MTX profit remains steady as revenue slips

Profit at MTX Contracts has held steady despite a 12 per cent fall in revenue last year as the modular healthcare construction specialist adjusted its business strategy.

In its latest accounts for the 12 months to 31 August 2025, the Cheshire-based firm announced turnover of £113.5m compared to £129.4m the previous year.

Pre-tax profit rose slightly by £33,000 to £6.9m, resulting in a broader margin of 6 per cent versus 5.2 per cent in the 2024 financial year.

Directors attributed the drop in turnover to “some delayed starts” but added that the firm entered the current financial year with a record order book.

They said they expect the current year’s turnover to exceed £140m, “resulting from increased activity and growth in our preconstruction teams and increases in our total facility management contracts”.

Construction jobs accounted for 90 per cent of MTX’s revenue in the latest accounts but directors said the past year saw a strategic refresh amid a shift towards public-private partnerships for NHS projects and services.

They said MTX was “well placed to support this initiative”, citing managed service models in Plymouth and Oxford where it provides facilities management (FM) alongside core design-and-build services.

In addition, last November’s £3.5m acquisition of Yorkshire-based Elite Group will enable the contractor to expand further into FM by providing “additional focus, expertise, resource and supply chains”, directors said.

MTX’s cash at hand fell slightly from £18.9m to £17.7m, and the firm held no external loans or overdrafts.

Its average monthly headcount rose by just one employee to 81 but the annual wage bill rose 3 per cent from £4.7m to £4.9m.

The company paid a dividend of £4.4m during the year, up from £3.75m in the previous accounts.

Contract wins during the year included a place on the four-year NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) Modular Buildings 3 framework, which is worth up to £3.6bn until June 2029.

After the period covered by the latest accounts, MTX was among more than 40 firms appointed to a separate £1bn NHS modular construction framework.

And last month, the firm won a pair of hospital design-and-build jobs in Wales: a £33m facility at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Rhyl, and a £79m diagnostics and treatment centre (pictured) on a brownfield site in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf.