Armstrong Medical Ltd
Registered name: ARMSTRONG MEDICAL LTD
Part of Eakin Healthcare Group Ltd groupArmstrong Medical Ltd made £16.8m revenue and a £1.8m loss in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Armstrong Medical Ltd’s revenue grew 4% to £16.8m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with a loss of £1.8m and 196 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other plastic products” and is based in Coleraine; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Coleraine, Northern Ireland
- Age
- 35 yrs · since 1991
- 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 ultimate parent undertaking is Dunrogan Limited, a company incorporated in the Isle of”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £14.9m | £16.2m | £16.8m |
| Cost of sales | £9.4m | £10.2m | £8.9m |
| Gross profit | £5.4m | £6.1m | £7.9m |
| Operating profit | −£2m | −£2.1m | −£434k |
| Profit before tax | −£2m | −£2.3m | −£1m |
| Profit after tax | −£1.5m | −£3m | −£1.8m |
| Profit (best available) | −£1.5m | −£3m | −£1.8m |
| Staff costs | £6.7m | £7.1m | £7.8m |
| Employees (average) | 183 | 190 | 196 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | −10.2% | −18.2% | −10.8% |
| Gross margin | 36.6% | 37.4% | 46.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £81.3k | £85.4k | £85.9k |
| Profit per employee | −£8.3k | −£15.6k | −£9.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲9.1% | ▲3.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲3.8% | ▲3.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.2m | £1.4m | £567k |
| Net assets | £18.1m | £15.1m | £13.3m |
| Fixed assets | £10.7m | £15.2m | £18.6m |
| Current assets | £9.5m | £10.2m | £9.9m |
| Debtors | £2.5m | £3.3m | £3.3m |
| Deferred income | £485k | £739k | £812k |
| Cash from operations | £867k | −£5.6m | −£3.7m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −10.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 46.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £85.9k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£9.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 110.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 4.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 19.6%
- 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
- ▼12%
- Now £13.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▼59%
- Now £567k
- Headcount
- ▲3%
- Now 196
- Deferred income
- ▲10%
- Now £812k
- Fixed assets
- ▲23%
- Now £18.6m
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
- Eakin Healthcare Group Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- Armstrong Medical Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (4)
- Respond Healthcare LimitedRev. £50.4m · Profit £1.2m
- T.G. Eakin LimitedRev. £41.3m · Profit £14m
- Pelican Healthcare LimitedRev. £35.9m · Profit £5.4m
- Eakin R&D LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit −£1.8m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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