Esprit Automation Limited
Registered name: ESPRIT AUTOMATION LIMITED
Part of Stellar Associates 1 Limited groupEsprit Automation Limited made £11.7m revenue and £1.6m profit in the year to 30 Apr 2024.
Esprit Automation Limited’s revenue fell 3% to £11.7m in the year to 30 Apr 2024, with £1.6m profit and 66 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other machine tools” and is based in Nottingham; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Nottingham, East Midlands
- 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 | 30 Apr 2022 | 30 Apr 2023 | 30 Apr 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £12.3m | £12m | £11.7m |
| Cost of sales | £7.5m | £7.9m | £7.8m |
| Gross profit | £4.8m | £4.1m | £3.9m |
| Operating profit | £2.8m | £2m | £1.8m |
| Profit before tax | £2.8m | £2m | £1.8m |
| Profit after tax | £2.6m | £2m | £1.6m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.6m | £2m | £1.6m |
| Staff costs | £2.6m | £3.2m | £3.5m |
| Employees (average) | 59 | 72 | 66 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 21% | 16.2% | 14% |
| Gross margin | 38.8% | 33.9% | 33.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £208k | £167k | £177k |
| Profit per employee | £43.8k | £27.1k | £24.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼2% | ▼2.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼24.5% | ▼15.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲22% | ▼8.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £863k | £1.4m | £807k |
| Net assets | £7.2m | £9.1m | £10.8m |
| Fixed assets | £337k | £336k | £448k |
| Current assets | £9.6m | £12.2m | £12.6m |
| Debtors | £828k | £1.2m | £1m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 14%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 33.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £177k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £24.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 3.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 8.8%
- 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
- ▲18%
- Now £10.8m
- Cash at bank
- ▼43%
- Now £807k
- Headcount
- ▼8%
- Now 66
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▲33%
- Now £448k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Stellar Associates 1 Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Stellar Finance 1 Limited75–100%
- Esprit Automation 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 30 Apr 2024 (profit £1.6m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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