G4S Limited
Registered name: G4S LIMITED
Part of Atlas UK Bidco Limited groupG4S Limited made £5.1bn revenue and £198m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
G4S Limited’s revenue fell 1% to £5.1bn in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £198m profit and 425,321 employees. The company is classified under “private security activities” and is based in London; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 22 yrs · since 2003
- 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 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £5bn | £5.2bn | £5.1bn |
| Cost of sales | −£4.2bn | −£4.3bn | −£4.4bn |
| Gross profit | £801m | £813m | £725m |
| Operating profit | £202m | £148m | £150m |
| Profit before tax | £183m | £123m | £254m |
| Profit after tax | £117m | £123m | £198m |
| Profit (best available) | £117m | £123m | £198m |
| Employees (average) | — | 419,544 | 425,321 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 2.3% | 2.4% | 3.9% |
| Gross margin | 16% | 15.8% | 14.2% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £12.3k | £12k |
| Profit per employee | — | £293 | £466 |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲3.1% | ▼0.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲5.1% | ▲61% |
| Headcount growth | — | — | ▲1.4% |
| 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
- 3.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 14.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £12k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £466
- 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
- ▲1%
- Now 425,321
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Atlas UK Bidco Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- G4S Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (9)
- G4S 084 (UK) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- G4S Cash Solutions Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- G4S Corporate Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
- G4S Finance (Brazil) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- G4S Finance (South Africa) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- G4S Finance LimitedFigures not disclosed
- G4S International Finance LimitedFigures not disclosed
- G4S Risk Management LimitedFigures not disclosed
- G4S Trustees LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £198m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 16 Oct 2026
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