Fourds Limited
Registered name: FOURDS LIMITED
Fourds Limited made £12.6m revenue and £659k profit in the year to 30 Apr 2025.
Fourds Limited’s revenue grew 3% to £12.6m in the year to 30 Apr 2025, with £659k profit and 117 employees. The company is classified under “other manufacturing” and is based in Magherafelt; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Magherafelt, Northern Ireland
- Age
- 21 yrs · since 2005
- 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 | 30 Apr 2023 | 30 Apr 2024 | 30 Apr 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £14.3m | £12.3m | £12.6m |
| Cost of sales | −£10.4m | −£8.3m | −£9m |
| Gross profit | £3.9m | £3.9m | £3.7m |
| Operating profit | £226k | £823k | £306k |
| Profit before tax | £235k | £1.5m | £350k |
| Profit after tax | £533k | £996k | £659k |
| Profit (best available) | £533k | £996k | £659k |
| Employees (average) | 121 | 115 | 117 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 3.7% | 8.1% | 5.2% |
| Gross margin | 27.1% | 32.1% | 29% |
| Revenue per employee | £118k | £107k | £108k |
| Profit per employee | £4.4k | £8.7k | £5.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼14.4% | ▲2.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲86.9% | ▼33.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼5% | ▲1.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Feb 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Feb 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 29%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £108k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £5.6k
- 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
- ▲2%
- Now 117
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 30 Apr 2025 (profit £659k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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