Cfes Limited
Registered name: CFES LIMITED
Part of Cfes Holdings Limited groupCfes Limited made £13.8m revenue and £737k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Cfes Limited’s revenue was £13.8m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £737k profit and 26 employees. The company is classified under “development of building projects” and is based in Southwark; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Southwark, London
- Age
- 20 yrs · since 2005
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Aug 2022 | 31 Aug 2023 | 31 Oct 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £13.6m | £12.2m | £21.6m | £13.8m |
| Cost of sales | £9.8m | £9.2m | £17m | £9.3m |
| Gross profit | £3.8m | £3m | £4.6m | £4.5m |
| Operating profit | £2.1m | £950k | £1.6m | £845k |
| Profit before tax | £2.1m | £972k | £1.6m | £875k |
| Profit after tax | £1.7m | £753k | £1.3m | £737k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.7m | £753k | £1.3m | £737k |
| Staff costs | £964k | £1.1m | £1.5m | £1.8m |
| Employees (average) | 26 | 21 | 24 | 26 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 12.4% | 6.2% | 6.2% | 5.3% |
| Gross margin | 27.7% | 24.9% | 21.2% | 32.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £523k | £583k | £901k | £530k |
| Profit per employee | £64.8k | £35.9k | £56k | £28.3k |
| Cash conversion | −146.1% | 41% | −133.7% | 101.9% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼9.9% | — | — |
| Profit growth | — | ▼55.3% | — | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼19.2% | — | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £3.3m | £2.2m | £1.4m | £490k |
| Net assets | £4.8m | £5.5m | £4.6m | £2.8m |
| Fixed assets | £162k | £209k | £506k | £470k |
| Current assets | £7.4m | £7.9m | £7.8m | £5.9m |
| Debtors | £1m | £1.6m | £2.2m | £1.1m |
| Deferred income | £500k | £566k | £989k | £614k |
| Cash from operations | −£3m | £390k | −£2.1m | £861k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 32.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £530k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £28.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 101.9%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 3.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 4.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 8.2%
- 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 £2.8m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £490k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 26
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £614k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £470k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Cfes Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Cfes Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £737k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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