Booking.com Limited
Registered name: BOOKING.COM LIMITED
Part of Booking Holdings Inc. groupBooking.com Limited made £215m revenue and £33m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024.
Booking.com Limited’s revenue grew 43% to £215m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £33m profit and 303 employees. The company is classified under “other business support service activities” and is based in London; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London
- Age
- 28 yrs · since 1998
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £101m | £151m | £215m |
| Cost of sales | −£67.4m | −£111m | −£172m |
| Gross profit | £33.2m | £40.2m | £43m |
| Operating profit | £26.1m | £35.3m | £38.5m |
| Profit before tax | £40.6m | £36.6m | £43.3m |
| Profit after tax | £36.6m | £37.7m | £33m |
| Profit (best available) | £36.6m | £37.7m | £33m |
| Employees (average) | 236 | 299 | 303 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 36.3% | 25% | 15.3% |
| Gross margin | 33% | 26.6% | 20% |
| Revenue per employee | £427k | £505k | £711k |
| Profit per employee | £155k | £126k | £109k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲50% | ▲42.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲3.2% | ▼12.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲26.7% | ▲1.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 15.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 20%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £711k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £109k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▲1%
- Now 303
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Booking Holdings Inc. (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Priceline.com Holdco U.K. Limited75–100%
- Priceline. Com International Limited75–100%
- Booking.com Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (4)
- Booking.com Transport LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Momondo Group Holdings LimitedRev. — · Profit £0
- Priceline.com Bookings Acquisition Company LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Priceline.com Europe LtdFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2024 (profit £33m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 20 Oct 2026
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