CMT Equipment Limited
Registered name: CMT EQUIPMENT LIMITED
CMT Equipment Limited made £75.4m revenue and £9.1m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
CMT Equipment Limited’s revenue grew 70% to £75.4m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £9.1m profit and 129 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of machine tools” and is based in Dartford; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Dartford, South East
- Age
- 16 yrs · since 2010
- 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 | 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) | £40.2m | £57.5m | £44.4m | £75.4m |
| Cost of sales | £30.1m | £40m | £30.9m | £48.7m |
| Gross profit | £10.1m | £17.5m | £13.6m | £26.7m |
| Operating profit | £2.4m | £7.8m | £3.8m | £12.2m |
| Profit before tax | £2.3m | £7.2m | £3.9m | £12.2m |
| Profit after tax | £2.3m | £6m | £3m | £9.1m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.3m | £6m | £3m | £9.1m |
| Staff costs | £6m | £6.1m | £6.6m | £9m |
| Employees (average) | 147 | 114 | 111 | 129 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 5.7% | 10.4% | 6.6% | 12% |
| Gross margin | 25% | 30.5% | 30.6% | 35.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £273k | £504k | £400k | £585k |
| Profit per employee | £15.5k | £52.5k | £26.6k | £70.3k |
| Cash conversion | 86% | 6.1% | −174.8% | −103.9% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲43% | ▼22.7% | ▲69.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲163% | ▼50.7% | ▲207.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼22.4% | ▼2.6% | ▲16.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £741k | £2.5m | £632k | £10.7m |
| Net assets | £10.8m | £16.4m | £18.6m | £27.2m |
| Fixed assets | £964k | £1.9m | £2.5m | £2.8m |
| Current assets | £17.1m | £30.5m | £26.9m | £40.7m |
| Debtors | £7m | £18.4m | £9.8m | £10.8m |
| Deferred income | £422k | £2.4m | £671k | £3.5m |
| Cash from operations | £2m | £472k | −£6.7m | −£12.7m |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 12%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 35.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £585k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £70.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −103.9%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 3.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 4.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 14.4%
- 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
- ▲47%
- Now £27.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▲1587%
- Now £10.7m
- Headcount
- ▲16%
- Now 129
- Deferred income
- ▲418%
- Now £3.5m
- Fixed assets
- ▲12%
- Now £2.8m
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 31 Mar 2025 (profit £9.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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