Sigma Imaging (UK) Limited
Registered name: SIGMA IMAGING (UK) LIMITED
Part of The Sigma Corporation groupSigma Imaging (UK) Limited made £9.2m revenue and £373k profit in the year to 30 Jun 2025.
Sigma Imaging (UK) Limited’s revenue grew 3% to £9.2m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with £373k profit and 16 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of photographic and cinematographic equipment” and is based in Welwyn Garden City; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Welwyn Garden City, East of England
- Age
- 25 yrs · since 2000
- 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 | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £11m | £8.9m | £9.2m |
| Cost of sales | £8.3m | £6.6m | £6.9m |
| Gross profit | £2.7m | £2.3m | £2.2m |
| Operating profit | £1.1m | £740k | £498k |
| Profit before tax | £1.1m | £739k | £498k |
| Profit after tax | £909k | £553k | £373k |
| Profit (best available) | £909k | £553k | £373k |
| Staff costs | £842k | £865k | £884k |
| Employees (average) | 16 | 16 | 16 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 8.2% | 6.2% | 4.1% |
| Gross margin | 24.6% | 25.9% | 24.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £689k | £557k | £572k |
| Profit per employee | £56.8k | £34.6k | £23.3k |
| Cash conversion | 200.1% | 185% | 97.2% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼19.2% | ▲2.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼39.1% | ▼32.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £15.4m | £16.5m | £16.7m |
| Net assets | £18.4m | £18.9m | £19.3m |
| Fixed assets | £27.7k | £20.8k | £71.5k |
| Current assets | £19.2m | £19.7m | £19.9m |
| Debtors | £1.3m | £1.2m | £1.5m |
| Deferred income | £344k | £341k | £349k |
| Cash from operations | £2.3m | £1.4m | £484k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 24.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £572k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £23.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 97.2%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 16.7%
- 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
- ▲2%
- Now £19.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▲1%
- Now £16.7m
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 16
- Deferred income
- ▲2%
- Now £349k
- Fixed assets
- ▲244%
- Now £71.5k
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
- The Sigma Corporation (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Sigma Imaging (UK) 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 Jun 2025 (profit £373k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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