Carpenter Investments Ltd
Registered name: CARPENTER INVESTMENTS LTD
Carpenter Investments Ltd made £15m revenue and £14.5m profit in the year to 31 Aug 2025. read from filing text
Carpenter Investments Ltd’s revenue grew 3% to £15m in the year to 31 Aug 2025, with £14.5m profit and 35 employees. The company is classified under “other letting and operating of own or leased real estate” and is based in Liverpool; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Liverpool, North West
- Age
- 14 yrs · since 2012
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Pass-through vehicle. This looks like a holding, staffing or umbrella company. Its revenue and profit may largely pass through to or from other entities, so the figures may not reflect a standalone operating business. It is excluded from our opportunity lists.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Aug 2022 | 31 Aug 2023 | 31 Aug 2024 | 31 Aug 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) | £14.3m | £13.9m | £14.6m | £15m |
| Cost of sales | £2.2m | £479k | £315k | £758k |
| Gross profit | £12.1m | £13.4m | £14.3m | £14.2m |
| Operating profit | £7.3m | £7.8m | £9.5m | £9.8m |
| Profit before tax | £8.6m | £18.4m | £7.6m | £19m |
| Profit after tax | £8.2m | £10m | £5.9m | £14.5m |
| Profit (best available) | £8.2m | £10m | £5.9m | £14.5m |
| Employees (average) | 36 | 32 | 34 | 35 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 57.6% | 71.6% | 40.7% | 96.8% |
| Gross margin | 84.6% | 96.6% | 97.8% | 94.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £396k | £435k | £429k | £428k |
| Profit per employee | £228k | £311k | £175k | £414k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼2.4% | ▲4.9% | ▲2.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲21.4% | ▼40.4% | ▲143.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼11.1% | ▲6.3% | ▲2.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.7m | £643k | £192k | £58.9k |
| Net assets | £29.7m | £31.9m | £33.2m | £35.5m |
| Fixed assets | £2.4k | £2k | £1.7k | £1.5k |
| Current assets | £35.8m | £40.3m | £39.7m | £42.3m |
| Debtors | £113k | £350 | £350 | £0 |
| Deferred income | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 96.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 94.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £428k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £414k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0%
- 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
- ▲7%
- Now £35.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▼69%
- Now £58.9k
- Headcount
- ▲3%
- Now 35
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £0
- Fixed assets
- ▼15%
- Now £1.5k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Subsidiaries (16)
- Carpenter Investments (Vine Street) LtdFigures not disclosed
- Carpenter Investments 1 Kings Dock LtdFigures not disclosed
- Carpenter Investments Brunswick Park 2 LtdFigures not disclosed
- Carpenter Investments Brunswick Park LtdFigures not disclosed
- Carpenter Investments Brunswick Quay LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Carpenter Investments Hawthorne LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Carpenter Investments Station Road LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Carpenter Investments Stockport LtdFigures not disclosed
- Carpenter Investments Vine Street B LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Carpenter Old Station Gardens LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Liverpool Edge (Copperas Hill) LtdFigures not disclosed
- Liverpool Edge (Hardman Street) LtdFigures not disclosed
- Liverpool Edge (Myrtle Street) LtdFigures not disclosed
- Liverpool Edge LtdFigures not disclosed
- Oregon & Ratcliffe LtdFigures not disclosed
- Simons Design 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 Aug 2025 (profit £14.5m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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