Kirintec Limited
Registered name: KIRINTEC LIMITED
Part of Bae Systems PLC groupKirintec Limited made £21.8m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2023 (revenue not disclosed).
Kirintec Limited reported £21.8m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2023, up 76% on the year before; its revenue was not disclosed. It had 38 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of communication equipment other than telegraph, and telephone apparatus and equipment” and is based in Ross-on-Wye; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Ross-on-Wye, West Midlands
- Age
- 18 yrs · since 2008
- 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 controlled by R P Peers-Smith who owns 94% of the issued share capital of the company.”
Key figures
This company published its profit but not its turnover, so revenue and margins are not disclosed. We never estimate them.
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Profit only | Profit only |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — |
| Cost of sales | £6.8m | £25.2m |
| Gross profit | £18.5m | £32.1m |
| Profit after tax | £12.4m | £21.8m |
| Profit (best available) | £12.4m | £21.8m |
| Staff costs | £1.8m | £2.1m |
| Employees (average) | 36 | 38 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | — | — |
| Profit per employee | £344k | £574k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Profit growth | — | ▲76.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲5.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £15m | £19.7m |
| Net assets | £25.8m | £46.9m |
| Fixed assets | £5.2m | £10.8m |
| Current assets | £27.2m | £50.3m |
| Debtors | £3.5m | £20.1m |
| Deferred income | £981k | £2.9m |
| Cash from operations | −£9.1m | −£12.8m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- —
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £574k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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
- ▲82%
- Now £46.9m
- Cash at bank
- ▲31%
- Now £19.7m
- Headcount
- ▲6%
- Now 38
- Deferred income
- ▲196%
- Now £2.9m
- Fixed assets
- ▲109%
- Now £10.8m
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
- Bae Systems PLCultimate parent75–100%
- Bae Systems (Holdings) Limited75–100%
- Kirintec Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Nexus Defence LimitedLiquidationFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (30)
- Alvis LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bae Systems (Corporate Air Travel) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bae Systems (Defence Systems) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bae Systems (Dynamics) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bae Systems (Farnborough 3) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bae Systems (Finance) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bae Systems (Funding Two) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bae Systems (International) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bae Systems (Land and Sea Systems) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bae Systems (Meh) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bae Systems (Military Air) Overseas LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bae Systems (Oman) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bae Systems (Overseas Holdings) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bae Systems (Property Investments) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bae Systems Electronic Systems (Overseas) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bae Systems Enterprises LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bae Systems GCS International LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bae Systems Global Combat Systems Munitions LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bae Systems Marine (Holdings) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bae Systems Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bae Systems Surface Ships (Holdings) LimitedFigures not disclosed
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- Malloy Aeronautics LimitedFigures not disclosed
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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 2023 (profit £21.8m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2024. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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