profit from every £100 of sales.
£0£100
Tesco
£5.60+1.49% today
+27.8% in 1 year
1-year low £4.131-year high £5.61
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 £19.42 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 Tesco sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from £65.3 billion in 2023 to £73.7 billion in 2026, with £1.79 billion of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Tesco handed back more cash to shareholders than it generated last year.
Buybacks £1.5B£937M
Free cash flow 2026£2.2B
Bought back its own shares£1.5B
Paid as dividends£937M
Cash vs. debt£2.5B vs. £15.1B
Tesco vs. similar companies
Tesco grows in the middle of these 5 and is priced in the middle for its profits.
| Company | Profit from £100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per £1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tesco | 19.4× · Fair price | ||
 Loblaw Companies | 30.3× · Expensive | ||
 The Kroger | 41.2× · Expensive | ||
 Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize | 13.9× · Cheap | ||
 Seven & i | 17.0× · Fair price |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Tesco'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 65,322 | 68,187 | 69,916 | 73,712 | |
| 3,361 | 4,849 | 5,051 | 5,538 | |
| 1,480 | 2,825 | 2,809 | 3,103 | |
| 3,227 | 4,825 | 4,764 | 5,054 | |
| 737 | 1,188 | 1,626 | 1,787 | |
| 0.10 | 0.17 | 0.24 | 0.27 | |
| 5.1% | 7.1% | 7.2% | 7.5% | |
| 2.3% | 4.1% | 4.0% | 4.2% | |
| 1.1% | 1.7% | 2.3% | 2.4% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of GBP | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 45,868 | 47,039 | 38,890 | 39,474 |
| Cash | 2,378 | 2,310 | 2,229 | 2,487 |
| Total debt | 15,078 | 14,841 | 14,666 | 15,080 |
| Total liabilities | 33,643 | 35,374 | 27,228 | 28,017 |
| 12,236 | 11,671 | 11,666 | 11,463 | |
| 7,482 | 7,176 | 6,918 | 6,606 | |
| 4.2% | 8.8% | 8.5% | 8.9% | |
| 6.0% | 10.2% | 13.9% | 15.6% |
Cash flow
| In millions of GBP | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,722 | 3,839 | 2,919 | 3,906 | |
| 1,250 | 1,386 | 1,539 | 1,666 | |
| 2,472 | 2,453 | 1,380 | 2,240 | |
| Dividends paid | 859 | 778 | 864 | 937 |
| 867 | 845 | 1,070 | 1,543 | |
| 59 | 78 | 37 | 55 |
Valuation
- 19.4×
- –
- 0.49
- 3.0×
- 0.5×
- 15.5×
- 9.4×
- 6.5%
- 5.1%
- 2.7%
Profitability
- 7.5%
- 4.2%
- 2.4%
- –
- 8.9%
- 7.6%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- +4.1%
- +39.6%
- –
- –
- −4.1%
Financial health
- 2.5×
- 1.32
- –
- 4.2×
- 0.59
- –
- –
How it ranks in Consumer Staples
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Bottom 45%of 669
Bottom 18%of 672
Bottom 48%of 623
Bottom 40%of 671
Top 37%of 666
2.7%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$27a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
52.4% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 41.8%
News
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Insider trades
Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
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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
48No pass
Benjamin Graham
42No pass
Philip Fisher
54No pass
Peter Lynch
76Pass
Joel Greenblatt
34No pass
Charlie Munger
29No pass
Terry Smith
35No pass
Questions about Tesco
Is Tesco 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 Tesco AI analysis
What does Tesco do?
Tesco PLC, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a grocery retailer in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. The company offers grocery products through its stores, as well as online. It is in Grocery Stores, based in Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom, with 340,000 employees.
Does Tesco pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 2.7% a year, about 52% of its yearly profit. In 2026 it paid out £937 million in dividends.
Is Tesco stock halal?
No. Tesco does not pass our halal screen: its debt is 43% of its market value, at or above the 33% limit. How we check
How has Tesco stock done over the past year?
Up 27.8% over the past twelve months, to £5.60. It traded between £4.13 and £5.61, close to its high.
Who are Tesco's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Loblaw Companies, The Kroger, Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize and Seven & i. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Tesco's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.