Associated British Foods (ABF) Share Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

Associated British Foods is a diversified international food, ingredients and retail group with sales of £13.9bn, 128,000 employees and operations in 53 countries across Europe, Africa, the Americas, Asia and Australia. Our purpose is to provide safe, nutritious, affordable food, and clothing that is great value for money. With the breadth of our business, our brands and global reach, ABF aims to consistently deliver value to its stakeholders. Our business is split into five segments: Grocery; Sugar; Agriculture; Ingredients; and Retail. From a bakery founded in 1935, to grocery stores and a clothing brand, the evolution of ABF is one of considered expansion, growing popular brands and making acquisitions in adjacent businesses and markets for over 85 years.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: 2,068 to 2,133
• 50-Day Range: 1,814 to 2,104.79
• 52-Week Range: 1,729.45 to 2,359
• Volume: 1.42 million shs
• Average Volume: 11.54 million shs
• Market Capitalization: £14.73 billion
• P/E Ratio: 15.79
• Dividend Yield: 3.01%
• Price Target: GBX 1,788.57
• Consensus Rating: Reduce

Associated British Foods Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

Associated British Foods scored higher than 23% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 1.8 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Reduce

Consensus Rating

Associated British Foods has received a consensus rating of Reduce. The company's average rating score is 1.57, and is based on no strong buy ratings, no buy ratings, 4 hold ratings, and 3 sell ratings.

Downside Risk

Associated British Foods has a consensus price target of GBX 1,788.57, representing about 15.0% downside from its current price of GBX 2,104.79.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

Associated British Foods has been the subject of 6 research reports in the past 90 days, demonstrating strong analyst interest in this stock.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 0.6 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: N/A

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of Associated British Foods is 15.79, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 40.27.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of Associated British Foods is 15.79, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the Consumer Staples sector average P/E ratio of about 14.57.

Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

Associated British Foods has a PEG Ratio of 1.51. PEG Ratios above 1 indicate that a company could be overvalued.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

Associated British Foods has a P/B Ratio of 1.39. P/B Ratios below 3 indicates that a company is reasonably valued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: N/A
• Short Interest Level: N/A

Short Interest

There is no current short interest data available for ABF.

Dividend

• Score: 1.7 / 5
• Dividend Strength: Weak

Dividend Yield

Associated British Foods pays a meaningful dividend of 3.01%, higher than the bottom 25% of all stocks that pay dividends.

Dividend Growth

Associated British Foods does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

Dividend Coverage

The dividend payout ratio of Associated British Foods is 47.27%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%.

News and Social Media

• Score: 2.2 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.52

News Sentiment

Associated British Foods has a news sentiment score of 0.52. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a lower news sentiment than the 0.81 average news sentiment score of Consumer Staples companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 8 news articles for Associated British Foods this week, compared to 3 articles on an average week.

Search Interest

Only 1 people have searched for ABF on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is a decrease of -80% compared to the previous 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 0.4 / 5
• Insider Trading: N/A

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, Associated British Foods insiders have not sold or bought any company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

1.52% of the stock of Associated British Foods is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

27.29% of the stock of Associated British Foods is held by institutions.

Company Calendar

• Last Earnings: 6/17/2026
• Today: 8/01/2026

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: LON
• Sector: Consumer Staples
• Industry: Food Products
• Sub-Industry: N/A
• Current Symbol: LON:ABF
• CIK: N/A
• Web: www.abf.co.uk
• Phone: +44-20-73996500
• Fax: N/A
• Employees: 133,000
• Year Founded: N/A

Price Target and Rating

• Average Price Target for Associated British Foods: GBX 1,788.57
• High Price Target: GBX 2,050
• Low Price Target: GBX 1,410
• Potential Upside/Downside: -15.0%
• Consensus Rating: Reduce
• Rating Score (0-4): 1.57
• Research Coverage: 7 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): GBX 133.27
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 15.79
• Forward P/E Ratio: 11.19
• P/E Growth: 1.51
• Net Income: £1.41 billion
• Net Margins: 4.89%
• Pretax Margin: N/A
• Return on Equity: 8.44%
• Return on Assets: 5.51%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 32.63
• Current Ratio: 1.51
• Quick Ratio: 0.93

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: £19.42 billion
• Price / Sales: 0.76
• Cash Flow: GBX 342.85 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 6.14
• Book Value: GBX 1,515.84 per share
• Price / Book: 1.39

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 699,826,000
• Free Float: N/A
• Market Cap: £14.73 billion
• Optionable: Not Optionable
• Beta: 0.80