Consumer Defensive
Live Price
Offline$26.18
+1.16% today
1Y Change
-13.82%
Window
Jun 26, 2025 → Jun 23, 2026
Coverage: 248 bars · Jun 26, 2025 → Jun 23, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Associated British Foods plc (ASBFY) is a Consumer Defensive stock with a market cap of $12.76B. The stock last traded around $26.18 and down 13.8% across the available one-year price window (Jun 26, 2025 → Jun 23, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of -3.1%, EPS growth of -27.8%, a dividend yield of 3.5%. What stands out right now is revenue -3.1%, EPS -27.8%, free cash flow -41.0% with operating margin 7.5% and ROIC 6.3%. The dividend matters to the case here, with a current yield around 3.5%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 13.6 and price/sales 0.7. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a income-oriented value setup than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines ASBFY price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Consumer Defensive peers on this page.
Benchmark Edge
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
ASBFY
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
ASBFY Max Drawdown
-26.57%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for ASBFY and SPY.
Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$13.9B
-18.3% YoY
FY Net Income
$478.0M
-31.7% YoY
Free Cash Flow
$786.0M
+104.7% YoY
Revenue Growth
-3.1%
EPS Growth
-27.8%
Gross Margin
7.5%
Net Margin
4.9%
Income statement
GBP
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 19.5B | 20.1B | 19.8B | 17.0B | 13.9B |
| Gross Profit | 4.7B | 4.9B | 4.2B | 3.8B | 3.1B |
| Operating Income | 1.5B | 1.9B | 1.4B | 1.2B | 808M |
| EBITDA | 2.7B | 3.1B | 2.5B | 2.1B | 1.8B |
| Net Income | 1.0B | 1.5B | 1.0B | 700M | 478M |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
GBP
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 1.1B | 1.3B | 1.5B | 2.1B | 2.3B |
| Total Assets | 19.3B | 19.0B | 18.8B | 19.8B | 16.9B |
| Total Liabilities | 8.1B | 7.7B | 7.7B | 8.2B | 6.9B |
| Shareholder Equity | 11.1B | 11.2B | 11.1B | 11.4B | 9.9B |
| Total Debt | 3.7B | 3.7B | 3.7B | 3.9B | 3.7B |
| Net Debt | 2.6B | 2.4B | 2.3B | 1.8B | 1.4B |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
1.4B
+22.5% YoY
Capital Expenditures
627M
+18.5% YoY
Free Cash Flow
786M
+104.7% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
7.5%
Operating Margin
7.5%
Net Margin
4.9%
ROE
8.4%
Debt / Equity
0.33x
Next Step
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