Acrotrend Solutions Limited
Registered name: ACROTREND SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Part of Nowvertical UK Ltd groupAcrotrend Solutions Limited made £4.5m revenue and £608k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024.
Acrotrend Solutions Limited’s revenue fell 9% to £4.5m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £608k profit and 9 employees. The company is classified under “business and domestic software development” and is based in Hemel Hempstead; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Hemel Hempstead, South East
- Age
- 18 yrs · since 2007
- 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 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £4.8m | £5m | £4.5m |
| Cost of sales | £1.8m | £2.4m | £2.7m |
| Gross profit | £3m | £2.6m | £1.8m |
| Operating profit | £1.9m | £1.1m | £678k |
| Profit before tax | £2m | £1.1m | £608k |
| Profit after tax | £1.8m | £1m | £608k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.8m | £1m | £608k |
| Staff costs | £794k | £968k | £836k |
| Employees (average) | — | 9 | 9 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 36.9% | 20.3% | 13.5% |
| Gross margin | 63% | 51.4% | 40.7% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £552k | £501k |
| Profit per employee | — | £112k | £67.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲3.9% | ▼9.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼42.9% | ▼39.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | — | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.6m | £843k | £972k |
| Net assets | £5m | £6m | £6.6m |
| Fixed assets | £342k | £343k | £340k |
| Current assets | £5.6m | £6.6m | £8.1m |
| Debtors | £616k | £594k | £1.2m |
| Deferred income | £40.1k | £3k | £212k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 13.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 40.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £501k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £67.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 7.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 4.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 25.9%
- 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
- ▲10%
- Now £6.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▲15%
- Now £972k
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 9
- Deferred income
- ▲6957%
- Now £212k
- Fixed assets
- ▼1%
- Now £340k
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
- Nowvertical UK Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- Nowvertical UK Holdings Ltd75–100%
- Acrotrend Solutions Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Smartlytics Consultancy LimitedRev. £321k · Profit £173k
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 2024 (profit £608k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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