PPL PRS Limited
Registered name: PPL PRS LIMITED
PPL PRS Limited made £26m revenue and £765k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
PPL PRS Limited’s revenue grew 5% to £26m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £765k profit and 259 employees. The company is classified under “other business support service activities” and is based in Leicester; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Leicester, East Midlands
- 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. From the filing: “Phonographic Performance Limited and PRS for Music Limited each hold 50,000 (2024 - 50,000) ordinary shares equal to a 50% (2024 - 50%) equity investment in PPL PRS Limited. Therefore, there is no ult”
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) | £23.9m | £24.7m | £26m |
| Operating profit | £1.1m | £1.2m | £1.2m |
| Profit before tax | £667k | £772k | £1m |
| Profit after tax | £420k | £574k | £765k |
| Profit (best available) | £420k | £574k | £765k |
| Staff costs | £10.1m | £11.5m | £12.4m |
| Employees (average) | 252 | 252 | 259 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 1.8% | 2.3% | 2.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £94.9k | £97.9k | £100k |
| Profit per employee | £1.7k | £2.3k | £3k |
| Cash conversion | −248.4% | −247.8% | −1180% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲3.1% | ▲5.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲36.7% | ▲33.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▲2.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £3.4m | £4m | £16m |
| Net assets | £285k | £859k | £1.6m |
| Fixed assets | £1.4m | £1.2m | £1.2m |
| Current assets | £97.8m | £107m | £129m |
| Debtors | £90m | £98.7m | £107m |
| Deferred income | £1.5m | £1.5m | £1.7m |
| Cash from operations | −£2.7m | −£2.9m | −£14.3m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £100k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −1180%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 4.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 6.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 410.4%
- 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
- ▲89%
- Now £1.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▲304%
- Now £16m
- Headcount
- ▲3%
- Now 259
- Deferred income
- ▲12%
- Now £1.7m
- Fixed assets
- ▼4%
- Now £1.2m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Minority corporate shareholders
- Phonographic Performance Limited 25–50%
- PRS for Music Limited 25–50%
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £765k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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