Knight Build Limited
Registered name: KNIGHT BUILD LIMITED
Knight Build Limited made £113m revenue and £6.6m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Knight Build Limited’s revenue grew 61% to £113m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £6.6m profit and 40 employees. The company is classified under “other specialised construction activities” and is based in Billericay; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Billericay, East of England
- Age
- 32 yrs · since 1994
- 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. From the filing: “The company is ultimately controlled by the majority shareholder in the current year and prior year, J E Knight.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £59.3m | £58.6m | £70m | £113m |
| Cost of sales | £50.9m | £51.6m | £62.2m | £100m |
| Gross profit | £8.4m | £7m | £7.8m | £12.4m |
| Operating profit | £4.8m | £3m | £4m | £8m |
| Profit before tax | £4.8m | £3.2m | £4.6m | £8.9m |
| Profit after tax | £3.9m | £2.5m | £3.4m | £6.6m |
| Profit (best available) | £3.9m | £2.5m | £3.4m | £6.6m |
| Staff costs | £2.5m | £2.6m | £2.4m | £2.7m |
| Employees (average) | 43 | 44 | 40 | 40 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 6.6% | 4.3% | 4.8% | 5.9% |
| Gross margin | 14.2% | 11.9% | 11.1% | 11% |
| Revenue per employee | £1.4m | £1.3m | £1.8m | £2.8m |
| Profit per employee | £91.2k | £57.7k | £84.5k | £166k |
| Cash conversion | 129.4% | −50.6% | −40.7% | −367.1% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼1.2% | ▲19.5% | ▲61.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼35.2% | ▲33.1% | ▲95.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲2.3% | ▼9.1% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £23.3m | £20.3m | £20.4m | £46.8m |
| Net assets | £21.4m | £23m | £25.3m | £30.8m |
| Fixed assets | £645k | £612k | £4.5k | £774k |
| Current assets | £31.3m | £38.2m | £37.4m | £71.6m |
| Debtors | £2.7m | £8.4m | £88.8k | £54.8k |
| Deferred income | £732k | £622k | £420k | £532k |
| Cash from operations | £6.3m | −£1.5m | −£1.6m | −£29.3m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 11%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £2.8m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £166k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −367.1%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.1%
- 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
- ▲21%
- Now £30.8m
- Cash at bank
- ▲130%
- Now £46.8m
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 40
- Deferred income
- ▲27%
- Now £532k
- Fixed assets
- ▲17100%
- Now £774k
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 £6.6m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 22 Oct 2026
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