IWG (IWG) Share Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

IWG plc, together with its subsidiaries, provides workspace solutions in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. The company offers office, coworking and collaboration, flexible and scalable, meeting, and lounges spaces; workplace recovery; memberships workspaces; and reception services and conference products. It provides its services franchise partners, landlords, and property owners under the Regus, Spaces, HQ, Signature, Basepoint, Stop & Work, The Office Operators, BizDojo, Open Office, No18, The Clubhouse, Central Working, and Copernico brands. The company also operates Worka, an easy-to-use app to search, compare, and book office space, coworking, and meeting rooms; Easy Offices, an online broker that helps to find places to work; HomeToWork, a platform that provides access to content, events, and resources from companies to make home a place to work; Rovva, an online toolkit which provides a range of products and services that help the people to take their businesses further; Meetingo, a digital meeting platform; and managed conventional office solutions that provides customized workspaces. The company was formerly known as Regus plc and changed its name to IWG plc in December 2016. IWG plc was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: 227.80 to 235.80
• 50-Day Range: 192.10 to 233.02
• 52-Week Range: 146 to 235.80
• Volume: 935,869 shs
• Average Volume: 4.74 million shs
• Market Capitalization: £2.36 billion
• P/E Ratio: 10,709.09
• Dividend Yield: 0.01%
• Price Target: GBX 265
• Consensus Rating: Buy

IWG Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

IWG scored higher than 32% 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: 2.9 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Buy

Consensus Rating

IWG has received a consensus rating of Buy. The company's average rating score is 3.00, and is based on 2 buy ratings, no hold ratings, and no sell ratings.

Upside Potential

IWG has a consensus price target of GBX 265, representing about 13.1% upside from its current price of GBX 234.40.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

IWG has only been the subject of 2 research reports in the past 90 days.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 0.0 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: N/A

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of IWG is 10,654.55, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 232.87.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of IWG is 10,654.55, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the Real Estate sector average P/E ratio of about 275.35.

Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

Due to a projected decrease in earnings for IWG, their PEG ratio cannot be calculated.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

IWG has a P/B Ratio of 29.26. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued 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 IWG.

Dividend

• Score: 0.8 / 5
• Dividend Strength: Weak

Dividend Yield

IWG has a dividend yield of 0.44%, which is in the bottom 25% of all stocks that pay dividends.

Dividend Growth

IWG does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

Dividend Coverage

The dividend payout ratio of IWG is 61.14%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%.

Sustainability and ESG

• Score: N/A
• Environmental Score: N/A

Short Interest

There is no current short interest data available for IWG.

News and Social Media

• Score: 2.5 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.43

News Sentiment

IWG has a news sentiment score of 0.43. 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 0.58 average news sentiment score of Real Estate companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 3 news articles for IWG this week, compared to 2 articles on an average week.

MarketBeat Follows

1 people have added IWG to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 1.7 / 5
• Insider Trading: N/A

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

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

Percentage Held by Insiders

25.71% of the stock of IWG is held by insiders. A high percentage of insider ownership can be a sign of company health.

Percentage Held by Institutions

Only 33.61% of the stock of IWG is held by institutions.

IWG Stock Analysis - Frequently Asked Questions

How have IWG shares performed this year?

IWG's stock was trading at GBX 159.10 at the start of the year. Since then, IWG shares have increased by 47.3% and is now trading at GBX 234.40.

Is IWG buying back stock?

IWG's board approved a share buyback program on Tuesday, March 4th 2025, which authorizes the company to repurchase $50,000,000 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This means that the company could buy up to 2.7% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are often an indication that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

How do I buy shares of IWG?

Shares of IWG stock and other U.K. stocks can be purchased through online brokerage accounts that support trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSX). Some U.K. companies can be purchased through major U.S. brokerages in the form of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), which are placeholder equities held in a trust by a bank that represent shares of a foreign stock.

What other stocks do shareholders of IWG own?

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some other companies that IWG investors own include Rolls-Royce Holdings plc (RR.L), Babcock International Group (BAB), Inland Homes (INL), AstraZeneca (AZN), ITV (ITV), Aviva (AV) and Barclays (BARC).

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: LON
• Sector: Real Estate
• Industry: Real Estate Services
• Sub-Industry: N/A
• Current Symbol: LON:IWG
• Previous Symbol: LON:RGU
• CIK: N/A
• Web: www.iwgplc.com
• Phone: 41 417 23 23 23
• Fax: N/A
• Employees: 10,000
• Year Founded: N/A

Price Target and Rating

• Average Price Target for IWG: GBX 265
• High Price Target: GBX 270
• Low Price Target: GBX 260
• Potential Upside/Downside: +13.1%
• Consensus Rating: Buy
• Rating Score (0-4): 3.00
• Research Coverage: 2 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): GBX 0.02
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 10,654.55
• Forward P/E Ratio: 34.97
• P/E Growth: -5.59
• Net Income: -£134.02 million
• Net Margins: -4.86%
• Pretax Margin: N/A
• Return on Equity: -356.38%
• Return on Assets: 3.01%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 12,629.31
• Current Ratio: 0.41
• Quick Ratio: 0.45

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: £3.67 billion
• Price / Sales: 0.64
• Cash Flow: GBX 30.79 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 7.61
• Book Value: GBX 8.01 per share
• Price / Book: 29.26

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 999,798,000
• Free Float: N/A
• Market Cap: £2.34 billion
• Optionable: Not Optionable
• Beta: 2.10