Babcock International Group (BAB)

Sector:

Defense and Aeronautics

Index:

FTSE 250

468.40p
   
  • Change Today:
    -3.80p
  • 52 Week High: 565.50
  • 52 Week Low: 378.00
  • Currency: UK Pounds
  • Shares Issued: 505.60m
  • Volume: 851,091
  • Market Cap: £2,368.21m
  • RiskGrade: 290
  • Beta: 0.01

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 1.1% 0.0%
Div Cover 6.2 5.1
Op Mrgn 5.5% 7.3%
ROCE 39.4%  
Latest F'cast
P/E 15.2 10.8
PEG 0.2 0.3
Pr/Revenue 0.5 0.5
Pr/Book 5.8  
Latest F'cast
Revenue -1.1% 4.0%
PBT 3395.2% 52.7%
EPS 74.0% 40.6%
DPS n/a 68.6%

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 4,563.61 330.96 43.31p 10.8 0.3 +41% 8.43p 0.0%
31-Mar-26 4,747.89 364.25 48.77p 9.6 0.8 +13% 11.01p 0.0%
31-Mar-27 4,949.78 398.23 53.66p 8.7 0.9 +10% 14.53p 0.0%

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BAB Company Announcements

Director/PDMR Shareholding 06-Sep-2024 11:48 RNS
Director/PDMR Shareholding - Replacement 29-Aug-2024 16:33 RNS
Director/PDMR Shareholding 29-Aug-2024 13:26 RNS

BAB ShareCast News

Sector movers: Defence shares drag on market ami... 03-Sep-2024 ShareCast
London close: Stocks finish higher as US inflati... 26-Jul-2024 ShareCast
Babcock profits rise amid uplift in global defen... 26-Jul-2024 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
05-Sep-24 Sell David Mellors 500.58p 276,512 £1,384,150.26
05-Sep-24 Exercise of option David Mellors 0.000p 586,808 £0.00
28-Aug-24 Sell David Lockwood 529.00p 395,007 £2,089,587.01

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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 468.40p
Change Today -3.80p
% Change -0.80 %
52 Week High 565.50
52 Week Low 378.00
Volume 851,091
Shares Issued 505.60m
Market Cap £2,368.21m
Beta 0.01
RiskGrade 290

BAB Star Ratings

Compare performance with the sector and the market.
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Key: vs Market vs Sector
Value
70.39% below the market average70.39% below the market average70.39% below the market average70.39% below the market average70.39% 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
41.00% above the market average41.00% above the market average41.00% above the market average41.00% above the market average41.00% above the market average
81.82% below the sector average81.82% below the sector average81.82% below the sector average81.82% below the sector average81.82% below the sector average
Income
39.48% below the market average39.48% below the market average39.48% below the market average39.48% below the market average39.48% below the market average
50% below the sector average50% below the sector average50% below the sector average50% below the sector average50% below the sector average
Growth
57.73% above the market average57.73% above the market average57.73% above the market average57.73% above the market average57.73% above the market average
9.09% above the sector average9.09% above the sector average9.09% above the sector average9.09% above the sector average9.09% 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
  Final Interim
Ex-Div 22-Aug-24 23-Nov-23
Paid 30-Sep-24 19-Jan-24
Amount 3.30p 1.70p

Trades for 16-Sep-2024

Time Volume / Share Price
16:12 1 @ 469.80p
16:12 1 @ 469.80p
15:43 1 @ 470.80p
15:43 0 @ 470.80p
15:53 15 @ 469.60p

BAB Key Personnel

Chair Ruth Cairnie
CEO David Lockwood
CFO David Mellors

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