Company Valuation: DS Smith

Data adjusted to current consolidation scope
Fiscal Period: April 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Market Cap 1 4,277 5,772 4,543 4,268 4,829 8,069
Change - 34.96% -21.3% -6.05% 13.14% 67.08%
Enterprise Value (EV) 1 6,425 7,599 6,072 5,940 7,095 11,129
Change - 18.28% -20.1% -2.17% 19.44% 56.85%
P/E 8.17x 29.9x 16.3x 8.56x 12.6x -
PBR 1.28x 1.63x 1.07x 1.04x 1.22x -
PEG - -0.5x 0.4x 0.1x -0.5x -
Capitalization / Revenue 0.71x 0.97x 0.63x 0.52x 0.71x 1.33x
EV / Revenue 1.06x 1.27x 0.84x 0.72x 1.04x 1.84x
EV / EBITDA 7.29x 10.8x 7.71x 5.5x 7.61x 29.1x
EV / EBIT 12.5x 21.4x 13.6x 7.95x 11.8x 114x
EV / FCF 10.3x 27.8x 44.2x 9.98x -28.7x -8.41x
FCF Yield 9.74% 3.6% 2.26% 10% -3.49% -11.9%
Dividend per Share 2 - 0.121 0.15 0.18 0.18 -
Rate of return - 2.88% 4.53% 5.8% 5.14% -
EPS 2 0.382 0.1407 0.203 0.3622 0.279 -
Distribution rate - 86% 73.9% 49.7% 64.5% -
Net sales 1 6,043 5,976 7,241 8,221 6,822 6,051
EBITDA 1 881 703.3 788 1,081 932 383
EBIT 1 514 354.3 446 747 602 98
Net income 1 527 194 280 502 385 -126
Net Debt 1 2,148 1,827 1,529 1,672 2,266 3,060
Reference price 2 3.119 4.208 3.309 3.101 3.504 5.825
Nbr of stocks (in thousands) 1,371,316 1,371,775 1,372,931 1,376,455 1,378,260 1,385,216
Announcement Date 02/07/20 29/06/21 14/07/22 13/07/23 08/07/24 29/12/25
1GBP in Million2GBP
Estimates


Y-o-Y evolution of P/E

Valuation ratios - P/E - DS Smith

Historical PBR trend

Valuation ratios - PBR - DS Smith

Evolution Enterprise Value / Sales

Valuation ratios - VE_REV - DS Smith

Change in Enterprise Value/EBITDA

Valuation ratios - VE_EBITDA - DS Smith