Newsmith Stainless Limited
Registered name: NEWSMITH STAINLESS LIMITED
Part of Newsmith Stainless Holdings Limited groupNewsmith Stainless Limited made £13.1m revenue and £544k profit in the year to 30 Jun 2025.
Newsmith Stainless Limited’s revenue grew 1% to £13.1m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with £544k profit and 57 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other general-purpose machinery” and is based in Liversedge; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Liversedge, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 56 yrs · since 1969
- 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: “Newsmith Stainless Holdings Limited”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £13m | £13.1m |
| Cost of sales | £8.6m | £8.2m |
| Gross profit | £4.4m | £4.9m |
| Operating profit | £273k | £606k |
| Profit before tax | £424k | £768k |
| Profit after tax | £379k | £544k |
| Profit (best available) | £379k | £544k |
| Staff costs | £4m | £4.3m |
| Employees (average) | 56 | 57 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 2.9% | 4.2% |
| Gross margin | 33.9% | 37.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £232k | £230k |
| Profit per employee | £6.8k | £9.5k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲0.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲43.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲1.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £5m | £5.7m |
| Net assets | £8.7m | £9.3m |
| Fixed assets | £2.7m | £2.8m |
| Current assets | £11.6m | £11.1m |
| Debtors | £3.2m | £2.5m |
| Deferred income | £1.1m | £503k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 37.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £230k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £9.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 21.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 19%
- 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
- ▲6%
- Now £9.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▲12%
- Now £5.7m
- Headcount
- ▲2%
- Now 57
- Deferred income
- ▼56%
- Now £503k
- Fixed assets
- ▲3%
- Now £2.8m
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
- Newsmith Stainless Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Newsmith Stainless Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (2)
- Willow Valley Farms LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Willow Valley Golf & Country Club 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 30 Jun 2025 (profit £544k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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