Cobb Farming Limited
Registered name: COBB FARMING LIMITED
Cobb Farming Limited made £27.9m revenue and £1.5m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Cobb Farming Limited’s revenue grew 23% to £27.9m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £1.5m profit and 102 employees. The company is classified under “support activities for animal production (other than farm animal boarding and care)” and is based in Dorchester; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Dorchester, South West
- Age
- 10 yrs · since 2016
- 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 controlling party is Mr N Cobb.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Apr 2022 | 30 Apr 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £7.8m | £28m | £22.6m | £27.9m |
| Cost of sales | £5m | £18.9m | £19.5m | — |
| Gross profit | £2.7m | £9.1m | £3.1m | — |
| Operating profit | £1.9m | £6.6m | £937k | £1.4m |
| Profit before tax | £1.9m | £6.6m | £860k | £1.3m |
| Profit after tax | £1.6m | £5.3m | £596k | £1.5m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.6m | £5.3m | £596k | £1.5m |
| Staff costs | £2.8m | £3.6m | £3.7m | £4.4m |
| Employees (average) | 82 | 87 | 97 | 102 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 21% | 19.1% | 2.6% | 5.5% |
| Gross margin | 35.3% | 32.5% | 13.8% | — |
| Revenue per employee | £94.7k | £322k | £233k | £273k |
| Profit per employee | £19.9k | £61.4k | £6.1k | £15k |
| Cash conversion | −46.6% | −39.8% | −50% | 331.3% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲260.5% | ▼19.3% | ▲23.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲228.2% | ▼88.8% | ▲156.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲6.1% | ▲11.5% | ▲5.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £227k | £1.6m | £133k | £699k |
| Net assets | £341k | £5.7m | £7.2m | £15.3m |
| Fixed assets | £5.8m | £6.8m | £7m | £6.9m |
| Current assets | £5.4m | £12.4m | £13.1m | £13.6m |
| Debtors | £0 | £1.9m | £2m | £2.1m |
| Deferred income | £203k | £651k | £1.3m | £1.3m |
| Cash from operations | −£887k | −£2.6m | −£468k | £4.7m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £273k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £15k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 331.3%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 24.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 4.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 7.7%
- 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
- ▲111%
- Now £15.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▲427%
- Now £699k
- Headcount
- ▲5%
- Now 102
- Deferred income
- ▲2%
- Now £1.3m
- Fixed assets
- ▼1%
- Now £6.9m
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 £1.5m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 24 Oct 2026
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