Performance Electrical Limited
Registered name: PERFORMANCE ELECTRICAL LIMITED
Part of Performance Electrical Group Limited groupPerformance Electrical Limited made £17m revenue and £1.9m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Performance Electrical Limited’s revenue fell 4% to £17m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £1.9m profit and 80 employees. The company is classified under “electrical installation” and is based in Lancs; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Lancs, North West
- Age
- 47 yrs · since 1978
- 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 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £10.5m | £17.4m | £17.6m | £17m |
| Cost of sales | £8.8m | £14.1m | £14m | £12.9m |
| Gross profit | £1.7m | £3.3m | £3.6m | £4m |
| Operating profit | £635k | £1.6m | £1.6m | £2.3m |
| Profit before tax | £636k | £1.7m | £1.8m | £2.6m |
| Profit after tax | £504k | £1.4m | £1.4m | £1.9m |
| Profit (best available) | £504k | £1.4m | £1.4m | £1.9m |
| Staff costs | £4m | £5.3m | £5.5m | £4.4m |
| Employees (average) | 71 | 75 | 74 | 80 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 4.8% | 7.9% | 7.7% | 11.4% |
| Gross margin | 16.3% | 18.7% | 20.4% | 23.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £148k | £232k | £238k | £212k |
| Profit per employee | £7.1k | £18.4k | £18.3k | £24.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲64.9% | ▲1.3% | ▼3.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲173.6% | ▼2% | ▲43% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲5.6% | ▼1.3% | ▲8.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £3.3m | £4.6m | £6.1m | £9.5m |
| Net assets | £6.7m | £8m | £9.2m | £11.1m |
| Fixed assets | £4.8k | £12.1k | £343k | £255k |
| Current assets | £9.7m | £10.9m | £12.9m | £14.7m |
| Debtors | £555k | £952k | £1.4m | £1.1m |
| Deferred income | £691k | £1.2m | £1.7m | £2m |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 11.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 23.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £212k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £24.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 11.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 6.5%
- 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
- ▲21%
- Now £11.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▲57%
- Now £9.5m
- Headcount
- ▲8%
- Now 80
- Deferred income
- ▲15%
- Now £2m
- Fixed assets
- ▼26%
- Now £255k
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
- Performance Electrical Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Performance Electrical Holdings Limited75–100%
- Peg Limited75–100%
- Performance Electrical Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £1.9m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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