alpha Generation Limited

Company Information

Directors

Mark Christopher Hiley

Elizabeth Knowles

Company secretary

Elizabeth Knowles

Registered office

35 Bedford Road
London
SW4 7EF

Auditors

Warr and Co Limited
Chartered Accountants and Statutory Auditors
Mynshull House
78 Churchgate
Stockport
SK1 1YJ

 

Analyst Alpha Generation Limited

(Registration number: 13734900)
Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2025

Note

2025
£

2024
£

Fixed assets

 

Intangible assets

4

51,633

-

Tangible assets

5

18,608

38,844

Investments

6

-

80,625

 

70,241

119,469

Current assets

 

Debtors

7

718,658

746,428

Cash at bank and in hand

 

2,907,256

1,947,789

 

3,625,914

2,694,217

Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year

8

(2,129,197)

(1,927,636)

Net current assets

 

1,496,717

766,581

Total assets less current liabilities

 

1,566,958

886,050

Provisions for liabilities

-

(2,895)

Net assets

 

1,566,958

883,155

Capital and reserves

 

Called up share capital

9

105

100,105

Share premium reserve

299,995

299,995

Capital redemption reserve

100,000

-

Other reserves

19,091

-

Retained earnings

1,147,767

483,055

Shareholders' funds

 

1,566,958

883,155

These financial statements have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime. As permitted by section 444 (5A) of the Companies Act 2006, the directors have not delivered to the registrar a copy of the Profit and Loss Account.

Approved and authorised by the Board on 16 July 2025 and signed on its behalf by:
 

.........................................
Mark Christopher Hiley
Director

 

Analyst Alpha Generation Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

1

General information

The company is a private company limited by share capital, incorporated in England and Wales.

The address of its registered office is:
35 Bedford Road
London
SW4 7EF

These financial statements were authorised for issue by the Board on 16 July 2025.

2

Accounting policies

Summary of significant accounting policies and key accounting estimates

The principal accounting policies applied in the preparation of these financial statements are set out below. These policies have been consistently applied to all the years presented, unless otherwise stated.

Statement of compliance

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102 Section 1A smaller entities - 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland' and the Companies Act 2006 (as applicable to companies subject to the small companies' regime).

Basis of preparation

These financial statements have been prepared using the historical cost convention except that as disclosed in the accounting policies certain items are shown at fair value.

Audit report

The Independent Auditor's Report was unqualified . The name of the Senior Statutory Auditor who signed the audit report on 18 July 2025 was Nicola Joyce ACA, who signed for and on behalf of Warr and Co Limited.

Revenue recognition

Revenue is recognised to the extent that the company obtains the right to consideration in exchange for its performance. Revenue is measured at the fair value of the consideration receivable, excluding discounts, rebates, VAT and other sales tax or duty.

When the outcome of the transaction involving the rendering of services cannot be estimated reliably, revenue is not recognised with regards to such transactions.

Foreign currency transactions and balances

Transactions in foreign currencies are initially recorded at the functional currency rate prevailing at the date of the transaction. Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are retranslated into the respective functional currency of the entity at the rates prevailing on the reporting period date. Non-monetary items carried at fair value that are denominated in foreign currencies are retranslated at the rate on the date when the fair value is re-measured.

Non-monetary items measured in terms of historical cost in a foreign currency are not retranslated.

 

Analyst Alpha Generation Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

Tax

The tax expense for the period comprises current and deferred tax. Tax is recognised in profit or loss, except that a change attributable to an item of income or expense recognised as other comprehensive income is also recognised directly in other comprehensive income.

The current income tax charge is calculated on the basis of tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting date in the countries where the company operates and generates taxable income.

Deferred tax is recognised in respect of all timing differences between taxable profits and profits reported in the financial statements.

Unrelieved tax losses and other deferred tax assets are recognised when it is probable that they will be recovered against the reversal of deferred tax liabilities or other future taxable profits.

