How does JSCI.F's PE Ratio compare to its peers?

JSCI.F is good value based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (39.3x) compared to the peer average (42.2x).

How does JSCI.F's PE Ratio compare vs other companies in the US Machinery Industry?

JSCI.F is expensive based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (39.3x) compared to the US Machinery industry average (23.6x).

What is JSCI.F'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.

Insufficient data to calculate JSCI.F's Price-To-Earnings Fair Ratio for valuation analysis.

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

JSCI.F ($104.25) is trading below our estimate of [[fair value]] ($140.24)

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

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

JSCI.F Stock Overview

Designs, manufactures, and sells scientific instruments. More details

JSCI.F fundamental analysis
Snowflake Score
Valuation	4/6
Future Growth	4/6
Past Performance	4/6
Financial Health	3/6
Dividends	4/6

Rewards

Trading at 25.7% below our estimate of its fair value

Earnings are forecast to grow 23.73% per year

Earnings grew by 18.7% over the past year

Analysts in good agreement that stock price will rise by 40.6%

Risk Analysis

Shares are highly illiquid

Has a high level of debt

Large one-off items impacting financial results

My Notes

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Price History & Performance

Summary of share price highs, lows and changes for Judges Scientific
Historical stock prices
Current Share Price	UK£104.25
52 Week High	UK£104.25
52 Week Low	UK£104.25
Beta	0.81
1 Month Change	n/a
3 Month Change	n/a
1 Year Change	n/a
3 Year Change	n/a
5 Year Change	n/a
Change since IPO	256.41%

Recent updates

Shareholder Returns

	JSCI.F	US Machinery	US Market
7D	0%	4.2%	2.4%
1Y	n/a	20.7%	25.0%

Return vs Industry: Insufficient data to determine how JSCI.F performed against the US Machinery industry.

Return vs Market: Insufficient data to determine how JSCI.F performed against the US Market.

Price Volatility

Is JSCI.F's price volatile compared to industry and market?
JSCI.F volatility
JSCI.F Average Weekly Movement	n/a
Machinery Industry Average Movement	5.8%
Market Average Movement	6.5%
10% most volatile stocks in US Market	18.7%
10% least volatile stocks in US Market	3.3%

Stable Share Price: JSCI.F's share price has been volatile over the past 3 months compared to the US market.

Volatility Over Time: Insufficient data to determine JSCI.F's volatility change over the past year.

About the Company

Founded	Employees	CEO	Website
n/a	682	David Cicurel	www.judges.uk.com

Judges Scientific plc designs, manufactures, and sells scientific instruments. The company offers engineering teaching and research equipment for universities, colleges, schools, and research centres; and research and development systems for food, beverage, dairy, edible oil, and pharmaceutical industries. It also provides cutting edge LED illumination systems for bioscience and clinical microscopy; tensile testing, motion control, and specimen cooling for microscopy applications; automated measurement systems for a range of fibers; edge-welded metal bellows; and fire testing instruments, such as cone calorimeters, large scale calorimeters, NBS smoke chambers and oxygen index test, and related fire testing instruments.

Judges Scientific plc Fundamentals Summary

How do Judges Scientific's earnings and revenue compare to its market cap?
JSCI.F fundamental statistics
Market cap	US$614.80m
Earnings (TTM)	US$15.63m
Revenue (TTM)	US$166.90m

39.3x

P/E Ratio

3.7x

P/S Ratio

Is JSCI.F overvalued?

See Fair Value and valuation analysis

Earnings & Revenue

Key profitability statistics from the latest earnings report (TTM)
JSCI.F income statement (TTM)
Revenue	UK£135.60m
Cost of Revenue	UK£42.10m
Gross Profit	UK£93.50m
Other Expenses	UK£80.80m
Earnings	UK£12.70m

Last Reported Earnings

Jun 30, 2024

Next Earnings Date

Mar 20, 2025

Earnings per share (EPS)	1.91
Gross Margin	68.95%
Net Profit Margin	9.37%
Debt/Equity Ratio	63.3%

How did JSCI.F perform over the long term?

See historical performance and comparison

Dividends

1.3%

Current Dividend Yield

51%

Payout Ratio

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/01/23 15:35
End of Day Share Price	2025/01/08 00:00
Earnings	2024/06/30
Annual Earnings	2023/12/31

Data Sources

The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.

Package	Data	Timeframe	Example US Source ^*
Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

^* example for US securities, for non-US equivalent regulatory forms and sources are used.

Unless specified all financial data is based on a yearly period but updated quarterly. This is known as Trailing Twelve Month (TTM) or Last Twelve Month (LTM) Data. Learn more here.

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Industry and Sector Metrics

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Analyst Sources

Judges Scientific plc is covered by 10 analysts. 6 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
James Bayliss	Berenberg
Eleanor Spencer	Berenberg
Calum Battersby	Berenberg

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