BAE SYSTEMS PLC (BA.L)

20.98GBP +0.05% (+0.01)

Over 1Y: +19.6%

2026-08-25

17.5 20 22.5

Aug Oct Dec Feb Apr Jun Aug

Multiples & size

2025-12-31

Market cap 63.62Bp

P/E TTM 29.6×p

EV/EBITDA 23.0×p

EV/EBIT 23.0×p

P/B 5.4×p

P/S TTM 2.2×p

EPS TTM 0.71

FCF yield 5.4%p

Revenue growth +7.7%

Operating margin 10.3%

Net margin 7.6%

FCF margin 12.1%

ROIC 14.9%

Payout 0.0%

Net debt/EBITDA 1.3×

52-week range

252 trading days

16.09 20.98 (68%) 23.31

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?

4.4

SBC / sales 0.61%

OE margin 11.5%

Adj. EBITDA margin 10.9%

Oper. margin 10.3%

ROIC 14.9%

Valuation

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

7.2

EV/OE 20.7×

EV/EBIT 23.0×

Resilience

Can the balance sheet absorb a bad year?

3.7

ND/EBITDA -0.056

Interest cover 6.0×

Current ratio 0.99×

Growth

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

2.1

Sales/sh Y/Y +7.7%

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 BA.L on one particular measure came for.

Ratio	Value
cash operating margin	10.94
current ratio	0.99
current ratio reported	0.99
ev ebit	23.03
ev owner earnings	20.68
ev sales	2.38
fcf margin	12.11
interest cover	5.99
net debt ebitda	1.28
operating margin	10.32
owner earnings margin	11.5
revenue growth	7.69
revenue growth per share	7.69
roic	14.87
rule of 40	18.01
sbc pct revenue	0.61

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
cash	3,438,000,000	`CashAndCashEquivalents`	2026-01-01
current assets	12,147,000,000	`CurrentAssets`	2026-01-01
current liabilities	12,303,000,000	`CurrentLiabilities`	2026-01-01
equity	11,784,000,000	`EquityAttributableToOwnersOfParent`	2026-01-01
interest expense	488,000,000	`FinanceCosts`	2025-12-31
ocf	3,432,000,000	`CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivities`	2025-12-31
revenue	28,336,000,000	`Revenue`	2025-12-31
sbc	174,000,000	`AdjustmentsForSharebasedPayments`	2025-12-31

What to be careful about

revenue is annual, not TTM
operating income is annual, not TTM
no current capital expenditure tagged; treated as zero, so free cash flow is overstated and equals operating cash flow
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 BA.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.