Pentagon Transport Limited
Registered name: PENTAGON TRANSPORT LIMITED
Part of Jas UK Holding Limited groupPentagon Transport Limited made £7.6m revenue and £313k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Pentagon Transport Limited’s revenue was £7.6m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £313k profit and 29 employees. The company is classified under “freight transport by road” and is based in Dartford; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Dartford, 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Apr 2024 | 30 Apr 2025 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £9.2m | £10.6m | £7.6m |
| Cost of sales | −£6.7m | −£7.6m | −£5.9m |
| Gross profit | £2.4m | £3.1m | £1.8m |
| Operating profit | £97.5k | £267k | −£161k |
| Profit before tax | £5.8k | £192k | £266k |
| Profit after tax | £72.5k | £141k | £313k |
| Profit (best available) | £72.5k | £141k | £313k |
| Employees (average) | 29 | 31 | 29 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 0.8% | 1.3% | 4.1% |
| Gross margin | 26.6% | 28.9% | 23% |
| Revenue per employee | £316k | £343k | £263k |
| Profit per employee | £2.5k | £4.6k | £10.8k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲15.9% | — |
| Profit growth | — | ▲94.7% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲6.9% | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 23%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £263k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £10.8k
- 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
- —
- Now 29
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Jas UK Holding Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Pentagon Holdings Limited75–100%
- Pentagon Freight Services PLC75–100%
- Pentagon Transport Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (2)
- Pentagon Marine LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Tenlink LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £313k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 13 Oct 2026
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