profit from every £100 of sales.
£0£100
Drax Group
£8.54+0.47% today
+16.7% in 1 year
1-year low £7.131-year high £9.18
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 £39.41 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 Drax Group sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from £7.78 billion in 2022 to £5.39 billion in 2025, with £73.0 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Drax Group handed back 61% of the cash it generated last year.
Buybacks £221M£96M
Free cash flow 2025£516M
Bought back its own shares£221M
Paid as dividends£96M
Cash vs. debt£302M vs. £1.1B
Drax Group vs. similar companies
Drax 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drax Group | 39.4× · Expensive | ||
 China Yangtze Power | 21.0× · Fair price | ||
 Huaneng Lancang River Hydropower | 23.7× · Fair price | ||
 Verbund | 17.1× · Fair price | ||
 Adani Green Energy | 141.8× · Very expensive |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Drax 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7,775 | 7,733 | 6,163 | 5,391 | |
| 1,023 | 1,954 | 1,877 | 1,513 | |
| 241 | 1,017 | 914 | 632 | |
| 394 | 1,137 | 1,102 | 508 | |
| 85 | 562 | 527 | 73 | |
| 0.21 | 1.40 | 1.35 | 0.20 | |
| 13.2% | 25.3% | 30.5% | 28.1% | |
| 3.1% | 13.1% | 14.8% | 11.7% | |
| 1.1% | 7.3% | 8.5% | 1.4% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 5,934 | 6,038 | 5,389 | 4,495 |
| Cash | 238 | 380 | 356 | 302 |
| Total debt | 1,594 | 1,561 | 1,293 | 1,078 |
| Total liabilities | 4,610 | 4,055 | 3,302 | 2,782 |
| 1,311 | 1,971 | 2,077 | 1,713 | |
| 414 | 403 | 391 | 361 | |
| 4.0% | 19.4% | 19.1% | 7.1% | |
| 6.5% | 28.5% | 25.4% | 4.3% |
Cash flow
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 208 | 836 | 860 | 810 | |
| 175 | 441 | 388 | 294 | |
| 33 | 395 | 472 | 516 | |
| Dividends paid | 79 | 86 | 94 | 96 |
| 0 | 149 | 115 | 221 | |
| 10 | 14 | 14 | 16 |
Valuation
- 39.4×
- –
- –
- 1.7×
- 0.5×
- 5.6×
- 7.2×
- 17.9%
- 2.5%
- 3.3%
Profitability
- 28.1%
- 11.7%
- 1.4%
- –
- 7.1%
- 12.4%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- −11.5%
- −0.5%
- –
- –
- −4.5%
Financial health
- 1.5×
- 0.63
- –
- 3.6×
- 1.07
- –
- –
How it ranks in Utilities
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Top 29%of 398
Bottom 28%of 393
Bottom 17%of 363
Bottom 8%of 398
Top 11%of 397
3.3%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$33a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
131.1% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 18.6%
News
Brookfield, QIA to invest $3.4B in UK data center project with DraxSeeking Alpha · Nov 3, 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
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
46No pass
Benjamin Graham
47No pass
Philip Fisher
38No pass
Peter Lynch
18No pass
Joel Greenblatt
33No pass
Charlie Munger
33No pass
Terry Smith
26No pass
Questions about Drax Group
Is Drax Group a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers, but the price is high. 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 Drax Group AI analysis
What does Drax Group do?
Drax Group plc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in renewable power generation in the United Kingdom. The company operates through four segments: Pellet Production, Biomass Generation, Flexible Generation, and Energy Solutions. It is in Utilities - Renewable, based in Selby, United Kingdom, with 2,974 employees.
Does Drax Group pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 3.3% a year, about 131% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out £95.7 million in dividends.
Is Drax Group stock halal?
No. Drax Group does not pass our halal screen: its debt is 38% of its market value, at or above the 33% limit. How we check
How has Drax Group stock done over the past year?
Up 16.7% over the past twelve months, to £8.54. It traded between £7.13 and £9.18 and is 7.0% below its high.
Who are Drax Group's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are China Yangtze Power, Huaneng Lancang River Hydropower, Verbund and Adani Green Energy. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Drax Group's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 12, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.