profit from every £100 of sales.
£0£100
RS Group
£8.08-0.62% today
+45.1% in 1 year
1-year low £5.571-year high £8.15
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, 2023 to 2026.
0%20% a year
You pay £22.79 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 RS Group sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from £2.98 billion in 2023 to £2.88 billion in 2026, with £162 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
RS Group handed back 66% of the cash it generated last year.
£106M
Free cash flow 2026£211M
Bought back its own shares£34M
Paid as dividends£106M
Cash vs. debt£167M vs. £495M
RS Group vs. similar companies
RS 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RS Group | 22.8× · Fair price | ||
 W.W. Grainger | 40.9× · Expensive | ||
 Ferguson Enterprises | 26.8× · Fair price | ||
 Diploma | 52.5× · Expensive | ||
 Indutrade | 38.1× · Expensive |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads RS 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,982 | 2,942 | 2,904 | 2,881 | |
| 1,352 | 1,258 | 1,243 | 1,250 | |
| 402 | 284 | 260 | 247 | |
| 448 | 359 | 320 | 319 | |
| 285 | 179 | 153 | 162 | |
| 0.60 | 0.39 | 0.33 | 0.35 | |
| 45.3% | 42.8% | 42.8% | 43.4% | |
| 13.5% | 9.6% | 9.0% | 8.6% | |
| 9.5% | 6.1% | 5.3% | 5.6% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of GBP | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 2,531 | 2,880 | 2,621 | 2,671 |
| Cash | 260 | 259 | 148 | 167 |
| Total debt | 373 | 677 | 512 | 495 |
| Total liabilities | 1,196 | 1,461 | 1,266 | 1,257 |
| 1,334 | 1,418 | 1,354 | 1,414 | |
| 473 | 474 | 470 | 469 | |
| 16.8% | 9.9% | 9.4% | 9.4% | |
| 21.3% | 12.6% | 11.3% | 11.5% |
Cash flow
| In millions of GBP | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 307 | 197 | 259 | 264 | |
| 46 | 52 | 49 | 53 | |
| 260 | 145 | 210 | 211 | |
| Dividends paid | 89 | 104 | 105 | 106 |
| 2 | 2 | 47 | 34 | |
| 14 | 8 | 10 | 10 |
Valuation
- 22.8×
- –
- –
- 2.0×
- 1.3×
- 17.5×
- 12.6×
- 5.7%
- 4.4%
- 2.9%
Profitability
- 43.4%
- 8.6%
- 5.6%
- –
- 9.4%
- 11.4%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- −1.1%
- −16.9%
- –
- –
- −0.3%
Financial health
- 1.0×
- 0.35
- –
- 12.3×
- 1.79
- –
- –
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 40%of 982
Top 50%of 991
Bottom 46%of 875
Bottom 14%of 988
Top 35%of 988
2.9%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$29a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
65.4% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 50.2%
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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
56No pass
Benjamin Graham
61Pass
Philip Fisher
41No pass
Peter Lynch
20No pass
Joel Greenblatt
31No pass
Charlie Munger
44No pass
Terry Smith
42No pass
Questions about RS Group
Is RS Group a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers at a fair price. 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 RS Group AI analysis
What does RS Group do?
RS Group plc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the distribution of maintenance, repair, and operations products and service solutions in the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Mexico, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and internationally. It is in Industrial Distribution, based in London, United Kingdom, with 8,500 employees.
Does RS Group pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 2.9% a year, about 65% of its yearly profit. In 2026 it paid out £106 million in dividends.
Is RS Group stock halal?
Yes. RS Group passes our halal screen: its business is permitted and its debt is 13% of its market value, under the 30% limit. How we check
How has RS Group stock done over the past year?
Up 45.1% over the past twelve months, to £8.08. It traded between £5.57 and £8.15, close to its high.
Who are RS Group's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are W.W. Grainger, Ferguson Enterprises, Diploma and Indutrade. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with RS Group's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.