Basic Materials
Live Price
Offline$4.42
+0.00% today
Window Change
+0.00%
Window
May 26, 2026 → Jun 18, 2026
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Coverage: 18 bars · May 26, 2026 → Jun 18, 2026
Research Briefing
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Research Snapshot
Vesuvius Plc (CKSNF) is a Basic Materials stock with a market cap of $1.07B. The stock last traded around $4.42 and up 0.0% across the available one-year price window (May 26, 2026 → Jun 18, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of -0.6%, EPS growth of -37.0%, a dividend yield of 5.4%. What stands out right now is revenue -0.6%, EPS -37.0%, free cash flow -52.3% with operating margin 7.8% and ROIC 4.4%. The dividend matters to the case here, with a current yield around 5.4%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 20.8 and price/sales 0.6. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines CKSNF price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Basic Materials peers on this page.
Benchmark Edge
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
CKSNF
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
CKSNF Max Drawdown
0.00%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for CKSNF and SPY.
Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$1.6B
-19.8% YoY
FY Net Income
$102.1M
-43.6% YoY
Free Cash Flow
$700.0K
-99.4% YoY
Revenue Growth
-0.6%
EPS Growth
-37.0%
Gross Margin
25.5%
Net Margin
3.6%
Income statement
GBP
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 1.8B | 1.8B | 1.9B | 2.0B | 1.6B |
| Gross Profit | 450M | 504M | 538M | 561M | 410M |
| Operating Income | 140M | 154M | 190M | 217M | 133M |
| EBITDA | 217M | 232M | 241M | 269M | 182M |
| Net Income | 52M | 87M | 119M | 181M | 102M |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
GBP
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 191M | 186M | 164M | 184M | 169M |
| Total Assets | 2.4B | 2.3B | 2.3B | 2.3B | 2.1B |
| Total Liabilities | 1.2B | 1.1B | 962M | 1.0B | 1.0B |
| Shareholder Equity | 1.1B | 1.2B | 1.3B | 1.3B | 1.0B |
| Total Debt | 642M | 520M | 402M | 442M | 444M |
| Net Debt | 451M | 334M | 238M | 258M | 275M |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
46M
-78.2% YoY
Capital Expenditures
46M
+49.0% YoY
Free Cash Flow
700K
-99.4% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
25.5%
Operating Margin
7.8%
Net Margin
3.6%
ROE
4.7%
Debt / Equity
0.57x
Next Step
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