Communication Services / Advertising AgenciesUpdated 2026-05-10 22:07 UTC

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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E5.4

P25 9.1P50 13.9P75 26.1

Trailing P/En/a

P25 9.5P50 16.4P75 38.9

ROE-5.3

P25 -39P50 -0.5P75 11.8

ROIC-7.1

P25 -10.3P50 2.5P75 10

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All WPP market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

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Showing 249 of 249 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0000806968
Company name	WPP plc
Country	United Kingdom
Country code	US
Cusip	92937A102
Employees	103,277
Employees Change	-8,004%
Employees Change Percent	-7.19
Enterprise value	$10B
Exchange	NYSE
Financial currency	GBP
First seen	2026-05-09
Industry	Advertising Agencies
Isin	US92937A1025
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$4B
Market cap category	Mid-Cap
Price	$18.97
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	176,582.18x
Sector	Communication Services
Sic	7311
Symbol	WPP
Website	https://www.wpp.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	-7.16%
EV Sales Forward	1.01x
EV/EBIT	19.91x
EV/EBITDA	13.31x
EV/FCF	11.58x
EV/Sales	0.55x
FCF yield	21.35%
Forward P/E	5.39x
P/B ratio	1.08x
P/S ratio	0.22x
PE Ratio10 Y	25.28x
PE Ratio3 Y	22.86x
PE Ratio5 Y	33.49x
PS Forward	0.41x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	2.75%
EBITDA Margin	4.12%
FCF margin	4.73%
Gross margin	15.84%
Gross Profit	$2.9B
Gross Profit Growth	-12.44%
Gross Profit Growth Q	-10.03%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	-5.45%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	1.27%
Net Income	$-289.4M
Net Income Growth Years	0%
Pretax Margin	0.97%
Profit Margin	-1.59%
Profit Per Employee	$-2,802
ROA	0.94
Roa5y	2.13
ROCE	4.04
ROE	-5.29
Roe5y	10.18
ROIC	-7.09
Roic5y	6.1

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	-12.96%
Cagr15y	-4.07%
Cagr1y	-47.89%
Cagr20y	-2.68%
Cagr3y	-26.72%
Cagr5y	-19.23%
Div CAGR10	-4.28%
Div CAGR3	1.06%
Div CAGR5	26.57%
EPS Growth Years	0
FCF Growth	-48.07%
FCF Growth Q	-7.06%
FCF Growth3 Y	8.76%
FCF Growth5 Y	-19.15%
OCF Growth	-48.58%
OCF Growth Q	-9.65%
OCF Growth10 Y	-7.27%
OCF Growth3 Y	1.08%
OCF Growth5 Y	-18.8%
Revenue Growth	-8.08x
Revenue Growth Q	-8.34x
Revenue Growth Years	0x
Revenue Growth3 Y	-2.07x
Revenue Growth5 Y	2.45x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$0.55
Assets	$32.4B
Cash	$3.6B
Current Assets	$18B
Current Liabilities	$20.2B
Debt	$9.2B
Debt EBITDA	$9
Debt Equity	$2.46
Debt FCF	$10.66
Equity	$3.7B
Interest Coverage	1.09
Liabilities	$28.7B
Long Term Assets	$14.4B
Long Term Liabilities	$8.4B
Net Cash	$-5.6B
Net Cash By Market Cap	$-138
Net Debt EBITDA	$7.42
Net Debt Equity	$1.49
Net Debt FCF	$6.45
Tangible Book Value	$-6.9B
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$-6.41
WACC	-2.28

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	0.89
Net Working Capital	$-4.5B
Quick ratio	0.87
Working Capital	$-2.2B
Working Capital Turnover	$-9.06

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	1.91%
Dividend Growth	-15.92%
Dividend Growth Years	0%
Dividend per share	$2.12
Dividend Years	33
Dividend Yield	11.16%
Ex Div Date	2025-10-10
Last Dividend	$0.48
Payout Frequency	Semi-Annual

