profit from every £100 of sales.
£0£100
PageGroup
£2.11-0.66% today
-10.8% in 1 year
1-year low £1.031-year high £2.41
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 £72.72 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 PageGroup sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from £1.99 billion in 2022 to £1.60 billion in 2025, with £9.02 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
PageGroup handed back more cash to shareholders than it generated last year.
£54M
Free cash flow 2025£37M
Bought back its own shares£8M
Paid as dividends£54M
Cash vs. debt£31M vs. £132M
PageGroup vs. similar companies
PageGroup grows the slowest of these 5 and is the most expensive for its profits.
| Company | Profit from £100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per £1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| PageGroup | 72.7× · Very expensive | ||
 Robert Half International | 32.3× · Expensive | ||
 Korn Ferry | 14.9× · Cheap | ||
 TriNet Group | 19.5× · Fair price | ||
 ManpowerGroup | No profit yet |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads PageGroup'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,990 | 2,010 | 1,739 | 1,597 | |
| 1,076 | 1,007 | 843 | 770 | |
| 196 | 119 | 52 | 21 | |
| 258 | 188 | 118 | 80 | |
| 139 | 77 | 28 | 9 | |
| 0.44 | 0.24 | 0.09 | 0.03 | |
| 54.1% | 50.1% | 48.5% | 48.2% | |
| 9.9% | 5.9% | 3.0% | 1.3% | |
| 7.0% | 3.8% | 1.6% | 0.6% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 795 | 705 | 650 | 576 |
| Cash | 131 | 90 | 95 | 31 |
| Total debt | 110 | 111 | 137 | 132 |
| Total liabilities | 443 | 398 | 388 | 361 |
| 352 | 306 | 262 | 215 | |
| 319 | 317 | 315 | 313 | |
| 32.0% | 21.7% | 10.3% | 4.9% | |
| 39.5% | 25.1% | 10.8% | 4.2% |
Cash flow
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 185 | 153 | 127 | 50 | |
| 32 | 31 | 18 | 12 | |
| 153 | 122 | 108 | 37 | |
| Dividends paid | 133 | 100 | 52 | 54 |
| – | 18 | 13 | 8 | |
| 6 | 6 | 3 | 4 |
Valuation
- 72.7×
- –
- –
- 1.7×
- 0.4×
- 17.7×
- 9.5×
- 5.7%
- 1.4%
- 8.2%
Profitability
- 48.2%
- 1.3%
- 0.6%
- –
- 4.9%
- 17.2%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- −7.1%
- −59.5%
- –
- –
- −0.6%
Financial health
- 1.3×
- 0.62
- –
- 3.6×
- 1.47
- –
- –
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 25%of 982
Bottom 8%of 991
Bottom 7%of 875
Bottom 6%of 988
Top 36%of 988
8.2%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$82a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
594.1% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 144.2%
News
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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
45No pass
Benjamin Graham
50No pass
Philip Fisher
32No pass
Peter Lynch
20No pass
Joel Greenblatt
6No pass
Charlie Munger
38No pass
Terry Smith
34No pass
Questions about PageGroup
Is PageGroup a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers, priced as if everything goes right. 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 PageGroup AI analysis
What does PageGroup do?
PageGroup plc, together with its subsidiaries, provides recruitment consultancy and other ancillary services in the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and the Americas. It is in Staffing & Employment Services, based in Addlestone, United Kingdom, with 6,820 employees.
Does PageGroup pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 8.2% a year. In 2025 it paid out £53.6 million in dividends.
Is PageGroup stock halal?
Yes. PageGroup passes our halal screen: its business is permitted and its debt is 20% of its market value, under the 30% limit. How we check
How has PageGroup stock done over the past year?
Down 10.8% over the past twelve months, to £2.11. It traded between £1.03 and £2.41 and is 12.7% below its high.
Who are PageGroup's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Robert Half International, Korn Ferry, TriNet Group and ManpowerGroup. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with PageGroup's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.