Serco Group Valuation

Is SRPL undervalued compared to its fair value, analyst forecasts and its price relative to the market?

Valuation Score

4/6

Valuation Score 4/6

  • Below Fair Value

  • Significantly Below Fair Value

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Peers

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Industry

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Fair Ratio

  • Analyst Forecast

Share Price vs Fair Value

What is the Fair Price of SRPL when looking at its future cash flows? For this estimate we use a Discounted Cash Flow model.

Below Fair Value: SRPL (£1.56) is trading above our estimate of fair value (£1.39)

Significantly Below Fair Value: SRPL is trading above our estimate of fair value.


Key Valuation Metric

Which metric is best to use when looking at relative valuation for SRPL?

Key metric: As SRPL is profitable we use its Price-To-Earnings Ratio for relative valuation analysis.

The above table shows the Price to Earnings ratio for SRPL. This is calculated by dividing SRPL's market cap by their current earnings.
What is SRPL's PE Ratio?
PE Ratio11.4x
EarningsUK£139.00m
Market CapUK£1.59b

Price to Earnings Ratio vs Peers

How does SRPL's PE Ratio compare to its peers?

The above table shows the PE ratio for SRPL vs its peers. Here we also display the market cap and forecasted growth for additional consideration.
CompanyForward PEEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
Peer Average17.9x
MTO Mitie Group
11.1x11.3%UK£1.3b
RWI Renewi
17.6x36.5%UK£446.3m
RTO Rentokil Initial
25.5x15.7%UK£10.0b
WATR Water Intelligence
17.4x15.6%UK£66.5m
SRPL Serco Group
11.4x3.7%UK£1.6b

Price-To-Earnings vs Peers: SRPL is good value based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (11.4x) compared to the peer average (17.9x).


Price to Earnings Ratio vs Industry

How does SRPL's PE Ratio compare vs other companies in the European Commercial Services Industry?

0 CompaniesPrice / EarningsEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
No. of Companies12PE01020304050+
0 CompaniesEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
No more companies

Price-To-Earnings vs Industry: SRPL is good value based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (11.4x) compared to the European Commercial Services industry average (15x).


Price to Earnings Ratio vs Fair Ratio

What is SRPL's PE Ratio compared to its Fair PE Ratio? This is the expected PE Ratio taking into account the company's forecast earnings growth, profit margins and other risk factors.

SRPL PE Ratio vs Fair Ratio.
Fair Ratio
Current PE Ratio11.4x
Fair PE Ratio20.2x

Price-To-Earnings vs Fair Ratio: SRPL is good value based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (11.4x) compared to the estimated Fair Price-To-Earnings Ratio (20.2x).


Analyst Price Targets

What is the analyst 12-month forecast and do we have any statistical confidence in the consensus price target?

The above table shows the analyst SRPL forecast and predictions for the stock price in 12 month’s time.
DateShare PriceAverage 1Y Price TargetDispersionHighLow1Y Actual priceAnalysts
CurrentUK£1.56
UK£2.22
+42.1%
13.0%UK£2.84UK£1.85n/a12
Nov ’25UK£1.76
UK£2.29
+30.5%
10.4%UK£2.84UK£2.00n/a12
Oct ’25UK£1.77
UK£2.29
+29.5%
10.4%UK£2.84UK£2.00n/a12
Sep ’25UK£1.75
UK£2.29
+31.3%
10.4%UK£2.84UK£2.00n/a12
Aug ’25UK£1.79
UK£2.31
+28.7%
10.6%UK£2.83UK£2.00n/a11
Jul ’25UK£1.81
UK£2.29
+26.5%
11.1%UK£2.83UK£2.00n/a11
Jun ’25UK£1.78
UK£2.24
+25.8%
9.4%UK£2.66UK£2.00n/a11
May ’25UK£1.83
UK£2.24
+22.5%
9.4%UK£2.66UK£2.00n/a11
Apr ’25UK£1.91
UK£2.25
+18.3%
9.6%UK£2.66UK£2.00n/a10
Mar ’25UK£1.89
UK£2.29
+21.1%
15.3%UK£3.24UK£2.00n/a11
Feb ’25UK£1.77
UK£2.23
+25.9%
17.4%UK£3.24UK£1.85n/a11
Jan ’25UK£1.62
UK£2.23
+37.2%
17.4%UK£3.24UK£1.85n/a11
Dec ’24UK£1.58
UK£2.21
+39.6%
17.8%UK£3.24UK£1.85n/a11
Nov ’24UK£1.43
UK£2.21
+54.4%
17.8%UK£3.24UK£1.85UK£1.7611
Oct ’24UK£1.49
UK£2.21
+47.8%
17.8%UK£3.24UK£1.85UK£1.7711
Sep ’24UK£1.53
UK£2.21
+44.3%
17.8%UK£3.24UK£1.85UK£1.7511
Aug ’24UK£1.57
UK£2.08
+32.9%
10.2%UK£2.54UK£1.85UK£1.7911
Jul ’24UK£1.56
UK£2.03
+30.6%
8.0%UK£2.30UK£1.75UK£1.8111
Jun ’24UK£1.45
UK£2.00
+38.7%
7.2%UK£2.30UK£1.75UK£1.7811
May ’24UK£1.52
UK£2.00
+32.1%
7.2%UK£2.30UK£1.75UK£1.8311
Apr ’24UK£1.54
UK£2.00
+30.2%
7.2%UK£2.30UK£1.75UK£1.9111
Mar ’24UK£1.64
UK£2.02
+22.9%
7.7%UK£2.30UK£1.75UK£1.8911
Feb ’24UK£1.46
UK£2.02
+37.7%
7.5%UK£2.24UK£1.75UK£1.7710
Jan ’24UK£1.56
UK£2.03
+29.8%
6.8%UK£2.24UK£1.85UK£1.6210
Dec ’23UK£1.72
UK£2.07
+20.2%
9.7%UK£2.58UK£1.85UK£1.5810
Nov ’23UK£1.64
UK£2.07
+26.1%
9.6%UK£2.58UK£1.85UK£1.4310

Analyst Forecast: Target price is more than 20% higher than the current share price and analysts are within a statistically confident range of agreement.


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