Valley Water Services Limited
Registered name: VALLEY WATER SERVICES LIMITED
Valley Water Services Limited made £18.7m revenue and £2.3m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Valley Water Services Limited’s revenue grew 73% to £18.7m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £2.3m profit and 25 employees. The company is classified under “construction of water projects” and is based in Blackwood; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Blackwood, Wales
- Age
- 14 yrs · since 2012
- 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 ultimate controlling party is”
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 | No P&L | No P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | £10.8m | £18.7m |
| Cost of sales | — | — | £7.6m | £12.4m |
| Gross profit | — | — | £3.2m | £6.3m |
| Operating profit | — | — | £898k | £2.9m |
| Profit before tax | — | — | £818k | £2.8m |
| Profit after tax | — | — | £437k | £2.3m |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | £437k | £2.3m |
| Staff costs | — | — | £1.7m | £3.1m |
| Employees (average) | 30 | 30 | 30 | 25 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | — | 4% | 12.3% |
| Gross margin | — | — | 29.7% | 33.7% |
| Revenue per employee | — | — | £361k | £747k |
| Profit per employee | — | — | £14.6k | £91.7k |
| Cash conversion | — | — | — | −79% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | — | ▲72.6% |
| Profit growth | — | — | — | ▲424.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | 0% | ▼16.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £108k | £318k | £496k | £1.3m |
| Net assets | £589k | £684k | £1.3m | £4.1m |
| Fixed assets | £1.3m | £1.2m | £2.9m | £3.9m |
| Current assets | £1.1m | £1.5m | £2.2m | £5.7m |
| Debtors | £1m | £1.1m | £1.4m | £2.7m |
| Deferred income | — | — | £40.6k | £212k |
| Cash from operations | — | — | — | −£2.3m |
| Source | AbridgedAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | AbridgedAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | AbridgedAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 12.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 33.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £747k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £91.7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −79%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 20.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 14.3%
- 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
- ▲226%
- Now £4.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▲152%
- Now £1.3m
- Headcount
- ▼17%
- Now 25
- Deferred income
- ▲423%
- Now £212k
- Fixed assets
- ▲33%
- Now £3.9m
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 £2.3m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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