CLARKSON PLC (CKN.L)

49.55GBP -0.04% (-0.02)

Over 3Y: +100.1%

2026-08-26

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Multiples & size

2025-12-31

Market cap 1.53Bp

P/E TTM 23.0×p

EV/EBITDA 15.2×p

EV/EBIT 15.2×p

P/B 2.9×p

P/S TTM 2.4×p

EPS TTM 2.16

FCF yield 3.9%p

Revenue growth -4.5%

Gross margin 93.8%

Operating margin 11.8%

Net margin 10.5%

FCF margin 9.3%

ROIC 47.3%

Payout 0.0%

52-week range

252 trading days

33.18 49.55 (91%) 51.19

Figures as at 2025-12-31, reported in GBP. The newest fact in the filings is dated 2026-01-01, 238 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?

5.7

SBC / sales 0.38%

ROIC 47.3%

OE margin 8.9%

Adj. EBITDA margin 12.1%

Oper. margin 11.8%

Capex / sales 0.87%

Gross margin 93.8%

Profit margin 10.5%

FCF margin 9.3%

ROE 12.7%

OCF / EBIT 0.87×

OCF margin 10.2%

Accruals —

Asset turnover —

EBITDA margin —

ROA —

ROCE —

5 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?

8.2

EV/EBIT 15.2×

EV/OE 20.0×

EV/GP 1.9×

P/C 3.8×

EV/Sales 1.8×

P/B 2.9×

P/E 23.0×

FCF yield 3.9%

Div. yield —

Fwd P/E —

PEG —

Shareholder yield —

2 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?

8.2

Interest cover 31.0×

ND/EBITDA 0.36

Current ratio 1.8×

Debt / Eq 0.0×

Debt payback 0.0 yr

Net debt / Eq 0.0×

Payout 0.0%

Quick ratio 1.8×

Cash / Debt —

Cash runway —

Equity / Assets —

F-score —

3 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?

1.0

Sales/sh Y/Y -4.5%

EPS Y/Y -22.8%

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 —

Shares change —

1 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 CKN.L on one particular measure came for.

Ratio	Value
cash operating margin	12.15
current ratio	1.78
current ratio reported	1.78
ev ebit	15.19
ev owner earnings	19.97
ev sales	1.79
fcf margin	9.33
interest cover	30.96
operating margin	11.77
owner earnings margin	8.95
revenue growth	-4.54
revenue growth per share	-4.54
roic	47.34
rule of 40	7.23
sbc pct revenue	0.38

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	5,500,000	`PurchaseOfPropertyPlantAndEquipmentClassifiedAsInvestingActivities`	2025-12-31
cash	401,100,000	`CashAndCashEquivalents`	2026-01-01
current assets	683,700,000	`CurrentAssets`	2026-01-01
current liabilities	384,100,000	`CurrentLiabilities`	2026-01-01
equity	525,100,000	`EquityAttributableToOwnersOfParent`	2026-01-01
interest expense	2,400,000	`FinanceCosts`	2025-12-31
ocf	64,400,000	`CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivities`	2025-12-31
revenue	631,400,000	`Revenue`	2025-12-31
sbc	2,400,000	`AdjustmentsForSharebasedPayments`	2025-12-31

What to be careful about

revenue is annual, not TTM
operating income is annual, not TTM
share count is from 2025-12-31 (239 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`
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 CKN.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.