Cambridge Nutrition. - Half-year Report
RNS Number : 7691G
Cambridge Nutritional Sciences PLC
10 November 2025
CAMBRIDGE NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES PLC
("CNS" or the "Company" or the "Group")
Half-Year Report
FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2025
Company remains EBITDA positive with further improvements in gross margin.
Sales and marketing teams restructured to deliver long term growth.
CNS (AIM: CNSL), the specialist medical diagnostics company focused on promoting a personalised and functional approach to health and nutrition, announces its unaudited interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2025.
H1 Financial Highlights:
· Revenue decreased to £3.9m (H1 2025: £4.1m)
· Gross margin increased to 67.7% (H1 2025: 65.4%), largely due to production efficiencies & product mix
· Adjusted EBITDA2 £0.1m (H1 2025: £0.2m)
· Loss before tax £0.4m (H1 2025: £0.2m)
· Cash balance £3.6m (H1 2025: £4.5m)
Operational Highlights:
· Strong performance in operations with FoodPrint® yields continuing their improvement
· CNS Lab productivity remains high with good year on year growth, sales rising 8% on last year
· Gross margin improvement driven by improved productivity and production yields, reinforcing our focus to improve this area further
Outlook:
· Company now expects full year sales to be lower than the previous year, as sales cycles for new customers prove to be longer than anticipated
· The sales pipeline continues to grow and the team are focused on converting initial agreements into orders. Our revenues in H1 have not been helped by some regions, mainland Europe in particular, ordering less than in previous years.
· USA Laboratories are taking longer to commercialise FoodPrint® but we are seeing encouraging signs.
· The Company remains well-funded to deliver on our strategic objectives, with cash being invested to drive new initiatives including IVDR development and new Gut Detective® product.
· The Board remains confident and focused on driving new and existing sales as the primary objective for H2 and the year thereafter and is increasingly spending more of its time on this area.
· Out of this has come a complete restructure of the sales team and its operations, splitting out the roles of customer service, acquisition and customer success from the sales function so they can focus primarily on signing new distributors and laboratories and driving more sales from existing customers. This feeding of the funnel is paramount to future sales growth.
1Adjusted for exceptional items, amortisation of intangible assets and share based payment charges.
2See Segment Information note 2.
Commenting on the results, Carolyn Rand, Chair, said:
"The first half of this year has been frustrating. We have seen some regions showing good growth, particularly where we are closer to the end user, whilst other key areas have not achieved their budget.
We have therefore implemented a restructure of the sales teams to ensure more focus is given to understand the markets more deeply and deliver on customer needs and demands. This will take a little time to embed so we do not expect the second half to show any significant improvements.
The positive news is that despite lower sales we have continued to grow our gross margin by another 2.3% in the first half and that profitability in the business continues at the adjusted EBITDA level, demonstrating the excellent work laying the foundations in these areas over the last few years.
We remain confident in the long term future of CNSL as the new sales team structure beds in and starts to deliver"
Investor presentation
James Cooper CEO and Ajay Patel CFO will provide a live presentation relating to the Interim Results via the Investor Meet Company platform today at 16:00 GMT. The presentation is open to all existing and potential shareholders.
