Grayton Limited
Registered name: GRAYTON LIMITED
Part of Grayton Engineering Group Limited groupGrayton Limited made £10.4m revenue and a £697k loss in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Grayton Limited’s revenue fell 46% to £10.4m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with a loss of £697k and 110 employees. The company is classified under “other engineering activities” and is based in Barton Upon Humber; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Barton Upon Humber, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 9 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 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £17.4m | £19.1m | £10.4m |
| Cost of sales | £12.7m | £14.6m | −£8.8m |
| Gross profit | £4.8m | £4.5m | £1.6m |
| Operating profit | £2.8m | £2.2m | −£912k |
| Profit before tax | £3m | £2.3m | −£849k |
| Profit after tax | £2.4m | £1.7m | −£697k |
| Profit (best available) | £2.4m | £1.7m | −£697k |
| Staff costs | £7.2m | £8.3m | — |
| Employees (average) | 124 | 129 | 110 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 13.5% | 9% | −6.7% |
| Gross margin | 27.4% | 23.7% | 15.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £141k | £148k | £94.5k |
| Profit per employee | £19k | £13.4k | −£6.3k |
| Cash conversion | 109.6% | 126.4% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲9.5% | ▼45.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼26.9% | ▼140.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲4% | ▼14.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £3.7m | £2.4m | — |
| Net assets | £4.2m | £3.2m | — |
| Fixed assets | £908k | £985k | — |
| Current assets | £7.6m | £5.7m | — |
| Debtors | £3.6m | £1.9m | — |
| Cash from operations | £3m | £2.8m | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −6.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 15.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £94.5k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£6.3k
- 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
- ▼15%
- Now 110
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Grayton Engineering Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Grayton Holdings Ltd75–100%
- Grayton Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Richard James Engineering LimitedFigures 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 31 Dec 2025 (profit −£697k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026
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