WHITBREAD PLC (WTB.L)

24.75GBP +0.49% (+0.12)

Over 5Y: -11.3%

2026-08-25

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Multiples & size

2026-02-26

Market cap 4.37Bp

P/E TTM 20.5×p

EV/EBITDA 10.9×p

EV/EBIT 10.9×p

P/B 1.4×p

P/S TTM 1.5×p

EPS TTM 1.22

FCF yield 2.2%p

Dividend yield 3.9%p

Revenue growth -0.058%

Operating margin 15.9%

Net margin 7.3%

FCF margin 3.3%

ROIC 9.5%

Payout 79.3%

Net debt/EBITDA 1.5×

52-week range

252 trading days

21.78 24.75 (30%) 31.54

Figures as at 2026-02-26, reported in GBP. The newest fact in the filings is dated 2026-02-27, 180 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?

4.3

SBC / sales 0.0%

Oper. margin 15.9%

Adj. EBITDA margin 15.9%

OE margin 3.3%

ROIC 9.5%

Valuation

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

7.2

EV/EBIT 10.9×

EV/OE 52.3×

Resilience

Can the balance sheet absorb a bad year?

3.3

ND/EBITDA -0.14

Interest cover 2.3×

Growth

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

1.0

Sales/sh Y/Y -0.058%

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 WTB.L on one particular measure came for.

Ratio	Value
cash operating margin	15.9
ev ebit	10.93
ev owner earnings	52.27
ev sales	1.74
fcf margin	3.33
interest cover	2.32
net debt ebitda	1.53
operating margin	15.9
owner earnings margin	3.33
revenue growth	-0.06
revenue growth per share	-0.06
roic	9.54
rule of 40	15.84
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	655,700,000	`PurchaseOfPropertyPlantAndEquipmentClassifiedAsInvestingActivities`	2026-02-26
cash	233,700,000	`CashAndCashEquivalents`	2026-02-27
current liabilities	889,400,000	`CurrentLiabilities`	2026-02-27
equity	3,136,400,000	`Equity`	2026-02-27
interest expense	200,300,000	`FinanceCosts`	2026-02-26
ocf	752,800,000	`CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivities`	2026-02-26
revenue	2,920,200,000	`Revenue`	2026-02-26

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
share count is from 2026-02-26 (181 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 WTB.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.