Stressline Limited
Registered name: STRESSLINE LIMITED
Part of CPF Commercial Limited groupStressline Limited made £7.2m revenue and £99.8k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Stressline Limited’s revenue fell 12% to £7.2m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £99.8k profit and 56 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of concrete products for construction purposes” and is based in Leicestershire; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Leicestershire, East Midlands
- Age
- 62 yrs · since 1964
- 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 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £10.7m | £9.3m | £8.1m | £7.2m |
| Cost of sales | £9m | £7.3m | £6.4m | £5.6m |
| Gross profit | £1.7m | £2.1m | £1.7m | £1.6m |
| Operating profit | £189k | £182k | £145k | £123k |
| Profit before tax | £166k | £162k | £120k | £99.9k |
| Profit after tax | £133k | £121k | £134k | £99.8k |
| Profit (best available) | £133k | £121k | £134k | £99.8k |
| Staff costs | £2.3m | £2.2m | £2.1m | £2m |
| Employees (average) | 78 | 72 | 64 | 56 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 1.2% | 1.3% | 1.7% | 1.4% |
| Gross margin | 16% | 22.2% | 21.4% | 22% |
| Revenue per employee | £137k | £130k | £127k | £128k |
| Profit per employee | £1.7k | £1.7k | £2.1k | £1.8k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼12.7% | ▼13.2% | ▼11.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼9.1% | ▲11% | ▼25.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼7.7% | ▼11.1% | ▼12.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.1m | £287k | £250k | £172k |
| Net assets | £1.9m | £2.1m | £2.2m | £2.3m |
| Fixed assets | £53.8k | £10.8k | £12.3k | £11.4k |
| Current assets | £5.5m | £5.4m | £5.5m | £5.1m |
| Debtors | £1.4m | £1.1m | £941k | £1m |
| Deferred income | £100k | £100k | £82.3k | £220k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 22%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £128k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £1.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 14.1%
- 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 £2.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▼31%
- Now £172k
- Headcount
- ▼13%
- Now 56
- Deferred income
- ▲167%
- Now £220k
- Fixed assets
- ▼7%
- Now £11.4k
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
- CPF Commercial Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Stressline Holdings Limited75–100%
- Stressline Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (3)
- Merchants Transport LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Stressline (Patents) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Stressline Engineering 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 £99.8k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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