Wyvernrail PLC
Registered name: WYVERNRAIL PLC
Wyvernrail PLC made £791k revenue and a £82.2k loss in the year to 31 Jan 2025. read from filing text
Wyvernrail PLC’s revenue grew 16% to £791k in the year to 31 Jan 2025, with a loss of £82.2k and 29 employees. The company is classified under “passenger rail transport, interurban” and is based in Wirksworth; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Wirksworth, East Midlands
- Age
- 34 yrs · since 1992
- Type
- Public 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 Jan 2023 | 31 Jan 2024 | 31 Jan 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £576k | £682k | £791k |
| Cost of sales | £255k | £272k | £261k |
| Gross profit | £321k | £410k | £530k |
| Operating profit | −£112k | −£29.7k | −£79.3k |
| Profit before tax | −£113k | −£36k | −£82.2k |
| Profit after tax | −£113k | −£36k | −£82.2k |
| Profit (best available) | −£113k | −£36k | −£82.2k |
| Staff costs | £182k | £207k | £284k |
| Employees (average) | 24 | 27 | 29 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | −19.6% | −5.3% | −10.4% |
| Gross margin | 55.8% | 60.2% | 67% |
| Revenue per employee | £24k | £25.3k | £27.3k |
| Profit per employee | −£4.7k | −£1.3k | −£2.8k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲18.5% | ▲15.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲12.5% | ▲7.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £16.3k | £63.8k | £25.9k |
| Net assets | £608k | £575k | £504k |
| Fixed assets | £912k | £941k | £935k |
| Current assets | £62.6k | £134k | £85.9k |
| Debtors | £11.6k | £8.8k | £20.8k |
| Deferred income | £144k | £135k | £140k |
| Cash from operations | £26.9k | −£94.1k | £27.9k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −10.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 67%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £27.3k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£2.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 118.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 17.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 2.6%
- 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
- ▼12%
- Now £504k
- Cash at bank
- ▼59%
- Now £25.9k
- Headcount
- ▲7%
- Now 29
- Deferred income
- ▲3%
- Now £140k
- Fixed assets
- ▼1%
- Now £935k
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Jan 2025 (profit −£82.2k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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