Babcock International Group (BAB)

Sector:

Defense and Aeronautics

Index:

FTSE 100

1,180.00p
   
  • Change Today:
      10.00p
  • 52 Week High: 1,330.00p
  • 52 Week Low: 466.00p
  • Currency: UK Pounds
  • Shares Issued: 501.64m
  • Volume: 1,650,216
  • Market Cap: £5,919m
  • RiskGrade: 290
  • Beta: 0.04

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 0.6% 0.0%
Div Cover 7.7 6.4
Op Mrgn 7.5% 8.0%
ROCE 45.7%  
Latest F'cast
P/E 23.5 21.4
PEG 0.4 2.5
Pr/Revenue 1.2 1.2
Pr/Book 9.5  
Latest F'cast
Revenue 10.0% 4.5%
PBT 51.9% 22.7%
EPS 63.3% 8.5%
DPS 30.0% 31.6%

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 5,048.02 403.87 54.58p 21.6 2.5 +8% 8.55p 0.0%
31-Mar-27 5,282.25 440.66 60.96p 19.4 1.7 +12% 11.11p 0.0%
31-Mar-28 5,526.24 479.95 67.47p 17.5 1.6 +11% 11.78p 0.0%

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BAB Company Announcements

Transaction in Own Shares 16-Oct-2025 07:00 RNS
Transaction in Own Shares 15-Oct-2025 07:00 RNS
Transaction in Own Shares 14-Oct-2025 07:00 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 1,180.00p
Change Today 10.00p
% Change 0.85 %
52 Week High 1,330.00p
52 Week Low 466.00p
Volume 1,650,216
Shares Issued 501.64m
Market Cap £5,919m
Beta 0.04
RiskGrade 290

BAB Star Ratings

Compare performance with the sector and the market.
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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 16-Oct-2025

Time Volume / Share Price
16:25 2 @ 1,183.00p
16:15 1 @ 1,182.00p
16:22 9 @ 1,183.00p
16:22 5 @ 1,183.00p
15:48 1 @ 1,179.00p

BAB Key Personnel

Chair Ruth Cairnie
CEO David Lockwood
CFO David Mellors

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