Tracel Limited
Registered name: TRACEL LIMITED
Tracel Limited made £9.4m revenue and £127k profit in the year to 30 Apr 2025. read from filing text
Tracel Limited’s revenue was £9.4m in the year to 30 Apr 2025, with £127k profit and 82 employees. The company is classified under “engineering design activities for industrial process and production” and is based in Sandy; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Sandy, East of England
- Age
- 17 yrs · since 2009
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 28 Feb 2022 | 28 Feb 2023 | 29 Feb 2024 | 30 Apr 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) | £6.6m | £9.5m | £11.1m | £9.4m |
| Cost of sales | £4.5m | £6.8m | £8.3m | £6m |
| Gross profit | £2.2m | £2.7m | £2.8m | £3.3m |
| Operating profit | £174k | £614k | £362k | £330k |
| Profit before tax | £86.1k | £435k | £103k | £127k |
| Profit after tax | £25.1k | £436k | £88.5k | £127k |
| Profit (best available) | £25.1k | £436k | £88.5k | £127k |
| Staff costs | £3m | £3.3m | £3.9m | £4.5m |
| Employees (average) | 81 | 84 | 91 | 82 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 0.4% | 4.6% | 0.8% | 1.4% |
| Gross margin | 32.5% | 28.5% | 25.2% | 35.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £81.9k | £113k | £121k | £114k |
| Profit per employee | £310 | £5.2k | £973 | £1.6k |
| Cash conversion | −125.8% | — | −133% | −167.7% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲43.4% | ▲16.2% | — |
| Profit growth | — | ▲1639% | ▼79.7% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲3.7% | ▲8.3% | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £88.1k | £97.7k | £180k | £191k |
| Net assets | £2.7m | £3.2m | £3.2m | £3.4m |
| Fixed assets | £1m | £954k | £1.1m | £1.5m |
| Current assets | £4.7m | £5.6m | £4.8m | £4.3m |
| Debtors | £1.8m | £2.1m | £2.1m | £1.4m |
| Deferred income | £293k | £63.2k | £71.2k | £106k |
| Cash from operations | −£219k | — | −£482k | −£553k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 35.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £114k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £1.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −167.7%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 16.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 14.7%
- 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
- —
- Now £3.4m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £191k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 82
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £106k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £1.5m
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 30 Apr 2025 (profit £127k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 16 Oct 2026
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