Investors can sign up to Investor Meet Company for free and add to meet Cambridge Nutritional Sciences PLC via:
https://www.investormeetcompany.com/cambridge-nutritional-sciences-plc/register-investor
The investor presentation will be available later this morning on the Company website:
https://www.cnsplc.com/financials/presentations
The information communicated in this announcement is inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of EU Regulation 596/2014
Contacts:
| Cambridge Nutritional Sciences PLC www.cnsplc.com |
| James Cooper, Chief Executive Officer Ajay Patel, Chief Financial Officer |
| Cavendish Capital Markets LimitedTel: 020 7220 0500 |
| Nigel Birks / Harriet Ward (ECM) |
| The information contained within this announcement is deemed by the Company to constitute inside information as stipulated under the Market Abuse Regulation ("MAR") EU no.596/2014. Upon the publication of this announcement via Regulatory Information Service ("RIS"), this inside information is now considered to be in the public domain. |
| 6 months ended. 30 September 2025 | 6 months ended. 30 September 2024 | 12 months ended. 31 March 2025 | ||
| Note | £'000 | £'000 | £'000 | |
| Revenue | 2 | 3,863 | 4,134 | 8,330 |
| Cost of sales | (1,248) | (1,432) | (2,889) | |
| Gross profit | 2,615 | 2,702 | 5,441 | |
| Administration costs | (2,169) | (2,263) | (4,680) | |
| Selling and marketing costs | (839) | (617) | (1,436) | |
| Other income | 96 | 26 | 280 | |
| Operating loss before exceptional items | (297) | (152) | (395) | |
| Exceptional items | (138) | (117) | 1,831 | |
| Operating profit/(loss) after exceptional items | (435) | (269) | 1,436 | |
| Finance income/(costs) | 3 | 38 | 73 | 130 |
| Profit/(Loss) before taxation | (397) | (196) | 1,566 | |
| Tax credit | 4 | - | - | - |
| Profit/(Loss) for the period | (397) | (196) | 1,566 | |
| Other comprehensive profit/(losses) to be reclassified to profit and loss in subsequent periods | ||||
| Exchange differences on translation of foreign operations | (33) | (17) | (25) | |
| Other comprehensive income for the period | (33) | (17) | (25) | |
| Total comprehensive profit/(losses) for the period | (430) | (213) | 1,541 | |
| Earnings per share (EPS) | ||||
| Basic and diluted EPS on profit/(loss) for the period | 5 | (0.2)p | (0.1)p | 0.7p |
| 30 September 2025 | 30 September 2024 | 31 March 2025 | ||
| Note | £'000 | £'000 | £'000 | |
| ASSETS | ||||
| Non-current assets | ||||
| Intangibles | 6 | 3,805 | 4,039 | 3,821 |
| Property, plant, and equipment | 7 | 670 | 485 | 535 |
| Right of use assets | 7 | 175 | 76 | 226 |
| Deferred taxation | 1,406 | 1,400 | 1,406 | |
| Total non-current assets | 6,056 | 6,000 | 5,988 | |
| Current assets | ||||
| Inventories | 729 | 776 | 829 | |
| Trade and other receivables | 2,311 | 2,208 | 1,965 | |
| Cash and cash equivalents | 3,594 | 4,520 | 4,868 | |
| Total current assets | 6,634 | 7,504 | 7,662 | |
| Total assets | 12,690 | 13,504 | 13,650 | |
| EQUITY AND LIABILITIES | ||||
| Equity | ||||
| Share capital | 10,255 | 10,255 | 10,255 | |
| Share premium | 25,072 | 25,072 | 25,072 | |
| Retained deficit | (24,154) | (25,710) | (23,833) | |
| Translation reserve | (118) | (77) | (85) | |
| Total equity | 11,055 | 9,540 | 11,409 | |
| Liabilities | ||||
| Non-current liabilities | ||||
| Long-term borrowings | - | - | - | |
| Lease liabilities | 75 | - | 126 | |
| Deferred income | - | 2,500 | - | |
| Total non-current liabilities | 75 | 2,500 | 126 | |
| Current liabilities | ||||
| Short-term borrowings | 62 | 3 | 123 | |
| Lease liabilities | 100 | 76 | 100 | |
