Stink Limited
Registered name: STINK LIMITED
Stink Limited made £22.5m revenue and £1.4m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024. read from filing text
Stink Limited’s revenue fell 23% to £22.5m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £1.4m profit and 34 employees. The company is classified under “television programme production activities” and is based in London; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- 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: “The immediate parent company of Stink Limited is Stink Holdings Limited, a company incorporated in”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2021 | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £24.8m | £20.7m | £29.3m | £22.5m |
| Cost of sales | £20.8m | £17.5m | £25m | £19.1m |
| Gross profit | £4m | £3.2m | £4.3m | £3.4m |
| Operating profit | −£488k | −£814k | £509k | £531k |
| Profit before tax | £831k | £3m | £4m | £1.5m |
| Profit after tax | £610k | £3m | £3.8m | £1.4m |
| Profit (best available) | £610k | £3m | £3.8m | £1.4m |
| Staff costs | £3.8m | £3m | £3.1m | £2m |
| Employees (average) | 26 | 23 | 25 | 34 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 2.5% | 14.4% | 13% | 6.2% |
| Gross margin | 16% | 15.6% | 14.7% | 15.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £954k | £901k | £1.2m | £662k |
| Profit per employee | £23.5k | £130k | £152k | £41.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼16.4% | ▲41.2% | ▼23.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲390.4% | ▲27.3% | ▼63.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼11.5% | ▲8.7% | ▲36% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £4.4m | £4.9m | £3.8m | £2.4m |
| Net assets | £1.1m | £313k | £2.6m | £3.5m |
| Fixed assets | £1.1m | £1.1m | £1.1m | £3.6m |
| Current assets | £10.1m | £11.9m | £12.5m | £9.2m |
| Debtors | £765k | £2m | £589k | £688k |
| Deferred income | £6.3m | £5.7m | £3.2m | £3m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 6.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 15.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £662k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £41.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 16.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 13.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 3.1%
- 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
- ▲37%
- Now £3.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▼35%
- Now £2.4m
- Headcount
- ▲36%
- Now 34
- Deferred income
- ▼9%
- Now £3m
- Fixed assets
- ▲237%
- Now £3.6m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Subsidiaries (1)
- Stink Digital LimitedRev. £6.7m · Profit −£3m
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2024 (profit £1.4m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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