profit from every £100 of sales.
£0£100
FirstGroup
£2.36-0.67% today
+12.2% in 1 year
1-year low £1.581-year high £2.37
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 £9.45 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 FirstGroup sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from £2.93 billion in 2022 to £4.65 billion in 2025, with £128 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
FirstGroup handed back 21% of the cash it generated last year.
Buybacks £92M£34M
Free cash flow 2025£598M
Bought back its own shares£92M
Paid as dividends£34M
Cash vs. debt£171M vs. £1.3B
FirstGroup vs. similar companies
FirstGroup 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FirstGroup | 9.4× · Cheap | ||
 Union Pacific | 25.2× · Fair price | ||
 CSX | 33.2× · Expensive | ||
 Canadian Pacific Kansas City | 28.2× · Fair price | ||
 Canadian National Railway | 23.1× · Fair price |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads FirstGroup'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,929 | 3,862 | 4,258 | 4,654 | |
| 0 | 1,059 | 1,568 | 1,813 | |
| 104 | 162 | 194 | 223 | |
| 875 | 897 | 655 | 850 | |
| 636 | 87 | -16 | 128 | |
| 0.60 | 0.11 | -0.02 | 0.21 | |
| 0.0% | 27.4% | 36.8% | 39.0% | |
| 3.6% | 4.2% | 4.6% | 4.8% | |
| 21.7% | 2.3% | -0.4% | 2.7% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 3,834 | 4,406 | 3,807 | 3,661 |
| Cash | 788 | 791 | 247 | 171 |
| Total debt | 1,389 | 2,044 | 1,599 | 1,347 |
| Total liabilities | 2,949 | 3,655 | 3,166 | 2,949 |
| 877 | 740 | 633 | 697 | |
| 1,093 | 764 | 689 | 623 | |
| 4.1% | 4.5% | 2.1% | 8.3% | |
| 72.6% | 11.8% | -2.5% | 18.3% |
Cash flow
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| -12 | 574 | 543 | 754 | |
| 252 | 178 | 219 | 156 | |
| -264 | 396 | 324 | 598 | |
| Dividends paid | – | 15 | 30 | 34 |
| 506 | 32 | 118 | 92 | |
| 5 | 6 | 16 | 11 |
Valuation
- 9.4×
- –
- –
- 1.3×
- 0.3×
- 2.0×
- 2.8×
- 49.6%
- 10.6%
- 2.8%
Profitability
- 39.0%
- 4.8%
- 2.7%
- –
- 8.3%
- 4.7%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- +16.7%
- −30.2%
- –
- –
- −17.1%
Financial health
- 1.4×
- 1.93
- –
- 3.7×
- 0.70
- –
- –
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 46%of 979
Bottom 23%of 984
Top 8%of 866
Top 15%of 985
Top 1%of 987
2.8%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$28a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
26.8% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 5.7%
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
43No pass
Benjamin Graham
51No pass
Philip Fisher
46No pass
Peter Lynch
26No pass
Joel Greenblatt
48No pass
Charlie Munger
37No pass
Terry Smith
36No pass
Questions about FirstGroup
Is FirstGroup a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers, and the price looks low. 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 FirstGroup AI analysis
What does FirstGroup do?
FirstGroup plc provides public transport services in the United Kingdom. It operates through First Bus and First Rail segments. The First Bus segment offers local bus services with a fleet of approximately 5,800 buses and coaches in the United Kingdom. It is in Railroads, based in London, United Kingdom, with 29,000 employees.
Does FirstGroup pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 2.8% a year, about 27% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out £34.2 million in dividends.
Is FirstGroup stock halal?
No. FirstGroup does not pass our halal screen: its debt is 111% of its market value, at or above the 33% limit. How we check
How has FirstGroup stock done over the past year?
Up 12.2% over the past twelve months, to £2.36. It traded between £1.58 and £2.37, close to its high.
Who are FirstGroup's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Union Pacific, CSX, Canadian Pacific Kansas City and Canadian National Railway. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with FirstGroup's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.