Investacast Limited
Registered name: INVESTACAST LIMITED
Part of Expromet Technologies Group Limited groupInvestacast Limited made £12.3m revenue and £681k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Investacast Limited’s revenue fell 1% to £12.3m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £681k profit and 73 employees. The company is classified under “casting of steel” and is based in Ilfracombe; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Ilfracombe, South West
- Age
- 50 yrs · since 1975
- 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 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Profit & loss | Profit & loss | Profit & loss | Profit & loss |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £13.9m | £10m | £12.4m | £12.3m |
| Cost of sales | £9.1m | £6.7m | −£8.2m | −£8.5m |
| Gross profit | £4.8m | £3.2m | £4.3m | £3.8m |
| Operating profit | £2.3m | £867k | £1.6m | £768k |
| Profit before tax | £2.3m | £747k | £1.4m | £580k |
| Profit after tax | £2.2m | £619k | £1.3m | £681k |
| Profit (best available) | £2.2m | £619k | £1.3m | £681k |
| Staff costs | £2.2m | £2m | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 70 | 65 | 66 | 73 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 15.9% | 6.2% | 10.8% | 5.5% |
| Gross margin | 34.6% | 32.4% | 34.4% | 31.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £199k | £153k | £188k | £169k |
| Profit per employee | £31.6k | £9.5k | £20.4k | £9.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼28.5% | ▲24.8% | ▼0.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼72% | ▲117.6% | ▼49.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼7.1% | ▲1.5% | ▲10.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £408k | £48.6k | — | — |
| Net assets | £10.1m | £10.7m | — | — |
| Fixed assets | £1.9m | £1.8m | — | — |
| Current assets | £12.8m | £12.3m | — | — |
| Debtors | £1.4m | £669k | — | — |
| Deferred income | £241k | £207k | — | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 31.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £169k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £9.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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 —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▲11%
- Now 73
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Expromet Technologies Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Investacast Ilfracombe Ltd.75–100%
- Investacast 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 accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £681k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 24 Oct 2026