Company Valuation: WPP plc

Data adjusted to current consolidation scope
Fiscal Period: December 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027
Capitalization 1 9,729 12,859 8,736 8,050 8,878 2,928 2,928 -
Change - 32.17% -32.06% -7.86% 10.29% -67.02% 0% -
Enterprise Value (EV) 1 10,424 13,760 11,216 10,554 10,568 5,655 5,626 5,410
Change - 32% -18.49% -5.9% 0.14% -46.49% -0.51% -3.85%
P/E ratio -3.3x 21.3x 13.4x 74.6x 16.7x 6.55x 6.9x 5.9x
PBR 2.02x 3.79x 2.54x 2.4x 2.56x 0.81x 0.76x 0.7x
PEG - -0x 0.8x -0.9x 0x -0.4x -1.36x 0.3x
Capitalization / Revenue 1x 1.24x 0.74x 0.68x 0.78x 0.29x 0.3x 0.3x
EV / Revenue 1.07x 1.32x 0.95x 0.89x 0.93x 0.56x 0.58x 0.55x
EV / EBITDA 5.75x 6.8x 4.95x 4.73x 4.92x 3.38x 3.44x 3.26x
EV / EBIT 8.2x 8.71x 6.18x 5.91x 6.05x 4.23x 4.39x 4.15x
EV / FCF 5.68x 7.91x 22.8x 9.95x 8.67x 13.4x 6.83x 6.35x
FCF Yield 17.6% 12.6% 4.39% 10.1% 11.5% 7.46% 14.7% 15.8%
Dividend per Share 2 0.24 0.312 0.394 0.394 0.394 0.2523 0.2328 0.2569
Rate of return 3% 2.79% 4.8% 5.23% 4.76% 9.25% 8.53% 9.41%
EPS 2 -2.427 0.525 0.612 0.101 0.494 0.4166 0.3954 0.4624
Distribution rate -9.89% 59.4% 64.4% 390% 79.8% 60.6% 58.9% 55.6%
Net sales 1 9,762 10,397 11,799 11,860 11,359 10,137 9,729 9,890
EBITDA 1 1,812 2,024 2,267 2,233 2,148 1,673 1,633 1,660
EBIT 1 1,271 1,580 1,816 1,786 1,747 1,337 1,282 1,305
Net income 1 -2,974 637.7 682.7 110.4 542 448.2 401.9 461.7
Net Debt 1 695.6 901.1 2,479 2,504 1,690 2,727 2,698 2,481
Reference price 2 8.000 11.195 8.202 7.530 8.274 2.729 2.729 2.729
Nbr of stocks (in thousands) 1,216,111 1,148,624 1,065,133 1,069,034 1,072,999 1,072,999 1,072,999 -
Announcement Date 3/11/21 2/24/22 2/23/23 2/22/24 2/27/25 - - -
1GBP in Million2GBP
Estimates

P/E ratio, Detailed evolution

P/E (Y) EV / Sales (Y) EV / EBITDA (Y) Dividend Yield (Y) Capi.($)
6.55x0.56x3.38x9.25% 3.99B
12x1x6.25x4.33% 21.71B
11.24x1.22x5.6x5.07% 21.66B
22.68x7.9x13.89x4.63% 15.22B
17.93x0.54x5.82x1.52% 4.37B
14.24x1.67x4.97x3.61% 4.2B
-10.42x1.51x6.98x - 3.18B
19.58x0.47x6.65x2.75% 2.74B
67.82x - - - 2.37B
Average 17.96x 1.86x 6.69x 4.45% 8.82B
Weighted average by Cap. 15.04x 2.41x 7.38x 4.61%

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