Western Sky Limited
Registered name: WESTERN SKY LIMITED
Part of Comcast Corporation groupWestern Sky Limited made £37.2m revenue and £3.9k profit in the year to 26 Feb 2025. read from filing text
Western Sky Limited’s revenue fell 78% to £37.2m in the year to 26 Feb 2025, with £3.9k profit and 8 employees. The company is classified under “motion picture production activities” and is based in London; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 7 yrs · since 2019
- 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: “The company's immediate parent undertaking is Universal Pictures Limited, a company”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 28 Feb 2023 | 26 Feb 2024 | 26 Feb 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £97m | £171m | £37.2m |
| Cost of sales | £124m | £216m | £49.2m |
| Gross profit | −£27m | −£44.5m | −£12m |
| Profit before tax | −£27m | −£40.5m | £3.9k |
| Profit after tax | £11.6k | £16.1k | £3.9k |
| Profit (best available) | £11.6k | £16.1k | £3.9k |
| Staff costs | £15.9m | £26.1m | £276k |
| Employees (average) | 284 | 445 | 8 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Gross margin | −27.8% | −26% | −32.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £341k | £385k | £4.6m |
| Profit per employee | £41 | £36 | £481 |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲76.5% | ▼78.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲39.4% | ▼76.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲56.7% | ▼98.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £16.8m | £1m | £315k |
| Net assets | £13k | £29.1k | £32.9k |
| Current assets | £72.7m | £66m | £80.9m |
| Debtors | £55.9m | £65m | £80.6m |
| Deferred income | £5.1m | £2.6m | £7.1m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- −32.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £4.6m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £481
- 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
- 19.2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 216.8%
- 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
- ▲13%
- Now £32.9k
- Cash at bank
- ▼69%
- Now £315k
- Headcount
- ▼98%
- Now 8
- Deferred income
- ▲171%
- Now £7.1m
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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
- Comcast Corporation (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Universal Pictures Group (UK) Limited75–100%
- Universal Pictures Limited75–100%
- Western Sky Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
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- Opaque Show LimitedRev. — · Profit £0
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From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 26 Feb 2025 (profit £3.9k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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