Bucher Hydraulics Limited
Registered name: BUCHER HYDRAULICS LIMITED
Bucher Hydraulics Limited made £4.6m revenue and £248k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Bucher Hydraulics Limited’s revenue fell 17% to £4.6m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £248k profit and 5 employees. The company is classified under “machining” and is based in Nuneaton; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Nuneaton, West Midlands
- Age
- 36 yrs · since 1989
- Type
- Private Limited Company
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) | £7.6m | £5.5m | £4.6m |
| Cost of sales | −£6.2m | −£4.4m | −£3.7m |
| Gross profit | £1.4m | £1.1m | £897k |
| Operating profit | £678k | £476k | £374k |
| Profit before tax | £636k | £431k | £334k |
| Profit after tax | £485k | £323k | £248k |
| Profit (best available) | £485k | £323k | £248k |
| Employees (average) | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 6.4% | 5.9% | 5.4% |
| Gross margin | 18.3% | 20.8% | 19.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £1.3m | £1.1m | £915k |
| Profit per employee | £80.9k | £64.6k | £49.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼27.6% | ▼17% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼33.4% | ▼23.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼16.7% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data May 2025 | Accounts · bulk data May 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 19.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £915k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £49.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 5
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £248k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 12 Oct 2026
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