profit from every £100 of sales.
£0£100
Serco Group
£2.90+0.97% today
+18.9% in 1 year
1-year low £2.191-year high £3.25
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 £19.05 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 Serco Group sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from £4.53 billion in 2022 to £4.88 billion in 2025, with £146 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Serco Group handed back 29% of the cash it generated last year.
Buybacks £77M£43M
Free cash flow 2025£414M
Bought back its own shares£77M
Paid as dividends£43M
Cash vs. debt£199M vs. £909M
Serco Group vs. similar companies
Serco 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serco Group | 19.1× · Fair price | ||
 Cintas | 44.7× · Expensive | ||
 RELX | 25.1× · Fair price | ||
 Thomson Reuters | 31.3× · Expensive | ||
 Copart | 19.3× · Fair price |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Serco 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 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,534 | 4,874 | 4,787 | 4,877 | |
| 494 | 496 | 519 | 513 | |
| 208 | 189 | 224 | 214 | |
| 392 | 449 | 326 | 470 | |
| 155 | 202 | 44 | 146 | |
| 0.13 | 0.18 | 0.04 | 0.14 | |
| 10.9% | 10.2% | 10.8% | 10.5% | |
| 4.6% | 3.9% | 4.7% | 4.4% | |
| 3.4% | 4.2% | 0.9% | 3.0% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 2,750 | 2,610 | 2,660 | 2,796 |
| Cash | 56 | 94 | 183 | 199 |
| Total debt | 709 | 660 | 806 | 909 |
| Total liabilities | 1,721 | 1,577 | 1,818 | 1,922 |
| 1,028 | 1,034 | 843 | 874 | |
| 1,215 | 1,129 | 1,078 | 1,035 | |
| 9.5% | 12.2% | 6.0% | 10.5% | |
| 15.1% | 19.6% | 5.2% | 16.7% |
Cash flow
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 327 | 393 | 419 | 447 | |
| 19 | 25 | 34 | 33 | |
| 308 | 368 | 385 | 414 | |
| Dividends paid | 30 | 34 | 38 | 43 |
| 107 | 112 | 164 | 77 | |
| 16 | 14 | 15 | 14 |
Valuation
- 19.1×
- –
- 5.90
- 3.0×
- 0.6×
- 6.7×
- 7.4×
- 14.9%
- 5.2%
- 1.6%
Profitability
- 10.5%
- 4.4%
- 3.0%
- –
- 10.5%
- 9.5%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- +2.5%
- +3.2%
- –
- –
- −5.2%
Financial health
- 1.5×
- 1.04
- –
- 5.3×
- 0.93
- –
- –
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 33%of 981
Bottom 22%of 984
Top 41%of 863
Bottom 23%of 984
Top 7%of 986
1.6%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$16a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
29.7% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 10.5%
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
50No pass
Benjamin Graham
46No pass
Philip Fisher
41No pass
Peter Lynch
14No pass
Joel Greenblatt
37No pass
Charlie Munger
32No pass
Terry Smith
34No pass
Questions about Serco Group
Is Serco 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 Serco Group AI analysis
What does Serco Group do?
Serco Group plc provides public services in the United Kingdom, Europe, North America, the Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. It is in Specialty Business Services, based in Hook, United Kingdom, with 54,000 employees.
Does Serco Group pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 1.6% a year, about 30% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out £43.3 million in dividends.
Is Serco Group stock halal?
Questionable. Serco Group sits in a grey zone: its debt is 33% of its market value, between 30% and 33%. How we check
How has Serco Group stock done over the past year?
Up 18.9% over the past twelve months, to £2.90. It traded between £2.19 and £3.25 and is 10.7% below its high.
Who are Serco Group's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Cintas, RELX, Thomson Reuters and Copart. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Serco Group's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 10, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.