Car Planet Trading Limited
Registered name: CAR PLANET TRADING LIMITED
Car Planet Trading Limited made £120m revenue and £4.8m profit in the year to 31 Jul 2025.
Car Planet Trading Limited’s revenue grew 184% to £120m in the year to 31 Jul 2025, with £4.8m profit and 186 employees. The company is classified under “sale of used cars and light motor vehicles” and is based in Rickmansworth; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Rickmansworth, East of England
- Age
- 4 yrs · since 2022
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Jul 2023 | 31 Jul 2024 | 31 Jul 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £19.2m | £42.1m | £120m |
| Cost of sales | £16.5m | £36.8m | £104m |
| Gross profit | £2.7m | £5.3m | £15.2m |
| Operating profit | £866k | £1.9m | £7.2m |
| Profit before tax | £694k | £1.6m | £6.4m |
| Profit after tax | £552k | £1.2m | £4.8m |
| Profit (best available) | £552k | £1.2m | £4.8m |
| Employees (average) | 42 | 85 | 186 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 2.9% | 2.8% | 4% |
| Gross margin | 14.3% | 12.6% | 12.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £457k | £496k | £643k |
| Profit per employee | £13.2k | £13.8k | £25.8k |
| Cash conversion | −221.6% | −126.4% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▲184.1% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▲310.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | — | ▲118.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £203k | £563k | — |
| Net assets | £590k | £1.6m | — |
| Fixed assets | £214k | £691k | — |
| Current assets | £3.7m | £9.2m | — |
| Debtors | £88k | £75.2k | — |
| Deferred income | £129k | £124k | — |
| Cash from operations | −£1.9m | −£2.4m | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 12.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £643k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £25.8k
- 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
- ▲119%
- Now 186
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Jul 2025 (profit £4.8m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 19 Oct 2026
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