{"id":865027,"date":"2025-08-14T21:11:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T02:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/octavius-posts-17-revenue-rise-as-profit-booms\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T21:11:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T02:11:44","slug":"octavius-posts-17-revenue-rise-as-profit-booms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/octavius-posts-17-revenue-rise-as-profit-booms\/","title":{"rendered":"Octavius posts 17% revenue rise as profit booms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Octavius Infrastructure has reported a 16.7 per cent increase in turnover to \u00a3322.9m for the year to 31 March 2025, driven mainly by growth in railway and highway work.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pre-tax profit rose 84 per cent from \u00a34.7m to \u00a38.6m, giving a pre-tax margin of 2.7 per cent, up from 1.7 per cent the previous year.<\/span><\/p>\n

The firm said the increase in turnover was due to a rise in the volume of bids won and projects delivered during the year. Meanwhile, income from R&W Civil Engineering and Navitas Engineering, which Octavius bought the previous year, contributed \u00a338.8m.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe growth in the core business was primarily due to growth in the highways business unit,\u201d the company stated.<\/span><\/p>\n

Referring to the five-year railway infrastructure investment cycle, Control Period 7 (2024-29), it added: \u201cIncreased volumes in established frameworks within the rail business unit have also contributed to the increased turnover, supported by a solid start to [the] CP7 period.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Net assets rose 23 per cent to \u00a326.7m. Cash at bank more than doubled to \u00a316m, although net cash generated from operating activities fell from \u00a316.7m to \u00a33.5m.<\/span><\/p>\n

The firm\u2019s average monthly headcount rose from 598 to 684, a 14.4 per cent increase.<\/span><\/p>\n

Its directors identified skilled-labour shortages, supply chain fragility and inflation as continuing challenges.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, they said Octavius aimed to grow by expanding its presence in rail and highways, and by targeting adjacent infrastructure markets.<\/span><\/p>\n

The directors said framework positions would be used to secure long-term workloads.<\/span><\/p>\n

A dividend of \u00a32m was paid to parent company Topham Bidco, which owns the business.<\/span><\/p>\n

Octavius has rapidly scaled up its operations since<\/span> its creation in 2021<\/span><\/a>, following the sale of Geoffrey Osborne\u2019s rail and highways division to private equity firm Sullivan Street.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was ranked 80th<\/span> in the 2024<\/span> CN100 table of the UK\u2019s top contractors<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\n Colin Marrs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Octavius Infrastructure has reported a 16.7 per cent increase in turnover to \u00a3322.9m for the year to 31 March 2025, driven mainly by growth in railway and highway work. Pre-tax profit rose 84 per cent from \u00a34.7m to \u00a38.6m, giving a pre-tax margin of 2.7 per cent, up from 1.7 per cent the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":865028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125692,1605],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-865027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-octavius","8":"category-posts"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}