| Trade and other payables | 1,398 | 1,203 | 1,892 | |
| Total current liabilities | 1,560 | 1,282 | 2,115 | |
| Liabilities directly associated with assets held for sale | - | 182 | - | |
| Total liabilities | 1,635 | 3,964 | 2,241 | |
| Total equity and liabilities | 12,690 | 13,504 | 13,650 |
| Share | Share | Retained | Translation | |||
| capital | premium | deficit | reserve | Total | ||
| £'000 | £'000 | £'000 | £'000 | £'000 | ||
| Balance at 31 March 2024 | 10,255 | 25,072 | (25,585) | (60) | 9,682 | |
| Loss for the period to 30 September 2024 | - | - | (196) | - | (196) | |
| Other comprehensive losses - net exchange adjustments | - | - | - | (17) | (17) | |
| Total comprehensive losses for the period | - | - | (196) | (17) | (213) | |
| Share-based payments | - | - | 71 | - | 71 | |
| Balance at 30 September 2024 | 10,255 | 25,072 | (25,710) | (77) | 9,540 | |
| Profit for the period to 31 March 2025 | - | - | 1,762 | - | 1,762 | |
| Other comprehensive losses - net exchange adjustments | - | - | - | (8) | (8) | |
| Total comprehensive income/(losses) for the period | - | - | 1,762 | (8) | 1,754 | |
| Issue of share capital | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Share-based payments | - | - | 115 | - | 115 | |
| Balance at 31 March 2025 | 10,255 | 25,072 | (23,833) | (85) | 11,409 | |
| Loss for the period to 30 September 2025 | - | - | (397) | - | (397) | |
| Other comprehensive income - net exchange adjustments | - | - | - | (33) | (33) | |
| Total comprehensive (losses)/income for the period | - | - | (397) | (33) | (430) | |
| Share-based payments | - | - | 75 | - | 75 | |
| Balance at 30 September 2025 | 10,255 | 25,072 | (24,154) | (118) | 11,055 |
| 6 months ended 30 September 2025 | 6 months ended 30 September 2024 | 12 months ended 31 March 2025 | ||
| £'000 | £'000 | £'000 | ||
| Cash flows generated from operations | ||||
| Loss for the period | (397) | (196) | 1,566 | |
| Adjustments for: | ||||
| Depreciation | 98 | 90 | 179 | |
| Amortisation of intangible assets | 226 | 218 | 436 | |
| Share-based payments | 75 | 71 | 186 | |
| Finance costs | (38) | (73) | (130) | |
| Cash inflow/(outflow) from operating activities before working capital movement | (36) | 110 | 2,237 | |
| (Increase)/decrease in trade and other receivables | (346) | (384) | (141) | |
| (Increase)/decrease in inventories | 100 | (169) | (222) | |
| Decrease in trade and other payables | (494) | (120) | 569 | |
| Change in deferred income | - | - | (2,500) | |
| Cash (outflow)/inflow from operating activities | (776) | (563) | (57) | |
| Investing activities | ||||
| Finance income | 45 | 82 | 147 | |
| Transfer from/(to) short-term deposits | - | 2,501 | 2,501 | |
| Purchase of property, plant, and equipment | (183) | (137) | (225) | |
| Purchase of intangible assets | (210) | (157) | (157) | |
| Net cash inflow/(outflow) in investing activities | (348) | 2,289 | 2,266 | |
| Financing activities | ||||
| Finance costs | - | - | - | |
| Principal portion of asset finance payments | (61) | (78) | (140) | |
| Interest portion of asset finance payments | (3) | (4) | (7) | |
| Principal portion of lease liability payments | (50) | (50) | (101) | |
| Interest portion of lease liability payments | (4) | (5) | (10) | |
| Net cash outflow from financing activities | (118) | (137) | (258) | |
| Net increase/(decrease) in cash and cash equivalents | (1,242) | 1,589 | 1,950 | |
| Effects of exchange rate movements | (32) | (12) | (25) | |
| Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period | 4,868 | 2,943 | 2,943 | |
| Cash and cash equivalents at end of the period | 3,594 | 4,520 | 4,868 |
