Portview Fit-Out Limited
Registered name: PORTVIEW FIT-OUT LIMITED
Part of Portview Specialists Holdings Limited groupPortview Fit-Out Limited made £110m revenue and £21.5m profit in the year to 30 Nov 2024.
Portview Fit-Out Limited’s revenue grew 48% to £110m in the year to 30 Nov 2024, with £21.5m profit and 138 employees. The company is classified under “other building completion and finishing” and is based in Belfast; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Age
- 51 yrs · since 1975
- 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: “Portview Holdings Limited”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Nov 2022 | 30 Nov 2023 | 30 Nov 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £54.3m | £74m | £110m |
| Cost of sales | £44.6m | £59.3m | £74.9m |
| Gross profit | £9.8m | £14.7m | £34.7m |
| Operating profit | £3.8m | £7.6m | £28.1m |
| Profit before tax | £3.9m | £8m | £28.6m |
| Profit after tax | £3.8m | £6.1m | £21.5m |
| Profit (best available) | £3.8m | £6.1m | £21.5m |
| Staff costs | £8.8m | £11.7m | £11.9m |
| Employees (average) | 130 | 139 | 138 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 6.9% | 8.3% | 19.6% |
| Gross margin | 18% | 19.9% | 31.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £418k | £532k | £794k |
| Profit per employee | £28.9k | £44.2k | £156k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲36.1% | ▲48.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲63.8% | ▲250% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲6.9% | ▼0.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £16.2m | £11.1m | £30.3m |
| Net assets | £19.9m | £11.9m | £13.4m |
| Fixed assets | £951k | £909k | £228k |
| Current assets | £33.2m | £31.3m | £48.5m |
| Debtors | £6.6m | £1.2m | £3.6m |
| Deferred income | £7.8m | £12.8m | £26.2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 19.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 31.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £794k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £156k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 23.9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 3.3%
- 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
- ▲13%
- Now £13.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▲172%
- Now £30.3m
- Headcount
- ▼1%
- Now 138
- Deferred income
- ▲105%
- Now £26.2m
- Fixed assets
- ▼75%
- Now £228k
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
- Portview Specialists Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Portview Holdings Limited75–100%
- Portview Fit-Out 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 30 Nov 2024 (profit £21.5m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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