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Last Trade - 26/10/21
| Market Cap | £149.3m |
| Enterprise Value | £73.6m |
| Revenue | £1.08bn |
| Position in Universe | 910th / 1785 |
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Costain Group PLC is a United Kingdom-based technology-based engineering solutions provider. The Company offers consulting, project delivery, and operations and maintenance services. The Company operates through two segments: Natural Resources segment and Infrastructure segment. The Infrastructure segment operates in the highways, rail and nuclear markets. The Natural Resources segment includes the Company's activities in water, power, and oil and gas markets. The Company offers a range of services, including advisory and concept development, specialist design, program management, project delivery, technology integration, and asset optimization and support. The Company offers services across whole life cycle of its customers assets in energy, water and transportation business areas focused on the United Kingdom market. The subsidiaries of the Company include Costain Limited, Costain Integrated Services Limited, Costain Upstream Limited and Richard Costain Limited.
| Last Annual | December 31st, 2020 |
| Last Interim | June 30th, 2021 |
| Incorporated | October 12, 1978 |
| Public Since | January 2, 1986 |
| No. of Shareholders: | 8,593 |
| No. of Employees: | 3,100 |
| Sector | Industrials |
| Industry | Construction & Engineering |
| Index | FTSE All Share , FTSE All-share - Industrials Price Return Gbp End Of Day, FTSE All-share - Support Services Price Return Gbp End Of Day, FTSE Smallcap , FTSE Smallcap Ex Its , |
| Exchange | London Stock Exchange (Full) |
| Shares in Issue | 274,949,741 |
| Free Float | (0.0%) |
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| Address | Costain House Vanwall Business Park, MAIDENHEAD, SL6 4UB, United Kingdom |
| Web | https://www.costain.com/ |
| Phone | +44 1628 842444 |
| Contact | Sharon Harris (General Counsel, Company Secretary) |
| Auditors | PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP |
As of 26/10/21, shares in Costain are trading at 54.9p, giving the company a market capitalisation of £149.3m. This share price information is delayed by 15 minutes.
Shares in Costain are currently trading at 54.9p and the price has moved by 39.41% over the past 365 days. In terms of relative price strength - which takes into account the overall market trend - the Costain price has moved by 10.98% over the past year.
Of the analysts with advisory recommendations for Costain, there are there are currently 4 "buy" , 1 "hold" and 0 "sell" recommendations. The overall consensus recommendation for Costain is Buy. You can view the full broker recommendation list by unlocking its StockReport.
Costain is scheduled to issue upcoming financial results on the following dates:
Costain does not currently pay a dividend.
Costain does not currently pay a dividend.
Costain does not currently pay a dividend.
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Shares in Costain are currently trading at 54.9p, giving the company a market capitalisation of £149.3m.
Here are the trading details for Costain:
Based on an overall assessment of its quality, value and momentum, Costain is currently classified as a Contrarian. The classification is based on a composite score that examines a wide range of fundamental and technical measures. Stock are classified on the the following spectrum: Super Stocks, High Flyers, Contrarians, Turnarounds, Neutral, Value Traps, Momentum Traps, Falling Stars, and Sucker Stocks. For more information, learn about our StockRank Styles.
Shares in Costain are currently priced at 54.9p. At that level they are trading at 39.96% discount to the analyst consensus target price of 91.44.
Analysts covering Costain currently have a consensus Earnings Per Share (EPS) forecast of 0.0762 for the next financial year.
An important predictor of whether a stock price will go up is its track record of momentum. Price trends tend to persist, so it's worth looking at them when it comes to a share like Costain. Over the past six months, the relative strength of its shares against the market has been -15.5%. At the current price of 54.9p, shares in Costain are trading at -8.56% against their 200 day moving average. You can read more about the power of momentum in assessing share price movements on Stockopedia.
The Costain PE ratio based on its reported earnings over the past 12 months is 7.8. The shares are currently trading at 54.9p.
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The PE ratio can be seen as being expressed in years, in the sense that it shows the number of years of earnings which would be required to pay back the purchase price, ignoring inflation. So in general terms, the higher the PE, the more expensive the stock is.
Costain's management team is headed by:
Here are the top five shareholders of Costain based on the size of their shareholding:
