LSTC Holdings Ltd
Registered name: LSTC HOLDINGS LTD
Part of Phoenix UK 2020 Limited groupLSTC Holdings Ltd made £174k profit in the year to 30 Jun 2025 (revenue not disclosed).
LSTC Holdings Ltd reported £174k profit in the year to 30 Jun 2025, down 86% on the year before; its revenue was not disclosed. It had 155 employees. The company is classified under “activities of other holding companies” and is based in Burton-on-Trent; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Burton-on-Trent, East Midlands
- Age
- 4 yrs · since 2022
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Pass-through vehicle. This looks like a holding, staffing or umbrella company. Its revenue and profit may largely pass through to or from other entities, so the figures may not reflect a standalone operating business. It is excluded from our opportunity lists.
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
This company published its profit but not its turnover, so revenue and margins are not disclosed. We never estimate them.
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Profit only |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £10.9m | £16.5m | — |
| Cost of sales | £8.2m | £12.1m | — |
| Gross profit | £2.7m | £4.4m | — |
| Operating profit | £951k | £2.2m | — |
| Profit before tax | £521k | £1.8m | — |
| Profit after tax | £272k | £1.2m | £174k |
| Profit (best available) | £272k | £1.2m | £174k |
| Employees (average) | 82 | 124 | 155 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 2.5% | 7.4% | — |
| Gross margin | 25% | 26.8% | — |
| Revenue per employee | £133k | £133k | — |
| Profit per employee | £3.3k | £9.9k | £1.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Profit growth | — | — | ▼85.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | — | ▲25% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.6k | £76.5k | £222 |
| Net assets | £575k | £687k | £646k |
| Fixed assets | £13.5m | £13.5m | £13.5m |
| Current assets | £51.6k | £127k | £222 |
| Debtors | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Deferred income | £0 | £0 | £10.4k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- —
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £1.1k
- 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
- ▼6%
- Now £646k
- Cash at bank
- ▼100%
- Now £222
- Headcount
- ▲25%
- Now 155
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £10.4k
- Fixed assets
- 0%
- Now £13.5m
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
- Phoenix UK 2020 Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Socotec UK Holding Limited75–100%
- Environmental Scientifics Group Holdings Limited75–100%
- Inspicio Environmental Services Group Limited75–100%
- Socotec UK Limited75–100%
- LSTC Holdings Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- LSTC Group LtdRev. £18m · Profit £2.4m
Sister companies (11)
- Socotec Advisory LimitedRev. £12.7m · Profit £2m
- Aspect Surveys LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Datum Monitoring Ireland LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ietg Holdings LimitedRev. — · Profit −£23.9k
- Impulse Geophysics LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Lloyd Acoustics LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Lloyds Datum Group LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Lloyds Datum LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Scientifics LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Socotec Forensic Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
- United Kingdom Testing & Certification LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Jun 2025 (profit £174k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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