Gooch & Housego PLC
Registered name: GOOCH & HOUSEGO PLC
Gooch & Housego PLC made £150m revenue and £3.5m profit in the year to 30 Sep 2025.
Gooch & Housego PLC’s revenue grew 11% to £150m in the year to 30 Sep 2025, with £3.5m profit and 975 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of optical precision instruments” and is based in Somerset; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Somerset, South West
- Age
- 72 yrs · since 1953
- Type
- Public Limited Company
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Sep 2023 | 30 Sep 2024 | 30 Sep 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £135m | £136m | £150m |
| Cost of sales | −£94.7m | −£94.3m | −£104m |
| Gross profit | £40.3m | £41.6m | £46.7m |
| Operating profit | £7.8m | £6.8m | £8.1m |
| Profit before tax | £6m | £4.2m | £5.3m |
| Profit after tax | £4.9m | £3.3m | £3.5m |
| Profit (best available) | £4.9m | £3.3m | £3.5m |
| Employees (average) | 957 | 911 | 975 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 3.6% | 2.4% | 2.4% |
| Gross margin | 29.8% | 30.6% | 31% |
| Revenue per employee | £141k | £149k | £154k |
| Profit per employee | £5.1k | £3.6k | £3.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲0.7% | ▲10.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼32.5% | ▲7.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼4.8% | ▲7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 31%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £154k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £3.6k
- 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
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▲7%
- Now 975
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Subsidiaries (10)
- Artemis Optical (Holdings) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Fawkes Newco 2 LimitedFigures not disclosed
- G&H Property Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- G&H US Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Gooch & Housego (Torquay) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Gooch & Housego (UK) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Kent Periscopes LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Spanoptic LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Vitl LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Wave Optronics LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 30 Sep 2025 (profit £3.5m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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