Roband Electronics Limited
Registered name: ROBAND ELECTRONICS LIMITED
Roband Electronics Limited made £4.1m revenue and a £27.1k loss in the year to 31 May 2025. read from filing text
Roband Electronics Limited’s revenue grew 5% to £4.1m in the year to 31 May 2025, with a loss of £27.1k and 75 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of electric motors, generators and transformers” and is based in Charlwood,; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Charlwood,, South East
- Age
- 70 yrs · since 1956
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 May 2023 | 31 May 2024 | 31 May 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £3.7m | £3.9m | £4.1m |
| Cost of sales | £2.6m | £3.1m | £3.1m |
| Gross profit | £1.1m | £802k | £947k |
| Operating profit | £25.7k | −£243k | −£108k |
| Profit before tax | £15.1k | −£256k | −£137k |
| Profit after tax | £62.9k | −£163k | −£27.1k |
| Profit (best available) | £62.9k | −£163k | −£27.1k |
| Staff costs | £2.3m | £2.3m | £2.7m |
| Employees (average) | 64 | 68 | 75 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 1.7% | −4.2% | −0.7% |
| Gross margin | 29.4% | 20.7% | 23.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £58.5k | £56.9k | £54.4k |
| Profit per employee | £983 | −£2.4k | −£361 |
| Cash conversion | −1530% | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲3.3% | ▲5.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼358.2% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲6.3% | ▲10.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £453k | £446k | £335k |
| Net assets | £2.9m | £2.7m | £2.7m |
| Fixed assets | £3.5m | £3.5m | £3.5m |
| Current assets | £2.4m | £2.9m | £3.5m |
| Debtors | £577k | £812k | £1.3m |
| Deferred income | £1.8m | £1.9m | £2.5m |
| Cash from operations | −£394k | £299k | £287k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −0.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 23.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £54.4k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£361
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 85.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 60.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 31.9%
- 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
- ▼1%
- Now £2.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▼25%
- Now £335k
- Headcount
- ▲10%
- Now 75
- Deferred income
- ▲33%
- Now £2.5m
- Fixed assets
- ▼0%
- Now £3.5m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 May 2025 (profit −£27.1k), 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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