| Health and | |||
| Nutrition | Corporate | Total | |
| 6 months to 30 September 2025 | £'000 | £'000 | £'000 |
| Revenue | 3,959 | - | 3,959 |
| Other income | (96) | - | (96) |
| Total revenue | 3,863 | - | 3,863 |
| Cost of sales | (1,248) | - | (1,248) |
| Gross profit | 2,615 | - | 2,615 |
| Operating costs | (2,408) | (504) | (2,912) |
| Operating profit/(loss) before exceptional items | 207 | (504) | (297) |
| Exceptional items | - | (138) | (138) |
| Operating profit/(loss) after exceptional items | 207 | (642) | (435) |
| Depreciation | 98 | - | 98 |
| Amortisation | 226 | - | 226 |
| EBITDA | 531 | (642) | (111) |
| Exceptional items | - | 138 | 138 |
| Share-based payment charges | - | 75 | 75 |
| Adjusted EBITDA | 531 | (429) | 102 |
| Share-based payment charges | - | (75) | (75) |
| Depreciation | (98) | - | (98) |
| Amortisation | (226) | - | (226) |
| Interest income | 38 | - | 38 |
| Exceptional costs | (138) | (138) | |
| Profit/(loss) before tax | 245 | (642) | (397) |
| Exceptional items | 138 | 138 | |
| Share-based payment charges | - | 75 | 75 |
| Amortisation | 68 | - | 68 |
| Adjusted profit/(loss) before tax | 313 | (429) | (116) |
| Health and | |||
| Nutrition | Corporate | Total | |
| 6 months to 30 September 2024 | £'000 | £'000 | £'000 |
| Revenue | 4,160 | - | 4,160 |
| Other income | (26) | - | (26) |
| Total revenue | 4,134 | - | 4,134 |
| Cost of sales | (1,432) | - | (1,432) |
| Gross profit | 2,702 | - | 2,702 |
| Operating costs | (2,153) | (701) | (2,854) |
| Operating profit/(loss) before exceptional items | 549 | (701) | (152) |
| Exceptional items | (49) | (68) | (117) |
| Operating profit/(loss) after exceptional items | 500 | (769) | (269) |
| Depreciation | 90 | - | 90 |
| Amortisation | 218 | - | 218 |
| EBITDA | 808 | (769) | 39 |
| Exceptional items | 49 | 68 | 117 |
| Share-based payment charges | - | 71 | 71 |
| Adjusted EBITDA | 857 | (630) | 227 |
| Share-based payment charges | - | (71) | (71) |
| Depreciation | (90) | - | (90) |
| Amortisation | (218) | - | (218) |
| Net finance costs | 73 | - | 73 |
| Exceptional costs | (49) | (68) | (117) |
| Profit/(loss) before tax | 573 | (769) | (196) |
| Exceptional items | 49 | 68 | 117 |
| Share-based payment charges | - | 71 | 71 |
| Amortisation | 60 | - | 60 |
| Adjusted profit/(loss) before tax | 682 | (630) | 52 |
| 6 months to 30 September 2025 | 6 months to 30 September 2024 | |
| £'000 | £'000 | |
| Revenues | ||
| UK | 894 | 840 |
| Rest of Europe | 707 | 952 |
| Americas | 737 | 805 |
| India | 402 | 302 |
| Asia | 796 | 826 |
| Africa and the Middle East | 327 | 408 |
| 3,863 | 4,134 |
| 6 months to 30 September 2025 | 6 months to 30 September 2024 | inc/(dec) | |
| £'000 | £'000 | % | |
| FoodPrint® | 2,380 | 2,564 | (7)% |
| Food Detective® | 554 | 717 | (23)% |
| CNS laboratory service | 910 | 842 | 8% |
| Food ELISA/other | 19 | 11 | 73% |
| 3,863 | 4,134 | (7)% |
| 6 months to 30 September 2025 | 6 months to 30 September 2024 | |
| Continuing operations | £'000 | £'000 |
| Interest receivable | 45 | 82 |
| Interest payable on bank overdraft | - | - |
| Interest payable on lease liabilities | (4) | (5) |
| Interest on hire purchase and asset finance arrangements | (3) | (4) |
| 38 | 73 |
| 6 months to 30 September 2025 | 6 months to 30 September 2024 | |
| Continuing operations | £'000 | £'000 |
| Tax credited in the income statement | ||
| Current tax - current year | - | - |
| Current tax - prior year adjustment | - | - |
| Deferred tax - current year | - | - |
| Deferred tax - prior year adjustment | - | - |
| - | - |
| Reconciliation of total tax credit | ||
