Valen Fittings Limited
Registered name: VALEN FITTINGS LIMITED
Part of Audie Homer Holdings Limited groupValen Fittings Limited made £9.1m revenue and £762k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024.
Valen Fittings Limited’s revenue grew 2% to £9.1m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £762k profit and 76 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other fabricated metal products” and is based in Aldridge; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Aldridge, West Midlands
- Age
- 49 yrs · since 1976
- 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 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £8.9m | £9.1m |
| Cost of sales | £7.2m | £7m |
| Gross profit | £1.6m | £2.1m |
| Operating profit | £558k | £807k |
| Profit before tax | £713k | £998k |
| Profit after tax | £650k | £762k |
| Profit (best available) | £650k | £762k |
| Staff costs | £3.1m | £4m |
| Employees (average) | 71 | 76 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 7.3% | 8.4% |
| Gross margin | 18.4% | 23.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £125k | £119k |
| Profit per employee | £9.2k | £10k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲2.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲17.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £3m | £83.6k |
| Net assets | £6.7m | £7.5m |
| Fixed assets | £476k | £556k |
| Current assets | £7m | £8.1m |
| Debtors | £1.3m | £1.2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 8.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 23.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £119k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £10k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 6.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 13.4%
- 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
- ▲11%
- Now £7.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▼97%
- Now £83.6k
- Headcount
- ▲7%
- Now 76
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▲17%
- Now £556k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Audie Homer Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Valen Fittings Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Anvil Alloys 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 Dec 2024 (profit £762k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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