Costain Group (COST)

Sector:

Support

Index:

FTSE Small Cap

 104.50p
   
  • Change Today:
      0.000p
  • 52 Week High: 110.00
  • 52 Week Low: 47.20
  • Currency: UK Pounds
  • Shares Issued: 270.17m
  • Volume: 0
  • Market Cap: £282.33m
  • RiskGrade: 234

Costain Group Overview

Costain helps to improve lives with smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We deliver integrated smart solutions to meet urgent infrastructure needs across the UK. We help to safeguard the security, increase the capacity, improve customer service and drive efficiency in our clients’ infrastructure programmes.

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Financials

Latest F'cast
Div Yield 1.1% 0.0%
Div Cover 10.2 9.3
Op Mrgn 2.0% 3.2%
ROCE 13.5%  
Latest F'cast
P/E 8.6 8.5
PEG 0.4 10.3
Pr/Revenue 0.2 0.2
Pr/Book 1.3  
Latest F'cast
Revenue -6.3% -4.6%
PBT -5.8% 33.0%
EPS 23.2% 0.8%
DPS n/a 10.0%

Costain Group Fundamentals

Year Ending Revenue (£m) Pre-tax (£m) EPS P/E PEG EPS Grth. Div Yield
31-Dec-19 1,155.60 (6.60) 23.62p 6.4 n/a -34% 3.58p 2.4%
31-Dec-20 978.40 (96.10) (36.70)p n/a n/a n/a n/a 0.0%
31-Dec-21 1,135.20 (13.30) 9.60p 5.6 n/a n/a n/a 0.0%
31-Dec-22 1,421.40 32.80 9.90p 4.0 1.3 +3% n/a 0.0%
31-Dec-23 1,332.00 30.90 12.20p 5.2 0.2 +23% 1.20p 1.9%

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

Costain Group Forecasts

Year Ending Revenue (£m) Pre-tax (£m) EPS P/E PEG EPS Grth. Div Yield
31-Dec-24 1,270.50 41.10 12.30p 8.5 10.2 +1% 1.32p 0.0%
31-Dec-25 1,239.14 46.66 13.65p 7.7 0.7 +11% 1.43p 0.0%
31-Dec-26 1,271.50 49.99 14.60p 7.2 1.0 +7% 1.52p 0.0%

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Costain Group Company Announcements

Transaction in Own Shares 01-Nov-2024 07:00 RNS
Transaction in Own Shares 31-Oct-2024 07:00 RNS
Director/PDMR Shareholding 30-Oct-2024 10:23 RNS

Costain Group ShareCast News

Costain slumps as ASGC dumps entire stake in pla... 11-Sep-2024 ShareCast
Costain unveils £10m buyback as first-half profi... 21-Aug-2024 ShareCast
Costain JV wins £65m of work with Southern Water 26-Jun-2024 ShareCast

Costain Group Top Newspaper Links

Costain hungry for more takeovers 22-Aug-2014 Express & Star
Costain's North Sea contract extended 21-Aug-2014 The Herald
Mouchel board turns down Costain's bid approach 23-Dec-2010 The Independent

Latest Costain Group Director Deals

Traded Action Notifier PriceAmountValue
29-Oct-24 Sell Helen Willis 106.75p 132,249 £141,175.81
28-Oct-24 Sell Helen Willis 107.00p 234,555 £250,973.86
28-Oct-24 Exercise of option Helen Willis 0.000p 499,052 £0.00

Note 1: Prices and trades are provided by Digital Look Corporate Solutions and are delayed by at least 15 minutes.

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.

 

Costain Group Market Data

Currency UK Pounds
Share Price 104.50p
Change Today 0.000p
% Change 0.00 %
52 Week High 110.00
52 Week Low 47.20
Volume 0
Shares Issued 270.17m
Market Cap £282.33m
RiskGrade 234

Costain Group Star Ratings

Compare performance with the sector and the market.
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Key: vs Market vs Sector
Value
72.37% below the market average72.37% below the market average72.37% below the market average72.37% below the market average72.37% below the market average
40% below the sector average40% below the sector average40% below the sector average40% below the sector average40% below the sector average
Price Trend
94.97% above the market average94.97% above the market average94.97% above the market average94.97% above the market average94.97% above the market average
93.94% above the sector average93.94% above the sector average93.94% above the sector average93.94% above the sector average93.94% above the sector average
Income
83.13% below the market average83.13% below the market average83.13% below the market average83.13% below the market average83.13% below the market average
86.44% below the sector average86.44% below the sector average86.44% below the sector average86.44% below the sector average86.44% below the sector average
Growth
36.61% below the market average36.61% below the market average36.61% below the market average36.61% below the market average36.61% below the market average
32.61% below the sector average32.61% below the sector average32.61% below the sector average32.61% below the sector average32.61% below the sector average

What The Brokers Say

Strong Buy 3
Buy 0
Neutral 1
Sell 0
Strong Sell 0
Total 4
strong_buy
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Costain Group Dividends

  Latest Previous
  Interim Final
Ex-Div 12-Sep-24 18-Apr-24
Paid 18-Oct-24 28-May-24
Amount 0.40p 0.80p

Trades for --2024

Time Volume / Share Price
0 @ 0.000p

Costain Group Key Personnel

CEO Alex Vaughan
CFO Helen Willis

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