Albion Stone PLC
Registered name: ALBION STONE PLC
Albion Stone PLC made £8m revenue and £701k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Albion Stone PLC’s revenue grew 4% to £8m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £701k profit and 77 employees. The company is classified under “quarrying of ornamental and building stone, limestone, gypsum, chalk and slate” and is based in Nutfield; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Nutfield, South East
- Age
- 42 yrs · since 1983
- Type
- Public 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: “The controlling party is M.J. Poultney.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £6.1m | £7.7m | £8m |
| Cost of sales | £4.2m | £4.8m | £4.5m |
| Gross profit | £1.9m | £2.9m | £3.5m |
| Operating profit | £130k | £588k | £853k |
| Profit before tax | £98.6k | £546k | £808k |
| Profit after tax | −£9.8k | £490k | £701k |
| Profit (best available) | −£9.8k | £490k | £701k |
| Staff costs | £3.2m | £3.6m | £3.9m |
| Employees (average) | 71 | 74 | 77 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | −0.2% | 6.3% | 8.8% |
| Gross margin | 30.6% | 38% | 43.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £85.4k | £104k | £104k |
| Profit per employee | −£138 | £6.6k | £9.1k |
| Cash conversion | −286.4% | −98.6% | −78.6% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲27.5% | ▲3.6% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▲43.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲4.2% | ▲4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.1m | £1.1m | £1.1m |
| Net assets | £12.4m | £12.8m | £13.5m |
| Fixed assets | £8m | £7.6m | £7.5m |
| Current assets | £9.1m | £9.4m | £10.6m |
| Debtors | £989k | £901k | £1.4m |
| Deferred income | £437k | £448k | £807k |
| Cash from operations | −£373k | −£580k | −£670k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 8.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 43.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £104k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £9.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −78.6%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 93.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 10.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 17.8%
- 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
- ▲5%
- Now £13.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▼8%
- Now £1.1m
- Headcount
- ▲4%
- Now 77
- Deferred income
- ▲80%
- Now £807k
- Fixed assets
- ▼2%
- Now £7.5m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £701k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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