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Costain Group
(COST)
Sector: Industrial Support Services
104.00p
1.50p 1.46
Last updated: 17:15:00
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Today's buy and sell prices
| The price at which you can buy a share or investment. It is usually higher than the bid (sell) price. It’s the price you are being offered. Offer | 105.00p |
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| The price at which you can sell a share or investment. It is lower than the offer (buy) price. Bid | 102.00p |
| The difference between the bid and offer prices expressed as a percentage. When you buy shares you pay a higher price than you get when you sell them. The difference between these prices is the profit made by the market maker who puts the deals together. Spread | 2.86 |
Today's trading
| Range The lowest and the highest price a share has reached in the trading day. | 102.00p-104.50p |
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| The lowest and the highest price a share has reached in the trading day. Volume | 2,751,192.00 |
| The lowest and the highest price a share has reached in the trading day. Today's open | 103.50p |
| At the end of the trading day there is an official closing price for every share. The previous session’s close is used as the base to calculate the following day’s price changes. Previous close | 104.00p |
Yearly summary
| The highest and lowest prices the shares have traded at over a rolling 52-week period. It gives you a good indication of how the share price is performing now relative to its recent past performance. 52wk range | 47.00p-106.50p |
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Fundamentals and health
| A measure of the company's worth on the stock market. We display the previous closing share price multiplied by the number of shares in issue. Market capitalisation | £285.27 |
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| The number of shares a company has in circulation, in millions. Shares in issue | 278.47 |
| The main valuation used by investors and a way of gauging whether a company's share price is cheap or expensive compared to competitors. You get PE by dividing the share price by the earnings per share (EPS). Our figure is last basic unadjusted - reported - annual EPS / current share price x 100. Companies also quote adjusted EPS figures to remove the effect of one-off exceptional figures from the profit figures. There is debate among investors as to whether this should be used. We use basic EPS – the purest figure. PE ratio | 5.2 |
| PEG ratio | 0.2 |
| An important ratio for showing how much profit after tax and other deductions (net profit) is actually being earned per share. You divide the net profit by the number of shares in issue. Expressed in pence per share. Looking at whether the EPS is rising or falling over time is one of the most important indicators of whether a company is really making money for its shareholders. Our figure is undiluted, meaning it is not adjusted for exceptional costs. EPS | 8.10p |
| Earnings per share growth illustrates the growth of earning per share over the last two reporting periods. It helps investors identify stocks that are increasing or decreasing in profitability. A minus sign indicates negative growth. EPS growth | 23 |
| Return on capital employed measures a company's profitability in relation to how much capital is invested in the business. Generally, the higher the figure the better but with all these ratios it is best to compare companies from the same sector. A high double digit figure may mean a company has an advantage over its competitors because of a unique product but an oil company, for example, will have higher capital outlay than an online retailer. Our formula: [Pre-tax profit / (total assets – short-term liabilities)] * 100 ROCE | n/a |
| Also known as the acid test ratio, it's a quick guide to how well a company can pay its short-term debts. Above 1 is considered healthy. A ratio of 1.5 would mean the company has £1.50 of liquid (accessible) assets to cover each £1 of debt (current liabilities). Formula: Current assets minus inventory / current liabilities. Quick ratio | n/a |
| Indicates whether a company can convert assets into cash to pay its debts within the next 12 months. It is calculated as current assets / current liabilities for the same period but will display as '0' for companies such as banks that don't distinguish between short and long-term liabilities. Current ratio | 1.39 |
| The amount of money a company paid to a shareholder for each share they own over the past 12 months, expressed in pence. Total dividends per share | 1.20p |
| The dividends paid per share over the past 12 months (interim plus final) as a percentage of the share price. Our figure includes recurring special dividends. Dividend yield | 1.9 |
| The number of times the dividend could have been paid out from net profits. It is a good indicator of the company's ability to pay the dividend and its level of generosity. Formula: earnings per share / dividends per share. More than 2 is considered healthy, less than 1.5 may hint that a dividend is at risk of being cut. Dividend cover | 10.17 |
| Dividend per share growth | n/a |
Costain Group Fundamentals
Costain helps to improve lives with smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We deliver integrated smart solutions to meet urgent infrastructure needs across the UK. We help to safeguard the security, increase the capacity, improve customer service and drive efficiency in our clients' infrastructure programmes.
