Consumer Cyclical
Live Price
Offline$31.09
+0.00% today
1Y Change
-23.25%
Window
Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026
Coverage: 249 bars · Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Whitbread plc (WTBCF) is a Consumer Cyclical stock with a market cap of $3.84B and listed on OTC. The stock last traded around $31.09 and down 23.2% across the available one-year price window (Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +0.2%, EPS growth of -12.1%, a dividend yield of 4.2%. What stands out right now is revenue +0.2%, EPS -12.1%, free cash flow -62.5% with operating margin 21.3% and ROIC 5.0%. The dividend matters to the case here, with a current yield around 4.2%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 18.0 and price/sales 1.3. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a income-oriented value setup than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines WTBCF price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Consumer Cyclical peers on this page.
Benchmark Comparison
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WTBCF
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Normalized return
SPY
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Relative to SPY
WTBCF Max Drawdown
-33.57%
Trailing 1Y
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Trailing 1Y
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Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$588.9M
-65.4% YoY
FY Net Income
-$906.5M
-2232.9% YoY
Free Cash Flow
-$619.3M
-314.1% YoY
Revenue Growth
+0.2%
EPS Growth
-12.1%
Gross Margin
50.6%
Net Margin
7.3%
Income statement
GBP
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 2.9B | 3.0B | 2.6B | 1.7B | 589M |
| Gross Profit | 1.9B | 1.2B | 1.3B | 551M | -365M |
| Operating Income | 514M | 565M | 532M | 34M | -623M |
| EBITDA | 957M | 1.0B | 884M | 554M | -548M |
| Net Income | 254M | 312M | 279M | 43M | -907M |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
GBP
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 909M | 697M | 1.2B | 1.1B | 1.3B |
| Total Assets | 9.9B | 9.5B | 9.9B | 9.6B | 8.8B |
| Total Liabilities | 6.6B | 6.0B | 5.8B | 5.4B | 5.0B |
| Shareholder Equity | 3.3B | 3.5B | 4.1B | 4.1B | 3.8B |
| Total Debt | 5.6B | 5.1B | 5.0B | 4.7B | 4.5B |
| Net Debt | 4.7B | 4.4B | 3.8B | 3.6B | 3.3B |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
391M
-176.6% YoY
Capital Expenditures
228M
-3.0% YoY
Free Cash Flow
619M
-314.1% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
50.6%
Operating Margin
21.3%
Net Margin
7.3%
ROE
6.7%
Debt / Equity
1.74x
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