Firth Steels Limited
Registered name: FIRTH STEELS LIMITED
Firth Steels Limited made £36.1m revenue and £947k profit in the year to 31 Jul 2025.
Firth Steels Limited’s revenue grew 12% to £36.1m in the year to 31 Jul 2025, with £947k profit and 121 employees. The company is classified under “cold forming or folding” and is based in Brighouse; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Brighouse, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 43 yrs · since 1983
- 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 Jul 2023 | 31 Jul 2024 | 31 Jul 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £39.2m | £32.2m | £36.1m |
| Cost of sales | £30.5m | £26.3m | £28.4m |
| Gross profit | £8.7m | £5.9m | £7.7m |
| Operating profit | £2.2m | £1.1m | £966k |
| Profit before tax | £2.3m | £1.3m | £1.1m |
| Profit after tax | £2m | £909k | £947k |
| Profit (best available) | £2m | £909k | £947k |
| Staff costs | £3.5m | £2.8m | — |
| Employees (average) | 56 | 56 | 121 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 5.2% | 2.8% | 2.6% |
| Gross margin | 22.3% | 18.3% | 21.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £701k | £575k | £298k |
| Profit per employee | £36.3k | £16.2k | £7.8k |
| Cash conversion | −97.3% | 81.5% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼17.9% | ▲12% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼55.3% | ▲4.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▲116.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £5.2m | £2.1m | — |
| Net assets | £18.6m | £19.1m | — |
| Fixed assets | £13.6m | £13.7m | — |
| Current assets | £21.6m | £15.9m | — |
| Debtors | £6.8m | £4.9m | — |
| Deferred income | £3.8m | £1.4m | — |
| Cash from operations | −£2.2m | £865k | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 21.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £298k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £7.8k
- 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
- ▲116%
- Now 121
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Subsidiaries (1)
- SMD Stockyards LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Jul 2025 (profit £947k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026
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