Projected Income Statement: WPP plc

Forecast Balance Sheet: WPP plc

Fiscal Period: December 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028
Net Debt 1 901 2,479 2,504 1,690 - 3,119 3,069 3,063
Change - 175.14% 1.01% -32.51% - - -1.6% -0.2%
Announcement Date 24/02/22 23/02/23 22/02/24 27/02/25 26/02/26 - - -
1GBP in Million
Estimates

Cash Flow Forecast: WPP plc

Fiscal Period: December 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028
CAPEX 1 263.2 208.4 177.2 189 91 239.5 246 250.4
Change - -20.82% -14.97% 6.66% -51.85% 163.22% 2.7% 1.8%
Free Cash Flow (FCF) 1 1,740 492.5 1,061 1,219 633 158.3 313.3 476.3
Change - -71.69% 115.43% 14.89% -48.07% -74.99% 97.89% 52.02%
Announcement Date 24/02/22 23/02/23 22/02/24 27/02/25 26/02/26 - - -
1GBP in Million
Estimates

Forecast Financial Ratios: WPP plc

Fiscal Period: December 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028

Profitability

        
EBITDA Margin (%) 19.46% 19.21% 18.83% 18.91% 17.16% 16.61% 16.87% 17.13%
EBIT Margin (%) 15.19% 15.39% 15.06% 15.38% 13.36% 12.4% 12.68% 13%
EBT Margin (%) 9.14% 9.83% 2.92% 9.08% 1.29% 6.25% 6.54% 7.84%
Net margin (%) 6.13% 5.79% 0.93% 4.77% -2.11% 3.06% 2.79% 3.41%
FCF margin (%) 16.73% 4.17% 8.95% 10.73% 6.22% 1.65% 3.28% 4.89%
FCF / Net Income (%) 272.81% 72.14% 961.05% 224.91% -294.42% 53.9% 117.38% 143.37%

Profitability

        
ROA 2.98% 3.88% 3.7% 3.72% - 2.29% 2.47% 2.66%
ROE 22.87% 30.15% 29.08% 28.29% 23.11% 19.92% 18.88% 18.53%

Financial Health

        
Leverage (Debt/EBITDA) 0.45x 1.09x 1.12x 0.79x - 1.95x 1.9x 1.84x
Debt / Free cash flow 0.52x 5.03x 2.36x 1.39x - 19.7x 9.8x 6.43x

Capital Intensity

        
CAPEX / Current Assets (%) 2.53% 1.77% 1.49% 1.66% 0.89% 2.49% 2.57% 2.57%
CAPEX / EBITDA (%) 13.01% 9.19% 7.94% 8.8% 5.21% 15.01% 15.24% 15.02%
CAPEX / FCF (%) 15.13% 42.31% 16.7% 15.5% 14.38% 151.28% 78.51% 52.57%

Items per share

        
Cash flow per share 1 1.673 0.6278 1.132 1.284 0.6588 0.6036 0.7126 0.7885
Change - -62.47% 80.28% 13.4% -48.67% -8.39% 18.06% 10.66%
Dividend per Share 1 0.312 0.394 0.394 0.394 0.15 0.15 0.1654 0.1855
Change - 26.28% 0% 0% -61.93% -0.01% 10.25% 12.19%
Book Value Per Share 1 2.953 3.225 3.141 3.227 2.361 2.538 2.715 3.001
Change - 9.19% -2.61% 2.74% -26.84% 7.5% 7.01% 10.5%
EPS 1 0.525 0.612 0.101 0.494 -0.2 0.3211 0.2774 0.3328
Change - 16.57% -83.5% 389.11% -140.49% 260.55% -13.62% 19.98%
Nbr of stocks (in thousands) 11,48,624 10,65,133 10,69,034 10,72,999 10,78,763 10,78,525 10,78,525 10,78,525
Announcement Date 24/02/22 23/02/23 22/02/24 27/02/25 26/02/26 - - -
1GBP
Estimates
2026 *2027 *
P/E 8.94x 10.4x
PBR 1.13x 1.06x
EV / Sales 0.65x 0.64x
Yield 5.22% 5.76%

EPS & Dividend

Y-o-Y evolution of P/E

Year-on-year evolution of the Yield

Trader
Investor
Global
Quality
ESG MSCI
A
Sell
Consensus
Buy
Mean consensus
HOLD
Number of Analysts
16
Last Close Price
2.871GBP
Average target price
3.097GBP
Spread / Average Target
+7.87%

Quarterly revenue - Rate of surprise