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UK/European home-improvement retailer operating B&Q and Screwfix stores selling DIY, building and trade products.
UK/European home-improvement retailer operating B&Q and Screwfix stores selling DIY, building and trade products.
Runs its own big-box stores and trade counters, keeping the full retail margin, with a growing share from own-brand products it designs and sources directly rather than buying branded goods. The UK and France are the largest markets, and tradespeople, who buy far more often than homeowners, are the core of Screwfix.
In one line: The UK's Home Depot/Lowe's equivalent.
Moat: narrow (scale, distribution, brand). Screwfix's fast trade-focused fulfilment and B&Q/Castorama scale give purchasing and logistics advantages.
Headquarters: London, UK · Founded: 1982 · Employees: 69,720
Size Kingfisher (KGF.L) is a United Kingdom Consumer Discretionary company (Home Improvement Chains) with a market value of $8.17B, the 59th largest of 363 United Kingdom companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at £374.50 on 6 Nov 2026.
Performance Over six months the shares gained 34.3%, against +10.4% for the median peer and +3.6% for the United Kingdom market (cap-weighted) — 2nd highest of 16 in its peer set.
Growth Revenue grew 1.2% over the last twelve months (peer median +4.7%); the operating margin is 5.1% (peer median 6.3%).
Valuation It trades at 13.9× forward earnings against a peer median of 13.7× (7th most expensive of 14).
Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 6% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +1%, so the hurdle is +5 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.
Capital Return on invested capital runs 4.7 points below its cost of capital (11.0% WACC).
Next results Next results expected around 23 Mar 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).
| TTM | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | £13.0B | £12.9B | £12.8B | £13.0B | £13.1B |
| Revenue growth | — | +1% | -2% | -1% | — |
| Gross profit | £5.00B | £4.80B | £4.64B | £4.67B | £4.71B |
| EBITDA | £1.34B | £1.30B | £1.28B | £1.29B | £1.42B |
| Net income | £298M | £245M | £185M | £345M | £471M |
| Free cash flow | £967M | £1.14B | £996M | £964M | £368M |
| Capital expenditure | £421M | £401M | £322M | £367M | £456M |
| Total debt | n/a | £2.34B | £2.32B | £2.48B | £2.56B |
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.
| Company | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | Forward P/E | Req g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kingfisher KGF.L | $8.17B | +34% | +1% | 5% | 13.9× | 5.7% |
| Home Depot (The) HD | $343B | +9% | +2% | 12% | 22.4× | 9.0% |
| Lowe's LOW | $126B | -2% | +8% | 11% | 18.0× | 2.7% |
| Wickes WIX.L | $717M | +36% | +4% | 4% | 13.3× | 2.2% |
| Travis Perkins TPK.L | $1.86B | +28% | 0% | 3% | 23.2× | 8.5% |
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.
| Measure | KGF.L | Peer median | Rank in peer set |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-month return | +16.2% | +7.0% | 5th highest of 16 |
| 6-month return | +34.3% | +10.4% | 2nd highest of 16 |
| Distance from 52-week high | -3.9% | -7.5% | 4th highest of 16 |
| Revenue growth (TTM) | +1.2% | +4.7% | 2nd lowest of 16 |
| Operating margin | 5.1% | 6.3% | 5th lowest of 16 |
| Forward P/E | 13.9× | 13.7× | 7th most expensive of 14 |
| Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) | 5.7% | 1.6% | 6th most demanding of 15 |
| Growth delivered (Del g) | +1.0% | +3.9% | 5th lowest of 15 |
| Hurdle (Req g minus delivered) | +4.8 pp | -0.5 pp | 2nd most demanding of 15 |
| ROIC minus cost of capital | -4.7 pp | +0.2 pp | 3rd lowest of 16 |
| EV / EBITDA | 6.0× | 9.4× | 4th cheapest of 15 |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 1.4× | 2.0× | 7th least indebted of 16 |
| Company | Market | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | Forward P/E | Req g | Delivered g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kingfisher KGF.L | United Kingdom | $8.17B | +34% | +1% | 5% | 13.9× | 5.7% | +1.0% |
| Floor & Decor FND | United States | $5.34B | -1% | +2% | 6% | 27.3× | 17.7% | +14.1% |
| Clas Ohlson CLAS-B.ST | Sweden | $3.49B | +33% | +10% | 13% | 23.7× | 6.8% | +8.6% |
| HORNBACH Holding AG & Co. KGaA HBH.DE | Germany | $1.66B | +18% | +5% | 4% | 10.2× | -3.6% | +3.4% |
| DCM 3050.T | Japan | $1.40B | +10% | +5% | 6% | 12.5× | -1.7% | +2.9% |
| Komeri 8218.T | Japan | $1.21B | +17% | +3% | 6% | 11.8× | -6.8% | 0.0% |
| Sangetsu 8130.T | Japan | $1.15B | +4% | +4% | 10% | 13.7× | -10.8% | +7.3% |
| Wesfarmers WES.AX | Australia | $64.0B | +14% | +3% | 9% | 30.5× | 20.6% | +6.9% |
| Kohnan Shoji 7516.T | Japan | $925M | +15% | +6% | 5% | 10.1× | 0.4% | +3.3% |
| Joyful Honda 3191.T | Japan | $859M | +10% | +5% | 6% | n/a | 1.1% | +0.3% |
| Arclands 9842.T | Japan | $748M | +6% | +8% | 4% | 9.4× | 2.2% | +14.2% |
| Lowe's LOW | United States | $126B | -2% | +8% | 11% | 18.0× | 2.7% | -0.8% |
| Byggmax BMAX.ST | Sweden | $393M | +42% | +2% | 6% | 13.7× | -0.4% | -2.0% |
| Victorian Plumbing VIC.L | United Kingdom | $386M | +15% | +7% | 6% | 16.9× | 11.0% | +8.2% |
| NAFCO 2790.T | Japan | $346M | -12% | -3% | 1% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Home Depot (The) HD | United States | $343B | +9% | +2% | 12% | 22.4× | 9.0% | +4.5% |