WPP (WPP)

Sector:

Media

Index:

FTSE 100

831.20p
   
  • Change Today:
      2.00p
  • 52 Week High: 893.60p
  • 52 Week Low: 678.80p
  • Currency: UK Pounds
  • Shares Issued: 1,078.80m
  • Volume: 418,666
  • Market Cap: £8,967m
  • RiskGrade: 162
  • Beta: 1.18

WPP Overview

WPP is one of the world's largest communications services groups, specialising in advertising, and public relations. The group has 62,000 people working in 1,400 offices in 103 countries. Major clients include American Express, AT&T, Colgate-Palmolive, GlaxoSmithKline and Nestlé.

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WPP Financials

Latest F'cast
Div Yield 4.7% 0.0%
Div Cover 0.3 2.3
Op Mrgn 3.6% 12.6%
ROCE n/a  
Latest F'cast
P/E 80.7 9.6
PEG n/a 0.0
Pr/Revenue 0.6 0.7
Pr/Book 2.3  
Latest F'cast
Revenue 2.9% -15.4%
PBT -70.1% 357.8%
EPS -83.4% 739.7%
DPS n/a -2.7%

WPP Fundamentals

Year Ending Revenue (£m) Pre-tax (£m) EPS P/E PEG EPS Grth. Div Yield
31-Dec-19 13,234.10 982.10 50.20p 21.2 n/a -46% 22.70p 2.1%
31-Dec-20 12,002.80 (2,790.60) (243.20)p n/a n/a n/a 24.00p 3.0%
31-Dec-21 12,801.10 950.80 53.40p 21.0 n/a n/a 31.20p 2.8%
31-Dec-22 14,428.70 1,159.80 62.20p 13.2 0.8 +16% 39.40p 4.8%
31-Dec-23 14,844.80 346.30 10.30p 73.1 n/a -83% 39.40p 5.2%

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

WPP Forecasts

Year Ending Revenue (£m) Pre-tax (£m) EPS P/E PEG EPS Grth. Div Yield
31-Dec-24 12,552.87 1,585.44 86.49p 9.6 0.0 +740% 38.35p 0.0%
31-Dec-25 12,508.90 1,632.42 88.26p 9.4 4.6 +2% 39.49p 0.0%
31-Dec-26 12,940.22 1,689.54 93.00p 8.9 1.7 +5% 40.02p 0.0%

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WPP Company Announcements

Notification of Major Holdings 20-Dec-2024 10:06 RNS
Simon Dingemans – External Appointment 04-Dec-2024 11:46 RNS
Vesting of Executive Share Award 03-Dec-2024 09:57 RNS

WPP ShareCast News

London close: FTSE maintains gains on China stim... 09-Dec-2024 ShareCast
London close: Stocks finish lower ahead of Budge... 23-Oct-2024 ShareCast
WPP returns to growth in third quarter 23-Oct-2024 ShareCast

WPP Top Newspaper Links

Advertising giant WWP lines up industrialist Rob... 19-Dec-2014 Express & Star
WPP agrees £800m cloud deal with IBM 03-Dec-2014 Telegraph
Publicis agrees £2.3bn takeover of Sapient after... 04-Nov-2014 Guardian

Latest WPP Director Deals

Traded Action Notifier PriceAmountValue
02-Dec-24 Transfer From Joanne Wilson 0.000p 18,673 £0.00
02-Dec-24 Sell Joanne Wilson 860.43p 8,794 £75,666.48

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Note 6: Forecast figures based on normalised accounts.

 

WPP Market Data

Currency UK Pounds
Share Price 831.20p
Change Today 2.00p
% Change 0.24 %
52 Week High 893.60p
52 Week Low 678.80p
Volume 418,666
Shares Issued 1,078.80m
Market Cap £8,967m
Beta 1.18
RiskGrade 162

WPP Star Ratings

Compare performance with the sector and the market.
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Key: vs Market vs Sector
Value
67.55% above the market average67.55% above the market average67.55% above the market average67.55% above the market average67.55% above the market average
42.22% above the sector average42.22% above the sector average42.22% above the sector average42.22% above the sector average42.22% above the sector average
Price Trend
56.52% above the market average56.52% above the market average56.52% above the market average56.52% above the market average56.52% above the market average
47.83% above the sector average47.83% above the sector average47.83% above the sector average47.83% above the sector average47.83% above the sector average
Income
10.30% above the market average10.30% above the market average10.30% above the market average10.30% above the market average10.30% above the market average
5.26% above the sector average5.26% above the sector average5.26% above the sector average5.26% above the sector average5.26% above the sector average
Growth
94.98% below the market average94.98% below the market average94.98% below the market average94.98% below the market average94.98% below the market average
95.12% below the sector average95.12% below the sector average95.12% below the sector average95.12% below the sector average95.12% below the sector average

What The Brokers Say

Strong Buy 3
Buy 3
Neutral 8
Sell 2
Strong Sell 1
Total 17
neutral
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WPP Dividends

  Latest Previous
  Interim Final
Ex-Div 10-Oct-24 06-Jun-24
Paid 01-Nov-24 05-Jul-24
Amount 15.00p 24.40p

Trades for 24-Dec-2024

Time Volume / Share Price
12:35 3,260 @ 831.20p
12:35 1,239 @ 831.20p
12:35 1,993 @ 831.20p
12:35 269,793 @ 831.20p
12:35 580 @ 831.20p

WPP Key Personnel

CEO Mark Read
CFO Joanne Wilson

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