Forsite Diagnostics Limited
Registered name: FORSITE DIAGNOSTICS LIMITED
Part of Abingdon Health PLC groupForsite Diagnostics Limited made £4.9m revenue and a £1.2m loss in the year to 30 Jun 2025. read from filing text
Forsite Diagnostics Limited’s revenue fell 16% to £4.9m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with a loss of £1.2m and 54 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other chemical products” and is based in York; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- York, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 20 yrs · since 2006
- 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 Jun 2022 | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 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) | £2.8m | £3.9m | £5.9m | £4.9m |
| Cost of sales | £6m | £1.9m | £2.2m | £3m |
| Gross profit | −£3.2m | £2m | £3.7m | £2m |
| Operating profit | −£11.2m | −£959k | £1.1m | −£874k |
| Profit before tax | −£11.5m | −£1.2m | £769k | −£1.2m |
| Profit (best available) | −£11.5m | −£1.2m | £769k | −£1.2m |
| Staff costs | £4.6m | £3m | £3.4m | — |
| Employees (average) | 96 | 58 | 63 | 54 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | −406.9% | −31.5% | 13.1% | −23.4% |
| Gross margin | −112.5% | 51.8% | 63.1% | 40.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £29.5k | £67.9k | £93k | £91.6k |
| Profit per employee | −£120k | −£21.4k | £12.2k | −£21.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲39.3% | ▲48.7% | ▼15.6% |
| Profit growth | — | — | — | ▼250.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼39.6% | ▲8.6% | ▼14.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £844k | £1.4m | £952k | £589k |
| Net assets | −£14.8m | −£15.9m | £15.1m | −£16.3m |
| Debtors | £387k | £450k | — | — |
| Deferred income | £0 | £49.6k | £395k | £493k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −23.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 40.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £91.6k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£21.4k
- 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
- 10%
- 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
- ▼208%
- Now −£16.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▼38%
- Now £589k
- Headcount
- ▼14%
- Now 54
- Deferred income
- ▲25%
- Now £493k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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
- Abingdon Health PLCultimate parent75–100%
- Forsite Diagnostics Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (4)
- Compliance Solutions (Life Sciences) LimitedRev. £3.3m · Profit −£178k
- Abingdon Analytical LimitedRev. £518k · Profit £38k
- Ivdeology Holdings LtdRev. — · Profit −£26.2k
- Molecular Vision LimitedRev. — · Profit −£87.1k
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Jun 2025 (profit −£1.2m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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