profit from every £100 of sales.
£0£100
Babcock International Group
£9.90-0.58% today
-19.0% in 1 year
1-year low £8.871-year high £15.02
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 £19.50 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 Babcock International Group sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from £4.10 billion in 2022 to £4.83 billion in 2025, with £247 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Babcock International Group handed back 25% of the cash it generated last year.
Buybacks £19M£27M
Free cash flow 2025£181M
Bought back its own shares£19M
Paid as dividends£27M
Cash vs. debt£647M vs. £1.0B
Babcock International Group vs. similar companies
Babcock International Group grows the slowest of these 5 and is the cheapest for its profits.
| Company | Profit from £100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per £1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock International Group | 19.5× · Fair price | ||
 Quanta Services | 88.2× · Very expensive | ||
 Larsen & Toubro | 35.4× · Expensive | ||
 Ferrovial | 45.3× · Expensive | ||
 Comfort Systems USA | 38.1× · Expensive |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Babcock International 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 GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,102 | 4,439 | 4,390 | 4,831 | |
| 345 | – | – | – | |
| 61 | 123 | 245 | 362 | |
| 462 | 239 | 378 | 499 | |
| 164 | -35 | 166 | 247 | |
| 0.32 | -0.07 | 0.32 | 0.48 | |
| 8.4% | – | – | – | |
| 1.5% | 2.8% | 5.6% | 7.5% | |
| 4.0% | -0.8% | 3.8% | 5.1% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 4,601 | 3,310 | 3,504 | 3,690 |
| Cash | 1,146 | 452 | 571 | 647 |
| Total debt | 2,145 | 1,017 | 998 | 1,026 |
| Total liabilities | 3,899 | 2,939 | 3,098 | 3,068 |
| 682 | 354 | 389 | 604 | |
| 511 | 515 | 515 | 514 | |
| 6.9% | 3.1% | 14.2% | 17.5% | |
| 24.1% | -9.9% | 42.6% | 40.9% |
Cash flow
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 261 | 315 | 309 | |
| 203 | 125 | 142 | 128 | |
| -196 | 136 | 172 | 181 | |
| Dividends paid | – | – | 9 | 27 |
| 0 | 0 | 13 | 19 | |
| 6 | 9 | 12 | 14 |
Valuation
- 19.5×
- –
- 1.36
- 8.9×
- 1.0×
- 26.7×
- 10.4×
- 3.7%
- 5.1%
- 0.6%
Profitability
- –
- 7.5%
- 5.1%
- –
- 17.5%
- 10.4%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- +5.6%
- +14.4%
- –
- –
- +0.2%
Financial health
- 0.8×
- 1.70
- –
- 7.4×
- 0.90
- –
- –
How it ranks in Industrials
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Top 11%of 978
Bottom 41%of 985
Top 43%of 866
Bottom 42%of 984
Top 50%of 987
0.6%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$6a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
10.8% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 14.8%
News
BAB declares $0.01 dividendSeeking Alpha · Sep 11, 2026The newest story we have is from Sep 11, 2026.
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
39No pass
Benjamin Graham
29No pass
Philip Fisher
53No pass
Peter Lynch
51No pass
Joel Greenblatt
46No pass
Charlie Munger
43No pass
Terry Smith
37No pass
Questions about Babcock International Group
Is Babcock International Group a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers at a fair price. 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 Babcock International Group AI analysis
What does Babcock International Group do?
Babcock International Group PLC, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, development, manufacture, and integration of specialist systems for aerospace, defense, and security in the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, Africa, North America, Australasia, and internationally. It is in Engineering & Construction, based in London, United Kingdom, with 27,000 employees.
Does Babcock International Group pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 0.6% a year, about 11% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out £26.7 million in dividends.
Is Babcock International Group stock halal?
Yes. Babcock International Group passes our halal screen: its business is permitted and its debt is 21% of its market value, under the 30% limit. How we check
How has Babcock International Group stock done over the past year?
Down 19.0% over the past twelve months, to £9.90. It traded between £8.87 and £15.02 and is 34.1% below its high.
Who are Babcock International Group's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Quanta Services, Larsen & Toubro, Ferrovial and Comfort Systems USA. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Babcock International Group's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.