Clayton Engineering Limited
Registered name: CLAYTON ENGINEERING LIMITED
Clayton Engineering Limited made £5.1m revenue and £81k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Clayton Engineering Limited’s revenue fell 11% to £5.1m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £81k profit and 59 employees. The company is classified under “other manufacturing” and is based in Poole; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Poole, South West
- Age
- 50 yrs · since 1976
- 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) | £7.5m | £5.8m | £5.1m |
| Cost of sales | −£5m | −£3.7m | −£3.2m |
| Gross profit | £2.5m | £2m | £1.9m |
| Operating profit | £785k | £357k | £81k |
| Profit before tax | £785k | £357k | £81k |
| Profit after tax | £785k | £357k | £81k |
| Profit (best available) | £785k | £357k | £81k |
| Employees (average) | 57 | 58 | 59 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 10.5% | 6.2% | 1.6% |
| Gross margin | 33.2% | 35% | 38.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £131k | £99.2k | £86.6k |
| Profit per employee | £13.8k | £6.2k | £1.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼22.8% | ▼11.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼54.5% | ▼77.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲1.8% | ▲1.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 38.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £86.6k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £1.4k
- 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 59
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £81k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 13 Oct 2026
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