Projected Income Statement: WPP plc

Forecast Balance Sheet: WPP plc

Fiscal Period: December 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027
Net Debt 1 696 901 2,479 2,504 1,690 2,727 2,698 2,481
Change - 29.45% 175.14% 1.01% -32.51% 61.36% -1.06% -8.04%
Announcement Date 11/03/21 24/02/22 23/02/23 22/02/24 27/02/25 - - -
1GBP in Million
Estimates

Cash Flow Forecast: WPP plc

Fiscal Period: December 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027
CAPEX 1 218.3 263.2 208.4 177.2 189 303.1 301.6 305.8
Change - 20.57% -20.82% -14.97% 6.66% 60.35% -0.49% 1.41%
Free Cash Flow (FCF) 1 1,836 1,740 492.5 1,061 1,219 421.8 824.2 852.3
Change - -5.27% -71.69% 115.43% 14.89% -65.4% 95.41% 3.4%
Announcement Date 11/03/21 24/02/22 23/02/23 22/02/24 27/02/25 - - -
1GBP in Million
Estimates

Forecast Financial Ratios: WPP plc

Fiscal Period: December 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027

Profitability

        
EBITDA Margin (%) 18.57% 19.46% 19.21% 18.83% 18.91% 16.5% 16.79% 16.79%
EBIT Margin (%) 13.02% 15.19% 15.39% 15.06% 15.38% 13.19% 13.18% 13.19%
EBT Margin (%) -28.59% 9.14% 9.83% 2.92% 9.08% 7.89% 7.49% 8.58%
Net margin (%) -30.46% 6.13% 5.79% 0.93% 4.77% 4.42% 4.13% 4.67%
FCF margin (%) 18.81% 16.73% 4.17% 8.95% 10.73% 4.16% 8.47% 8.62%
FCF / Net Income (%) -61.76% 272.81% 72.14% 961.05% 224.91% 94.11% 205.07% 184.62%

Profitability

        
ROA 1.95% 2.98% 3.88% 3.7% 3.72% 1.93% 1.93% 2.05%
ROE 11.5% 22.87% 30.15% 29.08% 28.29% 18.21% 16.17% 15.62%

Financial Health

        
Leverage (Debt/EBITDA) 0.38x 0.45x 1.09x 1.12x 0.79x 1.63x 1.65x 1.49x
Debt / Free cash flow 0.38x 0.52x 5.03x 2.36x 1.39x 6.47x 3.27x 2.91x

Capital Intensity

        
CAPEX / Current Assets (%) 2.24% 2.53% 1.77% 1.49% 1.66% 2.99% 3.1% 3.09%
CAPEX / EBITDA (%) 12.04% 13.01% 9.19% 7.94% 8.8% 18.12% 18.46% 18.42%
CAPEX / FCF (%) 11.89% 15.13% 42.31% 16.7% 15.5% 71.85% 36.59% 35.88%

Items per share

        
Cash flow per share 1 1.68 1.673 0.6278 1.132 1.284 0.7364 0.7016 0.8976
Change - -0.44% -62.47% 80.28% 13.4% -42.63% -4.73% 27.95%
Dividend per Share 1 0.24 0.312 0.394 0.394 0.394 0.2523 0.2328 0.2569
Change - 30% 26.28% 0% 0% -35.95% -7.73% 10.33%
Book Value Per Share 1 3.96 2.953 3.225 3.141 3.227 3.35 3.603 3.882
Change - -25.42% 9.19% -2.61% 2.74% 3.81% 7.57% 7.73%
EPS 1 -2.427 0.525 0.612 0.101 0.494 0.4166 0.3954 0.4624
Change - 121.63% 16.57% -83.5% 389.11% -15.68% -5.08% 16.95%
Nbr of stocks (in thousands) 1,216,111 1,148,624 1,065,133 1,069,034 1,072,999 1,072,999 1,072,999 1,072,999
Announcement Date 11/03/21 24/02/22 23/02/23 22/02/24 27/02/25 - - -
1GBP
Estimates
2025 *2026 *
P/E ratio 6.55x 6.9x
PBR 0.81x 0.76x
EV / Sales 0.56x 0.58x
Yield 9.25% 8.53%

EPS & Dividend

Y-o-Y evolution of P/E

Year-on-year evolution of the Yield

Trader
Investor
Global
Quality
ESG MSCI
A
Sell
Consensus
Buy
Mean consensus
HOLD
Number of Analysts
13
Last Close Price
2.729GBP
Average target price
3.573GBP
Spread / Average Target
+30.93%

Quarterly revenue - Rate of surprise