Rockstone Surfacing Limited
Registered name: ROCKSTONE SURFACING LIMITED
Part of Rockstone Surfacing Group Holdings Limited groupRockstone Surfacing Limited made £14.9m revenue and £395k profit in the year to 31 Aug 2025. read from filing text
Rockstone Surfacing Limited’s revenue grew 13% to £14.9m in the year to 31 Aug 2025, with £395k profit and 63 employees. The company is classified under “construction of roads and motorways” and is based in Swindon; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Swindon, South West
- 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. From the filing: “The ultimate parent company is Rockstone Surfacing Group Holdings Limited”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Aug 2022 | 31 Aug 2023 | 31 Aug 2024 | 31 Aug 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £12.6m | £11.5m | £13.2m | £14.9m |
| Cost of sales | £10.8m | £9.4m | £10.6m | £12.4m |
| Gross profit | £1.8m | £2.1m | £2.6m | £2.5m |
| Operating profit | £363k | £407k | £1.1m | £451k |
| Profit before tax | £363k | £426k | £1.2m | £499k |
| Profit after tax | £229k | £381k | £1.1m | £395k |
| Profit (best available) | £229k | £381k | £1.1m | £395k |
| Staff costs | £3.3m | £3m | £3.3m | £3.8m |
| Employees (average) | 62 | 72 | 57 | 63 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 1.8% | 3.3% | 8% | 2.6% |
| Gross margin | 14.6% | 18.3% | 19.6% | 17% |
| Revenue per employee | £204k | £160k | £231k | £237k |
| Profit per employee | £3.7k | £5.3k | £18.5k | £6.3k |
| Cash conversion | −119.8% | −252.4% | −153.5% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼9% | ▲14.5% | ▲13.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲66.2% | ▲176% | ▼62.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲16.1% | ▼20.8% | ▲10.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.2m | £1.4m | £2.5m | £350k |
| Net assets | £4.9m | £5.1m | £3.3m | £2m |
| Fixed assets | £2.7m | £2.9m | £622k | £637k |
| Current assets | £4.6m | £5.1m | £5.1m | £3.9m |
| Debtors | £3m | £3.3m | £2.3m | £2.9m |
| Deferred income | £83.8k | £56k | £59.9k | £120k |
| Cash from operations | −£435k | −£1m | −£1.7m | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 17%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £237k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £6.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 4.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 19.1%
- 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
- ▼41%
- Now £2m
- Cash at bank
- ▼86%
- Now £350k
- Headcount
- ▲11%
- Now 63
- Deferred income
- ▲100%
- Now £120k
- Fixed assets
- ▲2%
- Now £637k
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
- Rockstone Surfacing Group Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Rockstone Surfacing 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 Aug 2025 (profit £395k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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