Smith & Nephew

Manufacture of other chemical products n.e.c. · Watford, Hertfordshire

Smith & Nephew

Smith & Nephew PLC

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ActiveLatest figures: 2025Group consolidated89 years on the register

Public limited company registered in Watford, classed under “Manufacture of other chemical products n.e.c.” and 3 other activities.

Headline figures

FY to Dec 2025 · Group consolidated

Turnover

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Profit after tax

$625m

Net assets

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Cash

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Employees

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Retained reserves

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What the numbers say

2 findings from the figures, in plain English

Written by rules from the figures on this page. Not a forecast or a credit opinion.

History

Pro
US$202320242025
Profit after tax$625m
Turnover
Net assets
Cash
Employees
Retained reserves

Every figure for all 3 years

“—” means we did not find the figure in a source; it is never filled with an estimate.

Balance sheet and ratios

From the filed balance sheets · €

Balance sheet202320242025
Current assets
of which cash
Creditors due within a year
Creditors due after a year
Net assets
Ratios
Return on equityProfit after tax as a share of net assets
Current ratioCurrent assets for every £1 owed within a year
Cash ratioCash for every £1 owed within a year

5 balance-sheet lines and 3 ratios, every year

A ratio appears only for years where every line it needs was filed. Lines are as tagged in the accounts; nothing is added up or estimated.

Timeline

Checked 2026-10-18

  1. Shares
    Purchase of own shares. Shares purchased into treasury: · USD 8,319,304.46 (and 14 more like it since 22 October 2025)
  2. Shares
    Sale or transfer of treasury shares. Treasury capital: · USD 7,317,728.46 (and 41 more like it since 8 June 2023)
  3. Shares
    Statement of capital following an allotment of shares on 11 August 2026 · USD 175,547,633.20, GBP 50,000 (and 12 more like it since 21 June 2023)
  4. Directors
    Termination of appointment of John Rogers as a director on 19 August 2026
  5. Accounts
    Group of companies' accounts made up to 31 December 2025
  6. Filing
    Memorandum and Articles of Association
  7. Filing
    Resolutions (and 4 more like it since 21 June 2023)
  8. Directors
    Termination of appointment of Angela Susan Risley as a director on 6 May 2026
  9. Directors
    Director's details changed for John Rogers on 29 September 2025
  10. Filing
    Statement of company's objects
  11. Directors
    Appointment of Therese Marie Esperdy as a director on 1 December 2025
  12. Directors
    Appointment of Mr Garheng Kong as a director on 1 September 2025
  13. 14 earlier
    1. Directors
      Appointment of Mr David King as a director on 1 July 2025
    2. Accounts
      Group of companies' accounts made up to 31 December 2024
    3. Directors
      Termination of appointment of Robert John White as a director on 30 April 2025
    4. Directors
      Appointment of Ms Sybella Stanley as a director on 1 February 2025
    5. Filing
      Auditor's resignation
    6. Accounts
      Group of companies' accounts made up to 31 December 2023
    7. Directors
      Termination of appointment of Charles Richard Kenneth Medlock as a director on 30 April 2024
    8. Directors
      Appointment of John Rogers as a director on 1 April 2024
    9. Directors
      Termination of appointment of Anne-Francoise Nesmes as a director on 31 March 2024
    10. Directors
      Appointment of Mr Simon Jonathan Lowth as a director on 1 January 2024
    11. Directors
      Termination of appointment of Erik Engstrom as a director on 31 December 2023
    12. Directors
      Termination of appointment of Roberto Quarta as a director on 15 September 2023
    13. Directors
      Appointment of Mr Jeremy Kim Maiden as a director on 14 September 2023
    14. Accounts
      Group of companies' accounts made up to 31 December 2022

From the Companies House filing history. Routine confirmation statements are left out, and a run of the same filing is shown once.

Questions people ask

›What does Smith & Nephew do?

Public limited company registered in Watford, classed under “Manufacture of other chemical products n.e.c.” and 3 other activities. In its own words: “Smith+Nephew is a global portfolio medical technology business. We design and make technology that takes the limits off living.”

›How much turnover does Smith & Nephew make?

Answered in the full report

›Is Smith & Nephew profitable?

Yes: it made a profit after tax of $625m in the year to 31 December 2025, its latest filed accounts.

›Who runs and owns Smith & Nephew?

Answered in the full report

›Where is Smith & Nephew based?

Its registered office is Building 5, Croxley Park, Hatters Lane, Watford, Hertfordshire, WD18 8YE, in Watford, Hertfordshire.

›When was Smith & Nephew founded?

Smith & Nephew PLC was incorporated on 17 February 1937.

›Is Smith & Nephew still trading?

The register lists Smith & Nephew PLC as active.