SBD Automotive Ltd
Registered name: SBD AUTOMOTIVE LTD
Part of SBD Automotive Holdings Limited groupSBD Automotive Ltd made £9m revenue and £503k profit in the year to 30 Jun 2025. read from filing text
SBD Automotive Ltd’s revenue grew 20% to £9m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with £503k profit and 47 employees. The company is classified under “other business support service activities” and is based in Milton Keynes; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Milton Keynes, South East
- Age
- 29 yrs · since 1997
- 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: “SBD Automotive Holdings Limited”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £7.5m | £9m |
| Cost of sales | £5.3m | £5.4m |
| Gross profit | £2.2m | £3.6m |
| Operating profit | £385k | £675k |
| Profit before tax | £404k | £693k |
| Profit after tax | £499k | £503k |
| Profit (best available) | £499k | £503k |
| Staff costs | £3.5m | — |
| Employees (average) | 51 | 47 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 6.7% | 5.6% |
| Gross margin | 29% | 40.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £147k | £191k |
| Profit per employee | £9.8k | £10.7k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲19.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲0.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼7.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £966k | £856k |
| Net assets | £5.4m | £4.7m |
| Fixed assets | £178k | £150k |
| Current assets | £6.9m | £7.6m |
| Debtors | £155k | £173k |
| Deferred income | £430k | £419k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 40.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £191k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £10.7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 4.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 1.9%
- 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
- ▼13%
- Now £4.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▼11%
- Now £856k
- Headcount
- ▼8%
- Now 47
- Deferred income
- ▼3%
- Now £419k
- Fixed assets
- ▼16%
- Now £150k
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
- SBD Automotive Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- SBD Automotive Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Jun 2025 (profit £503k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 22 Oct 2026
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