Romsey Coaches Limited
Registered name: ROMSEY COACHES LIMITED
Part of Beat the Street (UK) Limited groupRomsey Coaches Limited made £13.9m revenue and £1.1m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Romsey Coaches Limited’s revenue fell 2% to £13.9m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £1.1m profit and 88 employees. The company is classified under “other passenger land transport” and is based in Hampshire; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Hampshire, South East
- Age
- 24 yrs · since 2002
- 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: “The company is under the immediate control of Beat The Street (UK) L”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £11.9m | £14.1m | £14.2m | £13.9m |
| Cost of sales | £9m | £10.2m | £10.6m | £10.7m |
| Gross profit | £2.9m | £3.9m | £3.6m | £3.2m |
| Operating profit | £1.7m | £2.6m | £2.2m | £1.5m |
| Profit before tax | £1.6m | £2.4m | £2.1m | £1.4m |
| Profit after tax | £889k | £1.9m | £1.5m | £1.1m |
| Profit (best available) | £889k | £1.9m | £1.5m | £1.1m |
| Staff costs | £3.9m | £5m | £5.6m | £6.2m |
| Employees (average) | 71 | 84 | 89 | 88 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 7.5% | 13.3% | 10.8% | 7.7% |
| Gross margin | 24.3% | 27.7% | 25.5% | 23.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £168k | £168k | £160k | £158k |
| Profit per employee | £12.5k | £22.3k | £17.3k | £12.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲18.4% | ▲0.9% | ▼2.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲110.4% | ▼17.8% | ▼30.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲18.3% | ▲5.9% | ▼1.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £724k | £1.3m | £1.1m | £1.5m |
| Net assets | £2m | £3.3m | £4.1m | £4.7m |
| Fixed assets | £6.6m | £6.7m | £6.7m | £6.1m |
| Current assets | £1.6m | £2m | £2.2m | £2.2m |
| Debtors | £265k | £11.9k | £189k | £96.8k |
| Deferred income | £494k | £318k | £530k | £485k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 7.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 23.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £158k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £12.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 43.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.7%
- 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
- ▲14%
- Now £4.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▲29%
- Now £1.5m
- Headcount
- ▼1%
- Now 88
- Deferred income
- ▼8%
- Now £485k
- Fixed assets
- ▼10%
- Now £6.1m
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
- Beat the Street (UK) Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Romsey Coaches Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Phoenix Bussing 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 31 Dec 2025 (profit £1.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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