Projected Income Statement: WPP plc

Forecast Balance Sheet: WPP plc

Fiscal Period: December 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027
Net Debt 1 696 901 2,479 2,504 1,690 2,609 2,538 2,661
Change - 29.45% 175.14% 1.01% -32.51% 54.38% -2.72% 4.85%
Announcement Date 11/03/21 24/02/22 23/02/23 22/02/24 27/02/25 - - -
1GBP in Million
Estimates

Cash Flow Forecast: WPP plc

Fiscal Period: December 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027
CAPEX 1 218.3 263.2 208.4 177.2 189 263.4 260.5 257.6
Change - 20.57% -20.82% -14.97% 6.66% 39.38% -1.12% -1.1%
Free Cash Flow (FCF) 1 1,836 1,740 492.5 1,061 1,219 916.8 971.7 1,038
Change - -5.27% -71.69% 115.43% 14.89% -24.79% 5.99% 6.77%
Announcement Date 11/03/21 24/02/22 23/02/23 22/02/24 27/02/25 - - -
1GBP in Million
Estimates

Forecast Financial Ratios: WPP plc

Fiscal Period: December 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027

Profitability

        
EBITDA Margin (%) 18.57% 19.46% 19.21% 18.83% 18.91% 17.67% 17.9% 18.1%
EBIT Margin (%) 13.02% 15.19% 15.39% 15.06% 15.38% 14.52% 14.68% 14.81%
EBT Margin (%) -28.59% 9.14% 9.83% 2.92% 9.08% 9.2% 8.69% 9.39%
Net margin (%) -30.46% 6.13% 5.79% 0.93% 4.77% 6.04% 5.39% 5.63%
FCF margin (%) 18.81% 16.73% 4.17% 8.95% 10.73% 8.91% 9.54% 10.05%
FCF / Net Income (%) -61.76% 272.81% 72.14% 961.05% 224.91% 147.57% 177.12% 178.54%

Profitability

        
ROA 1.95% 2.98% 3.88% 3.7% 3.72% 2.1% 2.16% 2.2%
ROE 11.5% 22.87% 30.15% 29.08% 28.29% 19.83% 17.7% 16.7%

Financial Health

        
Leverage (Debt/EBITDA) 0.38x 0.45x 1.09x 1.12x 0.79x 1.44x 1.39x 1.42x
Debt / Free cash flow 0.38x 0.52x 5.03x 2.36x 1.39x 2.85x 2.61x 2.56x

Capital Intensity

        
CAPEX / Current Assets (%) 2.24% 2.53% 1.77% 1.49% 1.66% 2.56% 2.56% 2.49%
CAPEX / EBITDA (%) 12.04% 13.01% 9.19% 7.94% 8.8% 14.5% 14.29% 13.79%
CAPEX / FCF (%) 11.89% 15.13% 42.31% 16.7% 15.5% 28.73% 26.81% 24.83%

Items per share

        
Cash flow per share 1 1.68 1.673 0.6278 1.132 1.284 0.9076 0.9 0.9268
Change - -0.44% -62.47% 80.28% 13.4% -29.29% -0.84% 2.97%
Dividend per Share 1 0.24 0.312 0.394 0.394 0.394 0.3078 0.3033 0.322
Change - 30% 26.28% 0% 0% -21.88% -1.46% 6.17%
Book Value Per Share 1 3.96 2.953 3.225 3.141 3.227 3.428 3.748 4.046
Change - -25.42% 9.19% -2.61% 2.74% 6.25% 9.32% 7.95%
EPS 1 -2.427 0.525 0.612 0.101 0.494 0.5664 0.4896 0.5122
Change - 121.63% 16.57% -83.5% 389.11% 14.66% -13.57% 4.63%
Nbr of stocks (in thousands) 12,16,111 11,48,624 10,65,133 10,69,034 10,72,999 10,72,999 10,72,999 10,72,999
Announcement Date 11/03/21 24/02/22 23/02/23 22/02/24 27/02/25 - - -
1GBP
Estimates
2025 *2026 *
P/E ratio 7.43x 8.6x
PBR 1.23x 1.12x
EV / Sales 0.69x 0.69x
Yield 7.31% 7.21%
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EPS & Dividend

Year-on-year evolution of the PER

Year-on-year evolution of the Yield

Trading Rating
Investor Rating
ESG MSCI
AA
More Ratings
Sell
Consensus
Buy
Mean consensus
HOLD
Number of Analysts
11
Last Close Price
4.208GBP
Average target price
4.977GBP
Spread / Average Target
+18.28%
Consensus

Quarterly revenue - Rate of surprise