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Analyst Alpha Generation Limited

Filleted Financial Statements

for the Year Ended 31 March 2026

 

Analyst Alpha Generation Limited

Contents

Company Information

1

Balance Sheet

2

Notes to the Financial Statements

3 to 13

 

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

Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) 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 2026

Note

2026
£

2025
£

Fixed assets

 

Intangible assets

4

74,560

51,633

Tangible assets

5

14,570

18,608

 

89,130

70,241

Current assets

 

Debtors

7

705,189

718,658

Cash at bank and in hand

 

3,879,443

2,907,256

 

4,584,632

3,625,914

Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year

8

(2,518,511)

(2,129,197)

Net current assets

 

2,066,121

1,496,717

Net assets

 

2,155,251

1,566,958

Capital and reserves

 

Called up share capital

9

105

105

Share premium reserve

293,995

299,995

Capital redemption reserve

106,000

100,000

Other reserves

16,154

19,091

Retained earnings

1,738,997

1,147,767

Shareholders' funds

 

2,155,251

1,566,958

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 2026 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 2026

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 2026.

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 17 July 2026 was Nicola Joyce ACA, who signed for and on behalf of Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) 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 2026

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

 

Analyst Alpha Generation Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2026

Intangible assets

Intangible assets are stated at cost less accumulated amortisation and accumulated impairment losses.

Development costs are capitalised as an intangible fixed asset when the following criteria are met:

• it is technically feasible to complete the asset so that it will be available for use;
• management intends to complete the asset and use or sell it;
• there is an ability to use or sell the asset;
• it can be demonstrated how the asset will generate probable future economic benefits;
• adequate technical, financial and other resources to complete the development and to use or sell the asset are available; and
• the expenditure attributable to the asset during its development can be reliably measured.

Other development expenditures that do not meet these criteria are recognised as an expense as incurred. Development costs previously recognised as an expense are not recognised as an asset in a subsequent period.

Where the company's development of a software, website or a similar application is expected to generate future revenues in excess of the costs of developing, and the above mentioned capitalisation criteria are met, the development expenditure is capitalised and treated as an intangible fixed asset. Once the recognised intangible fixed asset is available for use it is then amortised over its useful economic life, as per the company's amortisation policy. Expenditure incurred on maintaining such assets, and on developing websites used only for advertising and promotional purposes are written off as incurred.

Development costs that are capitalised in accordance with the requirements of FRS 102 are not treated, for dividend purposes, as a realised loss.

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.

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.

 

Analyst Alpha Generation Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2026

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 2026

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 2026

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.


Fair value measurement
The best evidence of fair value is a quoted price for an identical asset in an active market. When quoted prices are unavailable, the price of a recent transaction for an identical asset provides evidence of fair value as long as there has not been a significant change in economic circumstances or a significant lapse of time since the transaction took place. If the market is not active and recent transactions of an identical asset on their own are not a good estimate of fair value, the fair value is estimated by using a valuation technique.

3

Staff numbers

The average number of persons employed by the company (including directors) during the year, was 19 (2025 - 21).

 

Analyst Alpha Generation Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2026

4

Intangible assets

Software & website development costs
 £

Total
£

Cost or valuation

At 1 April 2025

56,344

56,344

Additions

36,538

36,538

At 31 March 2026

92,882

92,882

Amortisation

At 1 April 2025

4,711

4,711

Amortisation charge

13,611

13,611

At 31 March 2026

18,322

18,322

Carrying amount

At 31 March 2026

74,560

74,560

At 31 March 2025

51,633

51,633

5

Tangible assets

Short leasehold land and buildings
£

Fixtures and fittings
£

Office equipment
£

Total
£

Cost or valuation

At 1 April 2025

27,088

23,821

29,400

80,309

Additions

-

-

14,279

14,279

At 31 March 2026

27,088

23,821

43,679

94,588

Depreciation

At 1 April 2025

23,516

19,765

18,420

61,701

Charge for the year

3,113

2,391

12,813

18,317

At 31 March 2026

26,629

22,156

31,233

80,018

Carrying amount

At 31 March 2026

459

1,665

12,446

14,570

At 31 March 2025

3,572

4,056

10,980

18,608

Included within the net book value of land and buildings above is £459 (2025 - £3,572) in respect of short leasehold land and buildings.
 

