profit from every €100 of sales.
€0€100
Befesa
€39.50-1.00% today
+38.0% since Dec 21, 25
1-year low €27.701-year high €39.90
Trading close to its highest price of 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 €19.63 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 Befesa sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from €1.14 billion in 2022 to €1.18 billion in 2025, with €80.5 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Befesa handed back 19% of the cash it generated last year.
€26M
Free cash flow 2025€136M
Bought back its own shares–
Paid as dividends€26M
Cash vs. debt€143M vs. €695M
Befesa vs. similar companies
Befesa grows in the middle 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Befesa | 19.6× · Fair price | ||
 Waste Management | 35.8× · Expensive | ||
 Republic Services | 36.0× · Expensive | ||
 Waste Connections | 45.1× · Expensive | ||
 Veolia Environnement SA | 21.0× · Fair price |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Befesa'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,136 | 1,181 | 1,239 | 1,183 | |
| 569 | 605 | 660 | 686 | |
| 115 | 88 | 121 | 157 | |
| 221 | 185 | 198 | 232 | |
| 106 | 58 | 51 | 81 | |
| 2.66 | 1.45 | 1.27 | 2.01 | |
| 50.1% | 51.2% | 53.2% | 58.0% | |
| 10.1% | 7.4% | 9.8% | 13.3% | |
| 9.4% | 4.9% | 4.1% | 6.8% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 1,977 | 1,946 | 1,978 | 1,874 |
| Cash | 162 | 107 | 103 | 143 |
| Total debt | 711 | 711 | 721 | 695 |
| Total liabilities | 1,157 | 1,068 | 1,132 | 1,056 |
| 805 | 824 | 830 | 803 | |
| 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | |
| 7.1% | 4.7% | 5.2% | 7.0% | |
| 13.2% | 7.0% | 6.1% | 10.0% |
Cash flow
| In millions of EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 137 | 147 | 192 | 212 | |
| 107 | 105 | 79 | 76 | |
| 31 | 43 | 113 | 136 | |
| Dividends paid | 50 | 50 | 29 | 26 |
| – | – | – | – | |
| – | – | – | – |
Valuation
- 19.6×
- –
- –
- 1.8×
- 1.3×
- 11.6×
- 9.2×
- 8.6%
- 5.1%
- 1.6%
Profitability
- 58.0%
- 13.3%
- 6.8%
- –
- 7.0%
- 6.0%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- +1.3%
- −8.9%
- –
- –
- +0.0%
Financial health
- 2.4×
- 0.87
- –
- 4.5×
- 1.32
- –
- –
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 42%of 984
Top 27%of 987
Top 44%of 875
Bottom 22%of 988
Top 19%of 987
1.6%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$16a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
31.8% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 18.9%
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
54No pass
Benjamin Graham
62Pass
Philip Fisher
47No pass
Peter Lynch
21No pass
Joel Greenblatt
36No pass
Charlie Munger
39No pass
Terry Smith
41No pass
Questions about Befesa
Is Befesa 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 Befesa AI analysis
What does Befesa do?
Befesa S.A. offers environmental recycling services to the steel and aluminum industries in the European, Asian, and North American markets. It operates in two segments, Steel Dust Recycling Services and Aluminium Salt Slags Recycling Services. It is in Waste Management.
Does Befesa pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 1.6% a year, about 32% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out €25.6 million in dividends.
Is Befesa stock halal?
No. Befesa does not pass our halal screen: its debt is 44% of its market value, at or above the 33% limit. How we check
Who are Befesa's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Waste Management, Republic Services, Waste Connections and Veolia Environnement SA. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Befesa's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.