SDC Clinics Limited
Registered name: SDC CLINICS LIMITED
Part of SDC Group Limited groupSDC Clinics Limited made £18.5m revenue and £2.2m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024. read from filing text
SDC Clinics Limited’s revenue was £18.5m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £2.2m profit and 152 employees. The company is classified under “dental practice activities” and is based in Glasgow; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Glasgow, Scotland
- Age
- 5 yrs · since 2021
- 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 company is a wholly owned subsidiary of SDC Group Limited”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Jul 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £0 | £14.4m | £18.5m |
| Cost of sales | £0 | £8.6m | £10.8m |
| Gross profit | £0 | £5.8m | £7.8m |
| Operating profit | £0 | £794k | £1.3m |
| Profit before tax | −£775k | £794k | £2.2m |
| Profit after tax | −£775k | £856k | £2.2m |
| Profit (best available) | −£775k | £856k | £2.2m |
| Staff costs | £0 | £2.6m | £3.6m |
| Employees (average) | 0 | 88 | 152 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | — | 5.9% | 12% |
| Gross margin | — | 40.3% | 41.9% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £164k | £122k |
| Profit per employee | — | £9.7k | £14.7k |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £542k | £1.5m | £361k |
| Net assets | −£775k | £226k | £2.5m |
| Fixed assets | £2.2m | £15.9m | £15m |
| Current assets | £1.1m | £3.2m | £2.5m |
| Debtors | £229k | £567k | £1.2m |
| Deferred income | £403k | £757k | £999k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 12%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 41.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £122k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £14.7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 81.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 5.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 6.6%
- 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
- —
- Now £2.5m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £361k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 152
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £999k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £15m
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
- SDC Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- SDC Clinics 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 31 Dec 2024 (profit £2.2m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026
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