profit from every €100 of sales.
€0€100
Havas
€18.60+0.00% today
+17.7% since Dec 23, 25
1-year low €13.901-year high €19.30
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 €9.61 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 Havas sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from €2.77 billion in 2022 to €2.91 billion in 2025, with €189 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Havas handed back 32% of the cash it generated last year.
€79M
Free cash flow 2025€327M
Bought back its own shares€25M
Paid as dividends€79M
Cash vs. debt€249M vs. €371M
Havas vs. similar companies
Havas grows the slowest 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Havas | 9.6× · Cheap | ||
 AppLovin | 40.7× · Expensive | ||
 Publicis Groupe | 16.0× · Fair price | ||
 Omnicom Group | No profit yet | ||
 Focus Media Information Technology | 26.9× · Fair price |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Havas'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 EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,765 | 2,872 | 2,863 | 2,913 | |
| 2,590 | 2,695 | 2,736 | 2,783 | |
| 315 | 315 | 328 | 351 | |
| 425 | 426 | 415 | 423 | |
| 171 | 167 | 173 | 189 | |
| 1.72 | 1.68 | 1.73 | – | |
| 93.7% | 93.8% | 95.6% | 95.5% | |
| 11.4% | 11.0% | 11.5% | 12.0% | |
| 6.2% | 5.8% | 6.0% | 6.5% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 6,796 | 6,901 | 6,676 | 6,562 |
| Cash | 222 | 322 | 234 | 249 |
| Total debt | 434 | 374 | 323 | 371 |
| Total liabilities | 4,908 | 4,942 | 4,769 | 4,721 |
| 1,863 | 1,931 | 1,881 | 1,810 | |
| 99 | 99 | 100 | – | |
| 9.3% | 9.4% | 9.8% | 10.6% | |
| 9.2% | 8.6% | 9.2% | 10.4% |
Cash flow
| In millions of EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 370 | 341 | 242 | 363 | |
| 37 | 35 | 34 | 36 | |
| 333 | 306 | 208 | 327 | |
| Dividends paid | 77 | 85 | 235 | 79 |
| 33 | 18 | 0 | 25 | |
| – | 0 | 11 | 6 |
Valuation
- 9.6×
- –
- –
- 0.9×
- 0.6×
- 5.6×
- 4.6×
- 18.0%
- 10.4%
- 4.3%
Profitability
- 95.5%
- 12.0%
- 6.5%
- –
- 10.6%
- 9.8%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- +1.8%
- –
- –
- –
- +0.3%
Financial health
- 0.3×
- 0.20
- –
- 26.0×
- 0.84
- –
- –
How it ranks in Communication Services
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Top 31%of 436
Bottom 48%of 438
Top 15%of 347
Bottom 31%of 440
Top 9%of 440
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
41.8% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 24.2%
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
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
79Pass
Benjamin Graham
82Pass
Philip Fisher
57No pass
Peter Lynch
45No pass
Joel Greenblatt
59No pass
Charlie Munger
52No pass
Terry Smith
48No pass
Questions about Havas
Is Havas a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers, 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 Havas AI analysis
What does Havas do?
Havas N.V. provides communications and marketing services in France, the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, North America, Latin America, the Asia-Pacific, and Africa. It is in Advertising Agencies, based in Puteaux, France, with 21,542 employees.
Does Havas pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 4.3% a year, about 42% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out €79.0 million in dividends.
Is Havas stock halal?
Yes. Havas passes our halal screen: its business is permitted and its debt is 20% of its market value, under the 30% limit. How we check
Who are Havas's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are AppLovin, Publicis Groupe, Omnicom Group and Focus Media Information Technology. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Havas's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.