Select Specs Limited
Registered name: SELECT SPECS LIMITED
Select Specs Limited made £230k profit in the year to 30 Nov 2024 (revenue not disclosed).
Select Specs Limited reported £230k profit in the year to 30 Nov 2024, down 53% on the year before; its revenue was not disclosed. It had 28 employees. The company is classified under “retail sale by opticians” and is based in Westgate-on-Sea; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Westgate-on-Sea, South East
- Age
- 18 yrs · since 2007
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
This company published its profit but not its turnover, so revenue and margins are not disclosed. We never estimate them.
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Nov 2022 | 30 Nov 2023 | 30 Nov 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Profit only | Profit only | Profit only |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | — |
| Profit after tax | −£101k | £492k | £230k |
| Profit (best available) | −£101k | £492k | £230k |
| Employees (average) | 28 | 27 | 28 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | — | — | — |
| Profit per employee | −£3.6k | £18.2k | £8.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Profit growth | — | — | ▼53.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼3.6% | ▲3.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1m | £1.3m | £1.5m |
| Net assets | £2.4m | £2.9m | £3.1m |
| Fixed assets | £1.1m | £987k | £926k |
| Current assets | £2m | £2.6m | £3m |
| Debtors | £68.6k | £52.7k | £105k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- —
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £8.2k
- 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
- ▲8%
- Now £3.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▲18%
- Now £1.5m
- Headcount
- ▲4%
- Now 28
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼6%
- Now £926k
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Nov 2024 (profit £230k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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