Loudspeaker Technology Limited
Registered name: LOUDSPEAKER TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
Loudspeaker Technology Limited made £8m revenue and £724k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Loudspeaker Technology Limited’s revenue fell 2% to £8m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £724k profit and 81 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of consumer electronics” and is based in Stroud; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Stroud, South West
- Age
- 46 yrs · since 1980
- 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 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £11.5m | £8.2m | £8m |
| Cost of sales | £6.3m | £4.6m | £4.6m |
| Gross profit | £5.2m | £3.6m | £3.5m |
| Operating profit | £2m | £1m | £710k |
| Profit before tax | £2m | £1.1m | £828k |
| Profit after tax | £1.6m | £908k | £724k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.6m | £908k | £724k |
| Staff costs | £3.9m | £3.4m | £3.3m |
| Employees (average) | 91 | 70 | 81 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 14.1% | 11% | 9% |
| Gross margin | 45.5% | 44.1% | 43.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £127k | £118k | £99.3k |
| Profit per employee | £17.9k | £13k | £8.9k |
| Cash conversion | — | −140.6% | −131.4% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼28.4% | ▼2.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼44.2% | ▼20.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼23.1% | ▲15.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £3.6m | £1.9m | £4.4m |
| Net assets | £7.8m | £8.7m | £9.4m |
| Fixed assets | £2.2m | £4.9m | £3m |
| Current assets | £7.7m | £5.7m | £8m |
| Debtors | £836k | £641k | £814k |
| Deferred income | £617k | £760k | £686k |
| Cash from operations | — | −£1.4m | −£932k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 43.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £99.3k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £8.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −131.4%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 37%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 8.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 10.1%
- 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
- ▲8%
- Now £9.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▲129%
- Now £4.4m
- Headcount
- ▲16%
- Now 81
- Deferred income
- ▼10%
- Now £686k
- Fixed assets
- ▼39%
- Now £3m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £724k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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