profit from every £100 of sales.
£0£100
Inchcape
£6.41+0.23% today
-8.0% in 1 year
1-year low £6.261-year high £8.90
Trading close to its lowest 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 £7.85 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 Inchcape sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from £8.13 billion in 2022 to £9.10 billion in 2025, with £272 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Inchcape handed back more cash to shareholders than it generated last year.
Buybacks £260M£101M
Free cash flow 2025£337M
Bought back its own shares£260M
Paid as dividends£101M
Cash vs. debt£635M vs. £1.3B
Inchcape vs. similar companies
Inchcape 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inchcape | 7.9× · Cheap | ||
 Carvana | 80.9× · Very expensive | ||
 Hotai Motor Co.,Ltd. | 15.7× · Fair price | ||
 USS | 22.4× · Fair price | ||
 AUTO1 Group | 48.8× · Expensive |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Inchcape'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8,133 | 9,382 | 9,263 | 9,100 | |
| 1,325 | 1,660 | 1,606 | 1,550 | |
| 400 | 570 | 584 | 563 | |
| 502 | 722 | 740 | 704 | |
| -11 | 270 | 421 | 272 | |
| -0.03 | 0.65 | 1.02 | 0.72 | |
| 16.3% | 17.7% | 17.3% | 17.0% | |
| 4.9% | 6.1% | 6.3% | 6.2% | |
| -0.1% | 2.9% | 4.5% | 3.0% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 6,964 | 7,139 | 5,638 | 5,849 |
| Cash | 973 | 594 | 512 | 635 |
| Total debt | 1,941 | 1,730 | 1,041 | 1,264 |
| Total liabilities | 5,397 | 5,519 | 4,164 | 4,509 |
| 1,533 | 1,521 | 1,379 | 1,257 | |
| 421 | 417 | 413 | 380 | |
| 8.4% | 13.1% | 18.9% | 17.4% | |
| -0.7% | 17.8% | 30.5% | 21.6% |
Cash flow
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 494 | 593 | 586 | 385 | |
| 68 | 93 | 79 | 48 | |
| 426 | 500 | 507 | 337 | |
| Dividends paid | 89 | 128 | 147 | 101 |
| 74 | 19 | 161 | 260 | |
| 10 | 15 | 18 | 15 |
Valuation
- 7.9×
- –
- –
- 2.3×
- 0.2×
- 6.3×
- 3.9×
- 15.8%
- 12.7%
- 4.7%
Profitability
- 17.0%
- 6.2%
- 3.0%
- –
- 17.4%
- 14.5%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- +3.8%
- –
- –
- –
- −3.4%
Financial health
- 0.9×
- 1.01
- –
- 3.3×
- 1.07
- –
- –
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 15%of 976
Bottom 36%of 991
Top 9%of 850
Bottom 31%of 991
Top 10%of 979
4.7%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$47a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
37.1% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 30.0%
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The seven classic investing rulebooks
1/7Passes 1 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
57No pass
Benjamin Graham
53No pass
Philip Fisher
45No pass
Peter Lynch
37No pass
Joel Greenblatt
70Pass
Charlie Munger
49No pass
Terry Smith
48No pass
Questions about Inchcape
Is Inchcape a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers, and the price looks low. 1 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 Inchcape AI analysis
What does Inchcape do?
Inchcape plc operates as an automotive distributor. It engages in the distribution, sales, and marketing of new and used vehicles, and parts. It is in Auto & Truck Dealerships, based in London, United Kingdom, with 16,209 employees.
Does Inchcape pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 4.7% a year, about 37% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out £101 million in dividends.
Is Inchcape stock halal?
No. Inchcape does not pass our halal screen: its debt is 59% of its market value, at or above the 33% limit. How we check
How has Inchcape stock done over the past year?
Down 8.0% over the past twelve months, to £6.41. It traded between £6.26 and £8.90 and is 28.0% below its high.
Who are Inchcape's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Carvana, Hotai Motor Co.,Ltd., USS and AUTO1 Group. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Inchcape's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 9, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.