profit from every £100 of sales.
£0£100
ITV
£0.67+1.06% today
-10.0% in 1 year
1-year low £0.641-year high £0.85
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 £11.02 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 ITV sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from £3.73 billion in 2022 to £3.51 billion in 2025, with £220 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
ITV handed back more cash to shareholders than it generated last year.
£187M
Free cash flow 2025£148M
Bought back its own shares£38M
Paid as dividends£187M
Cash vs. debt£302M vs. £876M
ITV vs. similar companies
ITV 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ITV | 11.0× · Cheap | ||
 Nexstar Media Group | 56.9× · Expensive | ||
 TBS Holdings,Inc. | 21.2× · Fair price | ||
 Nippon Television Holdings | 15.3× · Fair price | ||
 Fuji Media Holdings | No profit yet |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads ITV'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,728 | 3,624 | 3,488 | 3,511 | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| 519 | 238 | 318 | 363 | |
| 656 | 344 | 734 | 473 | |
| 428 | 210 | 408 | 220 | |
| 0.11 | 0.05 | 0.10 | – | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| 13.9% | 6.6% | 9.1% | 10.3% | |
| 11.5% | 5.8% | 11.7% | 6.3% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 4,475 | 4,191 | 4,186 | 4,285 |
| Cash | 348 | 340 | 427 | 302 |
| Total debt | 962 | 878 | 838 | 876 |
| Total liabilities | 2,599 | 2,363 | 2,354 | 2,462 |
| 1,822 | 1,786 | 1,808 | 1,798 | |
| 4,046 | 4,059 | 3,977 | – | |
| 14.0% | 5.9% | 15.4% | 10.2% | |
| 23.5% | 11.8% | 22.6% | 12.2% |
Cash flow
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 304 | 385 | 333 | 202 | |
| 78 | 70 | 49 | 54 | |
| 226 | 315 | 284 | 148 | |
| Dividends paid | 201 | 201 | 198 | 187 |
| – | 0 | 199 | 38 | |
| 19 | 16 | 18 | 16 |
Valuation
- 11.0×
- –
- –
- 1.7×
- 0.7×
- 16.4×
- 6.3×
- 6.1%
- 9.1%
- 7.7%
Profitability
- –
- 10.3%
- 6.3%
- –
- 10.2%
- 11.4%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- −2.0%
- –
- –
- –
- −0.6%
Financial health
- 1.2×
- 0.49
- –
- 15.1×
- 1.29
- –
- –
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 33%of 438
Bottom 43%of 441
Top 20%of 347
Bottom 16%of 441
Top 50%of 443
7.7%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$77a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
85.0% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 126.4%
News
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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
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
53No pass
Benjamin Graham
72Pass
Philip Fisher
45No pass
Peter Lynch
37No pass
Joel Greenblatt
51No pass
Charlie Munger
40No pass
Terry Smith
27No pass
Questions about ITV
Is ITV 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 ITV AI analysis
What does ITV do?
ITV plc, a vertically integrated production, broadcasting, and streaming company, which creates, owns, and distributes content on various platforms worldwide. It operates through ITV Studios and Media & Entertainment segments. It is in Broadcasting, based in London, United Kingdom, with 6,866 employees.
Does ITV pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 7.7% a year, about 85% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out £187 million in dividends.
Is ITV stock halal?
No. ITV does not pass our halal screen: its debt is 36% of its market value, at or above the 33% limit. How we check
How has ITV stock done over the past year?
Down 10.0% over the past twelve months, to £0.67. It traded between £0.64 and £0.85 and is 21.5% below its high.
Who are ITV's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Nexstar Media Group, TBS Holdings,Inc., Nippon Television Holdings and Fuji Media Holdings. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with ITV's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 9, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.