Metis Homes Limited
Registered name: METIS HOMES LIMITED
Part of Ro Trading Limited groupMetis Homes Limited made £34.2m revenue and £264k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Metis Homes Limited’s revenue grew 65% to £34.2m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £264k profit and 32 employees. The company is classified under “development of building projects” and is based in Potters Bar; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Potters Bar, East of England
- 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 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £13m | £10.5m | £20.7m | £34.2m |
| Cost of sales | £11.5m | £9.1m | £16.7m | £29.5m |
| Gross profit | £1.5m | £1.4m | £4m | £4.7m |
| Operating profit | −£165k | −£626k | £1.7m | £2m |
| Profit before tax | −£527k | −£1.8m | −£244k | £368k |
| Profit after tax | −£347k | −£1.7m | £62.5k | £264k |
| Profit (best available) | −£347k | −£1.7m | £62.5k | £264k |
| Staff costs | £1.2m | £1.6m | £1.8m | £2.1m |
| Employees (average) | 15 | 25 | 28 | 32 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | −2.7% | −15.8% | 0.3% | 0.8% |
| Gross margin | 11.5% | 13.2% | 19.3% | 13.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £865k | £421k | £741k | £1.1m |
| Profit per employee | −£23.1k | −£66.4k | £2.2k | £8.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼18.8% | ▲97% | ▲64.8% |
| Profit growth | — | — | — | ▲322.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲66.7% | ▲12% | ▲14.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £3.1k | £3.1k | £3.1k | £3.4k |
| Net assets | £54.9k | −£1.6m | £2.5m | £2.7m |
| Fixed assets | £122k | £46k | £35.1k | £41k |
| Current assets | £8.2m | £13.3m | £18.6m | £18.3m |
| Debtors | £236k | £3.6k | £20.9k | £331k |
| Deferred income | £156k | £111k | £687k | £517k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 13.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £1.1m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £8.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 1%
- 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
- ▲11%
- Now £2.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▲8%
- Now £3.4k
- Headcount
- ▲14%
- Now 32
- Deferred income
- ▼25%
- Now £517k
- Fixed assets
- ▲17%
- Now £41k
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
- Ro Trading Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Metis Homes Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (7)
- Easebourne Street (Easebourne) Management Company LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Farriers Court (Easebourne) Management Company LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Forest Edge (Fordingbridge) Management Company LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Maritime Park Management Company LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Metis Build LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Metis Homes (Millers Brook) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- The Fourteen Management Company LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (25)
- Finance and Industrial Trust Limited(The)Figures not disclosed
- Land & Property Navigation Yard LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Luton Investco (2) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Marine and Overseas Services (1939) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- R O Ventures LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ro 101 LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ro 102 LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ro 103 LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ro 104 LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ro Beachampton LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ro Bowhays LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ro Chichester LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ro Cornwall LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ro Developments LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ro Frome LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ro Properties LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ro Property Management LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ro Regional Properties LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ro Ryeford LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ro Solstice LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ro ST Bernards LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ro ST Leonards LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Row 789 LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Rowlandson Properties LimitedFigures not disclosed
- S. Graham Rowlandson & Co. 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 Mar 2025 (profit £264k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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