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SRP Serco Group Plc

178.20
0.40 (0.22%)
03 Oct 2024 - Closed
Delayed by 15 minutes
Share Name Share Symbol Market Type Share ISIN Share Description
Serco Group Plc LSE:SRP London Ordinary Share GB0007973794 ORD 2P
  Price Change % Change Share Price Shares Traded Last Trade
  0.40 0.22% 178.20 2,623,875 16:35:20
Bid Price Offer Price High Price Low Price Open Price
178.10 178.20 178.80 176.70 178.80
Industry Sector Turnover Profit EPS - Basic PE Ratio Market Cap
General Government, Nec 4.87B 202.4M 0.1904 9.35 1.89B
Last Trade Time Trade Type Trade Size Trade Price Currency
16:39:01 O 396,301 178.0408 GBX

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22/8/202407:57Serco - Time to Buy2,261
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12/11/201412:23$SRP.L – Serco – a dividend achiever gone wrong-
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Serco (SRP) Most Recent Trades

Trade Time Trade Price Trade Size Trade Value Trade Type
2024-10-03 15:39:01178.04396,301705,577.47O
2024-10-03 15:35:21178.2027,51049,022.82O
2024-10-03 15:35:20178.20428,615763,791.93UT
2024-10-03 15:29:58178.101730.28AT
2024-10-03 15:29:55178.101526.72AT

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Posted at 03/10/2024 09:20 by Serco Daily Update
Serco Group Plc is listed in the General Government, Nec sector of the London Stock Exchange with ticker SRP. The last closing price for Serco was 177.80p.
Serco currently has 1,063,248,574 shares in issue. The market capitalisation of Serco is £1,893,645,710.
Serco has a price to earnings ratio (PE ratio) of 9.35.
This morning SRP shares opened at 178.80p
Posted at 17/6/2024 14:17 by srichardson8
the share buyback notice today might be worth a look. Close to 28mn shares have been bought back since end February which is basically 2.6% of shares outstanding. The most recent notice of major shareholding changes is Blackrock at end April which had sold 1% but then remained the largest institutional holder at 8% if you include the (I assume) warrants or options, just under 6% in ordinary shares.
The company is buying up to 115mn shares using not more than £140mn this calendar year. So there is around 80mn more to purchase by Christmas 2024.
However it is striking that most of the leading shareholders have been reducing their stake - there were some big sale announcements around early March or earlier including Fidelity (15mn lower), Marathon and Slater. This was pretty much when the completion of the German purchase was announced and two months after the rumours of a US takeover were debunked.
Whether this current weakness reflects the general malaise in the UK market or, in my view likelier, a reaction to the likely reversal of the one-off extraordinary profits from last year we shall never know. But the fact is that statutory net profit is expected to be considerably lower this year.
And yes it does look as if there is a seller feeding small amounts (1500 to 3000 shares)into the market today.
Posted at 28/5/2024 17:50 by srichardson8
FROM THE ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2023
'In 2023, the total exceptional credit net of tax was £51.5m (2022: charge of £2.1m).
The Group released provisions held for indemnities provided on disposed businesses totalling £43.9m predominantly due to the claims period ending. The Group also received £9.9m compensation on the early termination of a contract which, due to the size of the settlement, has been disclosed as exceptional.'

This above was probably the biggest single contributor to change in reported profit growth from mundane to exceptional. Underlying profit growth was reported at a more sedate +5%. Cash flow was also boosted by a significant improvement in working capital (totalling £50mn) which appears to be a one-off.

Guidance for the current year (Dec 2024) is for a 3% drop in revenues but a 5% increase in underlying OP at £260mn.The costs of the two small(ish) acquisitions and a marked increase in the share buyback scheme (£90->140mn) is expected to crimp the cash position and increase net finance deficit by £10mn. Reported post-tax profit may not look too good against f2023 when exceptionals are included.

I wondered what was the underlying reason behnd the marked drop in price today. Could it be the expectation of political upheaval? Seems unlikely... There wasn't much volume really until after the close when 1.4mn shares were crossed. That is decent size, if only 0.2% of shares outstanding.
Posted at 14/2/2024 10:04 by weemonkey
Check out the above.

The growth here since 2017 (yes from a low base) is kind of extraordinary really.

The share price has NOT kept up with events
Posted at 03/8/2023 08:08 by 18bt
Strong set of interims - cashflows being invested in share buybacks at this price are strongly earnings enhancing. In fact it will look undergeared by the year end, so I expect more.

PER of around 10.5x at this levels. Pleased to see the dividend increase as the yield is the last metric that needs improving. Should be scope for a number of years of double digit increases, taking the yield closer to 3%.
Posted at 15/6/2023 16:17 by brain smiley
Trading statement due on June 29th.

Some large contracts up for renewal this year(according to brokers).The uncertainty and perhaps loss of contracts is causing the price declines ?
Posted at 27/4/2023 18:56 by srichardson8
for the record I attended the AGM in Hook today. My overriding impression was very good, the recently appointed CEO seems extremely able. He spent ten years with the company in Australia, came to the UK in 2020 to take over as CEO UK and Europe and stepped into the full CEO position in January this year.The chairman is delightful and very experienced, as is the CFO.There were not many private investors present but we asked a few questions. They seem to be on track to (at least) meet guidance - despite currency headwinds - helped by growth in the USA. There is still something of a hangover in the comparative numbers from the end of their involvement in the UK track and trace covid project which should be remembered when the (expected) modest revenue growth for this year is considered.They are obviously spending a lot of energy into nurturing their own staff (50,000 employees!)whilst giving their (largely) governmental clients a good service in hugely difficult areas - immigration, prisons, military bases and so on.One feels Serco is in safe hands following the departure of Rupert Soames. We shall see but I suspect the rather weaker recent price performance is a result of Soames' leaving the company (he has sold some shares but still holds a fair bit) and the flatter expected trajectory of f2023 results sans covid. But the recent record is good and I hope this will continue whatever political backdrop awaits us all.
Posted at 15/2/2023 09:35 by wilksey1
does anyone know why serco share price is doing so badly,seems like its fell off the cliff since soames said he was retiring
Posted at 20/9/2022 15:13 by blackhorse23
Another excellent dividend stocks with no debt CURY (LSE). https://www.google.com/amp/s/capital.com/amp/cury-currys-share-price-double
Posted at 12/9/2022 10:04 by cerrito
Says a good deal about the respect that Soames that the price falls so much on news of his upcoming exit.
Posted at 04/8/2022 07:36 by 18bt
And another small upgrade on v strong first half - impressive to replace Test & Trace revenues. Strong statement of justification why the growth should continue. I doubt these shares will ever be popular - too many left wing detractors, but SRP will have a 5 year record of profitable growth by the end of the year and the horrors of 2015-17 are receding into the dim and distant..
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