profit from every €100 of sales.
€0€100
NV Bekaert SA
€42.75+3.51% today
+14.2% since Dec 22, 25
1-year low €37.101-year high €44.70
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 €30.16 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 NV Bekaert SA sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from €5.00 billion in 2022 to €3.71 billion in 2025, with €67.4 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
NV Bekaert SA handed back 69% of the cash it generated last year.
Buybacks €94M€100M
Free cash flow 2025€280M
Bought back its own shares€94M
Paid as dividends€100M
Cash vs. debt€527M vs. €716M
NV Bekaert SA vs. similar companies
NV Bekaert SA grows the slowest of these 5 and is priced in the middle for its profits.
| Company | Profit from €100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per €1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| NV Bekaert SA | 30.2× · Expensive | ||
 China International Marine Containers (Group) | 218.8× · Very expensive | ||
 Commercial Metals | 10.7× · Cheap | ||
 Aurubis | 11.3× · Cheap | ||
 Sinomach Heavy Equipment Group CO.,LTD | 93.1× · Very expensive |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads NV Bekaert SA'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,004 | 4,328 | 3,958 | 3,706 | |
| 665 | 705 | 655 | 482 | |
| 311 | 336 | 298 | 167 | |
| 514 | 486 | 447 | 291 | |
| 269 | 255 | 239 | 67 | |
| 4.75 | 4.73 | 4.55 | – | |
| 13.3% | 16.3% | 16.6% | 13.0% | |
| 6.2% | 7.8% | 7.5% | 4.5% | |
| 5.4% | 5.9% | 6.0% | 1.8% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 4,829 | 4,081 | 4,162 | 3,802 |
| Cash | 728 | 632 | 504 | 527 |
| Total debt | 1,236 | 899 | 803 | 716 |
| Total liabilities | 2,600 | 1,915 | 1,850 | 1,705 |
| 2,093 | 2,113 | 2,258 | 2,062 | |
| 57 | 54 | 53 | – | |
| 7.4% | 8.1% | 7.6% | 3.3% | |
| 12.8% | 12.1% | 10.6% | 3.3% |
Cash flow
| In millions of EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 340 | 440 | 374 | 450 | |
| 185 | 210 | 222 | 169 | |
| 155 | 230 | 152 | 280 | |
| Dividends paid | 86 | 89 | 94 | 100 |
| 97 | 99 | 30 | 94 | |
| 0 | -0 | – | 3 |
Valuation
- 30.2×
- –
- –
- 1.0×
- 0.5×
- 7.2×
- 7.6×
- 13.8%
- 3.3%
- 4.9%
Profitability
- 13.0%
- 4.5%
- 1.8%
- –
- 3.2%
- 6.3%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- −9.5%
- –
- –
- –
- −3.0%
Financial health
- 0.7×
- 0.35
- –
- 3.7×
- 1.62
- –
- –
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 16%of 980
Bottom 22%of 986
Bottom 31%of 866
Bottom 4%of 986
Top 7%of 988
4.9%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$49a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
147.7% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 35.5%
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
49No pass
Benjamin Graham
64Pass
Philip Fisher
40No pass
Peter Lynch
33No pass
Joel Greenblatt
22No pass
Charlie Munger
35No pass
Terry Smith
26No pass
Questions about NV Bekaert SA
Is NV Bekaert SA a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers, but the price is high. 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 NV Bekaert SA AI analysis
What does NV Bekaert SA do?
NV Bekaert SA provides steel wire transformation and coating technologies worldwide. The company operates through four segments: Rubber Reinforcement, Steel Wire Solutions, Specialty Businesses, and Bridon-Bekaert Ropes Group. It is in Metal Fabrication, based in Zwevegem, Belgium, with 18,213 employees.
Does NV Bekaert SA pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 4.9% a year, about 148% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out €99.5 million in dividends.
Is NV Bekaert SA stock halal?
No. NV Bekaert SA does not pass our halal screen: its debt is 35% of its market value, at or above the 33% limit. How we check
Who are NV Bekaert SA's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are China International Marine Containers (Group), Commercial Metals, Aurubis and Sinomach Heavy Equipment Group CO.,LTD. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with NV Bekaert SA's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 12, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.