Synthomer plc
1.13GBP
-0.0220 (-1.91%)
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Synthomer plc manufactures and supplies specialised polymers and ingredients for coatings, construction, adhesives, and health and protection sectors. The company offers adhesives, such as PSA labels, packaging and specialty tapes, and tape saturants; release coating, wood working, sealants, wet glues, hygiene, and contact adhesives; packaging and assembly hot melt adhesives and polymer under the AERAFIN brand name; and liquid polybutadiene products under the LITHENE brand. It also provides architectural, intumescent, metal, and wood coating, as well as masonry, protective film, soil release, polyester for powder coating, horizontal surfaces, additives, and other products; binder; resins under the PLIOLITE brand name; coalescing agents and glycol/diol under SYNTHOMER NX and SYNOXOL BEPD brands; and construction products, as well as operates data centers. In addition, the company offers building materials, industrial, hygiene, tyre and rubber, home textile, and consumer product; health and protection products, such as medical and examination gloves, coated fabric, industrial and fabric supported gloves, medical devices, personal care and food additives, hygiene adhesives, non-wovens, footwear, hygiene, and wipes; performance materials, including Alcotex polyvinyl alcohol (PVOH) for PVC, Vinaltex Polyvinyl Acetate, elastomeric modifier, resins for rubber compounds, tyre cord, monomers, Wingstay antioxidants, tyre additives, 3D printing, plastics modifiers for packaging, and PLASTVANCE T; energy solutions; paper and carpet products; and latex foam under Liponan Terra brand. It operates in the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Spain, other Europe, Malaysia, China, Other Asia, the United States, and internationally. The company was formerly known as Yule Catto & Co. plc and changed its name to Synthomer plc in 2012. Synthomer plc was founded in 1863 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.
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Is the price low against peers, cash flow and analyst targets?
Only 3 of 6 checks could be assessed because no peer comparison is available and no PEG ratio is stored; 4 are needed.
Do analysts expect earnings and revenue to keep growing?
Only 3 of 6 checks could be assessed because the figures they need are not meaningful here and there is no analyst coverage stored; 4 are needed.
Has the business grown and earned good returns on its filed numbers?
Can the balance sheet carry its debt?
Is the dividend decent, covered and steady?
No dividend appears in the stored data, so this axis is left off the shape rather than drawn as zero.
Each axis asks six plain questions of the stored data. A check that passes counts one. A check the stored data cannot answer is left out of the count, never counted as a fail, and an axis needs four answerable checks to show a result. Axes are never added together: there is no overall score. The thresholds are conventional rules of thumb and are blunt across sectors, so each check is listed with its rule and the figure it used.
P/E below peers
Trailing P/E is positive and below the median of its peers: the companies in its industry if there are at least 5, else its sector if at least 10, else the whole market if at least 30, always in the same currency.
Loss-making over the last twelve months, so there is no P/E to compare.
Did not pass
PEG ratio
The PEG ratio is positive and at most 1.5.
No PEG ratio is stored; it needs analyst growth estimates.
Not assessed
EV/EBITDA below peers
EV/EBITDA is positive and below the peer median, with peers chosen as for P/E. Not applied to financial companies.
Too few comparable companies (same currency, positive multiple) to form a peer group.
Not assessed
Price/book below peers
Price to book is positive and below the peer median, with peers chosen as for P/E.
Too few comparable companies (same currency, positive multiple) to form a peer group.
Not assessed
Statements: Yahoo Finance (limited history), newest period 12/2025.
Peers: too few comparable companies for a valuation comparison.
Rules of thumb applied to stored filings and quote data. Statements are as of the newest period shown above; multiples, analyst targets, estimates and yield come from a best-effort refresh and can lag by days. A count of plain checks, not a rating, a valuation or investment advice. Terms
Free cash flow yield
Free cash flow is at least 4.5% of market cap, the risk-free rate used across this site. Not applied to financial companies.
Free cash flow yield 19.8% against a 4.5% risk-free rate.
Passed
Analyst target above price
The mean analyst target is at least 15% above the last close, from at least 3 analysts. A published consensus, not a fair value.
Mean analyst target above the last close by 13.3% (4 analysts).
