Aztec Oils Limited
Registered name: AZTEC OILS LIMITED
Aztec Oils Limited made £27.9m revenue and £475k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2026. read from filing text
Aztec Oils Limited’s revenue grew 6% to £27.9m in the year to 31 Mar 2026, with £475k profit and 72 employees. The company is classified under “other treatment of petroleum products (excluding petrochemicals manufacture)” and is based in Chesterfield; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Chesterfield, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 28 yrs · since 1998
- 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: “At the balance sheet date, the company's immediate parent undertaking was Lubricant Holdings (Midlands) Limited. The ultimate parent undertaking is Aztec Oils Holdings Limited which is controlled by t”
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 | 31 Mar 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £32.8m | £32.8m | £31.4m | £26.2m | £27.9m |
| Cost of sales | £26.7m | £25.9m | £25.8m | £21m | £21.6m |
| Gross profit | £6.2m | £6.9m | £5.6m | £5.2m | £6.3m |
| Operating profit | £1.2m | £654k | £250k | £164k | £706k |
| Profit before tax | £1.1m | £542k | £103k | £50.1k | £642k |
| Profit after tax | £857k | £493k | £62.3k | £60.6k | £475k |
| Profit (best available) | £857k | £493k | £62.3k | £60.6k | £475k |
| Staff costs | £3.1m | £3.3m | £2.9m | £2.8m | £3m |
| Employees (average) | 90 | 88 | 83 | 74 | 72 |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | 2.6% | 1.5% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 1.7% |
| Gross margin | 18.8% | 21% | 17.8% | 19.8% | 22.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £365k | £372k | £378k | £354k | £387k |
| Profit per employee | £9.5k | £5.6k | £751 | £819 | £6.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼0.3% | ▼4.2% | ▼16.5% | ▲6.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼42.5% | ▼87.4% | ▼2.8% | ▲683.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼2.2% | ▼5.7% | ▼10.8% | ▼2.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Cash at bank | £59.6k | £304k | £175k | £71.6k | £376k |
| Net assets | £3.5m | £3.8m | £3.7m | £3.7m | £4.1m |
| Fixed assets | £3.5m | £4.3m | £4.6m | £4.5m | £4.1m |
| Current assets | £11.6m | £13.1m | £10.6m | £9.4m | £10.4m |
| Debtors | £7m | £7.4m | £5.4m | £4.9m | £5.7m |
| Deferred income | £312k | £622k | £163k | £102k | £332k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 22.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £387k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £6.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 14.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 20.5%
- 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
- ▲10%
- Now £4.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▲425%
- Now £376k
- Headcount
- ▼3%
- Now 72
- Deferred income
- ▲226%
- Now £332k
- Fixed assets
- ▼8%
- Now £4.1m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Subsidiaries (1)
- Aztec E-Commerce Oils LtdFigures 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 Mar 2026 (profit £475k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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