Macro 4 Limited
Registered name: MACRO 4 LIMITED
Macro 4 Limited made £34m revenue and £6.8m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Macro 4 Limited’s revenue fell 32% to £34m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £6.8m profit and 150 employees. The company is classified under “business and domestic software development” and is based in Worth,crawley; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Worth,crawley, South East
- Age
- 58 yrs · since 1968
- 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 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £71.1m | £50.1m | £34m |
| Operating profit | £49.7m | £30.8m | £9.1m |
| Profit before tax | £47.9m | £30.8m | £9.5m |
| Profit after tax | £35.9m | £23.1m | £6.8m |
| Profit (best available) | £35.9m | £23.1m | £6.8m |
| Employees (average) | 164 | 153 | 150 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 50.5% | 46.1% | 19.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £433k | £327k | £226k |
| Profit per employee | £219k | £151k | £45.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼29.6% | ▼32.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼35.7% | ▼70.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼6.7% | ▼2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 19.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £226k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £45.1k
- 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
- ▼2%
- Now 150
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £6.8m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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