CLOSE BROTHERS GROUP PLC (CBG.L)

4.20GBP -1.87% (-0.08)

Over 6M: -15.9%

2026-08-26

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Figures as at the most recent filing, reported in GBP. The newest fact in the filings is dated 2025-08-01, 391 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?

0.5

Accruals -1.7%

ROA -0.55%

ROE -4.5%

Adj. EBITDA margin —

Asset turnover —

Capex / sales —

EBITDA margin —

FCF margin —

Gross margin —

OCF / EBIT —

OCF margin —

OE margin —

Oper. margin —

Profit margin —

ROCE —

ROIC —

SBC / sales —

0 of 17 counted in the score. The rest are measures this model does not include here, or figures these filings do not carry — switch any of them on and the score changes.

Valuation

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

0.5

EV/OE -9.7×

FCF yield 24.7%

P/B 0.36×

P/C 0.3×

Shareholder yield 0.0%

Div. yield —

EV/EBIT —

EV/GP —

EV/Sales —

Fwd P/E —

P/E —

PEG —

1 of 12 counted in the score. The rest are measures this model does not include here, or figures these filings do not carry — switch any of them on and the score changes.

Durability

How predictable is the revenue, and how much of it is already committed?

0.5

Cash-flow margin stability —

Gross margin stability across years —

Prepaid revenue growth —

RPO / sales —

RPO growth —

Revenue growth in the worst year on record —

Segment HHI —

0 of 7 counted in the score. The rest are measures this model does not include here, or figures these filings do not carry — switch any of them on and the score changes.

Resilience

Can the balance sheet absorb a bad year?

9.0

ND/EBITDA -1.4

Debt / Eq 0.0×

Debt payback 0.0 yr

Net debt / Eq 0.0×

Equity / Assets 12.3%

Cash / Debt —

Cash runway —

Current ratio —

F-score —

Interest cover —

Payout —

Quick ratio —

1 of 12 counted in the score. The rest are measures this model does not include here, or figures these filings do not carry — switch any of them on and the score changes.

Growth

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

0.5

EPS Y/Y -177.6%

Div. growth —

EBIT CAGR —

EBIT Y/Y —

EPS CAGR 4Y —

EPS next Y —

Gross profit Y/Y —

Most recent margin move —

Operating margin trend —

Sales CAGR 4Y —

Sales Q/Q —

Sales/sh Y/Y —

Shares change —

0 of 13 counted in the score. The rest are measures this model does not include here, or figures these filings do not carry — switch any of them on and the score changes.

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 CBG.L on one particular measure came for.

Ratio	Value
ev owner earnings	-9.66

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	5,300,000	`PurchaseOfPropertyPlantAndEquipmentClassifiedAsInvestingActivities`	2025-07-31
cash	2,101,800,000	`CashAndCashEquivalents`	2025-08-01
equity	1,735,500,000	`EquityAttributableToOwnersOfParent`	2025-08-01
interest expense	542,900,000	`InterestExpense`	2025-07-31
ocf	158,700,000	`CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivities`	2022-07-31

What to be careful about

no revenue found in XBRL
no operating income found in XBRL
no current stock compensation tagged; treated as zero, so owner earnings are overstated
share count is from 2025-07-31 (392 days old, dei cover page); a stock split since then would make the market cap wrong. Set `market_cap` in overrides.yaml to be sure.
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

The dashboard puts CBG.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.