| Factors affecting the tax credit for the period: | £'000 | £'000 |
| Loss taxable | (397) | (196) |
| Effective rate of taxation | 25% | 25% |
| Loss before tax multiplied by the effective rate of tax | (99) | (49) |
| Effects of: | ||
| Deferred tax asset not recognised | 99 | 49 |
| Tax credit for the period | - | - |
| 6 months to 30 September 2025 | 6 months to 30 September 2024 | |
| £'000 | £'000 | |
| Loss attributable to equity holders of the Group | (397) | (196) |
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| Number | Number | |
| Weighted average number of shares | 238,270,660 | 237,950,660 |
| Share options | - | - |
| Diluted weighted average number of shares | 238,270,660 | 237,950,660 |
| 6 months to 30 September 2025 | 6 months to 30 September 2024 | |
| £'000 | £'000 | |
| Loss attributable to equity holders of the Group | (397) | (196) |
| Exceptional items | 138 | 117 |
| Amortisation of intangible assets | 68 | 60 |
| Share-based payment charges | 75 | 71 |
| Adjusted loss attributable to equity holders of the Group | (116) | 52 |
| Adjusted EPS on loss for the period | -0.0p | 0.0p |
| Licences/ | Technology | Customer | Development | |||
| Goodwill | software | assets | relationships | costs | Total | |
| £'000 | £'000 | £'000 | £'000 | £'000 | £'000 | |
| Cost | ||||||
| At 31 March 2024 | 3,017 | 1,736 | 1,975 | 100 | 9,259 | 16,087 |
| Additions | - | 158 | - | - | - | 158 |
| At 30 September 2024 | 3,017 | 1,894 | 1,975 | 100 | 9,259 | 16,245 |
| Additions | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Currency translation | - | (1) | - | - | - | (1) |
| At 31 March 2025 | 3,017 | 1,893 | 1,975 | 100 | 9,259 | 16,244 |
| Additions | - | 47 | - | - | 163 | 210 |
| At 30 September 2025 | 3,017 | 1,940 | 1,975 | 100 | 9,422 | 16,454 |
| Accumulated amortisation | ||||||
| At 31 March 2024 | - | 1,669 | 1,638 | 100 | 8,581 | 11,988 |
| Amortisation charge in the period | - | 10 | 50 | - | 158 | 218 |
| At 30 September 2024 | - | 1,679 | 1,688 | 100 | 8,739 | 12,206 |
| Amortisation charge in the period | - | 12 | 49 | - | 157 | 218 |
| Currency translation | - | (1) | - | - | - | (1) |
| At 31 March 2025 | - | 1,690 | 1,737 | 100 | 8,896 | 12,423 |
| Amortisation charge in the period | - | 18 | 50 | - | 158 | 226 |
| At 30 September 2025 | - | 1,708 | 1,787 | 100 | 9,054 | 12,649 |
| Net book value | ||||||
| At 30 September 2025 | 3,017 | 232 | 188 | - | 368 | 3,805 |
| At 31 March 2025 | 3,017 | 203 | 238 | - | 363 | 3,821 |
| At 30 September 2024 | 3,017 | 215 | 287 | - | 520 | 4,039 |
| Right of use | Leasehold | Plant and | ||
| assets | improvements | machinery | Total | |
| Consolidated | £'000 | £'000 | £'000 | £'000 |
| Cost | ||||
| At 31 March 2024 | 202 | 401 | 1,420 | 2,023 |
| Additions | - | - | 137 | 137 |
| At 30 September 2024 | 202 | 401 | 1,557 | 2,160 |
| Additions | 201 | - | 88 | 289 |
| At 31 March 2025 | 403 | 401 | 1,645 | 2,449 |
| Additions | - | 8 | 175 | 183 |
| At 30 September 2025 | 403 | 409 | 1,820 | 2,632 |
| Accumulated depreciation | ||||
| At 31 March 2024 | 76 | 397 | 1,036 | 1,509 |
| Charge in the period | 50 | 1 | 39 | 90 |
| At 30 September 2024 | 126 | 398 | 1,075 | 1,599 |
| Charge in the period | 51 | 2 | 36 | 89 |
| At 31 March 2025 | 177 | 400 | 1,111 | 1,688 |
| Charge in the period | 50 | 2 | 46 | 98 |
| At 30 September 2025 | 227 | 402 | 1,157 | 1,785 |
| Net book value | ||||
| At 30 September 2025 | 176 | 8 | 663 | 846 |
| At 31 March 2025 | 226 | 1 | 534 | 761 |
| At 30 September 2024 | 76 | 3 | 482 | 561 |
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