THE LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION P.L.C. (1R4.F)

14.15EUR +0.43% (+0.06)

Over 6M: +9.1%

2026-08-25

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Multiples & size

2025-12-31

Market cap 1.63Bp

P/E TTM 5.3×p

EV/EBITDA 5.7×p

EV/EBIT 5.7×p

P/B 1.4×p

P/S TTM 14.6×p

EPS TTM 2.29

FCF yield 3.2%p

Dividend yield 2.8%p

Revenue growth +11.9%

Operating margin 281.6%

Net margin 273.0%

FCF margin 46.3%

ROIC 18.1%

Payout 15.0%

Net debt/EBITDA 0.54×

52-week range

252 trading days

10.72 14.15 (89%) 14.55

Figures as at 2025-12-31, reported in GBP. The newest fact in the filings is dated 2026-01-01, 237 days ago. Nothing on this page is advice.

How it scores

Five questions, each answered by the measures under it. Every figure is the company's own; the bar beside it is where that figure sits among the companies read here — the top fifth, the bottom fifth, or somewhere between. Not among all listed companies, and for a valuation multiple the low end is the good end.

Quality

How much of the revenue is really kept — and what did it take to earn it?

8.3

Oper. margin 281.6%

SBC / sales 0.0%

OE margin 46.3%

Adj. EBITDA margin 281.6%

ROIC 18.1%

Valuation

What does the price ask for what the company earns, owns and pays out?

8.1

EV/EBIT 5.7×

EV/OE 34.7×

Resilience

Can the balance sheet absorb a bad year?

9.0

Interest cover 43.6×

Current ratio 3.3×

ND/EBITDA -0.095

Growth

Is the business getting bigger, and is it getting more profitable?

2.7

Sales/sh Y/Y +11.9%

A measure absent from a block could not be computed from this company's filings. It is left out rather than scored as though it were bad, and the dimension is averaged over what remains. A score is measured against a fixed scale this model states; the bar is measured against the other companies, so the two can disagree — and where they do, that disagreement is the more interesting figure.

The ratios

The figures themselves rather than their scores — what somebody looking up 1R4.F on one particular measure came for.

Ratio	Value
cash operating margin	281.65
current ratio	3.35
current ratio reported	3.35
ev ebit	5.71
ev owner earnings	34.75
ev sales	16.09
fcf margin	46.3
interest cover	43.57
net debt ebitda	0.54
operating margin	281.65
owner earnings margin	46.3
revenue growth	11.88
revenue growth per share	11.88
roic	18.09
rule of 40	293.53
sbc pct revenue	0.0

The figures, and where each came from

This is the part no other screener shows. Each figure below names the XBRL element it was read from, so it can be checked against the filing itself.

Figure	Value	XBRL tag	As at
capex	155,000	`PurchaseOfPropertyPlantAndEquipmentClassifiedAsInvestingActivities`	2025-12-31
cash	43,775,000	`CashAndCashEquivalents`	2026-01-01
current assets	66,924,000	`CurrentAssets`	2026-01-01
current liabilities	20,005,000	`CurrentLiabilities`	2026-01-01
equity	1,202,075,000	`Equity`	2026-01-01
interest expense	7,214,000	`InterestExpense`	2025-12-31
ocf	51,820,000	`CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivities`	2025-12-31
revenue	111,587,000	`Revenue`	2025-12-31

What to be careful about

revenue is annual, not TTM
operating income is annual, not TTM
no current stock compensation tagged; treated as zero, so owner earnings are overstated
reports in GBP and quotes in EUR, so the share price is converted at 1 EUR = 0.8565 GBP as at 2026-08-26. Only the price is converted: every figure from the filing is as reported, and only the multiples built on market capitalisation carry the rate
no usable diluted share count, so growth is measured on total revenue rather than per share; a company issuing shares to fund that growth reads better than it is
no forward EPS estimate; growth rests on filings only. Analyst consensus is not published in XBRL, so it has to be fetched from a data provider or set by hand in overrides.yaml as `eps_growth_2y`

See it scored yourself

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