profit from every £100 of sales.
£0£100
Clarkson
£46.68+0.47% today
+28.8% in 1 year
1-year low £35.051-year high £54.05
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 £21.83 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 Clarkson sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from £604 million in 2022 to £631 million in 2025, with £65.7 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Clarkson handed back 58% of the cash it generated last year.
£33M
Free cash flow 2025£57M
Bought back its own shares–
Paid as dividends£33M
Cash vs. debt£399M vs. £56M
Clarkson vs. similar companies
Clarkson grows in the middle 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clarkson | 21.8× · Fair price | ||
 Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone | 34.2× · Expensive | ||
 A.P. Møller - Mærsk | 16.0× · Fair price | ||
 Cosco Shipping | 7.1× · Cheap | ||
 Hapag-Lloyd | 24.8× · Fair price |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Clarkson'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 604 | 639 | 661 | 631 | |
| 582 | 609 | 628 | 592 | |
| 101 | 100 | 101 | 77 | |
| 120 | 130 | 134 | 111 | |
| 76 | 84 | 85 | 66 | |
| 2.46 | 2.74 | 2.75 | – | |
| 96.4% | 95.2% | 94.9% | 93.8% | |
| 16.7% | 15.6% | 15.3% | 12.2% | |
| 12.5% | 13.1% | 12.8% | 10.4% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 832 | 876 | 900 | 979 |
| Cash | 372 | 397 | 430 | 399 |
| Total debt | 48 | 43 | 38 | 56 |
| Total liabilities | 419 | 419 | 405 | 451 |
| 410 | 453 | 492 | 525 | |
| 31 | 31 | 31 | – | |
| 16.7% | 16.7% | 16.1% | 11.4% | |
| 18.5% | 18.5% | 17.3% | 12.5% |
Cash flow
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 179 | 155 | 115 | 64 | |
| 10 | 11 | 7 | 7 | |
| 169 | 145 | 107 | 57 | |
| Dividends paid | 26 | 28 | 32 | 33 |
| – | – | – | – | |
| 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
Valuation
- 21.8×
- –
- –
- 2.8×
- 2.3×
- 25.2×
- 9.9×
- 4.0%
- 4.6%
- 2.3%
Profitability
- 93.8%
- 12.2%
- 10.4%
- –
- 11.4%
- 15.2%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- +1.5%
- –
- –
- –
- +0.2%
Financial health
- -3.1×
- 0.11
- –
- 49.2×
- 1.78
- –
- –
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 29%of 979
Top 33%of 984
Bottom 49%of 866
Bottom 19%of 983
Top 47%of 987
2.3%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$23a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
50.2% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 57.9%
News
Kelly Clarkson’s expensive purchases: A multi-million dollar real-estate portfolio that spans the countryMarketWatch · Oct 19, 2026Insider 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
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
69Pass
Benjamin Graham
57No pass
Philip Fisher
58No pass
Peter Lynch
50No pass
Joel Greenblatt
42No pass
Charlie Munger
61Pass
Terry Smith
51No pass
Questions about Clarkson
Is Clarkson a good stock to buy?
A solid business at a fair price. 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 Clarkson AI analysis
What does Clarkson do?
Clarkson PLC provides shipping services in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, and the Asia-Pacific. It operates through Broking, Financial, Support, and Research segments. It is in Marine Shipping, based in London, United Kingdom, with 2,314 employees.
Does Clarkson pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 2.3% a year, about 50% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out £33.0 million in dividends.
Is Clarkson stock halal?
Questionable. Clarkson sits in a grey zone: short-term investments may earn interest; type not reported. How we check
How has Clarkson stock done over the past year?
Up 28.8% over the past twelve months, to £46.68. It traded between £35.05 and £54.05 and is 13.6% below its high.
Who are Clarkson's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone, A.P. Møller - Mærsk, Cosco Shipping and Hapag-Lloyd. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Clarkson's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.