Company Valuation: Hays plc

Data adjusted to current consolidation scope
Fiscal Period: June 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028
Market Cap 1 2,659 1,842 1,624 1,498 1,136 573.4 - -
Change - -30.73% -11.82% -7.79% -24.16% -49.52% - -
Enterprise Value (EV) 1 2,248 1,546 1,488 1,441 1,099 697.4 688 676.1
Change - -31.25% -3.69% -3.2% -23.74% -36.53% -1.34% -1.74%
P/E 43.6x 12.3x 12x -305x -146x 145x 22.4x 12.6x
PBR 3.05x 2.34x 2.45x 2.69x 2.43x 1.21x 1.15x 1.08x
PEG - 0x -1.85x 3x -2.5x -1x 0x 0.2x
Capitalization / Revenue 0.47x 0.28x 0.21x 0.22x 0.17x 0.1x 0.1x 0.09x
EV / Revenue 0.4x 0.23x 0.2x 0.21x 0.17x 0.12x 0.12x 0.11x
EV / EBITDA 13.8x 5.64x 5.64x 8.41x 10.2x 6.68x 5.71x 4.53x
EV / EBIT 23.6x 7.36x 7.56x 13.7x 24.1x 15.8x 12x 7.99x
EV / FCF -176x 10.5x 10.9x 19.9x 12.6x 21.5x 24.7x 30.3x
FCF Yield -0.57% 9.53% 9.18% 5.02% 7.94% 4.65% 4.04% 3.3%
Dividend per Share 2 0.1015 0.1019 0.0524 0.0524 0.03 0.00444 0.00784 0.0136
Rate of return 6.4% 9.13% 5.13% 5.54% 4.2% 1.24% 2.19% 3.78%
EPS 2 0.0364 0.0911 0.0852 -0.0031 -0.0049 0.00248 0.016 0.0285
Distribution rate 279% 112% 61.5% -1,690% -612% 179% 48.9% 47.6%
Net sales 1 5,648 6,589 7,583 6,949 6,607 5,999 5,933 6,188
EBITDA 1 163.1 274.2 263.9 171.4 108.2 104.3 120.6 149.3
EBIT 1 95.1 210.1 197 105.1 45.6 44.25 57.54 84.57
Net income 1 61.5 154.2 138.3 -4.9 -7.8 2.985 22.28 40.83
Net Debt 1 -410.6 -296.2 -135.6 -56.8 -37 124 114.6 102.7
Reference price 2 1.5860 1.1160 1.0220 0.9450 0.7135 0.3586 0.3586 0.3586
Nbr of stocks (in thousands) 1,676,433 1,650,315 1,589,139 1,584,783 1,591,901 1,599,015 - -
Announcement Date 26/08/21 25/08/22 24/08/23 22/08/24 21/08/25 - - -
1GBP in Million2GBP
Estimates

P/E, Detailed evolution

P/E (Y) EV / Sales (Y) EV / EBITDA (Y) Dividend Yield (Y) Capi.($)
144.6x0.12x6.68x1.24% 768M
12.59x0.97x5.63x3.06% 3.66B
27.53x0.32x5.71x7.35% 511M
Average 61.57x 0.47x 6.01x 3.88% 1.65B
Weighted average by Cap. 34.68x 0.77x 5.80x 3.22%

Y-o-Y evolution of P/E

Historical PBR trend

Evolution Enterprise Value / Sales

Change in Enterprise Value/EBITDA

Year-on-year evolution of the Yield