Magicard Ltd
Registered name: MAGICARD LTD
Part of Brady Corporation groupMagicard Ltd made £19.8m revenue and £1.6m profit in the year to 31 Jul 2025.
Magicard Ltd’s revenue fell 3% to £19.8m in the year to 31 Jul 2025, with £1.6m profit and 68 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of computers and peripheral equipment” and is based in Weymouth; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Weymouth, South West
- Age
- 10 yrs · since 2016
- 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 | 31 Jul 2023 | 31 Jul 2024 | 31 Jul 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £29.9m | £20.4m | £19.8m |
| Cost of sales | £16.5m | £12.1m | £13m |
| Gross profit | £13.4m | £8.3m | £6.8m |
| Operating profit | £3.6m | £2.4m | £1.1m |
| Profit before tax | £3.6m | £2.7m | £1.4m |
| Profit after tax | £3.1m | £3.2m | £1.6m |
| Profit (best available) | £3.1m | £3.2m | £1.6m |
| Staff costs | £3.4m | £3.2m | £3.3m |
| Employees (average) | 82 | 91 | 68 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 10.2% | 15.8% | 7.9% |
| Gross margin | 44.7% | 40.8% | 34.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £365k | £224k | £291k |
| Profit per employee | £37.3k | £35.4k | £23.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼31.7% | ▼3.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲5.5% | ▼51.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲11% | ▼25.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | £22.7m | £25.9m | £27.5m |
| Fixed assets | £11.1m | £9.2m | £7.4m |
| Current assets | £20.6m | £20.5m | £23.9m |
| Debtors | £1.8m | £1.9m | £1.5m |
| Deferred income | £792k | £642k | £540k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 7.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 34.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £291k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £23.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 37.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 7.5%
- 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
- ▲6%
- Now £27.5m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▼25%
- Now 68
- Deferred income
- ▼16%
- Now £540k
- Fixed assets
- ▼20%
- Now £7.4m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Brady Corporation (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Magicard Ltdthis 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 31 Jul 2025 (profit £1.6m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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