Specfab Limited
Registered name: SPECFAB LIMITED
Specfab Limited made £5.1m revenue and a £837k loss in the year to 31 Jan 2025.
Specfab Limited’s revenue fell 59% to £5.1m in the year to 31 Jan 2025, with a loss of £837k and 55 employees. The company is classified under “other manufacturing” and is based in Dungannon; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Dungannon, Northern Ireland
- Age
- 5 yrs · since 2021
- 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 Jan 2023 | 31 Jan 2024 | 31 Jan 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £10.7m | £12.5m | £5.1m |
| Cost of sales | £9.5m | £10.3m | £5.3m |
| Gross profit | £1.3m | £2.3m | −£278k |
| Operating profit | £781k | £1.2m | −£876k |
| Profit before tax | £773k | £1.2m | −£884k |
| Profit after tax | £440k | £920k | −£837k |
| Profit (best available) | £440k | £920k | −£837k |
| Staff costs | £2.7m | £2.9m | £2.1m |
| Employees (average) | 61 | 77 | 55 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 4.1% | 7.4% | −16.5% |
| Gross margin | 11.7% | 18% | −5.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £176k | £162k | £92.2k |
| Profit per employee | £7.2k | £12k | −£15.2k |
| Cash conversion | 121.4% | 36.4% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲16.6% | ▼59.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲109.4% | ▼191% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲26.2% | ▼28.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £794k | £1m | £974k |
| Net assets | £440k | £1.4m | £523k |
| Fixed assets | £655k | £558k | £378k |
| Current assets | £4m | £4.3m | £2.3m |
| Debtors | £2.1m | £2m | £478k |
| Deferred income | £66.7k | £83.4k | £53.7k |
| Cash from operations | £948k | £444k | £73.4k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −16.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- −5.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £92.2k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£15.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 7.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 9.4%
- 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
- ▼62%
- Now £523k
- Cash at bank
- ▼5%
- Now £974k
- Headcount
- ▼29%
- Now 55
- Deferred income
- ▼36%
- Now £53.7k
- Fixed assets
- ▼32%
- Now £378k
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 Jan 2025 (profit −£837k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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