Waylands Automotive Limited
Registered name: WAYLANDS AUTOMOTIVE LIMITED
Waylands Automotive Limited made £266m revenue and £2.9m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Waylands Automotive Limited’s revenue grew 34% to £266m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £2.9m profit and 408 employees. The company is classified under “sale of new cars and light motor vehicles” and is based in Reading; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Reading, South East
- Age
- 10 yrs · since 2016
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £201m | £198m | £266m |
| Cost of sales | −£174m | −£167m | −£223m |
| Gross profit | £26.4m | £30.9m | £43m |
| Operating profit | £4m | £4.9m | £6.1m |
| Profit before tax | £2.5m | £3.1m | £4.1m |
| Profit after tax | £1.7m | £2.3m | £2.9m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.7m | £2.3m | £2.9m |
| Employees (average) | 248 | 310 | 408 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 0.9% | 1.2% | 1.1% |
| Gross margin | 13.1% | 15.6% | 16.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £810k | £639k | £652k |
| Profit per employee | £6.9k | £7.6k | £7.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼1.4% | ▲34.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲37.7% | ▲25% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲25% | ▲31.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data May 2025 | Accounts · bulk data May 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 16.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £652k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £7.2k
- 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
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▲32%
- Now 408
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Subsidiaries (1)
- Cambridge Garage Motor Holdings LimitedRev. £34.3m · Profit £219k
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £2.9m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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