Alcedo Orange Limited
Registered name: ALCEDO ORANGE LIMITED
Alcedo Orange Limited made £21.7m revenue and £817k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Alcedo Orange Limited’s revenue fell 2% to £21.7m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £817k profit and 621 employees. The company is classified under “other human health activities” and is based in Southport; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Southport, North West
- Age
- 9 yrs · since 2017
- 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: “T”
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 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £16.9m | £22m | £21.7m |
| Cost of sales | — | £10m | £12.6m | £12.3m |
| Gross profit | — | £6.9m | £9.4m | £9.4m |
| Operating profit | — | £1.7m | £2.1m | £1.3m |
| Profit before tax | — | £1.6m | £1.9m | £1.1m |
| Profit after tax | — | £1.3m | £1.6m | £817k |
| Profit (best available) | — | £1.3m | £1.6m | £817k |
| Staff costs | — | £12.9m | £16.8m | £17.1m |
| Employees (average) | 596 | 586 | 503 | 621 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | 7.5% | 7.2% | 3.8% |
| Gross margin | — | 40.6% | 42.6% | 43.3% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £28.8k | £43.8k | £34.9k |
| Profit per employee | — | £2.2k | £3.2k | £1.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▲30.6% | ▼1.6% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▲25.1% | ▼48.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼1.7% | ▼14.2% | ▲23.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £748k | £841k | £159k | £448k |
| Net assets | £67.9k | £269k | £616k | £963k |
| Fixed assets | £701k | £694k | £480k | £535k |
| Current assets | £2.2m | £3.4m | £4.2m | £3.1m |
| Debtors | £940k | £1.5m | £1.6m | £1.4m |
| Deferred income | — | £548k | £628k | £839k |
| Source | FilletedAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FilletedAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 43.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £34.9k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £1.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 2.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 6.4%
- 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
- ▲56%
- Now £963k
- Cash at bank
- ▲181%
- Now £448k
- Headcount
- ▲23%
- Now 621
- Deferred income
- ▲34%
- Now £839k
- Fixed assets
- ▲12%
- Now £535k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £817k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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