Nextgear Capital UK Limited
Registered name: NEXTGEAR CAPITAL UK LIMITED
Nextgear Capital UK Limited made £33.3m revenue and £12.7m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Nextgear Capital UK Limited’s revenue grew 17% to £33.3m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £12.7m profit and 66 employees. The company is classified under “other information service activities” and is based in Chester; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Chester, North West
- Age
- 13 yrs · since 2013
- 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. From the filing: “The immediate parent company is Cox Automotive International, Inc a company incorporated in the United States of America. The registered office of Cox Automotive International, Inc is”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £27.6m | £28.4m | £33.3m |
| Cost of sales | £1.5m | £1.6m | £1.9m |
| Gross profit | £26.1m | £26.8m | £31.4m |
| Operating profit | £15.7m | £13.1m | £18.4m |
| Profit before tax | £9.5m | £7.2m | £12.3m |
| Profit after tax | £9m | £5.9m | £12.7m |
| Profit (best available) | £9m | £5.9m | £12.7m |
| Staff costs | £4.6m | £4.9m | £5.5m |
| Employees (average) | 62 | 66 | 66 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 32.5% | 20.8% | 38.1% |
| Gross margin | 94.6% | 94.3% | 94.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £445k | £431k | £504k |
| Profit per employee | £145k | £89.6k | £192k |
| Cash conversion | 13.6% | −134.4% | 198.9% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲3.2% | ▲17% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼34.1% | ▲114.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲6.5% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £8.1m | £11.2m | £17.1m |
| Net assets | £53.9m | £59.8m | £73.1m |
| Fixed assets | £229k | £264k | £221k |
| Current assets | £71.2m | £81.4m | £96.8m |
| Debtors | £28.2m | £33.7m | £37.2m |
| Deferred income | £384k | £777k | £1.3m |
| Cash from operations | £2.1m | −£17.6m | £36.6m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 38.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 94.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £504k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £192k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 198.9%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 111.8%
- 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
- ▲22%
- Now £73.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▲52%
- Now £17.1m
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 66
- Deferred income
- ▲73%
- Now £1.3m
- Fixed assets
- ▼16%
- Now £221k
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 Dec 2025 (profit £12.7m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 13 Oct 2026
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