Company Valuation: WPP plc

Data adjusted to current consolidation scope
Fiscal Period: December 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028
Capitalization 1 12,859 8,736 8,050 8,878 3,641 2,968 - -
Change - -32.06% -7.86% 10.29% -58.99% -18.48% - -
Enterprise Value (EV) 1 13,760 11,216 10,554 10,568 3,641 5,863 5,817 5,879
Change - -18.49% -5.9% 0.14% -65.55% 61.03% -0.79% 1.07%
P/E ratio 21.3x 13.4x 74.6x 16.7x -16.9x 7.84x 9.65x 9.6x
PBR 3.79x 2.54x 2.4x 2.56x 1.43x 1.07x 0.99x 0.89x
PEG - 0.8x -0.9x 0x 0x -0x -0.5x 18.12x
Capitalization / Revenue 1.24x 0.74x 0.68x 0.78x 0.36x 0.31x 0.31x 0.3x
EV / Revenue 1.32x 0.95x 0.89x 0.93x 0.36x 0.61x 0.61x 0.6x
EV / EBITDA 6.8x 4.95x 4.73x 4.92x 2.09x 3.65x 3.58x 3.54x
EV / EBIT 8.71x 6.18x 5.91x 6.05x 2.68x 4.94x 4.81x 4.74x
EV / FCF 7.91x 22.8x 9.95x 8.67x 5.75x 11.1x 9.58x 7.24x
FCF Yield 12.6% 4.39% 10.1% 11.5% 17.4% 9.03% 10.4% 13.8%
Dividend per Share 2 0.312 0.394 0.394 0.394 0.15 0.15 0.1655 0.1824
Rate of return 2.79% 4.8% 5.23% 4.76% 4.44% 5.45% 6.01% 6.63%
EPS 2 0.525 0.612 0.101 0.494 -0.2 0.3509 0.285 0.2866
Distribution rate 59.4% 64.4% 390% 79.8% -75% 42.7% 58.1% 63.6%
Net sales 1 10,397 11,799 11,860 11,359 10,176 9,611 9,568 9,746
EBITDA 1 2,024 2,267 2,233 2,148 1,746 1,605 1,624 1,661
EBIT 1 1,580 1,816 1,786 1,747 1,360 1,188 1,210 1,240
Net income 1 637.7 682.7 110.4 542 -215 308.3 266.9 292
Net Debt 1 901.1 2,479 2,504 1,690 - 2,895 2,849 2,911
Reference price 2 11.195 8.202 7.530 8.274 3.375 2.752 2.752 2.752
Nbr of stocks (in thousands) 1,148,624 1,065,133 1,069,034 1,072,999 1,078,763 1,078,525 - -
Announcement Date 24/02/22 23/02/23 22/02/24 27/02/25 26/02/26 - - -
1GBP in Million2GBP
Estimates

P/E ratio, Detailed evolution

P/E (Y) EV / Sales (Y) EV / EBITDA (Y) Dividend Yield (Y) Capi.($)
7.84x0.61x3.65x5.45% 3.99B
11.93x1.31x5.88x4.66% 24.12B
8.11x0.94x4.97x4.76% 20.49B
13.42x5.92x10.5x6.55% 12.02B
13.8x - - 3.76% 4.53B
16.45x0.55x5.57x1.51% 4.3B
19.94x0.4x5.9x2.66% 2.72B
-26.61x1.22x5.22x-.--% 2.53B
Average 8.11x 1.57x 5.96x 3.67% 9.34B
Weighted average by Cap. 10.26x 1.87x 6.24x 4.56%

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