profit from every £100 of sales.
£0£100
Bunzl
£28.92-0.28% today
+18.7% in 1 year
1-year low £19.891-year high £29.24
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 £19.64 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 Bunzl sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from £12.0 billion in 2022 to £11.8 billion in 2025, with £459 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Bunzl handed back 53% of the cash it generated last year.
Buybacks £205M£242M
Free cash flow 2025£842M
Bought back its own shares£205M
Paid as dividends£242M
Cash vs. debt£540M vs. £2.9B
Bunzl vs. similar companies
Bunzl 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bunzl | 19.6× · Fair price | ||
 Sysco | 21.6× · Fair price | ||
 US Foods | 34.4× · Expensive | ||
 Performance Food Group | 48.8× · Expensive | ||
 Jerónimo Martins, SGPS | 19.4× · Fair price |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Bunzl'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12,040 | 11,797 | 11,776 | 11,845 | |
| 3,025 | 3,188 | 3,393 | 3,418 | |
| 758 | 807 | 821 | 758 | |
| 1,036 | 1,182 | 1,229 | 1,202 | |
| 474 | 526 | 500 | 459 | |
| 1.41 | 1.56 | 1.49 | 1.41 | |
| 25.1% | 27.0% | 28.8% | 28.9% | |
| 6.3% | 6.8% | 7.0% | 6.4% | |
| 3.9% | 4.5% | 4.2% | 3.9% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 8,667 | 8,747 | 9,529 | 8,572 |
| Cash | 1,504 | 1,426 | 1,433 | 540 |
| Total debt | 3,131 | 3,086 | 3,723 | 2,895 |
| Total liabilities | 5,946 | 5,781 | 6,739 | 5,779 |
| 2,721 | 2,966 | 2,787 | 2,789 | |
| 337 | 337 | 337 | 326 | |
| 9.2% | 10.4% | 9.7% | 10.5% | |
| 17.4% | 17.7% | 18.0% | 16.5% |
Cash flow
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 952 | 904 | 911 | 913 | |
| 47 | 58 | 54 | 72 | |
| 905 | 846 | 857 | 842 | |
| Dividends paid | 191 | 210 | 229 | 242 |
| – | 0 | 248 | 205 | |
| 14 | 15 | 17 | 4 |
Valuation
- 19.6×
- –
- 414.61
- 2.7×
- 0.8×
- 10.7×
- 9.5×
- 9.3%
- 5.1%
- 2.7%
Profitability
- 28.9%
- 6.4%
- 3.9%
- –
- 10.5%
- 10.0%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- −0.5%
- +0.0%
- –
- –
- −1.1%
Financial health
- 2.0×
- 1.04
- –
- 4.5×
- 1.39
- –
- –
How it ranks in Consumer Staples
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Top 44%of 669
Bottom 30%of 672
Bottom 46%of 623
Bottom 16%of 671
Top 23%of 666
2.7%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$27a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
52.7% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 28.8%
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
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
54No pass
Benjamin Graham
51No pass
Philip Fisher
39No pass
Peter Lynch
10No pass
Joel Greenblatt
37No pass
Charlie Munger
35No pass
Terry Smith
36No pass
Questions about Bunzl
Is Bunzl 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 Bunzl AI analysis
What does Bunzl do?
Bunzl plc operates as a distribution and services company in the North America, Continental Europe, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and internationally. It is in Food Distribution, based in London, United Kingdom, with 26,777 employees.
Does Bunzl pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 2.7% a year, about 53% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out £242 million in dividends.
Is Bunzl stock halal?
Questionable. Bunzl sits in a grey zone: its debt is 32% of its market value, between 30% and 33%. How we check
How has Bunzl stock done over the past year?
Up 18.7% over the past twelve months, to £28.92. It traded between £19.89 and £29.24, close to its high.
Who are Bunzl's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Sysco, US Foods, Performance Food Group and Jerónimo Martins, SGPS. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Bunzl's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.