profit from every £100 of sales.
£0£100
Victrex
£8.96+0.79% today
+39.1% in 1 year
1-year low £5.391-year high £10.10
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 £28.09 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 Victrex sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from £341 million in 2022 to £296 million in 2025, with £27.8 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Victrex handed back more cash to shareholders than it generated last year.
£52M
Free cash flow 2025£49M
Bought back its own shares–
Paid as dividends£52M
Cash vs. debt£24M vs. £49M
Victrex vs. similar companies
Victrex 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victrex | 28.1× · Fair price | ||
 Linde | 34.6× · Expensive | ||
 L'Air Liquide | 34.4× · Expensive | ||
 The Sherwin-Williams | 33.7× · Expensive | ||
 Ecolab | 41.4× · Expensive |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Victrex'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 341 | 307 | 296 | 296 | |
| 175 | 163 | 134 | 133 | |
| 89 | 73 | 46 | 40 | |
| 110 | 94 | 48 | 61 | |
| 76 | 62 | 17 | 28 | |
| 0.87 | 0.71 | 0.20 | 0.32 | |
| 51.2% | 53.0% | 45.3% | 44.7% | |
| 26.0% | 23.8% | 15.5% | 13.4% | |
| 22.3% | 20.1% | 5.8% | 9.4% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 642 | 627 | 592 | 567 |
| Cash | 56 | 30 | 29 | 24 |
| Total debt | 32 | 50 | 50 | 49 |
| Total liabilities | 151 | 126 | 130 | 136 |
| 489 | 499 | 461 | 434 | |
| 87 | 87 | 87 | 88 | |
| 12.7% | 10.0% | 3.7% | 5.6% | |
| 15.6% | 12.4% | 3.7% | 6.4% |
Cash flow
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80 | 42 | 84 | 71 | |
| 46 | 39 | 33 | 22 | |
| 35 | 3 | 51 | 49 | |
| Dividends paid | 95 | 52 | 52 | 52 |
| – | – | – | – | |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Valuation
- 28.1×
- –
- –
- 1.2×
- 2.6×
- 15.8×
- 13.2×
- 6.3%
- 3.6%
- 6.6%
Profitability
- 44.7%
- 13.4%
- 9.4%
- –
- 5.6%
- 8.0%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- −4.6%
- −28.6%
- –
- –
- +0.2%
Financial health
- 0.4×
- 0.11
- –
- 15.1×
- 3.01
- –
- –
How it ranks in Materials
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Bottom 45%of 988
Top 41%of 948
Bottom 35%of 768
Bottom 23%of 927
Top 25%of 987
6.6%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$66a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
186.3% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 105.1%
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
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
57No pass
Benjamin Graham
73Pass
Philip Fisher
40No pass
Peter Lynch
24No pass
Joel Greenblatt
18No pass
Charlie Munger
45No pass
Terry Smith
43No pass
Questions about Victrex
Is Victrex a good stock to buy?
A solid business 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 Victrex AI analysis
What does Victrex do?
Victrex plc, through its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of polymer solutions worldwide. The company operates through two segments, Sustainable Solutions and Medical. It develops PEEK and PAEK based polymer solutions, and semi-finished and finished parts. It is in Specialty Chemicals, based in Thornton-Cleveleys, United Kingdom, with 1,169 employees.
Does Victrex pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 6.6% a year, about 186% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out £51.8 million in dividends.
Is Victrex stock halal?
Yes. Victrex passes our halal screen: its business is permitted and its debt is 6% of its market value, under the 30% limit. How we check
How has Victrex stock done over the past year?
Up 39.1% over the past twelve months, to £8.96. It traded between £5.39 and £10.10 and is 11.3% below its high.
Who are Victrex's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Linde, L'Air Liquide, The Sherwin-Williams and Ecolab. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Victrex's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 9, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.