Service Metals (Midlands) Limited
Registered name: SERVICE METALS (MIDLANDS) LIMITED
Service Metals (Midlands) Limited made £18.4m revenue and £113k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Service Metals (Midlands) Limited’s revenue fell 15% to £18.4m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £113k profit and 50 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of metals and metal ores” and is based in Morley; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Morley, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 39 yrs · since 1987
- Type
- Private 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&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £24.8m | £21.5m | £18.4m |
| Cost of sales | £18.7m | £16.4m | £14.1m |
| Gross profit | £6.1m | £5.1m | £4.2m |
| Operating profit | £416k | £877k | £388k |
| Profit before tax | £416k | £724k | £267k |
| Profit after tax | £265k | £520k | £113k |
| Profit (best available) | £265k | £520k | £113k |
| Employees (average) | 52 | 52 | 50 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 1.1% | 2.4% | 0.6% |
| Gross margin | 24.6% | 23.7% | 22.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £478k | £414k | £367k |
| Profit per employee | £5.1k | £10k | £2.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼13.4% | ▼14.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲96.1% | ▼78.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▼3.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.7m | £1.2m | £297 |
| Net assets | £2.7m | £3.2m | £3.3m |
| Fixed assets | £3.9m | £3.9m | £3.8m |
| Current assets | £10.2m | £7.9m | £6.4m |
| Debtors | £3.5m | £2.9m | £2.5m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 22.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £367k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £2.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 20.6%
- 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
- ▲4%
- Now £3.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▼100%
- Now £297
- Headcount
- ▼4%
- Now 50
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼3%
- Now £3.8m
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £113k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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