profit from every £100 of sales.
£0£100
Hollywood Bowl Group
£2.93-1.02% today
+4.1% in 1 year
1-year low £2.351-year high £3.08
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 £14.08 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 Hollywood Bowl Group sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from £194 million in 2022 to £251 million in 2025, with £34.6 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Hollywood Bowl Group handed back 97% of the cash it generated last year.
Buybacks £15M£21M
Free cash flow 2025£37M
Bought back its own shares£15M
Paid as dividends£21M
Cash vs. debt£15M vs. £236M
Hollywood Bowl Group vs. similar companies
Hollywood Bowl Group 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hollywood Bowl Group | 14.1× · Cheap | ||
 Oriental Land | 49.6× · Expensive | ||
 Carnival Corporation & | 13.2× · Cheap | ||
 ANTA Sports Products | 13.7× · Cheap | ||
 BANDAI NAMCO Holdings | 33.5× · Expensive |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Hollywood Bowl 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 194 | 215 | 230 | 251 | |
| 131 | 137 | 145 | 157 | |
| 55 | 57 | 61 | 59 | |
| 77 | 79 | 82 | 91 | |
| 37 | 34 | 30 | 35 | |
| 0.22 | 0.20 | 0.17 | 0.20 | |
| 67.4% | 63.6% | 63.2% | 62.6% | |
| 28.6% | 26.3% | 26.3% | 23.7% | |
| 19.3% | 15.9% | 13.0% | 13.8% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 363 | 384 | 418 | 439 |
| Cash | 56 | 52 | 29 | 15 |
| Total debt | 188 | 194 | 218 | 236 |
| Total liabilities | 225 | 236 | 266 | 288 |
| 138 | 148 | 152 | 151 | |
| 172 | 172 | 173 | 172 | |
| 12.7% | 12.2% | 11.2% | 11.4% | |
| 27.1% | 23.1% | 19.7% | 22.9% |
Cash flow
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 75 | 63 | 68 | 74 | |
| 22 | 23 | 39 | 37 | |
| 53 | 41 | 29 | 37 | |
| Dividends paid | 5 | 25 | 26 | 21 |
| – | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Valuation
- 14.1×
- –
- –
- 3.2×
- 1.9×
- 13.2×
- 7.8×
- 7.6%
- 7.1%
- 4.3%
Profitability
- 62.6%
- 23.7%
- 13.8%
- –
- 11.4%
- 11.9%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- +9.0%
- −2.6%
- –
- –
- −0.0%
Financial health
- 2.4×
- 1.56
- –
- 4.0×
- 0.61
- –
- –
How it ranks in Consumer Discretionary
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Top 31%of 977
Top 8%of 992
Top 31%of 856
Top 45%of 993
Top 32%of 980
4.3%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$43a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
60.2% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 56.3%
News
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The seven classic investing rulebooks
2/7Passes 2 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
65Pass
Benjamin Graham
52No pass
Philip Fisher
65Pass
Peter Lynch
33No pass
Joel Greenblatt
50No pass
Charlie Munger
59No pass
Terry Smith
57No pass
Questions about Hollywood Bowl Group
Is Hollywood Bowl Group a good stock to buy?
A solid business, and the price looks low. 2 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 Hollywood Bowl Group AI analysis
What does Hollywood Bowl Group do?
Hollywood Bowl Group plc operates ten-pin bowling and mini-golf centers in the United Kingdom and Canada. The company also supplies and installs bowling equipment. It operates centers under the Hollywood Bowl and Splitsville brands. It is in Leisure, based in Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom, with 2,800 employees.
Does Hollywood Bowl Group pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 4.3% a year, about 60% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out £20.8 million in dividends.
Is Hollywood Bowl Group stock halal?
No. Hollywood Bowl Group does not pass our halal screen: its debt is 48% of its market value, at or above the 33% limit. How we check
How has Hollywood Bowl Group stock done over the past year?
Up 4.1% over the past twelve months, to £2.93. It traded between £2.35 and £3.08 and is 4.9% below its high.
Who are Hollywood Bowl Group's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Oriental Land, Carnival Corporation &, ANTA Sports Products and BANDAI NAMCO Holdings. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Hollywood Bowl Group's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 12, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.