Profins Limited
Registered name: PROFINS LIMITED
Part of Calvex Limited groupProfins Limited made £10.1m revenue and a £206k loss in the year to 30 Sep 2025. read from filing text
Profins Limited’s revenue fell 12% to £10.1m in the year to 30 Sep 2025, with a loss of £206k and 33 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures” and is based in Edinburgh; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Edinburgh, Scotland
- Age
- 30 yrs · since 1996
- 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. From the filing: “The immediate and ultimate parent company of Profins Limited is Calvex Limited, a company incorporated in the United Kingdom, which owns all of the issued share capital of the company.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Sep 2024 | 30 Sep 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £11.5m | £10.1m |
| Cost of sales | £9.6m | £8.7m |
| Gross profit | £1.9m | £1.4m |
| Operating profit | £133k | −£237k |
| Profit before tax | £142k | −£239k |
| Profit after tax | £103k | −£206k |
| Profit (best available) | £103k | −£206k |
| Staff costs | £1.7m | £1.5m |
| Employees (average) | 36 | 33 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 0.9% | −2% |
| Gross margin | 16.6% | 13.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £320k | £307k |
| Profit per employee | £2.9k | −£6.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼12% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼298.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼8.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £1.3m | £859k |
| Net assets | £5m | £4.7m |
| Fixed assets | £954k | £1m |
| Current assets | £6.2m | £5.3m |
| Debtors | £1.5m | £970k |
| Deferred income | £252k | £175k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 13.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £307k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£6.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 10.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 9.6%
- 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
- ▼4%
- Now £4.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▼35%
- Now £859k
- Headcount
- ▼8%
- Now 33
- Deferred income
- ▼31%
- Now £175k
- Fixed assets
- ▲9%
- Now £1m
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
- Calvex Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Profins 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 −£206k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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