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
10Y total return	-75.04%
1Y total return	-47.87%
200-day SMA	21.27
3Y total return	-60.65%
50-day SMA	16.97
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50under200
5Y total return	-65.63%
All Time High	123.3
All Time High Change	-84.62%
All Time High Date	2015-05-20
All Time Low	2.5
All Time Low Change	658.8%
All Time Low Date	1992-10-05
ATR	0.55
Beta	0.6
Ch YTD	-15.54
High	19.03
High52	40.95
High52 Date	2025-05-20
High52ch	-53.67%
Low	18.44
Low52	14.81
Low52 Date	2026-03-19
Low52ch	28.13%
Ma50ch	11.79%
Premarket Change Percent	0.48
Premarket Price	$18.85
Premarket Volume	401
Price vs 200-day SMA	-10.82%
RSI	67.59
RSI Monthly	32.01
RSI Weekly	45.38
Sharpe ratio	-1.24x
Sortino ratio	-1.37
Total Return	13.08%
Tr YTD	-15.54
Tr15y	-46.38%
Tr1m	14.35%
Tr1w	4.75%
Tr3m	2.65%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	2
Analyst Ratings	Hold
Earnings Revenue Estimate	12,900,000,000x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	-31.73x
Operating Income	$502M
Operating Income Growth	-71.63
Operating Income Growth Q	-29.3
Operating Income Growth3 Y	-34.92
Operating margin	2.75

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	1,078,057,741%
Float Percent	99.96%
Net Borrowing	291,746,306.1
Shares Insiders	0.04%
Shares Institutions	77.15%
Shares Out	1,078,524,533
Shares Qo Q	-1.65%
Shares Yo Y	-1.91%
Short Ratio	4.7
Short Shares	1.81

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$764.7M
Average Volume	455,254.55x
Bv Per Share	3.17
CAPEX	$-122.5M
Ch10y	-83.68
Ch15y	-69.64
Ch1m	14.35
Ch1w	4.75
Ch1y	-51.06
Ch20y	-70.68
Ch3m	2.65
Ch3y	-66.53
Ch5y	-72.72
Ch6m	2.38
Change	1.12%
Change From Open	1.01
Close	18.76
Days Gap	0.11
Depreciation Amortization	252,210,591.8
Dollar Volume	7,975,500.2
Earnings Date	2026-03-19
Earnings Time	bmo
EBIT	$502M
EBITDA	$751M
EPS	$-0.27
F Score	4
FCF	$863M
FCF EV Yield	8.63x
FCF Per Share	$0.8
Financing CF	-429,340,511
Fiscal Year End	December
Founded	1,985
Goodwill	9,469,485,245
Income Tax	$407.8M
Investing CF	-467,025,572
Is Primary Listing	0
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-03-19
Last Report Date	2025-12-31
Last Split Date	1999-11-16
Last Split Type	Forward
Last10k Filing Date	2026-03-19
Ma150	19.66
Ma150ch	-3.5%
Ma20	18.02
Ma20ch	5.28%
Net CF	79,407,806
Next Earnings Date	2026-08-06
Open	18.78
Optionable	Yes
P FCF Ratio	4.68
P OCF Ratio	4.15
Payment Date	2025-11-03
Position In Range	89.83
Post Close	18.97
Postmarket Change Percent	-0.05
Postmarket Price	$18.96
Ppne	2,782,496,312.3
Pre Close	18.76
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$5.38
Relative Volume	0.92x
Revenue	18,236,877,521x
SBC By Revenue	0.54x
Share Based Comp	98,250,336
Tax By Revenue	2.24x
Tax Rate	231.3%
Tr20y	-41.98%
Tr6m	2.38%
Volume	420,427
Z Score	0.78

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Next action

Research pending

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Income

WPP dividend yield, growth & safety

Yield, payout sustainability, and the multi-year growth streak.

Dividend yield

+11.2%

$2.12 annual per share

Payout ratio

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Share of earnings returned as dividends. Below 60% is generally sustainable.

5Y dividend CAGR

+26.6%

0 consecutive years of growth

Total shareholder yield

+13.1%

Next ex-dividend date: 2025-10-10

Performance

WPP stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns WPP?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+77.1%

Float: +100.0% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+0.0%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

WPP momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

67.6

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

-10.8%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

0.60

Less volatile than the market

Sharpe ratio

-1.24

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Peers

WPP vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

Ticker	Name	Market cap	P/E	P/S	ROIC	5Y rev CAGR	1Y total return	Rating
DIS	The Walt Disney Company	187.6B	17.3x	1.9x	9.2%	+10.8%	+7.0%	Hold
GOOGL	Alphabet Inc.	4.9T	30.6x	11.5x	28.3%	+16.5%	+165.7%	Buy
META	Meta Platforms Inc.	1.5T	22.2x	7.2x	29.8%	+17.9%	+2.5%	Strong Buy

Questions

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