Ocu Group Ltd
Registered name: OCU GROUP LTD
Part of Oat Topco Limited groupOcu Group Ltd made £886m revenue and £28.5m profit in the year to 30 Apr 2025.
Ocu Group Ltd’s revenue grew 45% to £886m in the year to 30 Apr 2025, with £28.5m profit and 1,980 employees. The company is classified under “other business support service activities” and is based in Stockport; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Stockport, North West
- Age
- 11 yrs · since 2014
- 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 Apr 2023 | 30 Apr 2024 | 30 Apr 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £455m | £611m | £886m |
| Cost of sales | −£381m | −£519m | −£744m |
| Gross profit | £73.9m | £91.3m | £143m |
| Operating profit | £46.7m | £44.9m | £59.3m |
| Profit before tax | £46.2m | £43.8m | £58.4m |
| Profit after tax | £36.2m | £31.4m | £28.5m |
| Profit (best available) | £36.2m | £31.4m | £28.5m |
| Employees (average) | — | 1,113 | 1,980 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 8% | 5.1% | 3.2% |
| Gross margin | 16.3% | 14.9% | 16.1% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £549k | £448k |
| Profit per employee | — | £28.2k | £14.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲34.4% | ▲45.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼13.3% | ▼9.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | — | ▲77.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 16.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £448k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £14.4k
- 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
- —
- 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 —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▲78%
- Now 1,980
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Oat Topco Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Oat Holdco Limited75–100%
- Oat Bidco Limited75–100%
- Ocu Holdings Limited75–100%
- Ocu Group Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (15)
- R.J. McLeod (Contractors) LimitedRev. £303m · Profit £42.3m
- 3SB Investment Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ocu (Plant) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ocu (Property Estates) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ocu (South) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ocu (Trenchless) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ocu Australia Finance LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ocu Connect LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ocu Design LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ocu Digital LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ocu Energy Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ocu Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ocu Utility Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
- O’connor Utilities LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Purestream Industries LtdFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 30 Apr 2025 (profit £28.5m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026
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