SFG Forwarding Limited
Registered name: SFG FORWARDING LIMITED
Part of SFG Property Holdings Limited groupSFG Forwarding Limited made £25.5m revenue and £733k profit in the year to 30 Sep 2025. read from filing text
SFG Forwarding Limited’s revenue was £25.5m in the year to 30 Sep 2025, with £733k profit and 40 employees. The company is classified under “freight transport by road” and is based in Belfast; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Age
- 14 yrs · since 2012
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 30 Sep 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | No P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | £10.8m | £25.5m |
| Cost of sales | — | — | £8m | £20.2m |
| Gross profit | — | — | £2.8m | £5.3m |
| Operating profit | — | — | £829k | £1m |
| Profit before tax | — | — | £763k | £842k |
| Profit after tax | — | — | £536k | £733k |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | £536k | £733k |
| Employees (average) | 26 | 31 | 32 | 40 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | — | 5% | 2.9% |
| Gross margin | — | — | 25.9% | 20.7% |
| Revenue per employee | — | — | £338k | £637k |
| Profit per employee | — | — | £16.8k | £18.3k |
| Cash conversion | — | — | −60.9% | −104.3% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Headcount growth | — | ▲19.2% | ▲3.2% | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £502k | £296k | £430k | £320k |
| Net assets | £1.1m | £1.9m | £3.4m | £3.5m |
| Fixed assets | £878k | £2.5m | £3.8m | £4.3m |
| Current assets | £4.1m | £2.3m | £2.9m | £4.4m |
| Debtors | £2.9m | £2m | £2.1m | £3.7m |
| Deferred income | — | — | £16.6k | £261k |
| Cash from operations | — | — | −£504k | −£1.1m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 20.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £637k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £18.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −104.3%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 16.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 14.6%
- 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
- —
- Now £3.5m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £320k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 40
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £261k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £4.3m
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
- SFG Property Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- SFG Forwarding Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Sep 2025 (profit £733k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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