Babcock International Group (BAB)

Sector:

Defense and Aeronautics

Index:

FTSE 100

1,297.00p
   
  • Change Today:
    -5.00p
  • 52 Week High: 1,330.00
  • 52 Week Low: 466.00
  • Currency: UK Pounds
  • Shares Issued: 502.20m
  • Volume: 1,048,866
  • Market Cap: £6,514m
  • RiskGrade: 290

BAB Overview

Babcock is an international defence company operating in our focus countries of the UK, Australasia, Canada, France and South Africa, with exports to additional markets. We provide a range of products and service solutions to enhance our customers’ defence capabilities and critical assets. Our business is underpinned by a deep understanding of technology integration and engineering, infrastructure management and specialist training. We help our customers around the world to cost effectively improve the capability, reliability and availability of their most critical assets.

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Financials

Latest F'cast
Div Yield 0.5% 0.0%
Div Cover 7.7 6.4
Op Mrgn 7.5% 8.0%
ROCE 45.7%  
Latest F'cast
P/E 26.4 23.8
PEG 0.4 2.8
Pr/Revenue 1.4 1.3
Pr/Book 10.7  
Latest F'cast
Revenue 10.0% 4.4%
PBT 51.9% 22.6%
EPS 63.3% 8.4%
DPS 30.0% 31.5%

BAB Fundamentals

Year Ending Revenue (£m) Pre-tax (£m) EPS P/E PEG EPS Grth. Div Yield
31-Mar-21 3,971.60 (1,811.00) (24.60)p n/a n/a n/a n/a 0.0%
31-Mar-22 4,101.80 182.30 30.70p 10.6 n/a n/a n/a 0.0%
31-Mar-23 4,438.60 6.20 17.70p 16.9 n/a -42% n/a 0.0%
31-Mar-24 4,390.10 216.70 30.80p 16.9 0.2 +74% 5.00p 1.0%
31-Mar-25 4,831.30 329.10 50.30p 14.4 0.2 +63% 6.50p 0.9%

a. Based on UK GAAP presentation of accounts - includes discontinued activities

BAB Forecasts

Year Ending Revenue (£m) Pre-tax (£m) EPS P/E PEG EPS Grth. Div Yield
31-Mar-26 5,045.69 403.54 54.55p 23.8 2.8 +8% 8.54p 0.0%
31-Mar-27 5,279.91 440.33 60.92p 21.3 1.8 +12% 11.10p 0.0%
31-Mar-28 5,523.49 479.39 67.38p 19.2 1.8 +11% 11.76p 0.0%

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BAB Company Announcements

Transaction in Own Shares 03-Oct-2025 07:00 RNS
Director/PDMR Shareholding 02-Oct-2025 16:02 RNS
Notice of HY26 half year results 02-Oct-2025 11:30 RNS

BAB ShareCast News

Berenberg lifts target for Babcock, sees further... 26-Sep-2025 ShareCast
Babcock reiterates outlook on strong first half 25-Sep-2025 ShareCast
London close: Stocks firmer as US CPI comes in hot 11-Sep-2025 ShareCast

BAB Top Newspaper Links

Babcock signs £140million deal with Ministry of ... 18-Dec-2014 Daily Mail
Babcock seals deal worth £2bn to maintain UK mil... 18-Dec-2014 Telegraph
Britain’s Babcock beats off US rivals to service... 20-Nov-2014 The Independent

Latest BAB Director Deals

Traded Action Notifier PriceAmountValue
02-Oct-25 Buy Dividends David Mellors 1,287.00p 520 £6,692.40
30-Sep-25 Buy Dividends David Mellors 1,331.00p 138 £1,836.78
29-Sep-25 Transfer From David Mellors 0.000p 103,652 £0.00

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Note 2: RiskGrade figures are provided by RiskMetrics.

Note 3: Above ratios are on a 'per annum' basis, adjusted for corporate actions and based on the fundamentals of the primary listed security.

Note 4: Under IFRS, all figures are based on 'Continuing' operations unless otherwise stated.

Note 5: In the case of dual listed securities, broker recommendations and forecasts relate to the primary listing.

Note 6: Forecast figures based on normalised accounts.

 

BAB Market Data

Currency UK Pounds
Share Price 1,297.00p
Change Today -5.00p
% Change -0.38 %
52 Week High 1,330.00
52 Week Low 466.00
Volume 1,048,866
Shares Issued 502.20m
Market Cap £6,514m
RiskGrade 290

BAB Star Ratings

Compare performance with the sector and the market.
more star ratings
Key: vs Market vs Sector
Value
81.95% below the market average81.95% below the market average81.95% below the market average81.95% below the market average81.95% below the market average
27.27% below the sector average27.27% below the sector average27.27% below the sector average27.27% below the sector average27.27% below the sector average
Price Trend
95.90% above the market average95.90% above the market average95.90% above the market average95.90% above the market average95.90% above the market average
83.33% above the sector average83.33% above the sector average83.33% above the sector average83.33% above the sector average83.33% above the sector average
Income
60.61% below the market average60.61% below the market average60.61% below the market average60.61% below the market average60.61% below the market average
33.33% below the sector average33.33% below the sector average33.33% below the sector average33.33% below the sector average33.33% below the sector average
Growth
85.90% above the market average85.90% above the market average85.90% above the market average85.90% above the market average85.90% above the market average
27.27% above the sector average27.27% above the sector average27.27% above the sector average27.27% above the sector average27.27% above the sector average

What The Brokers Say

Strong Buy 5
Buy 3
Neutral 3
Sell 0
Strong Sell 0
Total 11
buy
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BAB Dividends

  Latest Previous
  Final Interim
Ex-Div 21-Aug-25 05-Dec-24
Paid 30-Sep-25 17-Jan-25
Amount 4.50p 2.00p

Trades for 03-Oct-2025

Time Volume / Share Price
16:24 1 @ 1,302.00p
16:20 2 @ 1,302.00p
16:17 1 @ 1,303.00p
16:06 0 @ 1,299.00p
16:15 1 @ 1,304.00p

BAB Key Personnel

Chair Ruth Cairnie
CEO David Lockwood
CFO David Mellors

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