M4 Recruitment Limited
Registered name: M4 RECRUITMENT LIMITED
M4 Recruitment Limited made £22m revenue and £1m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2024. read from filing text
M4 Recruitment Limited’s revenue fell 15% to £22m in the year to 31 Mar 2024, with £1m profit and 49 employees. The company is classified under “temporary employment agency activities” and is based in Newbury; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Newbury, South East
- Age
- 10 yrs · since 2015
- 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 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £23.6m | £25.8m | £22m |
| Cost of sales | £19.3m | £20.8m | £17.4m |
| Gross profit | £4.3m | £4.9m | £4.6m |
| Operating profit | £2m | £1.9m | £1.5m |
| Profit before tax | £1.9m | £1.8m | £1.4m |
| Profit after tax | £1.5m | £1.5m | £1m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.5m | £1.5m | £1m |
| Staff costs | £1.5m | £1.9m | £2m |
| Employees (average) | 41 | 47 | 49 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 6.6% | 5.8% | 4.7% |
| Gross margin | 18.3% | 19.2% | 20.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £576k | £548k | £449k |
| Profit per employee | £37.7k | £31.6k | £21k |
| Cash conversion | −72.1% | −75.6% | −146.8% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲9.2% | ▼14.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼3.7% | ▼30.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲14.6% | ▲4.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £545k | £577k | £870k |
| Net assets | £1.6m | £1.7m | £1.7m |
| Fixed assets | £131k | £220k | £130k |
| Current assets | £4.4m | £4.7m | £4.5m |
| Debtors | £3.4m | £3.6m | £3m |
| Deferred income | £14.4k | £12.6k | £20.4k |
| Cash from operations | −£1.4m | −£1.5m | −£2.1m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 20.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £449k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £21k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −146.8%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 13.5%
- 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
- ▲2%
- Now £1.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▲51%
- Now £870k
- Headcount
- ▲4%
- Now 49
- Deferred income
- ▲62%
- Now £20.4k
- Fixed assets
- ▼41%
- Now £130k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2024 (profit £1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2024. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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