profit from every £100 of sales.
£0£100
Balfour Beatty
£8.88-0.56% today
+32.1% in 1 year
1-year low £6.451-year high £9.45
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 £15.72 for every £1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
It holds more cash than debt.
No debt5 years
Money in, money out
What Balfour Beatty sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from £7.63 billion in 2022 to £9.49 billion in 2025, with £263 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Balfour Beatty handed back 36% of the cash it generated last year.
Buybacks £157M£64M
Free cash flow 2025£607M
Bought back its own shares£157M
Paid as dividends£64M
Cash vs. debt£1.7B vs. £1.0B
Balfour Beatty vs. similar companies
Balfour Beatty 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Balfour Beatty | 15.7× · 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 Balfour Beatty'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7,629 | 7,993 | 8,234 | 9,489 | |
| 427 | 400 | 351 | 468 | |
| 170 | 134 | 71 | 188 | |
| 430 | 390 | 374 | 481 | |
| 288 | 197 | 178 | 263 | |
| 0.46 | 0.35 | 0.34 | – | |
| 5.6% | 5.0% | 4.3% | 4.9% | |
| 2.2% | 1.7% | 0.9% | 2.0% | |
| 3.8% | 2.5% | 2.2% | 2.8% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 5,123 | 5,265 | 5,632 | 6,093 |
| Cash | 1,160 | 1,108 | 1,293 | 1,667 |
| Total debt | 738 | 979 | 1,112 | 1,023 |
| Total liabilities | 3,740 | 4,057 | 4,502 | 4,941 |
| 1,378 | 1,198 | 1,121 | 1,143 | |
| 620 | 566 | 528 | – | |
| 11.3% | 9.5% | 8.2% | 12.4% | |
| 20.9% | 16.4% | 15.9% | 23.0% |
Cash flow
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 168 | 285 | 265 | 656 | |
| 32 | 96 | 28 | 49 | |
| 136 | 189 | 237 | 607 | |
| Dividends paid | 58 | 58 | 61 | 64 |
| 176 | 169 | 113 | 157 | |
| 9 | 15 | 10 | 16 |
Valuation
- 15.7×
- –
- –
- 3.6×
- 0.4×
- 6.8×
- 7.3×
- 14.7%
- 6.4%
- 1.5%
Profitability
- 4.9%
- 2.0%
- 2.8%
- –
- 12.4%
- 10.4%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- +7.5%
- –
- –
- –
- −6.6%
Financial health
- -1.3×
- 0.90
- –
- 10.2×
- 1.02
- –
- –
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 25%of 983
Bottom 10%of 991
Top 29%of 880
Top 46%of 990
Top 7%of 988
1.5%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$15a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
24.3% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 10.5%
News
No recent news on file.
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
1/7Passes 1 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
61Pass
Benjamin Graham
50No pass
Philip Fisher
45No pass
Peter Lynch
42No pass
Joel Greenblatt
47No pass
Charlie Munger
44No pass
Terry Smith
44No pass
Questions about Balfour Beatty
Is Balfour Beatty a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers at a fair price. 1 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 Balfour Beatty AI analysis
What does Balfour Beatty do?
Balfour Beatty plc finances, develops, builds, maintains, and operates infrastructure in the United Kingdom, the United States, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Construction Services, Support Services, Infrastructure Investments. It is in Engineering & Construction, based in London, United Kingdom, with 25,667 employees.
Does Balfour Beatty pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 1.5% a year, about 24% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out £64.0 million in dividends.
Is Balfour Beatty stock halal?
No. Balfour Beatty does not pass our halal screen: its cash and confirmed interest-bearing investments are 40% of its market value, at or above the 33% limit. How we check
How has Balfour Beatty stock done over the past year?
Up 32.1% over the past twelve months, to £8.88. It traded between £6.45 and £9.45 and is 6.1% below its high.
Who are Balfour Beatty'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 Balfour Beatty's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.