profit from every £100 of sales.
£0£100
SSE
£26.81+1.21% today
+42.7% in 1 year
1-year low £18.691-year high £27.58
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 £26.92 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 SSE sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from £12.5 billion in 2023 to £10.2 billion in 2026, with £1.21 billion of profit last year.
SalesProfit
SSE vs. similar companies
SSE grows in the middle of these 5 and is priced in the middle for its profits.
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads SSE'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12,491 | 10,457 | 10,132 | 10,187 | |
| -160 | 4,350 | 3,864 | 3,774 | |
| -576 | 2,889 | 2,229 | 1,993 | |
| 832 | 3,672 | 3,227 | 3,122 | |
| -123 | 1,711 | 1,189 | 1,209 | |
| -0.11 | 1.57 | 1.08 | 1.05 | |
| -1.3% | 41.6% | 38.1% | 37.1% | |
| -4.6% | 27.6% | 22.0% | 19.6% | |
| -1.0% | 16.4% | 11.7% | 11.9% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of GBP | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 27,177 | 28,270 | 30,364 | 35,354 |
| Cash | 892 | 1,036 | 1,091 | 1,543 |
| Total debt | 8,905 | 9,140 | 10,604 | 10,121 |
| Total liabilities | 16,094 | 16,467 | 17,671 | 18,952 |
| 10,434 | 11,248 | 12,064 | 15,650 | |
| 1,077 | 1,093 | 1,100 | 1,147 | |
| 0.7% | 10.3% | 7.2% | 6.2% | |
| -1.2% | 15.2% | 9.9% | 7.7% |
Cash flow
| In millions of GBP | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,494 | 3,860 | 2,477 | 3,435 | |
| 1,816 | 2,513 | 3,131 | 4,444 | |
| -322 | 1,348 | -654 | -1,008 | |
| Dividends paid | 474 | 918 | 402 | 601 |
| 108 | 0 | 72 | 0 | |
| 19 | 20 | 22 | 30 |
Valuation
- 26.9×
- –
- –
- 2.1×
- 3.2×
- –
- 13.2×
- -3.1%
- 3.7%
- 1.8%
Profitability
- 37.1%
- 19.6%
- 11.9%
- –
- 6.2%
- 6.1%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- −6.6%
- –
- –
- –
- +2.1%
Financial health
- 2.7×
- 0.65
- –
- 7.0×
- 1.20
- –
- –
How it ranks in Utilities
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Top 38%of 401
Top 47%of 396
Bottom 23%of 365
Bottom 13%of 401
Bottom 32%of 400
1.8%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$18a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
49.7% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earnsNews
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
27No pass
Benjamin Graham
37No pass
Philip Fisher
40No pass
Peter Lynch
42No pass
Joel Greenblatt
23No pass
Charlie Munger
25No pass
Terry Smith
16No pass
Questions about SSE
Is SSE a good stock to buy?
A solid business 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 SSE AI analysis
What does SSE do?
SSE plc engages in the generation, transmission, distribution, and supply of electricity. It is in Utilities - Diversified, based in Perth, United Kingdom.
Does SSE pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 1.8% a year, about 50% of its yearly profit. In 2026 it paid out £601 million in dividends.
Is SSE stock halal?
Questionable. SSE sits in a grey zone: its debt is 31% of its market value, between 30% and 33%. How we check
How has SSE stock done over the past year?
Up 42.7% over the past twelve months, to £26.81. It traded between £18.69 and £27.58 and is 2.8% below its high.
Who are SSE's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Iberdrola, Enel SpA, Engie SA and E.ON. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with SSE's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 9, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.