Absolute Return Partners LLP
Registered name: ABSOLUTE RETURN PARTNERS LLP
Absolute Return Partners LLP made £702k revenue and £141k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2024.
Absolute Return Partners LLP’s revenue fell 30% to £702k in the year to 31 Mar 2024, with £141k profit and 3 employees. The company is based in London; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 23 yrs · since 2002
- Type
- Limited Liability Partnership
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Apr 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £1m | £1m | £702k |
| Cost of sales | £209k | £289k | £180k |
| Gross profit | £815k | £720k | £522k |
| Operating profit | £155k | £324k | £122k |
| Profit after tax | £163k | £333k | £141k |
| Profit (best available) | £163k | £333k | £141k |
| Staff costs | £413k | £291k | £190k |
| Employees (average) | 6 | 4 | 3 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 16% | 33% | 20.1% |
| Gross margin | 79.6% | 71.4% | 74.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £171k | £252k | £234k |
| Profit per employee | £27.2k | £83.3k | £47k |
| Cash conversion | −95.4% | −72.1% | −170.3% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼1.4% | ▼30.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲103.9% | ▼57.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼33.3% | ▼25% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £13.1k | £45.8k | £69k |
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Fixed assets | £75.4k | £43.4k | £1.1k |
| Current assets | £1.8m | £1.8m | £1.6m |
| Debtors | £178k | £211k | £123k |
| Deferred income | £63.2k | £65.3k | £54.3k |
| Cash from operations | −£148k | −£234k | −£208k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 20.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 74.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £234k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £47k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −170.3%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 7.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 17.5%
- 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
- ▲51%
- Now £69k
- Headcount
- ▼25%
- Now 3
- Deferred income
- ▼17%
- Now £54.3k
- Fixed assets
- ▼97%
- Now £1.1k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2024 (profit £141k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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