Phoenix Steel Limited
Registered name: PHOENIX STEEL LIMITED
Part of Phoenix Steel Holdings Limited groupPhoenix Steel Limited made £13.7m revenue and £84.4k profit in the year to 30 Sep 2025. read from filing text
Phoenix Steel Limited’s revenue fell 6% to £13.7m in the year to 30 Sep 2025, with £84.4k profit and 66 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of tubes, pipes, hollow profiles and related fittings, of steel” and is based in South Shields; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- South Shields, North East
- 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. From the filing: “Phoenix Steel Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Phoenix Steel Holdings Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales, whose registered office address is Amos Ayre Place, Simonside Ind Est”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Sep 2023 | 30 Sep 2024 | 30 Sep 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £16.4m | £14.6m | £13.7m |
| Cost of sales | £13.7m | £12.6m | £11.7m |
| Gross profit | £2.7m | £1.9m | £1.9m |
| Operating profit | £1m | £73.3k | £14.1k |
| Profit before tax | £1.1m | £214k | £127k |
| Profit after tax | £824k | £151k | £84.4k |
| Profit (best available) | £824k | £151k | £84.4k |
| Staff costs | £2.3m | £2.2m | £2.3m |
| Employees (average) | 64 | 63 | 66 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 5% | 1% | 0.6% |
| Gross margin | 16.3% | 13.3% | 14.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £257k | £231k | £207k |
| Profit per employee | £12.9k | £2.4k | £1.3k |
| Cash conversion | −233.8% | −227.9% | 3396% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼11.3% | ▼6.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼81.6% | ▼44.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼1.6% | ▲4.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £5.5m | £5.4m | £4.5m |
| Net assets | £9m | £9m | £8.9m |
| Fixed assets | £2.5m | £2.4m | £2.5m |
| Current assets | £11m | £10.4m | £9.7m |
| Debtors | £3m | £2.8m | £2.7m |
| Deferred income | £72.3k | £66.4k | £61.1k |
| Cash from operations | −£2.4m | −£167k | £479k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 14.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £207k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £1.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 3396%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 18.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 19.8%
- 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
- ▼1%
- Now £8.9m
- Cash at bank
- ▼17%
- Now £4.5m
- Headcount
- ▲5%
- Now 66
- Deferred income
- ▼8%
- Now £61.1k
- Fixed assets
- ▲5%
- Now £2.5m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Phoenix Steel Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Phoenix Steel Limitedthis 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 Sep 2025 (profit £84.4k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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