Ewart Engineering Limited
Registered name: EWART ENGINEERING LIMITED
Ewart Engineering Limited made £8.5m revenue and £347k profit in the year to 31 Aug 2025.
Ewart Engineering Limited’s revenue grew 9% to £8.5m in the year to 31 Aug 2025, with £347k profit and 79 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other fabricated metal products” and is based in Dumfriesshire; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Dumfriesshire, Scotland
- Age
- 55 yrs · since 1971
- 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 Aug 2023 | 31 Aug 2024 | 31 Aug 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £10m | £7.8m | £8.5m |
| Cost of sales | £7.4m | £6.1m | £6.5m |
| Gross profit | £2.6m | £1.8m | £2m |
| Operating profit | £377k | −£40.1k | £431k |
| Profit before tax | £400k | £7k | £449k |
| Profit after tax | £306k | £4.5k | £347k |
| Profit (best available) | £306k | £4.5k | £347k |
| Staff costs | £3.3m | £3.1m | £3.2m |
| Employees (average) | 84 | 80 | 79 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 3.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Gross margin | 25.8% | 22.6% | 23.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £118k | £97.9k | £108k |
| Profit per employee | £3.6k | £57 | £4.4k |
| Cash conversion | 42% | — | 61% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼21.3% | ▲9.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼98.5% | ▲7573% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼4.8% | ▼1.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £2.6m | £2.1m | £1.9m |
| Net assets | £5.3m | £5.3m | £5.6m |
| Fixed assets | £2.6m | £2.6m | £4.2m |
| Current assets | £4.5m | £3.8m | £4m |
| Debtors | £1.5m | £1m | £1.5m |
| Deferred income | £34.7k | £20.6k | £46.5k |
| Cash from operations | £158k | −£125k | £263k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 23.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £108k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £4.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 61%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 49.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 17.9%
- 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
- ▲7%
- Now £5.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▼11%
- Now £1.9m
- Headcount
- ▼1%
- Now 79
- Deferred income
- ▲126%
- Now £46.5k
- Fixed assets
- ▲65%
- Now £4.2m
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 Aug 2025 (profit £347k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Feb 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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