Cabot Performance Materials UK Ltd.
Registered name: CABOT PERFORMANCE MATERIALS UK LTD.
Part of Cabot Corporation Inc. groupCabot Performance Materials UK Ltd. made £4m revenue and £213k profit in the year to 30 Sep 2024. read from filing text
Cabot Performance Materials UK Ltd.’s revenue grew 96576% to £4m in the year to 30 Sep 2024, with £213k profit and 19 employees. The company is classified under “other professional, scientific and technical activities” and is based in Penarth; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Penarth, Wales
- Age
- 15 yrs · since 2011
- 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 | 30 Sep 2022 | 30 Sep 2023 | 30 Sep 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £3.1k | £4.2k | £4m |
| Cost of sales | £2.1k | £2.2k | £2.1m |
| Gross profit | £1k | £1.9k | £1.9m |
| Operating profit | £124 | £322 | £175k |
| Profit before tax | £66 | £349 | £223k |
| Profit after tax | £64 | £348 | £213k |
| Profit (best available) | £64 | £348 | £213k |
| Employees (average) | — | 20 | 19 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 2.1% | 8.4% | 5.3% |
| Gross margin | 33.4% | 46.4% | 47.6% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £208 | £211k |
| Profit per employee | — | £17 | £11.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲33.4% | ▲96576% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲443.8% | ▲61107% |
| Headcount growth | — | — | ▼5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £7 | £0 | — |
| Net assets | £1.1k | £1.5k | £1.5m |
| Current assets | — | £2.6m | £1.7m |
| Debtors | — | £2.6m | £1.7m |
| Deferred income | £23 | £0 | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 47.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £211k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £11.2k
- 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
- 43.3%
- 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
- ▲103339%
- Now £1.5m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▼5%
- Now 19
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Cabot Corporation Inc. (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Cabot Performance Materials UK Ltd.this company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Sep 2024 (profit £213k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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