Deferred tax is measured using the tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting date and that are expected to apply to the reversal of the timing difference.

Tangible assets

Tangible assets are stated in the balance sheet at cost, less any subsequent accumulated depreciation and subsequent accumulated impairment losses.

The cost of tangible assets includes directly attributable incremental costs incurred in their acquisition and installation.

Depreciation

Depreciation is charged so as to write off the cost of assets, other than land and properties under construction over their estimated useful lives, as follows:

Asset class

Depreciation method and rate

Short leasehold land and buildings

Over the term of the lease

Office equipment

50% straight line

Furniture and fittings

10% and 20% straight line

Amortisation

Amortisation is provided on intangible assets so as to write off the cost, less any estimated residual value, over their useful life as follows:

Asset class

Amortisation method and rate

Website development

20% straight line

Investments

Investments in equity shares which are publicly traded or where the fair value can be measured reliably are initially measured at fair value, with changes in fair value recognised in profit or loss. Investments in equity shares which are not publicly traded and where fair value cannot be measured reliably are measured at cost less impairment.

Interest income on debt securities, where applicable, is recognised in income using the effective interest method. Dividends on equity securities are recognised in income when receivable.

Cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents comprise cash on hand and call deposits, and other short-term highly liquid investments that are readily convertible to a known amount of cash and are subject to an insignificant risk of change in value.

 

Analyst Alpha Generation Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

Trade debtors

Trade debtors are amounts due from customers for services performed in the ordinary course of business.

Trade debtors are recognised initially at the transaction price. They are subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method, less provision for impairment. A provision for the impairment of trade debtors is established when there is objective evidence that the company will not be able to collect all amounts due according to the original terms of the receivables.

Trade creditors

Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of business from suppliers. Accounts payable are classified as current liabilities if the company does not have an unconditional right, at the end of the reporting period, to defer settlement of the creditor for at least twelve months after the reporting date. If there is an unconditional right to defer settlement for at least twelve months after the reporting date, they are presented as non-current liabilities.

Trade creditors are recognised initially at the transaction price and subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

Leases

Leases in which substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership are retained by the lessor are classified as operating leases. Payments made under operating leases are charged to profit or loss on a straight-line basis over the period of the lease.

Share capital

Ordinary shares are classified as equity. Equity instruments are measured at the fair value of the cash or other resources received or receivable, net of the direct costs of issuing the equity instruments. If payment is deferred and the time value of money is material, the initial measurement is on a present value basis.

Dividends

Dividend distribution to the company’s shareholders is recognised as a liability in the financial statements in the reporting period in which the dividends are declared.

Defined contribution pension obligation

A defined contribution plan is a pension plan under which fixed contributions are paid into a pension fund and the company has no legal or constructive obligation to pay further contributions even if the fund does not hold sufficient assets to pay all employees the benefits relating to employee service in the current and prior periods.

Contributions to defined contribution plans are recognised as employee benefit expense when they are due. If contribution payments exceed the contribution due for service, the excess is recognised as a prepayment.

Share based payments

The company operates an equity-settled, share-based compensation plan, under which the entity receives services from employees as consideration for equity instruments (options) of the entity. The fair value of the employee services received is measured by reference to the estimated fair value at the grant date of equity instruments granted and is recognised as an expense over the vesting period. The estimated fair value of the options granted is calculated using the entity-specific observable market data, i.e., a recent shares transaction. The total amount expensed is recognised over the vesting period, which is the period over which all of the specified vesting conditions are to be satisfied.

The proceeds received net of any directly attributable transaction costs are credited to share capital (nominal value) and share premium when the options are exercised.

 

Analyst Alpha Generation Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

Financial instruments

Classification
All financial assets and liabilities are initially measured at transaction price (including transaction costs), except for those financial assets classified as at fair value through profit or loss, which are initially measured at fair value (which is normally the transaction price excluding transaction costs), unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction. If an arrangement constitutes a finance transaction, the financial asset or financial liability is measured at the present value of the future payments discounted at a market rate of interest for a similar debt instrument.

