AUTOTRADER GROUP PLC (AUTO.L)

5.49GBP +1.25% (+0.07)

Over 3Y: -6.5%

2026-08-25

4 6 8

2023 2024 2025 2026

Multiples & size

2026-03-31

Market cap 4.74Bp

P/E TTM 16.1×p

EV/EBITDA 12.4×p

EV/EBIT 12.4×p

P/B 11.6×p

P/S TTM 7.6×p

EPS TTM 0.34

FCF yield 6.2%p

Revenue growth +3.9%

Operating margin 62.9%

Net margin 47.1%

FCF margin 47.3%

ROIC 56.2%

Payout 0.0%

Net debt/EBITDA 0.37×

52-week range

252 trading days

4.27 5.49 (32%) 8.11

Figures as at 2026-03-31, reported in GBP. The newest fact in the filings is dated 2026-04-01, 147 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?

9.8

Oper. margin 62.9%

SBC / sales 0.0%

OE margin 47.3%

Adj. EBITDA margin 62.9%

ROIC 56.2%

Valuation

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

9.0

EV/EBIT 12.4×

EV/OE 16.5×

Resilience

Can the balance sheet absorb a bad year?

7.4

Interest cover 100.7×

ND/EBITDA -0.03

Current ratio 1.7×

Growth

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

1.6

Sales/sh Y/Y +3.9%

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 AUTO.L on one particular measure came for.

Ratio	Value
cash operating margin	62.9
current ratio	1.73
current ratio reported	1.73
ev ebit	12.43
ev owner earnings	16.52
ev sales	7.82
fcf margin	47.33
interest cover	100.69
net debt ebitda	0.37
operating margin	62.9
owner earnings margin	47.33
revenue growth	3.86
revenue growth per share	3.86
roic	56.17
rule of 40	66.76
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	27,300,000	`PurchaseOfPropertyPlantAndEquipmentClassifiedAsInvestingActivities`	2026-03-31
cash	18,200,000	`CashAndCashEquivalents`	2026-04-01
current assets	107,300,000	`CurrentAssets`	2026-04-01
current liabilities	61,900,000	`CurrentLiabilities`	2026-04-01
equity	407,100,000	`Equity`	2026-04-01
interest expense	3,900,000	`FinanceCosts`	2026-03-31
ocf	322,800,000	`CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivities`	2026-03-31
revenue	624,300,000	`Revenue`	2026-03-31

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
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`
durability DROPPED from the total: only 0 of 4 inputs could be computed (worst year, contracted coverage, gross margin stability, cash flow stability not tagged), so the score is not meaningful. Its weight is spread over the other dimensions

See it scored yourself

The dashboard puts AUTO.L beside other companies and lets you change what counts: the weight of each dimension, the value that earns a ten, and which of the 61 measures are included at all.