Highfield Environmental Limited
Registered name: HIGHFIELD ENVIRONMENTAL LIMITED
Part of Enovert Management Limited groupHighfield Environmental Limited made £21.3m revenue and £184k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2022.
Highfield Environmental Limited’s revenue grew 18% to £21.3m in the year to 31 Dec 2022, with £184k profit and 22 employees. The company is classified under “treatment and disposal of non-hazardous waste” and is based in Stafford; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Stafford, West 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: “Highfield Environmental Holdco Limited”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2021 | 31 Dec 2022 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £18m | £21.3m |
| Cost of sales | £11.6m | £13.5m |
| Gross profit | £6.4m | £7.8m |
| Operating profit | £1.9m | £2.9m |
| Profit before tax | £543k | £775k |
| Profit after tax | £513k | £184k |
| Profit (best available) | £513k | £184k |
| Staff costs | £1.3m | £1.4m |
| Employees (average) | 20 | 22 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 2.9% | 0.9% |
| Gross margin | 35.4% | 36.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £901k | £967k |
| Profit per employee | £25.6k | £8.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲18.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼64.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲10% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £7.1m | £6.9m |
| Net assets | −£3.1m | −£2.3m |
| Fixed assets | £21.4m | £20m |
| Current assets | £9.9m | £9.4m |
| Debtors | £1.2m | £952k |
| Deferred income | £127k | £456k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Nov 2023 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 36.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £967k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £8.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 93.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 4.5%
- 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
- —
- Now −£2.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▼2%
- Now £6.9m
- Headcount
- ▲10%
- Now 22
- Deferred income
- ▲258%
- Now £456k
- Fixed assets
- ▼7%
- Now £20m
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
- Enovert Management Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Highfield Environmental Holdco Limited75–100%
- Highfield Environmental Limitedthis 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 accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2022 (profit £184k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2023. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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