Financial assets and liabilities are only offset in the balance sheet when, and only when there exists a legally enforceable right to set off the recognised amounts and the company intends either to settle on a net basis, or to realise the asset and settle the liability simultaneously.

 

Recognition and measurement
Debt instruments which meet the following conditions are subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method:

(a) The contractual return to the holder is (i) a fixed amount; (ii) a positive fixed rate or a positive variable rate; or (iii) a combination of a positive or a negative fixed rate and a positive variable rate.

(b) The contract may provide for repayments of the principal or the return to the holder (but not both) to be linked to a single relevant observable index of general price inflation of the currency in which the debt instrument is denominated, provided such links are not leveraged.

(c) The contract may provide for a determinable variation of the return to the holder during the life of the instrument, provided that (i) the new rate satisfies condition (a) and the variation is not contingent on future events other than (1) a change of a contractual variable rate; (2) to protect the holder against credit deterioration of the issuer; (3) changes in levies applied by a central bank or arising from changes in relevant taxation or law; or (ii) the new rate is a market rate of interest and satisfies condition (a).

(d) There is no contractual provision that could, by its terms, result in the holder losing the principal amount or any interest attributable to the current period or prior periods.

(e) Contractual provisions that permit the issuer to prepay a debt instrument or permit the holder to put it back to the issuer before maturity are not contingent on future events, other than to protect the holder against the credit deterioration of the issuer or a change in control of the issuer, or to protect the holder or issuer against changes in levies applied by a central bank or arising from changes in relevant taxation or law.

(f) Contractual provisions may permit the extension of the term of the debt instrument, provided that the return to the holder and any other contractual provisions applicable during the extended term satisfy the conditions of paragraphs (a) to (c).

Debt instruments that are classified as payable or receivable within one year on initial recognition and which meet the above conditions are measured at the undiscounted amount of the cash or other consideration expected to be paid or received, net of impairment.

With the exception of some hedging instruments, other debt instruments not meeting these conditions are measured at fair value through profit or loss.

Commitments to make and receive loans which meet the conditions mentioned above are measured at cost (which may be nil) less impairment.

 

 

Analyst Alpha Generation Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

Impairment
At the end of each reporting period financial assets measured at amortised cost are assessed for objective evidence of impairment. If an asset is impaired the impairment loss is the difference between the carrying amount and the present value of the estimated cash flows discounted at the asset’s original effective interest rate. The impairment loss is recognised in profit or loss.

If there is a decrease in the impairment loss arising from an event occurring after the impairment was recognised, the impairment is reversed. The reversal is such that the current carrying amount does not exceed what the carrying amount would have been had the impairment not previously been recognised. The impairment reversal is recognised in profit or loss.

Financial assets are derecognised when and only when a) the contractual rights to the cash flows from the financial asset expire or are settled, b) the company transfers to another party substantially all of the risks and rewards of ownership of the financial asset, or c) the company, despite having retained some significant risks and rewards of ownership, has transferred control of the asset to another party and the other party has the practical ability to sell the asset in its entirety to an unrelated third party and is able to exercise that ability unilaterally and without needing to impose additional restrictions on the transfer.

Financial liabilities are derecognised only when the obligation specified in the contract is discharged, cancelled or expires.


3

Staff numbers

The average number of persons employed by the company (including directors) during the year, was 21 (2024 - 23).

