Manchester United plc
Manchester United plc Class A Ordinary Shares represents ownership in Manchester United plc, a global sports and entertainment company centered on the operation of Manchester United Football Club. The company’s current business is built around men’s and women’s professional football, supported by commercial activities that include sponsorship, merchandising, licensing, and other fan-facing media and business services. Manchester United plc also operates within broader sports entertainment markets, where its brand strength and worldwide fan base play a central role in its commercial reach. The Class A Ordinary Shares are one of the company’s equity classes and carry one vote per share, making them part of the structure used to govern the business. Manchester United plc is headquartered in Manchester, United Kingdom, and serves audiences and commercial partners across international markets.
$20.86
-$0.16 (-0.76%)
EOD Oct 21, 2026
The business is unprofitable at the operating level (-4.04% margin). The thesis depends entirely on whether and when it reaches sustainable profitability.
Revenue declined 26.1% YoY. The question is whether this is cyclical or a structural shift.
Negative free cash flow of -£251M. The business is consuming cash, not generating it.
Price History
Valuation & Multiples
Based on TTM earnings · Diluted shares
Profitability & Returns
Revenue (TTM)
£684M
▼ -26.1% YoY
Net Income (TTM)
-£18M
▲ +78.6% YoY
Op. Margin
-2.38%
▲ +4.6pp YoY
ROIC
-2.38%
▲ +4.9pp YoY
Cash Flow & Balance Sheet
FCF (TTM)
-£212M
▼ -50.2% YoY
Op. Cash Flow (TTM)
£115M
▼ -67.6% YoY
Net Debt
£559M
Cash & Equiv.
£86M
3Y CAGR: +4.6%
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Is Manchester United (MANU) overvalued?
Manchester United (MANU)'s valuation is best read against its own history, its peers, and the growth its price implies. 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, Manchester United scores 23/100 on Intrinsiqq's quality scorecard (a lower-quality business on these measures), weighing growth, margins, returns on capital, share count, and balance-sheet strength. All figures are computed from company filings; read the full methodology, or see how the market compares in our US profitability statistics. This is analysis, not investment advice.
Frequently asked
Is Manchester United a high-quality business?+
Manchester United scores 23 out of 100 on Intrinsiqq's quality score, a weighted blend of 6 metrics each scored 0 to 100, which makes it a lower-quality business on these measures. Recent fundamentals include a -2.4% operating margin and a -2.4% 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 company filings, not opinion. Because valuation only means something relative to quality, the full metric-by-metric breakdown is on the quality scorecard.
Is Manchester United a good stock to buy right now?+
That depends on valuation and quality together, not either alone. you should weigh MANU's valuation and scores 23/100 on quality (lower-quality). 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 company filings, not investment advice.
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