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Grainger plcGRI.LCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United Kingdom · GBP·Real Estate›Real Estate Development

UK's largest listed residential landlord, owning and managing build-to-rent private rented homes nationwide.

≈ A UK AvalonBay/Equity Residential peerMomentum strong 77
Mkt cap
$1.83B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
96%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$6.28M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
19.8×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
n/a
WACC 8.0%
Hurdle
n/a
no reverse DCF
Next earnings
13 days
19 Nov 2026
Close · GBP£184.30
1D-1.3%
1W+1.8%
1M+15.3%
3M+6.0%
6M+19.4%
YTD+1.1%
1Y-3.9%
ATR %2.5%
52w lowhigh8.2% off high

What Grainger does

UK's largest listed residential landlord, owning and managing build-to-rent private rented homes nationwide.

Collects rent on homes it owns and operates itself, and funds growth by selling older regulated-tenancy homes as tenants leave, recycling the proceeds into new purpose-built rental blocks. Rents on the new blocks follow market levels, while rents on the older homes are capped by law.

In one line: A UK AvalonBay/Equity Residential peer.

Products and services

  • Build-to-rent residential portfolio
  • Regulated tenancy legacy portfolio

Customers

  • UK renters (tenants)

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Real Estate
  • Residential rental (build-to-rent)
  • PRS home ownership & management

What could go right

  • UK rental housing demand/undersupply
  • Build-to-rent sector institutionalization

What could go wrong

  • Interest rate sensitivity
  • Rent control/regulatory risk

Moat: narrow (scale, installed base). Largest listed UK residential rental portfolio and in-house management platform.

Headquarters: London, UK · Founded: 1912 · Employees: 372

Named competitors

Grainger at a glance

Size Grainger (GRI.L) is a United Kingdom Real Estate company (Real Estate Development) with a market value of $1.83B, the 170th largest of 363 United Kingdom companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at £184.30 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 19.4%, against -12.7% for the median peer and +3.6% for the United Kingdom market (cap-weighted) — 2nd highest of 20 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue fell 23.4% over the last twelve months (peer median +3.3%); the operating margin is 49.0% (peer median 14.1%).

Valuation It trades at 19.8× forward earnings against a peer median of 13.0× (4th most expensive of 16).

Next results Next results expected around 19 Nov 2026 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

8010012011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026GRI.L 119Peer median 87
Six months, rebased to 100: Grainger against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Grainger financials

Reported figures in GBP; fiscal year ends 2025-09-30. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue£239M£264M£289M£272M£285M
Revenue growth—-9%+6%-5%—
Gross profit£157M£170M£166M£161M£161M
EBITDA£119M£131M£126M£126M£121M
Net income£131M£203M£31.2M£25.6M£229M
Free cash flow£90.4M£121M£132M£179M£98.3M
Capital expenditure£1.30M£1.40M£4.30M£6.10M£3.70M
Total debtn/a£1.60B£1.60B£1.54B£1.36B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Grainger competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-50%-25%0%+25%+50%-20%0%ISNIMC03630817601512F176049BRIGADE39002869ENTRA000506ARG13966006758848RLIA000656GRI.L6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Grainger is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

0%+50%20×40×ISN036308176015126049BRIGADE39002869ENTRAMVC13968848RLIAGRI.LRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Grainger is the large dot.

Grainger competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (GRI.L vs UTG.L vs LGEN.L)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Grainger GRI.L$1.83B+19%-23%49%19.8×n/a
UNITE UTG.L$3.41B+5%+12%46%11.9×n/a
Legal & General LGEN.L$21.9B+24%+137%2%13.1×n/a

How Grainger compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Grainger against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureGRI.LPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+15.3%-0.2%highest of 21
6-month return+19.4%-12.7%2nd highest of 20
Distance from 52-week high-8.2%-23.9%2nd highest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)-23.4%+3.3%6th lowest of 20
Operating margin49.0%14.1%5th highest of 21
Forward P/E19.8×13.0×4th most expensive of 16

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Grainger GRI.LUnited Kingdom$1.83B+19%-23%49%19.8×n/an/a
Intershop ISN.SWSwitzerland$1.82B-9%+5%79%18.5×n/an/a
Inmocemento IMC.MCSpain$1.88B-4%+10%29%n/an/an/a
Shanghai Industrial 0363.HKHong Kong$1.89B-14%-28%15%7.1×n/an/a
PPI Public Property Invest PUBLI.STSweden$1.78Bn/an/a70%n/an/an/a
China Jinmao 0817.HKHong Kong$1.77B-45%-8%5%9.9×n/an/a
China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Development 601512.SSChina$1.75B-23%-32%22%10.8×n/an/a
GuocoLand F17.SISingapore$1.75B-16%-24%7%11.5×n/an/a
Poly Property Services 6049.HKHong Kong$1.92B-14%+8%11%7.9×n/an/a
Brigade Enterprises BRIGADE.NSIndia$1.93B-4%-4%23%20.0×n/an/a
Greentown China 3900.HKHong Kong$1.74B-48%+1%3%43.6×n/an/a
Greentown Service 2869.HKHong Kong$1.74B-9%+13%7%11.2×n/an/a
Entra ENTRA.OLNorway$1.95B-4%-9%82%15.2×n/an/a
Zhaojin International Gold 000506.SZChina$1.95B-13%+42%27%n/an/an/a
Argan ARG.PAFrance$1.95B+14%+5%78%11.2×n/an/a
Metrovacesa MVC.MCSpain$1.95B-5%+58%13%26.4×n/an/a
Greater Bay Area AI Computing Tech 1396.HKHong Kong$1.70B-41%+76%-6%15.6×n/an/a
China Enterprise 600675.SSChina$1.98B-15%-35%4%n/an/an/a
Leopalace21 8848.TJapan$1.99B+52%+3%8%13.0×n/an/a
Realia Business RLIA.MCSpain$1.68B-3%+82%41%13.7×n/an/a
Jinke Property 000656.SZChina$1.68B-24%-87%-1,642%n/an/an/a

Questions

Who are Grainger's main competitors?
Named competitors: Unite Group (UTG.L), Legal & General (build-to-rent) (LGEN.L). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Intershop (ISN.SW), Inmocemento (IMC.MC), Shanghai Industrial (0363.HK), PPI Public Property Invest (PUBLI.ST), China Jinmao (0817.HK), China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Development (601512.SS).
Is Grainger expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 19.8× against a peer median of 13.0×, 4th most expensive of 16 in its peer set.
How has Grainger stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +19.4% against -12.7% for the median peer; over one year -3.9%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.