profit from every €100 of sales.
€0€100
Nexans
€132.90+4.15% today
+6.5% since Dec 21, 25
1-year low €112.601-year high €167.90
Trading in the middle of its range for 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 €16.45 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 Nexans sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from €8.37 billion in 2022 to €7.81 billion in 2025, with €352 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Nexans handed back 25% of the cash it generated last year.
€116M
Free cash flow 2025€464M
Bought back its own shares–
Paid as dividends€116M
Cash vs. debt€1.6B vs. €1.9B
Nexans vs. similar companies
Nexans 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nexans | 16.4× · Fair price | ||
 Contemporary Amperex Technology | 21.1× · Fair price | ||
 ABB | 32.4× · Expensive | ||
 Vertiv | 59.7× · Expensive | ||
 Delta Electronics (Thailand) Public | 97.8× · Very expensive |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Nexans'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8,369 | 7,790 | 6,917 | 7,810 | |
| 996 | 995 | 856 | 907 | |
| 393 | 419 | 387 | 425 | |
| 556 | 507 | 466 | 616 | |
| 245 | 221 | 279 | 352 | |
| 5.47 | 4.92 | 6.20 | 7.84 | |
| 11.9% | 12.8% | 12.4% | 11.6% | |
| 4.7% | 5.4% | 5.6% | 5.4% | |
| 2.9% | 2.8% | 4.0% | 4.5% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 6,402 | 6,536 | 7,673 | 8,036 |
| Cash | 1,134 | 1,131 | 1,254 | 1,634 |
| Total debt | 1,316 | 1,345 | 1,934 | 1,900 |
| Total liabilities | 4,735 | 4,825 | 5,841 | 6,022 |
| 1,652 | 1,695 | 1,813 | 1,995 | |
| 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | |
| 9.5% | 8.8% | 5.8% | 7.1% | |
| 14.8% | 13.0% | 15.4% | 17.6% |
Cash flow
| In millions of EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 544 | 700 | 776 | 847 | |
| 298 | 377 | 319 | 383 | |
| 246 | 700 | 457 | 464 | |
| Dividends paid | 54 | 93 | 102 | 116 |
| – | – | – | – | |
| 16 | 13 | 0 | 39 |
Valuation
- 16.4×
- –
- 1.29
- 3.2×
- 0.7×
- 12.5×
- 9.8×
- 8.0%
- 6.1%
- 2.0%
Profitability
- 11.6%
- 5.4%
- 4.5%
- –
- 7.1%
- 7.8%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- −2.3%
- +12.7%
- –
- –
- +0.0%
Financial health
- 0.4×
- 0.95
- –
- 7.0×
- 1.22
- –
- –
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 47%of 982
Bottom 29%of 989
Top 31%of 870
Bottom 12%of 986
Top 20%of 988
2.0%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$20a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
33.0% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 25.0%
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
54No pass
Benjamin Graham
51No pass
Philip Fisher
47No pass
Peter Lynch
47No pass
Joel Greenblatt
32No pass
Charlie Munger
36No pass
Terry Smith
39No pass
Questions about Nexans
Is Nexans a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers 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 Nexans AI analysis
What does Nexans do?
Nexans S.A. manufactures and sells cables in France, Canada, Norway, Italy, and internationally. It operates through PWR-Grid & Connect, PWR-Transmission, and Other segments. It is in Electrical Equipment & Parts, based in Courbevoie, France, with 25,700 employees.
Does Nexans pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 2.0% a year, about 33% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out €116 million in dividends.
Is Nexans stock halal?
Questionable. Nexans sits in a grey zone: its debt is 33% of its market value, between 30% and 33%. How we check
Who are Nexans's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Contemporary Amperex Technology, ABB, Vertiv and Delta Electronics (Thailand) Public. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Nexans's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 11, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.