Quality Hydraulic Power Limited
Registered name: QUALITY HYDRAULIC POWER LIMITED
Part of A & E Holdings Limited groupQuality Hydraulic Power Limited made £20.3m revenue and £3.1m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Quality Hydraulic Power Limited’s revenue fell 9% to £20.3m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £3.1m profit and 83 employees. The company is classified under “machining” and is based in Halifax; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Halifax, Yorkshire and The Humber
- 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. From the filing: “In the opinion of the directors, the ultimate parent undertaking in the current”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £17.7m | £21.5m | £22.3m | £20.3m |
| Cost of sales | £10.1m | £12.2m | £11.9m | £10.1m |
| Gross profit | £7.7m | £9.3m | £10.3m | £10.3m |
| Operating profit | £2.6m | £3.5m | £4.1m | £3.9m |
| Profit before tax | £2.6m | £3.6m | £4.3m | £4m |
| Profit after tax | £2.2m | £2.7m | £3.3m | £3.1m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.2m | £2.7m | £3.3m | £3.1m |
| Staff costs | £3.6m | £4m | £4.1m | £4.3m |
| Employees (average) | 82 | 86 | 85 | 83 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 12.3% | 12.5% | 14.6% | 15% |
| Gross margin | 43.2% | 43.2% | 46.4% | 50.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £216k | £250k | £262k | £245k |
| Profit per employee | £26.7k | £31.2k | £38.3k | £36.9k |
| Cash conversion | −19.1% | −50.7% | −138.2% | −134.4% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲21.4% | ▲3.4% | ▼8.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲22.7% | ▲21.2% | ▼5.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲4.9% | ▼1.2% | ▼2.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £5.1m | £4.8m | £6.2m | £7.4m |
| Net assets | £20m | £21.7m | £22m | £22m |
| Fixed assets | £7.5m | £7.9m | £7.9m | £7.8m |
| Current assets | £16.8m | £18.7m | £18m | £18.8m |
| Debtors | £4.2m | £5.3m | £4m | £3.9m |
| Deferred income | £688k | £857k | £552k | £553k |
| Cash from operations | −£493k | −£1.8m | −£5.7m | −£5.2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 15%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 50.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £245k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £36.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −134.4%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 38.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 19.3%
- 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
- ▲0%
- Now £22m
- Cash at bank
- ▲18%
- Now £7.4m
- Headcount
- ▼2%
- Now 83
- Deferred income
- ▲0%
- Now £553k
- Fixed assets
- ▼1%
- Now £7.8m
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
- A & E Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Quality Hydraulic Power Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Alton Precision Engineering LimitedFigures not disclosed
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 £3.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 16 Oct 2026
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