Jointline Limited
Registered name: JOINTLINE LIMITED
Part of Phipps & Company Limited groupJointline Limited made £16.2m revenue and £760k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2024. read from filing text
Jointline Limited’s revenue grew 24% to £16.2m in the year to 31 Mar 2024, with £760k profit and 115 employees. The company is classified under “support services to forestry” and is based in Witham ST Hughs; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Witham ST Hughs, East Midlands
- Age
- 41 yrs · since 1985
- 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 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £13.1m | £16.2m |
| Cost of sales | £10.6m | £12.2m |
| Gross profit | £2.5m | £4m |
| Operating profit | −£175k | £863k |
| Profit before tax | −£214k | £795k |
| Profit after tax | −£14.7k | £760k |
| Profit (best available) | −£14.7k | £760k |
| Employees (average) | 113 | 115 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | −0.1% | 4.7% |
| Gross margin | 19.3% | 24.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £116k | £141k |
| Profit per employee | −£130 | £6.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲23.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲1.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £156 | £2.3k |
| Net assets | £6.7m | £7.5m |
| Fixed assets | £1.6m | £2.2m |
| Current assets | £7.9m | £8.8m |
| Debtors | £2.4m | £2.7m |
| Deferred income | £154k | £218k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 24.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £141k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £6.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 13.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 16.6%
- 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
- ▲11%
- Now £7.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▲1378%
- Now £2.3k
- Headcount
- ▲2%
- Now 115
- Deferred income
- ▲42%
- Now £218k
- Fixed assets
- ▲37%
- Now £2.2m
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
- Phipps & Company Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Jointline Holdings Limited75–100%
- Jointline 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 2024 (profit £760k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2024. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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