CML MICROSYSTEMS PLC
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Cash
£6.3m
-19.4% vs 2025
Net assets
£51m
+5% vs 2025
Employees
163
-0.6% vs 2025
Profit before tax
-£1.8m
-300.2% vs 2025
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Technology median
Accounts
2-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2026-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2025-03-31 | 2026-03-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £22,890,000 | £20,449,000 | -10.7% | |
| Operating profit | £533,000 | -£1,931,000 | -462.3% | |
| Profit before tax | £881,000 | -£1,764,000 | -300.2% | |
| Net profit | £1,596,000 | -£561,000 | -135.2% | |
| Cash | £7,762,000 | £6,255,000 | -19.4% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £57,387,000 | £57,871,000 | +0.8% | |
| Net assets | £49,006,000 | £51,454,000 | +5% | |
| Equity | £49,006,000 | £51,454,000 | +5% | |
| Average employees | 164 | 163 | -0.6% | |
| Wages | £8,934,000 | £9,242,000 | +3.4% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £656,000 | £743,000 | +13.3% | |
| Directors' pension contributions | £282,000 | £312,000 | +10.6% | |
| Highest paid director | £262,000 | — | — |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. The Δ column is the change from the prior filed period as a percentage of |prior|; lines a company doesn't report show —. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2025-03-31 | 2026-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 2.3% | -9.4% | |
| Net margin | 7.0% | -2.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | 0.9% | -3.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 22.4% | 18.9% | |
| Current ratio | 3.75x | 3.83x | |
| Interest cover | 5.03x | -21.22x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- CML MICROSYSTEMS PLC 1982-11-02 → present
- CONSUMER MICROCIRCUITS LIMITED 1968-12-12 → 1982-11-02
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Cooper Parry Group Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Group and Company financial statements have been prepared on the going concern basis... The Directors have a reasonable expectation that the Group and Company have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, managing their principal risks and uncertainties.”
Group structure
- CML MICROSYSTEMS PLC · parent
- CML Microcircuits (UK) Ltd 100%
- PRFI Ltd 100%
- CML Microcircuits (USA) Inc 100%
- Innovative Technology Inc 100%
- Microwave Technology Inc 100%
- CML Microcircuits (Singapore) Pte Ltd 100%
- WuXi Sicomm Technologies, Inc 100%
- Shanghai Futiake Investment Consulting Co., Ltd 100%
Significant events
- “The Group successfully completed a multi-year transformation of the business into a pure play communications semiconductor company.”
- “In December 2023, the Group entered into an agreement to dispose of its freehold property at Oval Park.”
- “The Group disposed of the excess land at Oval Park.”
- “On 1 April 2025, the Group restructured its engineering resources which lead to the investments in subsidiary undertaking relating to the acquisition of PRFI Ltd.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 10 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JONES, Michelle | Secretary | 2020-07-01 | — | — |
| BARNES, Geoffrey Frederick | Director | 2017-04-01 | Apr 1945 | British |
| CLARK, Nigel Graham | Director | — | Feb 1954 | British |
| GURRY, Christopher Arthur | Director | 2000-04-03 | Nov 1963 | British |
| LINDOP, James Andrew | Director | 2013-04-01 | Oct 1957 | British |
| MCCABE, Mark John | Director | 2023-11-30 | Jun 1969 | British |
| ZOMMER, Nathan | Director | 2024-01-01 | Feb 1948 | Polish |
Show 10 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLARK, Nigel Graham | Secretary | 2020-01-15 | 2020-07-01 |
| CLARK, Nigel Graham | Secretary | — | 2015-01-19 |
| PRITCHARD, Neil Bartley | Secretary | 2015-01-19 | 2020-01-15 |
| BATES, George James | Director | 1994-05-04 | 2013-10-21 |
| GURRY, George William | Director | — | 2013-10-05 |
| HARDY, Brian John | Director | — | 1993-10-21 |
| HAYES, James Christopher | Director | — | 1999-04-06 |
| PRITCHARD, Neil Bartley | Director | 2015-01-19 | 2020-01-15 |
| RUDDEN, Hugh Francis | Director | 2014-06-16 | 2021-05-31 |
| SHASHOUA, Ronald Jacob | Director | 1996-06-03 | 2017-03-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 336 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-09-12 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-09-12 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-10-09 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-08-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2026-04-23 | SH04 | capital | Capital sale or transfer treasury shares with date currency capital figure | |
| 2026-04-08 | SH04 | capital | Capital sale or transfer treasury shares with date currency capital figure | |
| 2025-11-10 | SH04 | capital | Capital sale or transfer treasury shares with date currency capital figure | |
| 2025-10-29 | SH04 | capital | Capital sale or transfer treasury shares with date currency capital figure | |
| 2025-10-15 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-10-08 | SH04 | capital | Capital sale or transfer treasury shares with date currency capital figure | |
| 2025-09-12 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-09-12 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-08-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-07-25 | SH04 | capital | Capital sale or transfer treasury shares with date currency capital figure | |
| 2025-05-28 | SH04 | capital | Capital sale or transfer treasury shares with date currency capital figure | |
| 2025-03-12 | SH04 | capital | Capital sale or transfer treasury shares with date currency capital figure | |
| 2025-01-13 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2024-12-12 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2024-10-19 | SH04 | capital | Capital sale or transfer treasury shares with date currency capital figure | |
| 2024-10-09 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-08-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 8
- Capital events
- 12
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.