Stewart Signs Limited
Registered name: STEWART SIGNS LIMITED
Part of Stewart Signs Holdings Limited groupStewart Signs Limited made £11.6m revenue and £327k profit in the year to 31 Oct 2024.
Stewart Signs Limited’s revenue grew 13% to £11.6m in the year to 31 Oct 2024, with £327k profit and 78 employees. The company is classified under “printing” and is based in Eastleigh Hants; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Eastleigh Hants, South East
- Age
- 62 yrs · since 1963
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Oct 2022 | 31 Oct 2023 | 31 Oct 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £7.6m | £10.3m | £11.6m |
| Cost of sales | £5.3m | £7.5m | £8.9m |
| Gross profit | £2.2m | £2.7m | £2.7m |
| Operating profit | £735k | £1.2m | £760k |
| Profit before tax | £718k | £1.1m | £466k |
| Profit after tax | £595k | £971k | £327k |
| Profit (best available) | £595k | £971k | £327k |
| Staff costs | £2.6m | £3.1m | £3.4m |
| Employees (average) | 67 | 68 | 78 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 7.9% | 9.4% | 2.8% |
| Gross margin | 29.3% | 26.8% | 23.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £113k | £151k | £149k |
| Profit per employee | £8.9k | £14.3k | £4.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲35.8% | ▲13.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲63% | ▼66.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲1.5% | ▲14.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £676k | £883k | £699k |
| Net assets | £8.1m | £9m | £9.3m |
| Fixed assets | £218k | £943k | £891k |
| Current assets | £10.7m | £11.6m | £11.6m |
| Debtors | £1.4m | £2.2m | £1.9m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 23.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £149k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £4.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 7.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 16%
- 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
- ▲3%
- Now £9.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▼21%
- Now £699k
- Headcount
- ▲15%
- Now 78
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼6%
- Now £891k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Stewart Signs Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Stewart Signs Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (2)
- Pulse Signs & Graphics LtdFigures not disclosed
- Signbox Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Oct 2024 (profit £327k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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