Babcock International Group (BAB)

Sector:

Defense and Aeronautics

Index:

FTSE 100

737.00p
   
  • Change Today:
    -7.00p
  • 52 Week High: 755.50
  • 52 Week Low: 462.40
  • Currency: UK Pounds
  • Shares Issued: 505.60m
  • Volume: 982,930
  • Market Cap: £3,726.25m
  • 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 0.7% 0.0%
Div Cover 6.2 6.6
Op Mrgn 5.5% 7.1%
ROCE 48.7%  
Latest F'cast
P/E 23.9 13.6
PEG 0.3 0.3
Pr/Revenue 0.8 0.6
Pr/Book 9.2  
Latest F'cast
Revenue -1.1% 11.0%
PBT 3395.2% 59.5%
EPS 74.0% 47.8%
DPS n/a 38.5%

BAB Fundamentals

Year Ending Revenue (£m) Pre-tax (£m) EPS P/E PEG EPS Grth. Div Yield
31-Mar-20 4,428.50 (88.90) 58.40p 6.6 n/a -30% 7.20p 1.9%
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%

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-25 4,874.99 345.55 45.52p 16.2 0.3 +48% 6.93p 0.0%
31-Mar-26 5,085.73 381.58 50.45p 14.6 1.3 +11% 8.79p 0.0%
31-Mar-27 5,312.22 418.48 55.58p 13.3 1.3 +10% 10.56p 0.0%

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BAB Company Announcements

Babcock awarded five-year British Army contract 26-Mar-2025 07:30 RNS
Hargreaves Lansdown 19-Mar-2025 18:00 RNS
Holding(s) in Company 07-Feb-2025 15:16 RNS

BAB ShareCast News

London close: Stocks higher as Reeves delivers S... 26-Mar-2025 ShareCast
Babcock secures £1bn contract extension with MOD 26-Mar-2025 ShareCast
Sunday newspaper round-up: BP, Defence, Tesla 09-Mar-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

No deals were found in the last 28 days.

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.

 

BAB Market Data

Currency UK Pounds
Share Price 737.00p
Change Today -7.00p
% Change -0.94 %
52 Week High 755.50
52 Week Low 462.40
Volume 982,930
Shares Issued 505.60m
Market Cap £3,726.25m
RiskGrade 290

BAB Star Ratings

Compare performance with the sector and the market.
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Key: vs Market vs Sector
Value
85.68% below the market average85.68% below the market average85.68% below the market average85.68% below the market average85.68% below the market average
45.45% below the sector average45.45% below the sector average45.45% below the sector average45.45% below the sector average45.45% below the sector average
Price Trend
95.42% above the market average95.42% above the market average95.42% above the market average95.42% above the market average95.42% above the market average
66.67% above the sector average66.67% above the sector average66.67% above the sector average66.67% above the sector average66.67% above the sector average
Income
58.21% below the market average58.21% below the market average58.21% below the market average58.21% below the market average58.21% 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
72.26% above the market average72.26% above the market average72.26% above the market average72.26% above the market average72.26% above the market average
45.45% above the sector average45.45% above the sector average45.45% above the sector average45.45% above the sector average45.45% above the sector average

What The Brokers Say

Strong Buy 6
Buy 3
Neutral 2
Sell 0
Strong Sell 0
Total 11
buy
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BAB Dividends

  Latest Previous
  Interim Final
Ex-Div 05-Dec-24 22-Aug-24
Paid 17-Jan-25 30-Sep-24
Amount 2.00p 3.30p

Trades for 28-Mar-2025

Time Volume / Share Price
15:59 0 @ 737.00p
15:59 0 @ 737.00p
15:59 0 @ 737.00p
16:00 3 @ 737.50p
15:42 3 @ 738.50p

BAB Key Personnel

Chair Ruth Cairnie
CEO David Lockwood
CFO David Mellors

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