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£383.99B market value
From Burberry Group plc's FY2026 annual-report
It took in £2.42B last year, which makes it a mid-sized company. Of every dollar it sells, about 1 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by accounting, with profitability and debt worth watching, while growth remain weak.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Financial health
A mixed picture — some clear strengths and some weaknesses.
From Burberry Group plc's FY2026 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2026
Operating income
£26.0M → £160.0M
Profit
-£75.0M → £21.0M
Earnings per share
-£0.21 → £0.06
Gross margin
62.5% → 67.9%
Measured against FY2025, from the annual-report
Improved: +515.4%
£26.0M to £160.0MCritical
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: turned positive
-£75.0M to £21.0MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
How the latest move compares (quote delayed ~15 min), and what was published around it
BRBY.L fell 0.19% on the latest quote. The S&P 500 moved −1.04%. That is 0.9 points above the market.
These coincide with the move in time. None is presented as its cause: a price can move on news that names no company, on the wider market, or on trading that no document records.
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The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 1 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning £21.0M last year.
No. Sales shrank 1.7% last year.
No — it holds more cash than debt, with £103.0M left over after paying off every borrowing. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.44 in assets. Its operating profit covers the interest 1.95x over, which is not much room.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Income
This company pays no dividend. It keeps its profits and reinvests them in the business instead, so any return would have to come from the share price.
Figures from the FY2026 annual filing
Last year it earned £21.0M and generated £484.0M of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in GBp. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY2026annual-report | FY2025annual-report | FY2024annual-report | FY2023annual-report | ChangeFY2026 vs FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | £2.42B | £2.46B | £2.97B | £3.09B | −1.7% |
| Cost of revenue | £777.0M | £923.0M | £959.0M | £911.0M | −15.8% |
| Gross profit | £1.64B | £1.54B | £2.01B | £2.18B | +6.8% |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 67.9% | 62.5% | 67.7% | 70.6% | +5.4 pts |
| Selling, general and administrative | £1.12B | £1.13B | £1.23B | £1.56B | −0.3% |
| Operating income | £160.0M | £26.0M | £418.0M | £635.0M | +515.4% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 6.6% | 1.1% | 14.1% | 20.5% | +5.6 pts |
| Interest expense | £82.0M | £81.0M | £54.0M | £37.0M | +1.2% |
| Income before tax | £49.0M | -£66.0M | £383.0M | £634.0M | n/m |
| Net income | £21.0M | -£75.0M | £270.0M | £490.0M | n/m |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 0.9% | -3.0% | 9.1% | 15.8% | +3.9 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | £0.0586 | £-0.2098 | £0.757 | £1.30 | n/m |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Nothing recent
No insider trades, pending-sale notices or 5% stake filings from BRBY.L in the last few months. That is the ordinary case, not a gap.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
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Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from BRBY.L's annual-report for fiscal year 2026 (period ending 2026-03-31), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy.
4 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. All four had enough reported figures. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 9 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
8 of 9 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's.
2.80
In the safe zone
For this model, above 2.6 is safe and below 1.1 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
-3.14
Below the threshold — nothing unusual flagged
Scores above -1.78 are the ones the model associates with earnings manipulation.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Improved: turned positive
-£0.21 to £0.06Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +5.4 pts
62.5% to 67.9%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Improved: +5.6 pts
1.1% to 6.6%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Improved: +3.9 pts
-3.0% to 0.9%Significant
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: +33.1%
£278.0M to £370.0MSignificant
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Deteriorated: +16.7%
£438.0M to £511.0MSignificant
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Deteriorated: -17.5%
£813.0M to £671.0MSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Changed: -24.5%
£151.0M to £114.0MSignificant
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Improved: +6.8%
£1.54B to £1.64BNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
2 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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The trailing P/E is 18285.2x — a high multiple relative to the current trailing profit.
Nothing unusual. Its accounting patterns look like those of companies that report earnings straightforwardly.
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