Knight Strip Metals Limited
Registered name: KNIGHT STRIP METALS LIMITED
Part of Knight Group Limited groupKnight Strip Metals Limited made £14.6m revenue and £885k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Knight Strip Metals Limited’s revenue fell 2% to £14.6m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £885k profit and 40 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures” and is based in Cranborne Road Potters Bar; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Cranborne Road Potters Bar, East of England
- Age
- 83 yrs · since 1943
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £14.1m | £14.9m | £14.6m |
| Cost of sales | £10m | £10.9m | £10.5m |
| Gross profit | £4.1m | £4.1m | £4.1m |
| Operating profit | £1.6m | £1.4m | £1.3m |
| Profit before tax | £1.5m | £1.3m | £1.2m |
| Profit after tax | £1.2m | £1m | £885k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.2m | £1m | £885k |
| Staff costs | £1.6m | £1.6m | £2m |
| Employees (average) | 35 | 38 | 40 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 8.6% | 6.8% | 6% |
| Gross margin | 29.4% | 27.2% | 28.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £404k | £392k | £366k |
| Profit per employee | £34.7k | £26.8k | £22.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲5.5% | ▼2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼16.1% | ▼13.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲8.6% | ▲5.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £346k | £884k | £649k |
| Net assets | £11.8m | £12.6m | £13.2m |
| Fixed assets | £371k | £358k | £309k |
| Current assets | £15.8m | £15.1m | £15.7m |
| Debtors | £3.1m | £2.9m | £3.1m |
| Deferred income | £156k | £99.9k | £205k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 28.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £366k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £22.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 2.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 21%
- 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
- ▲5%
- Now £13.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▼27%
- Now £649k
- Headcount
- ▲5%
- Now 40
- Deferred income
- ▲105%
- Now £205k
- Fixed assets
- ▼14%
- Now £309k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Knight Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Knight Strip Metals Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (6)
- Knight Group (Europe) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Knight Group (International) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Knight Group (UK) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Knight Metal Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Knight Precision Metals LimitedFigures not disclosed
- KPW Group LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (4)
- Isca Foil LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Knight Precision Wire LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Omega Wire LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Sterling Springs 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 Mar 2025 (profit £885k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 11 Oct 2026
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