profit from every €100 of sales.
€0€100
Louis Hachette Group
€1.79+1.07% today
+19.7% since Dec 21, 25
1-year low €1.431-year high €1.90
Trading in the middle of its range for the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2022 to 2025.
0%20% a year
You pay €80.77 for every €1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
of earnings would pay off all its debt.
No debt5 years
Money in, money out
What Louis Hachette Group sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from €7.25 billion in 2022 to €9.62 billion in 2025, with €22.0 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Louis Hachette Group handed back 6% of the cash it generated last year.
€59M
Free cash flow 2025€1.1B
Bought back its own shares€1M
Paid as dividends€59M
Cash vs. debt€633M vs. €5.1B
Louis Hachette Group vs. similar companies
Louis Hachette Group grows in the middle of these 5 and is the most expensive for its profits.
| Company | Profit from €100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per €1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louis Hachette Group | 80.8× · Very expensive | ||
 Cintas | 45.1× · Expensive | ||
 RELX | 25.4× · Fair price | ||
 Thomson Reuters | 31.4× · Expensive | ||
 Copart | 19.2× · Fair price |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Louis Hachette Group's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7,249 | 979 | 9,235 | 9,619 | |
| 293 | 499 | 4,142 | 4,382 | |
| 293 | 34 | 477 | 570 | |
| 282 | 229 | 1,309 | 1,379 | |
| 85 | 110 | 13 | 22 | |
| 0.09 | 0.11 | 0.01 | 0.02 | |
| 4.0% | 51.0% | 44.9% | 45.6% | |
| 4.0% | 3.5% | 5.2% | 5.9% | |
| 1.2% | 11.2% | 0.1% | 0.2% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 2,351 | 12,532 | 12,376 | 12,444 |
| Cash | 0 | 468 | 422 | 633 |
| Total debt | 193 | 5,136 | 4,863 | 5,122 |
| Total liabilities | 357 | 9,704 | 9,400 | 9,644 |
| 1,994 | 2,040 | 2,351 | 2,199 | |
| 992 | 992 | 992 | 1,100 | |
| 9.3% | 1.5% | 4.2% | 4.3% | |
| 4.3% | 5.4% | 0.6% | 1.0% |
Cash flow
| In millions of EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 220 | 1,296 | 1,333 | |
| 3 | 58 | 295 | 257 | |
| 22 | 162 | 1,001 | 1,076 | |
| Dividends paid | – | – | 55 | 59 |
| – | – | 0 | 1 | |
| – | – | – | – |
Valuation
- 80.8×
- –
- –
- 0.8×
- 0.2×
- 1.7×
- 4.5×
- 60.6%
- 1.2%
- 3.3%
Profitability
- 45.6%
- 5.9%
- 0.2%
- –
- 4.3%
- 4.8%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- +9.9%
- −38.4%
- –
- –
- +3.5%
Financial health
- 3.3×
- 2.33
- –
- 1.8×
- 0.79
- –
- –
How it ranks in Industrials
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Bottom 24%of 982
Bottom 32%of 988
Bottom 7%of 870
Top 35%of 985
Top 1%of 988
3.3%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$33a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
268.2% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 5.5%
News
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Insider trades
Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
No insider trades on file.
The seven classic investing rulebooks
0/7Passes 0 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass.
Warren Buffett
29No pass
Benjamin Graham
45No pass
Philip Fisher
19No pass
Peter Lynch
18No pass
Joel Greenblatt
28No pass
Charlie Munger
8No pass
Terry Smith
18No pass
Questions about Louis Hachette Group
Is Louis Hachette Group a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers, priced as if everything goes right. 0 of the 7 famous investors' published rulebooks we apply pass it. Whether it suits you depends on your goals and the price you pay; invest-like never tells anyone to buy or sell. The AI analysis lays out the case for and against. Read the Louis Hachette Group AI analysis
What does Louis Hachette Group do?
Louis Hachette Group S.A. engages in the publishing and travel retail and media businesses. It is in Specialty Business Services, based in Paris, France, with 26,749 employees.
Does Louis Hachette Group pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 3.3% a year, about 268% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out €59.0 million in dividends.
Is Louis Hachette Group stock halal?
No. Louis Hachette Group does not pass our halal screen: its debt is 288% of its market value, at or above the 33% limit. How we check
Who are Louis Hachette Group's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Cintas, RELX, Thomson Reuters and Copart. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Louis Hachette Group's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 11, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.