Senstar Limited
Registered name: SENSTAR LIMITED
Part of Senstar Technologies Corporation groupSenstar Limited made £711k revenue and £32k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Senstar Limited’s revenue grew 39% to £711k in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £32k profit and 4 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of other machinery and equipment” and is based in Cheltenham; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Cheltenham, South West
- Age
- 39 yrs · since 1987
- 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 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £324k | £509k | £711k |
| Cost of sales | £15.9k | £55.9k | £39.3k |
| Gross profit | £308k | £454k | £671k |
| Profit before tax | £14.6k | £21.8k | £32k |
| Profit after tax | £14.6k | £21.8k | £32k |
| Profit (best available) | £14.6k | £21.8k | £32k |
| Staff costs | £163k | £314k | £445k |
| Employees (average) | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 4.5% | 4.3% | 4.5% |
| Gross margin | 95.1% | 89% | 94.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £108k | £170k | £178k |
| Profit per employee | £4.9k | £7.3k | £8k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲57.3% | ▲39.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲49.1% | ▲46.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▲33.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £765k | £700k | £836k |
| Net assets | £840k | £862k | £894k |
| Fixed assets | £34.8k | £28.1k | £23k |
| Current assets | £898k | £929k | £1m |
| Debtors | £10.4k | £3k | £3.1k |
| Deferred income | £24.9k | £60.6k | £63.8k |
| Cash from operations | −£162k | £64.8k | −£138k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 94.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £178k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 3.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.4%
- 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
- ▲4%
- Now £894k
- Cash at bank
- ▲19%
- Now £836k
- Headcount
- ▲33%
- Now 4
- Deferred income
- ▲5%
- Now £63.8k
- Fixed assets
- ▼18%
- Now £23k
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
- Senstar Technologies Corporation (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Senstar 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 Dec 2025 (profit £32k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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