4

Intangible assets

Software & website development costs
 £

Total
£

Cost or valuation

Additions internally developed

56,344

56,344

At 31 March 2025

56,344

56,344

Amortisation

Amortisation charge

4,711

4,711

At 31 March 2025

4,711

4,711

Carrying amount

At 31 March 2025

51,633

51,633

 

Analyst Alpha Generation Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

5

Tangible assets

Short leasehold land and buildings
£

Fixtures and fittings
£

Office equipment
£

Total
£

Cost or valuation

At 1 April 2024

27,088

21,371

26,513

74,972

Additions

-

2,450

9,016

11,466

Disposals

-

-

(6,129)

(6,129)

At 31 March 2025

27,088

23,821

29,400

80,309

Depreciation

At 1 April 2024

13,438

11,926

10,764

36,128

Charge for the year

10,078

7,839

13,785

31,702

Eliminated on disposal

-

-

(6,129)

(6,129)

At 31 March 2025

23,516

19,765

18,420

61,701

Carrying amount

At 31 March 2025

3,572

4,056

10,980

18,608

At 31 March 2024

13,650

9,445

15,749

38,844

Included within the net book value of land and buildings above is £3,572 (2024 - £13,650) in respect of short leasehold land and buildings.
 

6

Investments

2025
£

2024
£

Investments in subsidiaries

-

80,625

Subsidiaries

£

Cost or valuation

At 1 April 2024

80,625

Provision

Provision

80,625

Carrying amount

At 31 March 2025

-

At 31 March 2024

80,625

 

Analyst Alpha Generation Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

Details of undertakings

Details of the investments (including principal place of business of unincorporated entities) in which the company holds 20% or more of the nominal value of any class of share capital are as follows:

Undertaking

Registered office

Holding

Proportion of voting rights and shares held

2025

2024

Subsidiary undertakings

The Analyst US Inc.

187 Wolf Road, Suite 101
Albany, New York, 12205

USA

Ordinary shares

100%

100%

7

Debtors

Current

Note

2025
£

2024
£

Trade debtors

 

321,546

354,072

Amounts owed by related parties

12

3,071

-

Prepayments

 

151,698

165,471

Other debtors

 

242,343

226,885

   

718,658

746,428

 

Analyst Alpha Generation Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

8

Creditors

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

2025
£

2024
£

Due within one year

Trade creditors

106,888

110,435

Taxation and social security

603,518

261,384

Accruals and deferred income

1,415,005

1,532,380

Other creditors

3,786

23,437

2,129,197

1,927,636

9

Share capital

Allotted, called up and fully paid shares

 

2025

2024

 

No.

£

No.

£

Ordinary A share of £0.0010 (2024 - £0.0010) each

95,000

95.00

95,000

95.00

Ordinary C share of £0.0010 (2024 - £0.0010) each

10,000

10.00

10,000

10.00

Preference share of £1.0000 (2024 - £1.0000) each

-

-

100,000

100,000

 

105,000

105

205,000

100,105

10

Obligations under leases and hire purchase contracts

Operating leases

The total of future minimum lease payments is as follows:

2025
£

2024
£

Not later than one year

94,000

94,000

Later than one year and not later than five years

47,000

141,000

141,000

235,000

The amount of non-cancellable operating lease payments recognised as an expense during the year was £94,000 (2024 - £94,000).

11

Dividends

The directors are recommending a final dividend of £1.0526 (2024 - £Nil) per share totalling £100,000.00 (2024 - £Nil). This dividend has not been accrued in the balance sheet.

 

Analyst Alpha Generation Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

12

Related party transactions

Summary of transactions with other related parties

The amount owed by related parties of £3,071 (2024 - £Nil) is an amount owed from The Investment Analyst Limited, a private limited company under common control with the reporting entity.

The company is under common control with MHSL Bedford Co Limited, a private limited company registered in England and Wales. The lease expenses to other related parties, stated below, is for lease of the office building owned by MHSL Bedford Co Limited.

Expenditure with and payables to related parties

2025

Other related parties
£

Leases

94,000

Amounts payable to related party

28,200

2024

Other related parties
£

Leases

94,000

Amounts payable to related party

28,200

13

Parent and ultimate parent undertaking

The ultimate controlling party is Mr Mark Christopher Hiley.