Costain Group PLC

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249.00+0.50 (+0.20%)today
At close: Oct 23, 4:35 PM BST · May be delayed up to 15 min · GBX

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Key statistics

Previous close248.50
Open248.00
Day range246.50250.50
52-week range140.20265.00
Off day high−0.60%
Off 52-week high−6.04%
Volume330.34K
Avg. volume (3M)1.58M
Market cap651.11M
EPS (TTM)0.1400
Forward P/E14.26
P/E ratio (TTM)17.79
Dividend yield2.09% (0.0500)
Beta (5Y)0.83
Shares outstanding261.49M
Short interest—
Earnings dateAug 20, 2025
Analyst target257.00
Profit margin3.57%

Against its peers

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COST.L 1CV0.F KIE.L CDNL WBD.MI 1500.HK
Market cap 651.11M 466.31M 1.29B 295.81M 1.88B 365.20M
P/E (TTM) 17.8 15.3 23.3 14.4 7.6 5.5
Forward P/E 14.3 8.3 11.3 3.5 5.3 —
Price/book 2.5 1.3 2.6 1.1 1.1 1.2
Dividend yield 2.09% 4.02% 2.60% — 4.19% 14.29%
1-year change +61.99% +20.26% +32.07% −41.74% −46.26% +414.71%
Today +0.20% −1.61% +1.07% +0.80% +1.44% +25.71%

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The stocks whose daily moves over the past year went most closely with COST.L's: the correlation of their daily returns, where 1 would be moving as one.

Company Mkt cap Price Today
Kier Group plcKIE.L · Correlation 0.59 1.29B 303.00 +1.07%
Balfour Beatty plcBBY.L · Correlation 0.50 3.84B 820.00 −0.61%
Galliford Try Holdings plcGFRD.L · Correlation 0.50 665.24M 675.00 +1.20%
Morgan Sindall Group plcMGNS.L · Correlation 0.44 1.83B 3,852.00 −0.10%

What visitors to COST.L's page also look at.

Company Mkt cap Price Today
KIER GROUP PLC ORD 1PKIE.L 1.29B 303.00 +1.07%
BALFOUR BEATTY PLC ORD 50PBBY.L 3.84B 820.00 −0.61%
GALLIFORD TRY HOLDINGS PLC ORDGFRD.L 665.24M 675.00 +1.20%
MORGAN SINDALL GROUP PLC ORD 5PMGNS.L 1.83B 3,852.00 −0.10%
KELLER GROUP PLC ORD 10PKLR.L 2.09B 3,115.10 +1.67%

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Latest news

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TipRanks Financial·Positive

Costain advances share buyback, cancels 8.9m shares

Costain ( (GB:COST) ) just unveiled an announcement. Costain Group PLC has continued to execute its previously announced share buyback programme, repurchasing ordinary shares on the London Stock Exchange between 7 and 13 October 2026 at…

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17mentions in 30 days
17with it in the headline
Positivesentiment

Mentioned with

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People in the coverage

Alex Vaughan6Graham6Lee Kenny Costain6Adrian Cooke5David Llewellyn5Octavius5

Themes

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