Lamont Stone Limited
Registered name: LAMONT STONE LIMITED
Lamont Stone Limited made £10.7m revenue and £3.1m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024. read from filing text
Lamont Stone Limited’s revenue fell 9% to £10.7m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £3.1m profit and 73 employees. The company is classified under “other retail sale of new goods in specialised stores (not commercial art galleries and opticians)” and is based in Coleraine; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Coleraine, Northern Ireland
- Age
- 29 yrs · since 1996
- 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: “Millar Lamont is the ultimate controlling party.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £11.7m | £10.7m |
| Cost of sales | £5.2m | £4.9m |
| Gross profit | £6.5m | £5.8m |
| Operating profit | £4.7m | £4.1m |
| Profit before tax | £4.8m | £4.2m |
| Profit after tax | £3.5m | £3.1m |
| Profit (best available) | £3.5m | £3.1m |
| Staff costs | £2.5m | £2.6m |
| Employees (average) | 75 | 73 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 29.8% | 29.4% |
| Gross margin | 55.3% | 53.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £156k | £146k |
| Profit per employee | £46.5k | £43k |
| Cash conversion | −159.4% | −63.1% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼8.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼10% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼2.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £3.7m | £2.6m |
| Net assets | £27.7m | £30.9m |
| Fixed assets | £17.1m | £19.3m |
| Current assets | £13.1m | £13.2m |
| Debtors | £721k | £1.1m |
| Deferred income | £29.6k | £40.1k |
| Cash from operations | −£7.5m | −£2.6m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 29.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 53.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £146k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £43k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −63.1%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 180.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 10.2%
- 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
- ▲11%
- Now £30.9m
- Cash at bank
- ▼30%
- Now £2.6m
- Headcount
- ▼3%
- Now 73
- Deferred income
- ▲35%
- Now £40.1k
- Fixed assets
- ▲13%
- Now £19.3m
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 Dec 2024 (profit £3.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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