Skip to content
CompanySight
Company No. SC163262 · Incorporated 8 Feb 1996

Profins Limited

Registered name: PROFINS LIMITED

Part of Calvex Limited group

Profins 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.”

Latest accounts · year to 30 Sep 2025

Key figures

Revenue
£10.1m
Growth ▼12%
Profit
−£206k
Growth ▼298.7%
Profit margin
−2%
Gross 13.9%
Employees
33
Change ▼8.3%
Profit / employee
−£6.2k
Revenue/employee £307k
Profitable streak
0yrs
Consecutive profitable years in our data

Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.

2 filed years

Financial history

Multi-year financials, oldest to newest
Year to30 Sep 202430 Sep 2025
DisclosureFull P&Lread from filing textFull 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)3633
Ratios
Profit margin0.9%−2%
Gross margin16.6%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
SourceFullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026
Derived from the latest filing

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.
Indirect — not revenue

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.

Corporate ownership

Group structure

Ownership chain

  1. Calvex Limitedultimate parent75–100%
  2. 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).

Same industry, similar size

Similar profitable businesses

Industry benchmarks →

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.

Contains public sector information from Companies House licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Data from Companies House, © Crown copyright. View the licence.