Did not pass
Earnings growth, next year
Consensus EPS for next fiscal year is at least 10% above this year's consensus, from at least 3 analysts.
Next year's EPS: the base figure is not positive, so a growth rate means nothing.
Not assessed
Earnings growth, this year
Consensus EPS for this fiscal year is at least 10% above last year's figure on the same street basis, from at least 3 analysts.
This year's EPS: the base figure is not positive, so a growth rate means nothing.
Not assessed
Revenue growth, next year
Consensus revenue for next fiscal year is at least 5% above this year's consensus, from at least 3 analysts.
Next year's revenue: consensus up 1.9% (4 analysts).
Did not pass
Revenue growth, this year
Consensus revenue for this fiscal year is at least 5% above last year's reported revenue, from at least 3 analysts.
This year's revenue: consensus up 6.1% (4 analysts).
Passed
Estimates rising
More analysts raised than cut this year's EPS estimate over the last 90 days, with at least 2 revisions in all.
No analyst estimates are stored for this security.
Not assessed
Revenue growth, latest quarter
Revenue in the latest quarter is at least 8% above the same quarter a year earlier.
Latest-quarter revenue up 6.7% on a year earlier (Yahoo's figure).
Did not pass
Earnings growth, multi-year
Net income grew at least 5% a year over up to 5 fiscal years (at least 3 annual figures, positive at both ends).
Net income was not positive in FY2025.
Did not pass
Earnings growth, last year
Net income over the latest twelve months is above the twelve months before it, and positive.
Net income was still a loss (FY2025 against FY2024).
Did not pass
Revenue growth, multi-year
Revenue grew at least 3% a year over up to 5 fiscal years (at least 3 annual figures).
Revenue fell 9.3% a year, FY2022 to FY2025.
Did not pass
Return on equity
Return on equity is at least 15%: twelve-month net income over average equity. Not meaningful when equity is negative.
Return on equity -16.4%: twelve-month net income over the average equity.
Did not pass
Return on assets
Return on assets is at least 5%: twelve-month net income over average assets. Not applied to financial companies.
Return on assets -5.9%: twelve-month net income over the average assets.
Did not pass
Cash earnings
Operating cash flow over the latest twelve months is positive and at least net income. Not applied to financial companies.
Operating cash flow was at or above net income over the last twelve months.
Passed
Current ratio
Current assets are at least 1.0x current liabilities. Not applied to financial companies.
Current ratio 1.6x.
Passed
Short-term assets cover long-term liabilities
Current assets are at least the liabilities that fall due after a year (total liabilities less current liabilities). Not applied to financial companies.
Current assets are 0.7x the liabilities due after a year.
Did not pass
Debt to equity
Total debt is at most 100% of equity; no debt passes, negative equity with debt does not. Not applied to financial companies.
Total debt is 99% of equity.
Passed
Net debt to EBITDA
Net debt (total debt less cash) is at most 3.0x EBITDA; a net cash position passes. Not applied to financial companies.
Net debt is 0.4x EBITDA.
Passed
Interest cover
Operating income covers interest expense at least 3.0x; no debt passes. Not applied to financial companies.
Operating income covers interest 24.7x.
Passed
Cash flow to debt
Operating cash flow is at least 20% of total debt; no debt passes. Not applied to financial companies.
Operating cash flow is 13.9% of total debt.
Did not pass
Dividend yield
The dividend yield is at least 2%.
No dividend appears in the stored data.
Not assessed
Payout ratio
Dividends paid are at most 75% of net income. Not applied to real estate companies, whose net income is after depreciation.
No dividend appears in the stored data.
Not assessed
Free cash flow cover
Free cash flow covers the dividends paid at least 1.0x. Not applied to financial companies.
No dividend appears in the stored data.
Not assessed
Paid every year
A dividend was paid in every one of the last 4 to 8 fiscal years stored (consecutive years, all present). A year missing from the filings data is not read as no dividend, so a gap makes this not assessed.
No dividend appears in the stored data.
Not assessed
No cuts
Total dividends paid never fell by more than 20% from one fiscal year to the next in that window.
No dividend appears in the stored data.
Not assessed
Growing dividend
Total dividends paid grew at least 3% a year across that window. The total, not per share: no per-share dividend history is stored.
No dividend appears in the stored data.
Not assessed