 

Analyst Alpha Generation Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2026

6

Investments

Subsidiaries

£

Cost or valuation

At 1 April 2025

80,625

Disposals

(80,625)

At 31 March 2026

-

Provision

At 1 April 2025

80,625

Eliminated on disposals

(80,625)

At 31 March 2026

-

Carrying amount

At 31 March 2026

-

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

2026

2025

Subsidiary undertakings

The Analyst US Inc. (dissolved 26/03/2026)

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

USA

Ordinary shares

0%

100%

7

Debtors

Current

Note

2026
£

2025
£

Trade debtors

 

220,357

321,546

Amounts owed by related parties

14

-

3,071

Prepayments

 

193,614

151,698

Other debtors

 

291,218

242,343

   

705,189

718,658

 

Analyst Alpha Generation Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2026

8

Creditors

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

2026
£

2025
£

Due within one year

Trade creditors

82,339

106,888

Taxation and social security

639,315

603,518

Accruals and deferred income

1,796,857

1,415,005

Other creditors

-

3,786

2,518,511

2,129,197

9

Share capital

Allotted, called up and fully paid shares

 

2026

2025

 

No.

£

No.

£

Ordinary A share of £0.0010 (2025 - £0.0010) each

94,900

94.90

95,000

95.00

Ordinary C share of £0.0010 (2025 - £0.0010) each

10,000

10.00

10,000

10.00

 

104,900

104.90

105,000

105.00

10

Obligations under leases and hire purchase contracts

Operating leases

The total of future minimum lease payments is as follows:

2026
£

2025
£

Not later than one year

47,000

94,000

Later than one year and not later than five years

-

47,000

47,000

141,000

The amount of non-cancellable operating lease payments recognised as an expense during the year was £94,020 (2025 - £94,000).

 

Analyst Alpha Generation Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2026

11

Share-based payments

Enterprise Management Incentive (EMI) scheme

Scheme details and movements

The company has issued options to certain employees under an EMI option scheme. The options may be exercised only in the event of a sale, takeover or listing of the company. The options will lapse if an employee leaves the company or if ten years pass from the date of grant.

The company is unable to directly measure the fair value of employee services received. Instead the fair value of the share options granted during the year is determined using an alternative valuation methodology.

The movements in the number of share options during the year were as follows:

2026
Number

2025
Number

Outstanding, start of period

5,000

-

Granted during the period

-

5,000

Expired during the period

(800)

-

Outstanding, end of period

4,200

5,000

The movements in the weighted average exercise price of share options during the year were as follows:

2026
£

2025
£

Outstanding, start of period

27.27

-

Granted during the period

-

27.27

Outstanding, end of period

27.27

27.27

12

Dividends

2026

2025

£

£

Final dividend of £1.0526 (2025 - £Nil) per ordinary share

100,000

-

 

 

The directors are recommending a final dividend of £1.1591 (2025 - £1.0526) per Ordinary A share, totalling £110,000.00 (2025 - £100,000.00). This dividend has not been accrued as it was proposed after the balance sheet date.

13

Financial commitments, guarantees and contingencies

Amounts not provided for in the balance sheet

As at 31 March 2026, the company had contracted capital commitments relating to the redesign and redevelopment of its core digital application platform.

The total amount of financial commitments not included in the balance sheet is £30,932 (2025 - £Nil).
 

 

Analyst Alpha Generation Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2026

14

Related party transactions

Summary of transactions with other related parties

The amount owed by related parties of £Nil (2025 - £3,071) 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

2026

Other related parties
£

Leases

94,020

Amounts payable to related party

28,200

2025

Other related parties
£

Leases

94,000

Amounts payable to related party

28,200

15

Ultimate controlling party

The ultimate controlling party is Mr Mark Christopher Hiley.