Howarth Contractors Limited
Registered name: HOWARTH CONTRACTORS LIMITED
Howarth Contractors Limited made £57m revenue and £967k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Howarth Contractors Limited’s revenue fell 13% to £57m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £967k profit and 53 employees. The company is classified under “development of building projects” and is based in Hillingdon; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Hillingdon, London
- Age
- 31 yrs · since 1995
- 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 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £65.8m | £57m |
| Cost of sales | £61.2m | £50.3m |
| Gross profit | £4.6m | £6.7m |
| Operating profit | £2m | £1.2m |
| Profit before tax | £2m | £1.4m |
| Profit after tax | £1.5m | £967k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.5m | £967k |
| Staff costs | £2.3m | £3.8m |
| Employees (average) | 44 | 53 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 2.3% | 1.7% |
| Gross margin | 7% | 11.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £1.5m | £1.1m |
| Profit per employee | £34.3k | £18.2k |
| Cash conversion | 306.4% | −159.7% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼13.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼36% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲20.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £12.2m | £9.5m |
| Net assets | £6.1m | £7.1m |
| Fixed assets | £300k | £387k |
| Current assets | £26.2m | £26.5m |
| Debtors | £4.8m | £3.5m |
| Deferred income | £7.8m | £9.2m |
| Cash from operations | £6m | −£2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 11.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £1.1m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £18.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −159.7%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 16.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 6.2%
- 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
- ▲16%
- Now £7.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▼22%
- Now £9.5m
- Headcount
- ▲20%
- Now 53
- Deferred income
- ▲17%
- Now £9.2m
- Fixed assets
- ▲29%
- Now £387k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £967k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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