Exol Lubricants Limited
Registered name: EXOL LUBRICANTS LIMITED
Exol Lubricants Limited made £89.4m revenue and £2.8m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Exol Lubricants Limited’s revenue grew 3% to £89.4m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £2.8m profit and 104 employees. The company is classified under “other treatment of petroleum products (excluding petrochemicals manufacture)” and is based in Wednesbury; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Wednesbury, West Midlands
- Age
- 35 yrs · since 1991
- 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 immediate controlling party is”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £86.4m | £89.4m |
| Cost of sales | £74.4m | £76.4m |
| Gross profit | £12m | £13m |
| Operating profit | £4m | £4.4m |
| Profit before tax | £3.5m | £3.8m |
| Profit after tax | £2.6m | £2.8m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.6m | £2.8m |
| Staff costs | £8.2m | £9m |
| Employees (average) | 94 | 104 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 3% | 3.1% |
| Gross margin | 13.9% | 14.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £919k | £860k |
| Profit per employee | £27.6k | £27.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲3.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲8.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲10.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £218k | £233k |
| Net assets | £14.3m | £14.5m |
| Fixed assets | £6.8m | £7.1m |
| Current assets | £30.5m | £27.3m |
| Debtors | £26.2m | £19m |
| Deferred income | £2.6m | £2.6m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 14.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £860k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £27.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 7.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 21.3%
- 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
- ▲2%
- Now £14.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▲7%
- Now £233k
- Headcount
- ▲11%
- Now 104
- Deferred income
- ▼2%
- Now £2.6m
- Fixed assets
- ▲4%
- Now £7.1m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Similar profitable businesses
- Paterson Enterprises LimitedShropshire · Other treatment of petroleum products (excluding petrochemicals manufacture)
- Revenue
- £104m
- Profit
- £9.8m
- Staff
- —
- Exol Lubricants (Rotherham) LimitedSouth Yorkshire · Other treatment of petroleum products (excluding petrochemicals manufacture)
- Revenue
- £64m
- Profit
- £2.4m
- Staff
- 29
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £2.8m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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