Atlas Copco Limited
Registered name: ATLAS COPCO LIMITED
Part of Atlas Copco Airpower N.V. groupAtlas Copco Limited made £196m revenue and £12.9m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Atlas Copco Limited’s revenue fell 8% to £196m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £12.9m profit and 467 employees. The company is classified under “other business support service activities” and is based in Hemel Hempstead; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Hemel Hempstead, South East
- Age
- 106 yrs · since 1919
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently. From the filing: “The Company’s ultimate parent and ultimate controlling party is Atlas Copco AB, which prepares consolidated group financial statements. This company is incorporated in Sweden and its registered addres”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £213m | £196m |
| Cost of sales | £167m | £147m |
| Gross profit | £46.4m | £49.7m |
| Operating profit | £17.4m | £21.1m |
| Profit before tax | £15.3m | £19.1m |
| Profit after tax | £10.8m | £12.9m |
| Profit (best available) | £10.8m | £12.9m |
| Staff costs | £29.9m | £31.3m |
| Employees (average) | 446 | 467 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 5.1% | 6.6% |
| Gross margin | 21.8% | 25.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £477k | £420k |
| Profit per employee | £24.2k | £27.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼7.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲19.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲4.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Net assets | £54.7m | £50.2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 6.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 25.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £420k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £27.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- ▼8%
- Now £50.2m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▲5%
- Now 467
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Atlas Copco Airpower N.V. (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Atlas Copco UK Holdings Limited75–100%
- Atlas Copco Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Glaston Compressor Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (15)
- Atlas Copco Ias UK LimitedRev. £39.7m · Profit £6.5m
- Air Compressors & Tools LtdRev. £27.4m · Profit £714k
- Tentec LimitedRev. £11.8m · Profit £484k
- Manufacturing Service Solutions LimitedRev. £9.3m · Profit −£242k
- Maziak Compressor Services LimitedRev. £6.3m · Profit £272k
- Kingsdown Compressed Air Systems (Holdings) LimitedRev. £0 · Profit −£1.5m
- Ace Air (Ni) LtdFigures not disclosed
- Ae Industrial & Air Equipment LimitedActive - Proposal to Strike offFigures not disclosed
- Anglian Compressors Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Beaconmedaes LtdFigures not disclosed
- Edwards LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Kinder-Janes Engineers LimitedFigures not disclosed
- MSS Nitrogen LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Northern Compressed Air LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Pneumatic Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £12.9m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 11 Oct 2026
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