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Cranswick plc is a leading United Kingdom food producer and supplier specializing in premium fresh pork, gourmet sausages, cooked meats, bacon, poultry, and continental products. The company operates a vertically integrated farm-to-fork model, encompassing pig and poultry farming, genetics, breeding, feed milling, and production across 23 efficient facilities in the UK. It supplies high-quality, predominantly fresh and added-value foods to UK grocery retailers—which account for about three-fourths of revenue—the food service sector, other food producers, and an expanding export market in Europe, the US, and Southeast Asia. Cranswick plc has diversified into pet food production using British-sourced ingredients and emphasizes innovation in categories like plant-based dips and Mediterranean foods through strategic acquisitions. With over 12,000 employees, the company focuses on quality, animal welfare standards, sustainability, and technical excellence, serving as a key player in the packaged foods industry within the consumer defensive sector.
£56.30
£0.10 (-0.18%)
EOD Jul 3, 2026
Operating margin is thin at 7.81%. Limited cushion if revenue slows or costs rise, not the profile of a wide-moat business.
Revenue grew 9.5%, steady but not accelerating.
Even for strong businesses, today's 19x P/E means the stock needs to keep delivering. There's no margin of safety if growth disappoints.
19.4x earnings, 27.7x FCF. Valuation is in a reasonable range. The main question is whether the business can re-accelerate or if current trajectory is already priced in.
Based on TTM earnings · Diluted shares
Profitability & Returns
Revenue (TTM)
£2.98B
▲ +9.5% YoY
Net Income (TTM)
£158M
▲ +17.9% YoY
Op. Margin
7.81%
▲ +0.7pp YoY
ROIC
13.62%
▲ +0.7pp YoY
Cash Flow & Balance Sheet
FCF (TTM)
£109M
▲ +38.4% YoY
Op. Cash Flow (TTM)
£159M
▲ +38.4% YoY
Net Debt
£241M
Cash & Equiv.
£13M
3Y CAGR: +8.7%
3Y CAGR: +17.1%
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At a P/E of 19.4 and a price-to-free-cash-flow of 27.7, Cranswick (CWK.XLON) trades above a two-stage DCF intrinsic value of about £54.01 per share, so at £56.30 the stock looks overvalued (4.1% above estimated intrinsic value). A high multiple is not the same as overvalued: fast-growing, high-quality businesses can deserve a premium. See the general approach in how to tell if a stock is overvalued.
On quality, Cranswick scores 69/100 on Intrinsiqq's quality scorecard (a solid business on these measures), weighing growth, margins, returns on capital, share count, and balance-sheet strength. It currently yields about 1.8%; see dividend safety for coverage and history. All figures are computed from SEC filings; read the full methodology. This is analysis, not investment advice.
Intrinsiqq's two-stage DCF estimates an intrinsic value of about £54.01 per share for CWK.XLON, projecting its recent free cash flow forward with a growth rate that fades toward a long-run rate and discounting it back to today. Applying a 25% margin of safety gives a more conservative fair-value entry around £40.51. At today's £56.30, that puts the stock about 4.1% above estimated intrinsic value. The result is sensitive to the growth and discount-rate inputs, so it is best to run conservative, base and optimistic cases. You can adjust all of them yourself with the sliders on the DCF tab.
Cranswick scores 69 out of 100 on Intrinsiqq's quality score, a weighted blend of 8 metrics each scored 0 to 100, which makes it a solid business on these measures. Recent fundamentals include a 7.8% operating margin and a 13.6% return on invested capital. The score weighs revenue and free-cash-flow growth, operating margins, return on invested capital, share-count change, and balance-sheet strength, all computed from SEC filings, not opinion. Because valuation only means something relative to quality, the full metric-by-metric breakdown is on the quality scorecard.
Yes, Cranswick pays a regular dividend of about £1.03 per share per year (typically in quarterly installments), a yield of roughly 1.8% at the current price. That is a payout ratio of about 34.8% of earnings, so the dividend is amply covered by earnings. Cranswick has grown the dividend at roughly 13.8% a year over the past few years. A low headline yield is not the same as a weak dividend: what matters is how well earnings and free cash flow cover the payout and whether it is growing, not the percentage alone. For CWK.XLON's full payout history, growth streak and dividend-safety score, see the dividends tab.
That depends on valuation and quality together, not either alone. CWK.XLON currently trades above its estimated intrinsic value and scores 69/100 on quality (solid). It also yields about 1.8%. A cheap price is only a bargain if the business is durable, and a premium can be justified by genuine quality, so the two questions, "is it cheap?" and "is it good?", only make sense side by side. Read the valuation against the quality scorecard, run the DCF on your own assumptions, and decide for yourself. This is analysis from SEC filings, not investment advice.