Future PLC
Registered name: FUTURE PLC
Future PLC made £739m revenue and £66.3m profit in the year to 30 Sep 2025.
Future PLC’s revenue fell 6% to £739m in the year to 30 Sep 2025, with £66.3m profit. The company is classified under “other publishing activities” and is based in Bath; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Bath, South West
- Age
- 27 yrs · since 1999
- Type
- Public Limited Company
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&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £789m | £788m | £739m |
| Cost of sales | −£614m | −£655m | — |
| Operating profit | £175m | £134m | £122m |
| Profit before tax | £138m | £103m | £91.9m |
| Profit after tax | £113m | £76.8m | £66.3m |
| Profit (best available) | £113m | £76.8m | £66.3m |
| Employees (average) | — | — | — |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 14.4% | 9.7% | 9% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼0.1% | ▼6.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼32.3% | ▼13.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Feb 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Feb 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
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- 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
- —
- Now —
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Subsidiaries (4)
- Future Holdings 2002 LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Future Publishing Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Goco Group LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Sarracenia LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 30 Sep 2025 (profit £66.3m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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