U.K. Top Stock Picks from Analysts

Glencore

Market Cap: UK£30.6b

Engages in the production, refinement, processing, storage, transport, and marketing of metals and minerals, and energy products in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania.

Prudential

Market Cap: UK£19.0b

Through its subsidiaries, provides life and health insurance, and asset management solutions to individuals in Asia and Africa.

Ashtead Group

Market Cap: UK£16.5b

Engages in the construction, industrial, and general equipment rental business under the Sunbelt Rentals brand name in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.

International Consolidated Airlines Group

Market Cap: UK£11.5b

Engages in the provision of passenger and cargo transportation services in the North Atlantic, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, the Asia Pacific, and internationally.

Melrose Industries

Market Cap: UK£5.2b

Designs and delivers aerospace components and systems for civil and defence markets in the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, North America, and internationally.

Zegona Communications

Market Cap: UK£4.6b

Engages in investing in the telecommunications, media, and technology businesses in Europe.

JD Sports Fashion

Market Cap: UK£3.7b

Engages in the retail of branded sports fashion and outdoor clothing, footwear, accessories, and equipment for kids, women, and men in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Europe, North America, and internationally.

Croda International

Market Cap: UK£3.7b

Engages in the consumer care, life science, and industrial specialty businesses in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North America, Asia, and Latin America.

Entain

Market Cap: UK£3.4b

Operates as a sports-betting and gaming company.

easyJet

Market Cap: UK£3.4b

Operates as a low-cost airline carrier in Europe.

B&M European Value Retail

Market Cap: UK£2.9b

Operates general merchandise and grocery stores.

Jet2

Market Cap: UK£2.7b

Engages in the leisure travel business primarily in the United Kingdom.

Harbour Energy

Market Cap: UK£2.6b

Engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and production of oil and gas reserves in Norway, the United Kingdom, Germany, Mexico, Argentina, North Africa, and Southeast Asia.

Tate & Lyle

Market Cap: UK£2.2b

Engages in the provision of ingredients and solutions to the food, beverage, and other industries in North America, Asia, Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Europe.

Burford Capital

Market Cap: UK£2.1b

Provides legal finance products and services worldwide.

Spectris

Market Cap: UK£1.9b

Provides precision measurement solutions.

HUTCHMED (China)

Market Cap: UK£1.8b

HUTCHMED (China) Limited, together with its subsidiaries, discovers, develops, and commercializes targeted therapeutics and immunotherapies to treat cancer and immunological diseases in Hong Kong, the United States, and internationally.

Man Group

Market Cap: UK£1.8b

Man Group Limited is a publicly owned investment manager.

Renishaw

Market Cap: UK£1.6b

An engineering and scientific technology company, designs, manufactures, distributes, sells, and services technological products and services, and analytical instruments and medical devices worldwide.

Canal+

Market Cap: UK£1.5b

Operates as a media and entertainment company in France and internationally.

JTC

Market Cap: UK£1.4b

Provides fund, corporate, and private wealth services to institutional and private clients.

Telecom Plus

Market Cap: UK£1.3b

Engages in the provision of utility services in the United Kingdom.

Hill & Smith

Market Cap: UK£1.3b

Manufactures and supplies infrastructure products in the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, North America, the Middle East, rest of Asia, and internationally.

WH Smith

Market Cap: UK£1.2b

Operates as a travel retailer in the United Kingdom, North America, Australia, Ireland, Spain, and internationally.

Trainline

Market Cap: UK£1.2b

Engages in the operation of an independent rail and coach travel platform that sells rail and coach tickets the United Kingdom and internationally.

Coats Group

Market Cap: UK£1.2b

Engages in thread manufacturing, structural components for apparel and footwear, and performance materials worldwide.

SSP Group

Market Cap: UK£1.1b

Operates food and beverage outlets in North America, Europe, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Asia Pacific, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and internationally.

Oxford Nanopore Technologies

Market Cap: UK£1.1b

Engages in the research, development, manufacture, and commercialization of a nanopore based sequencing platform that allows the real-time analysis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or ribonucleic acid (RNA) in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India, and the Asia Pacific.

GlobalData

Market Cap: UK£1.1b

Provides business information in the form of proprietary data, analytics, and insights in Europe, North America, and the Asia Pacific.

Genus

Market Cap: UK£1.1b

Operates as an animal genetics company in North America, Latin America, the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, the Middle East, Russia, Africa, and Asia.

Helios Towers

Market Cap: UK£1.0b

An independent tower company, acquires, builds, and operates telecommunications towers.

Oxford Instruments

Market Cap: UK£919.0m

Oxford Instruments plc provide scientific technology products and services for academic and commercial organizations worldwide.

Yellow Cake

Market Cap: UK£887.8m

Operates in the uranium sector.

4imprint Group

Market Cap: UK£879.0m

Operates as a direct marketer of promotional products in North America, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.

Indivior

Market Cap: UK£857.1m

Develops, manufactures, and sells buprenorphine-based prescription drugs for the treatment of opioid dependence and related disorders in the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia, and internationally.

Trustpilot Group

Market Cap: UK£837.9m

Engages in the development and hosting of an online review platform for businesses and consumers in the United Kingdom, North America, Europe, and internationally.