Dextra Group PLC
Registered name: DEXTRA GROUP PLC
Dextra Group PLC made £68.6m revenue and £11.7m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Dextra Group PLC’s revenue fell 20% to £68.6m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £11.7m profit. The company is classified under “manufacture of electric lighting equipment” and is based in Dorset; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Dorset, South West
- Age
- 48 yrs · since 1978
- Type
- Public Limited Company
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 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £86.4m | £86m | £68.6m |
| Cost of sales | −£44.6m | −£44.3m | −£37.4m |
| Gross profit | £41.9m | £41.7m | £31.3m |
| Operating profit | £25m | £21.1m | £15.2m |
| Profit before tax | £25.3m | £21.4m | £15.7m |
| Profit after tax | £19.4m | £16.1m | £11.7m |
| Profit (best available) | £19.4m | £16.1m | £11.7m |
| Employees (average) | — | — | — |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 22.4% | 18.7% | 17% |
| Gross margin | 48.4% | 48.5% | 45.6% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼0.5% | ▼20.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼17.2% | ▼27.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 17%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 45.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
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- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
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- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
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- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
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- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
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- 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
- —
- Now —
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Subsidiaries (10)
- Dexeco LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Dexrail LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Dexreco LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Dexretail LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Dexsor LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Dextra Lighting LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Dextra Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Innovate to Illuminate LimitedActive - Proposal to Strike offFigures not disclosed
- Ledex LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ledextra LimitedFigures not disclosed
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 £11.7m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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