profit from every £100 of sales.
£0£100
Intertek Group
£59.30-0.25% today
+22.9% in 1 year
1-year low £35.821-year high £59.65
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 £26.50 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 Intertek Group sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from £3.19 billion in 2022 to £3.43 billion in 2025, with £344 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Intertek Group handed back more cash to shareholders than it generated last year.
Buybacks £368M£252M
Free cash flow 2025£392M
Bought back its own shares£368M
Paid as dividends£252M
Cash vs. debt£329M vs. £1.6B
Intertek Group vs. similar companies
Intertek 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intertek Group | 26.5× · Fair price | ||
 Cintas | 44.3× · Expensive | ||
 RELX | 25.0× · Fair price | ||
 Thomson Reuters | 31.3× · Expensive | ||
 Copart | 19.4× · Fair price |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Intertek 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,193 | 3,329 | 3,393 | 3,432 | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| 452 | 486 | 536 | 542 | |
| 675 | 676 | 725 | 745 | |
| 289 | 297 | 345 | 344 | |
| 1.78 | 1.83 | 2.13 | 2.16 | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| 14.2% | 14.6% | 15.8% | 15.8% | |
| 9.0% | 8.9% | 10.2% | 10.0% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 3,660 | 3,538 | 3,599 | 3,762 |
| Cash | 322 | 299 | 343 | 329 |
| Total debt | 1,381 | 1,218 | 1,142 | 1,648 |
| Total liabilities | 2,342 | 2,178 | 2,154 | 2,634 |
| 1,284 | 1,323 | 1,402 | 1,083 | |
| 162 | 162 | 162 | 159 | |
| 12.9% | 13.8% | 15.7% | 14.9% | |
| 22.5% | 22.5% | 24.6% | 31.7% |
Cash flow
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 560 | 535 | 597 | 537 | |
| 117 | 117 | 135 | 145 | |
| 443 | 418 | 462 | 392 | |
| Dividends paid | 171 | 176 | 206 | 252 |
| 2 | 12 | 25 | 368 | |
| 18 | 21 | 24 | 24 |
Valuation
- 26.5×
- –
- 4.03
- 7.5×
- 2.7×
- 23.2×
- 14.0×
- 4.3%
- 3.8%
- 2.8%
Profitability
- –
- 15.8%
- 10.0%
- –
- 14.9%
- 14.3%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- +2.4%
- +6.6%
- –
- –
- −0.6%
Financial health
- 1.8×
- 1.52
- –
- 11.1×
- 1.08
- –
- –
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 15%of 979
Top 23%of 984
Bottom 38%of 862
Bottom 23%of 983
Top 42%of 986
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
73.4% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 64.3%
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
52No pass
Benjamin Graham
38No pass
Philip Fisher
53No pass
Peter Lynch
19No pass
Joel Greenblatt
31No pass
Charlie Munger
48No pass
Terry Smith
47No pass
Questions about Intertek Group
Is Intertek Group a good stock to buy?
A solid business at a fair price. 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 Intertek Group AI analysis
What does Intertek Group do?
Intertek Group plc provides quality assurance solutions to various industries in the United Kingdom, the United States, China, Australia, and internationally. It is in Specialty Business Services, based in London, United Kingdom, with 45,425 employees.
Does Intertek Group pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 2.8% a year, about 73% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out £252 million in dividends.
Is Intertek Group stock halal?
Yes. Intertek Group passes our halal screen: its business is permitted and its debt is 18% of its market value, under the 30% limit. How we check
How has Intertek Group stock done over the past year?
Up 22.9% over the past twelve months, to £59.30. It traded between £35.82 and £59.65, close to its high.
Who are Intertek Group's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Cintas, RELX, Thomson Reuters and Copart. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Intertek Group's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 9, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.