BAE Systems
1,943.00 GBpChange from previous close: −0.74%Absolute change: −14.50 GBp
Valuation
Data as of October 2, 2026
Valuation multiples
- Market cap
- £56.87B
- Enterprise value
- £63.71B
- P/E (trailing 12 months)
- 27.8
- Forward P/E
- 20.3
- PEG
- 2.71
- Price/book
- 469.9
- Price/sales
- 1.94
- EV/EBITDA
- 17.0
- EV/revenue
- 2.17
Profitability and growth
- Gross margin
- 13.3%
- Operating margin
- 9.7%
- Net margin
- 7.2%
- ROE
- 18.6%
- ROA
- 4.8%
- Revenue growth (year over year)
- 7.7%
- Earnings growth (year over year)
- 5.6%
Financial health
- Total cash
- £4.2B
- Total debt
- £9.15B
- Debt/equity
- 0.73
- Current ratio
- 1.02
- Quick ratio
- 0.90
Dividends
- Annual dividend per share
- 0.38 GBp
- Dividend yield
- 1.9%
- Payout ratio
- 52.0%
- Ex-dividend date
- October 22, 2026
Analysts and estimates
- Average price target
- 2,328.15 GBp
- Median price target
- 2,355.00 GBp
- High price target
- 2,620.00 GBp
- Low price target
- 1,700.00 GBp
- Number of analysts
- 20
- Consensus
- Buy
- Forward EPS
- 0.96 GBp
- EPS estimate, current year
- 0.84 GBp
Shares and trading
- Beta
- -0.06
- Average volume
- 5.89M
- Shares outstanding
- 2.93B
- Float
- 2.86B
- Institutional ownership
- 72.0%
- Insider ownership
- 0.4%