D.a. Cant Ltd.
Registered name: D.A. CANT LTD.
Part of Gun Hill 2 Limited groupD.a. Cant Ltd. made £19.7m revenue and £585k profit in the year to 28 Feb 2025.
D.a. Cant Ltd.’s revenue grew 3% to £19.7m in the year to 28 Feb 2025, with £585k profit and 56 employees. The company is classified under “construction of commercial buildings” and is based in Colchester; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Colchester, East of England
- Age
- 28 yrs · since 1998
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 28 Feb 2022 | 28 Feb 2023 | 29 Feb 2024 | 28 Feb 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £15.3m | £18.4m | £19.1m | £19.7m |
| Cost of sales | £14m | £15.7m | £17m | £17.5m |
| Gross profit | £1.3m | £2.6m | £2.1m | £2.2m |
| Operating profit | £240k | £1.3m | £1m | £723k |
| Profit before tax | £240k | £1.3m | £1m | £736k |
| Profit after tax | £182k | £1.2m | £895k | £585k |
| Profit (best available) | £182k | £1.2m | £895k | £585k |
| Staff costs | £2.5m | £2.9m | £2.9m | £3.1m |
| Employees (average) | 56 | 61 | 53 | 56 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 1.2% | 6.4% | 4.7% | 3% |
| Gross margin | 8.2% | 14.4% | 11.1% | 11% |
| Revenue per employee | £273k | £301k | £360k | £352k |
| Profit per employee | £3.2k | £19.2k | £16.9k | £10.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲20.2% | ▲4% | ▲3.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲543.9% | ▼23.6% | ▼34.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲8.9% | ▼13.1% | ▲5.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £2.7m | £3.2m | £2.8m | £2.3m |
| Net assets | £6.9m | £8m | £8.9m | £9.2m |
| Fixed assets | £346k | £429k | £495k | £715k |
| Current assets | £9.1m | £9.8m | £10.3m | £10.7m |
| Debtors | £2.2m | £1.1m | £1.7m | £1.7m |
| Deferred income | £249k | £203k | £167k | £165k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Feb 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Feb 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 11%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £352k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £10.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 3.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 8.7%
- 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
- ▲3%
- Now £9.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▼17%
- Now £2.3m
- Headcount
- ▲6%
- Now 56
- Deferred income
- ▼2%
- Now £165k
- Fixed assets
- ▲44%
- Now £715k
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
- Gun Hill 2 Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Gun Hill 1 Limited75–100%
- D.a. Cant Ltd.this company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Halstead Road 1 LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 28 Feb 2025 (profit £585k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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