Costain Group Regulatory news
| Date | Time | Headline | Source |
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| 19/09/2024 | 11:53 | Scrip Dividend Reference Price | RNS |
| 19/09/2024 | 11:44 | Holding(s) in Company | RNS |
| 19/09/2024 | 07:00 | Transaction in Own Shares | RNS |
| 18/09/2024 | 07:00 | Transaction in Own Shares | RNS |
| 17/09/2024 | 07:00 | Transaction in Own Shares | RNS |
| 16/09/2024 | 17:06 | Holding(s) in Company | RNS |
| 16/09/2024 | 07:00 | Transaction in Own Shares | RNS |
| 13/09/2024 | 07:00 | Transaction in Own Shares | RNS |
| 12/09/2024 | 07:00 | Transaction in Own Shares | RNS |
| 11/09/2024 | 07:00 | Result of placing in Costain Group Plc | RNS |
Costain Group Latest trades
Latest trades
| Date | Time | Price | Amount | Value | Type | Buy / sell |
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| 19/09/2024 | 16:37:03 | 104p | 2,880 | £2,995.20 | PT | Sell |
| 19/09/2024 | 16:37:03 | 104p | 2,132 | £2,217.28 | PT | Sell |
| 19/09/2024 | 16:37:03 | 104p | 3,489 | £3,628.56 | PT | Sell |
| 19/09/2024 | 16:37:03 | 104p | 132 | £137.28 | PT | Sell |
| 19/09/2024 | 16:37:03 | 104p | 50,000 | £52,000.00 | O | Buy |
Analysis
| Buy | Sell | Unknown | |
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| Quantity | 235 | 235 | 82 |
| Volume | 1,182,731 | 1,284,737 | 410,970 |
| Value | £1,217,727 | £1,325,105 | £423,792 |
Costain Group Director dealings
| Trade date | Director | Volume / Price | Trade value | Trade type |
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| 08/04/2024 | Alex Vaughan | 282,443 @ 77.80p | £219,740.65 | Sell |
| 08/04/2024 | Alex Vaughan | 600,941 @ 0.00 | 0.00 | Exercise of Option |
| 06/09/2023 | Kate Rock | 50,000 @ 59.20p | £29,600.00 | Buy |
| 21/12/2022 | Kate Rock | 50,000 @ 38.50p | £19,250.00 | Buy |
| 09/11/2021 | Neil Crockett | 20,000 @ €0.56 | €11,200.00 | Buy |
| 01/11/2021 | Alex Vaughan | 8,093 @ 53.90p | £4,362.13 | Buy |
| 20/04/2021 | Anthony (Tony) James Quinlan | 25,000 @ 64.34p | £16,085.00 | Buy |
| 06/04/2021 | Alex Vaughan | 9,890 @ 61.50p | £6,082.35 | Sell |
| 06/04/2021 | Alex Vaughan | 21,041 @ 0.00 | 0.00 | Exercise of Option |
| 02/11/2020 | Alex Vaughan | 13,585 @ 34.20p | £4,646.07 | Buy |
Costain Group Broker views
| Date | Broker | Recomm. | Old target price | New target price | Notes |
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| 23/08/2024 | Deutsche | hold | 80.00p | 105.00p | reiteration |
| 14/03/2023 | Peel Hunt Limited | add | - | 50.00p | reiteration |
| 13/12/2021 | Liberum Capital | buy | - | 80.00p | reiteration |
| 24/11/2021 | Liberum Capital | buy | 80.00p | 80.00p | reiteration |
| 03/09/2021 | Liberum Capital | buy | - | 80.00p | reiteration |
| 25/08/2021 | Liberum Capital | buy | - | 80.00p | reiteration |
Costain Group News
| Date | Time | Headline |
|---|---|---|
| 16/08/2024 | 18:47 | MARKET REPORT: Goldman Sachs ups the stakes for a recovery at Entain |
| 13/04/2024 | 11:50 | 20 dirt-cheap British stocks experts say could make you a fortune |
| 21/11/2023 | 11:10 | Where to invest for a Labour government: City eyes winners and losers from Keir Starmer premiership |
| 23/08/2023 | 07:27 | BUSINESS CLOSE: Recession fears as PMIs flash warning for economy |
| 23/08/2023 | 07:37 | Costain Group considers restarting dividends on Gatwick boost |
| 03/09/2020 | 17:42 | MARKET REPORT: UK investors hit by US tech stock sell-off |
| 03/01/2019 | 09:24 | Construction and engineering firm Costain enjoys 11% share price boost as order levels surge |
| 22/08/2018 | 21:15 | Blue collar jobs being squeezed as roads, railways and water bosses turn to high-end technology |
| 20/08/2015 | 07:54 | FTSE CLOSE: Footsie heads lower as US stocks drop back |
| 22/08/2014 | 08:44 | Thinking big boosts Costain's order book by £3.2bn |
