profit from every £100 of sales.
£0£100
QinetiQ Group
£4.85-3.04% today
+1.1% in 1 year
1-year low £4.061-year high £5.72
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, 2023 to 2026.
0%20% a year
You pay £22.98 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 QinetiQ Group sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from £1.58 billion in 2023 to £1.92 billion in 2026, with £108 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
QinetiQ Group handed back more cash to shareholders than it generated last year.
Buybacks £147M£49M
Free cash flow 2026£159M
Bought back its own shares£147M
Paid as dividends£49M
Cash vs. debt£259M vs. £423M
QinetiQ Group vs. similar companies
QinetiQ Group grows in the middle 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QinetiQ Group | 23.0× · Fair price | ||
 SpaceX | No profit yet | ||
 GE Aerospace | 39.4× · Expensive | ||
 RTX | 39.8× · Expensive | ||
 Airbus | 31.2× · Expensive |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads QinetiQ 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 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,581 | 1,912 | 1,932 | 1,923 | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| 153 | 177 | 152 | 194 | |
| 279 | 293 | 26 | 296 | |
| 154 | 140 | -186 | 108 | |
| 0.27 | 0.24 | -0.33 | – | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| 9.7% | 9.3% | 7.9% | 10.1% | |
| 9.8% | 7.3% | -9.6% | 5.6% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of GBP | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 2,072 | 2,106 | 1,828 | 1,738 |
| Cash | 151 | 231 | 291 | 259 |
| Total debt | 369 | 392 | 429 | 423 |
| Total liabilities | 1,104 | 1,180 | 1,202 | 1,185 |
| 968 | 926 | 627 | 553 | |
| 582 | 586 | 571 | – | |
| 11.5% | 11.5% | -6.0% | 13.6% | |
| 15.9% | 15.1% | -29.6% | 19.4% |
Cash flow
| In millions of GBP | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 206 | 243 | 221 | 232 | |
| 109 | 96 | 109 | 73 | |
| 97 | 147 | 113 | 159 | |
| Dividends paid | 43 | 46 | 48 | 49 |
| 1 | 17 | 109 | 147 | |
| 6 | 9 | 10 | 12 |
Valuation
- 23.0×
- –
- –
- 4.7×
- 1.3×
- 15.5×
- 8.9×
- 6.4%
- 4.4%
- 2.0%
Profitability
- –
- 10.1%
- 5.6%
- –
- 13.6%
- 7.6%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- +6.7%
- –
- –
- –
- −0.5%
Financial health
- 0.6×
- 0.76
- –
- 8.2×
- 1.13
- –
- –
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 21%of 985
Top 41%of 988
Bottom 46%of 874
Top 50%of 989
Top 29%of 987
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
45.3% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 30.6%
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
44No pass
Benjamin Graham
30No pass
Philip Fisher
42No pass
Peter Lynch
45No pass
Joel Greenblatt
38No pass
Charlie Munger
37No pass
Terry Smith
39No pass
Questions about QinetiQ Group
Is QinetiQ Group 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 QinetiQ Group AI analysis
What does QinetiQ Group do?
QinetiQ Group plc provides science and technology solution in the defense, security, and infrastructure markets in the United States, Australia, Canada, and Germany. It is in Aerospace & Defense, based in Farnborough, United Kingdom, with 7,500 employees.
Does QinetiQ Group pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 2.0% a year, about 45% of its yearly profit. In 2026 it paid out £48.7 million in dividends.
Is QinetiQ Group stock halal?
Questionable. QinetiQ Group sits in a grey zone: scholars disagree about its industry. How we check
How has QinetiQ Group stock done over the past year?
Up 1.1% over the past twelve months, to £4.85. It traded between £4.06 and £5.72 and is 15.2% below its high.
Who are QinetiQ Group's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are SpaceX, GE Aerospace, RTX and Airbus. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with QinetiQ Group's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.