Aerial Camera Systems Limited
Registered name: AERIAL CAMERA SYSTEMS LIMITED
Aerial Camera Systems Limited made £5m revenue and £246k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Aerial Camera Systems Limited’s revenue fell 37% to £5m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £246k profit and 20 employees. The company is classified under “television programming and broadcasting activities” and is based in High Wycombe; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- High Wycombe, South East
- Age
- 47 yrs · since 1979
- 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) | £4.7m | £7.9m | £5m |
| Cost of sales | −£2.2m | −£4.3m | −£2.1m |
| Gross profit | £2.6m | £3.7m | £2.9m |
| Operating profit | £11k | £1.2m | £324k |
| Profit before tax | −£8k | £1.2m | £321k |
| Profit after tax | £3k | £777k | £246k |
| Profit (best available) | £3k | £777k | £246k |
| Employees (average) | 25 | 24 | 20 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 0.1% | 9.8% | 4.9% |
| Gross margin | 54.1% | 46.3% | 58.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £189k | £331k | £251k |
| Profit per employee | £120 | £32.4k | £12.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲67.7% | ▼36.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲25800% | ▼68.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼4% | ▼16.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Nov 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Nov 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 58.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £251k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £12.3k
- 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
- ▼17%
- Now 20
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £246k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 12 Oct 2026
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