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Last Trade - 20/01/21
| Market Cap | £5.27bn |
| Enterprise Value | £7.39bn |
| Revenue | £5.74bn |
| Position in Universe | 169th / 1804 |
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DS Smith Plc is a United Kingdom-based packaging company. The Company’s operating segments include UK, DCH and Northern Europe, Central Europe and Italy, Western Europe, and North America. The Company’s businesses include packaging, paper and recycling. Its packaging product portfolio includes packaging for consumer products, electronic commerce, promotion, transit and industrial packaging. Through its paper business, it manufactures corrugated case material (CCM), which is the paper used for conversion into corrugated board. Its paper business also manufactures paper grades such as plasterboard liner. Its recycling business provides integrated recycling and waste management services, ranging from recycling collections through to recycling and waste management solutions. It collects paper and cardboard for recycling from a range of sectors, including retailers, manufacturers, local authorities, and other recycling and waste management companies.
| Last Annual | April 30th, 2020 |
| Last Interim | October 31st, 2020 |
| Incorporated | July 7, 1978 |
| Public Since | January 2, 1986 |
| No. of Shareholders: | n/a |
| No. of Employees: | 29,397 |
| Sector | Basic Materials |
| Industry | Containers & Packaging |
| Index | FTSE All Share , FTSE All-share - Industrials Price Return Gbp End Of Day, FTSE All-share - General Industrials Price Return Gbp End Of Day, FTSE Euromid , FTSE 350 Higher Yield , FTSE 350 , FTSE 350 General Industrials , FTSE 100 , , |
| Exchange | London Stock Exchange (Full) |
| Shares in Issue | 1,372,758,788 |
| Free Float | (0.0%) |
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| Address | 7th Fl Regents Place 350 Euston Road, LONDON, NW1 3AX, United Kingdom |
| Web | http://www.dssmith.com |
| Phone | +44 20 77561800 |
| Contact | () |
| Auditors | Deloitte LLP |
As of 20/01/21, shares in DS Smith are trading at 381.9p, giving the company a market capitalisation of £5.27bn. This share price information is delayed by 15 minutes.
Shares in DS Smith are currently trading at 381.9p and the price has moved by 7.32% over the past 365 days. In terms of relative price strength - which takes into account the overall market trend - the DS Smith price has moved by 19.33% over the past year.
Of the analysts with advisory recommendations for DS Smith, there are there are currently 4 "buy" , 5 "hold" and 0 "sell" recommendations. The overall consensus recommendation for DS Smith is Hold. You can view the full broker recommendation list by unlocking its StockReport.
DS Smith is scheduled to issue upcoming financial results on the following dates:
The DS Smith dividend yield is 1.04% based on the trailing twelve month period.
Last year, DS Smith paid a total dividend of 0.04, and it currently has a trailing dividend yield of 1.04%. Looking ahead, shares in DS Smith are due to go ex-dividend on 2021-04-08 and the next dividend pay date is 2021-05-04.
DS Smith are due to go ex-dividend on 2021-04-08 and the next dividend pay date is 2021-05-04. The historic dividend yield on DS Smith shares is currently 1.04%.
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Shares in DS Smith are currently trading at 381.9p, giving the company a market capitalisation of £5.27bn.
Here are the trading details for DS Smith:
Based on an overall assessment of its quality, value and momentum, DS Smith is currently classified as a Style Neutral. 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 DS Smith are currently priced at 381.9p. At that level they are trading at 0.17% discount to the analyst consensus target price of 382.55.
Analysts covering DS Smith currently have a consensus Earnings Per Share (EPS) forecast of 0.24154 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 DS Smith. Over the past six months, the relative strength of its shares against the market has been 24.46%. At the current price of 381.9p, shares in DS Smith are trading at 22.96% against their 200 day moving average. You can read more about the power of momentum in assessing share price movements on Stockopedia.
The DS Smith PE ratio based on its reported earnings over the past 12 months is 18.84. The shares are currently trading at 381.9p.
The PE ratio (or price-to-earnings ratio) is the one of the most popular valuation measures used by stock market investors. It is calculated by dividing a company's price per share by its earnings per share.
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.
DS Smith's management team is headed by:
Here are the top five shareholders of DS Smith based on the size of their shareholding:
