profit from every £100 of sales.
£0£100
Kier Group
£3.21-0.86% today
+48.4% in 1 year
1-year low £1.911-year high £3.30
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, 2021 to 2024.
0%20% a year
You pay £31.92 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 Kier Group sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from £3.26 billion in 2021 to £3.91 billion in 2024, with £42.7 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Kier Group handed back 5% of the cash it generated last year.
Buybacks £4M£7M
Free cash flow 2024£212M
Bought back its own shares£4M
Paid as dividends£7M
Cash vs. debt£1.6B vs. £1.6B
Kier Group vs. similar companies
Kier Group 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kier Group | 31.9× · Expensive | ||
 Quanta Services | 88.2× · Very expensive | ||
 Larsen & Toubro | 35.4× · Expensive | ||
 Ferrovial | 45.3× · Expensive | ||
 Comfort Systems USA | 38.1× · Expensive |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Kier 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 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,261 | 3,144 | 3,381 | 3,905 | |
| 284 | 264 | 306 | 335 | |
| 44 | 19 | 66 | 95 | |
| 119 | 109 | 174 | 190 | |
| -0 | 13 | 41 | 43 | |
| – | 0.03 | 0.09 | 0.10 | |
| 8.7% | 8.4% | 9.1% | 8.6% | |
| 1.3% | 0.6% | 2.0% | 2.4% | |
| -0.0% | 0.4% | 1.2% | 1.1% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of GBP | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 2,281 | 2,239 | 3,318 | 3,464 |
| Cash | 391 | 298 | 1,390 | 1,563 |
| Total debt | 564 | 465 | 1,514 | 1,575 |
| Total liabilities | 1,846 | 1,684 | 2,805 | 2,944 |
| 436 | 555 | 513 | 520 | |
| – | 455 | 442 | 452 | |
| 3.6% | 3.1% | 3.3% | 3.9% | |
| -0.1% | 2.3% | 8.0% | 8.2% |
Cash flow
| In millions of GBP | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48 | 74 | 184 | 230 | |
| 10 | 17 | 8 | 19 | |
| 38 | 57 | 175 | 212 | |
| Dividends paid | – | – | – | 7 |
| 1 | 13 | 12 | 4 | |
| 7 | 9 | 8 | 9 |
Valuation
- 31.9×
- –
- –
- 1.7×
- 0.3×
- 6.4×
- 7.2×
- 15.5%
- 3.1%
- 0.5%
Profitability
- 8.6%
- 2.4%
- 1.1%
- –
- 3.9%
- 3.5%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- +6.2%
- –
- –
- –
- +0.8%
Financial health
- 0.1×
- 3.03
- –
- 2.7×
- 0.88
- –
- –
How it ranks in Industrials
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Bottom 18%of 982
Bottom 12%of 991
Bottom 27%of 876
Bottom 48%of 989
Top 6%of 988
0.5%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$5a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
17.1% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 3.4%
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
30No pass
Benjamin Graham
23No pass
Philip Fisher
29No pass
Peter Lynch
18No pass
Joel Greenblatt
32No pass
Charlie Munger
20No pass
Terry Smith
25No pass
Questions about Kier Group
Is Kier Group a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers, but the price is high. 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 Kier Group AI analysis
What does Kier Group do?
Kier Group plc primarily engages in the construction business in the United Kingdom and internationally. The company operates through four segments: Construction, Infrastructure Services, Property and Corporate. It is in Engineering & Construction, based in Salford, United Kingdom, with 10,361 employees.
Does Kier Group pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 0.5% a year, about 17% of its yearly profit. In 2024 it paid out £7.30 million in dividends.
Is Kier Group stock halal?
No. Kier Group does not pass our halal screen: its debt is 116% of its market value, at or above the 33% limit. How we check
How has Kier Group stock done over the past year?
Up 48.4% over the past twelve months, to £3.21. It traded between £1.91 and £3.30 and is 2.7% below its high.
Who are Kier Group's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Quanta Services, Larsen & Toubro, Ferrovial and Comfort Systems USA. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Kier Group's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.