Smartodds Limited
Registered name: SMARTODDS LIMITED
Smartodds Limited made £14.5m revenue and £887k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2024. read from filing text
Smartodds Limited’s revenue grew 10% to £14.5m in the year to 31 Mar 2024, with £887k profit and 103 employees. The company is classified under “other business support service activities” and is based in London; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 22 yrs · since 2004
- 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 ultimate controlling party is Matthew Benham.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £12.4m | £13.2m | £14.5m |
| Cost of sales | £2.8m | £2.2m | £2.8m |
| Gross profit | £9.7m | £10.9m | £11.7m |
| Operating profit | £217k | £557k | £646k |
| Profit before tax | £218k | £565k | £659k |
| Profit after tax | £574k | £986k | £887k |
| Profit (best available) | £574k | £986k | £887k |
| Staff costs | £7.8m | £8.4m | £8.5m |
| Employees (average) | 90 | 99 | 103 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 4.6% | 7.5% | 6.1% |
| Gross margin | 77.8% | 83% | 80.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £138k | £133k | £141k |
| Profit per employee | £6.4k | £10k | £8.6k |
| Cash conversion | −357.6% | −111.9% | 219.6% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲5.9% | ▲10.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲71.7% | ▼10.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲10% | ▲4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £2.5m | £3.4m | £1.7m |
| Net assets | £3.4m | £4.4m | £5.3m |
| Fixed assets | £429k | £237k | £264k |
| Current assets | £5.1m | £5.7m | £5.9m |
| Debtors | £1.1m | £241k | £2.7m |
| Deferred income | £922k | £936k | £253k |
| Cash from operations | −£778k | −£623k | £1.4m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 6.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 80.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £141k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £8.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 219.6%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 18.5%
- 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
- ▲20%
- Now £5.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▼49%
- Now £1.7m
- Headcount
- ▲4%
- Now 103
- Deferred income
- ▼73%
- Now £253k
- Fixed assets
- ▲11%
- Now £264k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2024 (profit £887k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2024. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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