Silent Sentinel Limited
Registered name: SILENT SENTINEL LIMITED
Part of Motorola Solutions, Inc groupSilent Sentinel Limited made £15.4m revenue and a £6.9m loss in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Silent Sentinel Limited’s revenue was £15.4m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with a loss of £6.9m and 0 employees. The company is classified under “engineering design activities for industrial process and production” and is based in London; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 24 yrs · since 2002
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Pass-through vehicle. This looks like a holding, staffing or umbrella company. Its revenue and profit may largely pass through to or from other entities, so the figures may not reflect a standalone operating business. It is excluded from our opportunity lists.
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 a wholly owned subsidiary of The Silent Sentinel Group Limited whose registered office is Nova South, 160 Victoria Street, London, United Kingdom, SW1E 5LB.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Oct 2022 | 31 Oct 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) | £10.9m | £18.1m | £18.7m | £15.4m |
| Cost of sales | £6.3m | £12.5m | £14.5m | £15.2m |
| Gross profit | £4.6m | £5.5m | £4.1m | £205k |
| Operating profit | £753k | £1.3m | −£1.9m | −£6.8m |
| Profit before tax | £589k | £1.1m | −£2m | −£7.1m |
| Profit after tax | £637k | £933k | −£2m | −£6.9m |
| Profit (best available) | £637k | £933k | −£2m | −£6.9m |
| Staff costs | £2.2m | £2.4m | £4m | — |
| Employees (average) | 47 | 66 | 72 | 0 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 5.9% | 5.2% | −10.6% | −44.9% |
| Gross margin | 41.9% | 30.6% | 22.2% | 1.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £231k | £274k | £259k | — |
| Profit per employee | £13.6k | £14.1k | −£27.5k | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲66.5% | — | — |
| Profit growth | — | ▲46.5% | — | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲40.4% | — | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £312k | £140k | £571k | £413k |
| Net assets | £3.2m | £4.1m | £5m | −£2m |
| Fixed assets | £1.6m | £2.4m | £2.2m | £1.9m |
| Current assets | £7.1m | £9.8m | £8.9m | £16.8m |
| Debtors | £2.1m | £3.8m | £4.2m | £1.7m |
| Deferred income | £237k | £71.9k | £22.7k | £99.5k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −44.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 1.3%
- 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
- 12%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 11%
- 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 −£2m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £413k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 0
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £99.5k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £1.9m
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
- Motorola Solutions, Inc (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Motorola Solutions UK Holding One Limited75–100%
- Motorola Solutions International Holding Limited75–100%
- The Silent Sentinel Group Limited75–100%
- Silent Sentinel Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Sentinel Engineering 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 −£6.9m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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