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Bodycote PLC

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IndustrialsIndustrial Engineering
  • Price (GBX)726.00
  • Today's Change-3.50 / -0.48%
  • Shares traded155.27k
  • 1 Year change+13.62%
  • Beta2.0387
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About the company

Bodycote plc is a provider of heat treatment and specialist thermal processing services. The Company’s Precision Heat Treatment division includes its business centered on the controlled heating and cooling of metals to obtain the desired mechanical, chemical and metallurgical properties for the end process. It also includes its Low Pressure Carburising and Corr-I-Dur processes. Its Specialist Technologies division includes its Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) business, its Speciality Stainless Steel Processes (S3P) business, and its Surface Technology business. Its heat treatment services include case-hardening with subsequent hardening operation, case- hardening without subsequent hardening operation, hardening and tempering, annealing, ion implantation, and others. Its metal joining services include furnace/vacuum brazing, induction brazing, electron beam welding, and others. Its surface technology services include combustion spraying, flame spraying, plasma spraying, and others.

  • Revenue in GBP (TTM)727.10m
  • Net income in GBP28.40m
  • Incorporated1953
  • Employees4.38k
  • Location
    Bodycote PLCSpringwood Court Springwood CloseTytherington Business ParkMACCLESFIELD SK10 2XFUnited KingdomGBR
  • Phone+44 162 550 5300
  • Fax+44 162 550 5313
  • Websitehttp://www.bodycote.com/
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Mergers & acquisitions

Acquired companyDeal statusDateDate /
Deal status
BOY:LSE since
announced
Transaction
value
Spectrum Thermal Processing LLCDeal completed14 Jan 202614 Jan 2026Deal completed-1.89%8.00m
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Peer analysis

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Essentra PLC295.10m9.40m283.69m3.00k30.671.077.410.96130.03250.03321.020.92750.57682.494.2196,406.411.84-0.41762.21-0.54243.8862.043.19-0.93281.472.690.3410---4.39-20.86100.00-21.29-26.31-14.97
Judges Scientific PLC143.00m11.00m308.38m767.0028.423.3311.642.161.631.6321.1813.910.745--5.21186,440.706.048.097.2211.14--66.928.119.931.513.850.427849.28-1.8410.129.47-1.7930.8615.89
Porvair plc193.98m18.15m344.11m1.01k18.822.0513.071.770.39310.39314.203.600.88443.865.94--8.288.049.929.6935.3934.269.378.781.6120.720.079218.010.69467.5210.1316.5416.346.03
ME Group International PLC311.32m57.06m515.97m968.009.092.645.411.660.15030.15030.82020.5180.97625.1819.26321,611.6017.89--25.14--36.99--18.33--1.1734.980.1988--3.43--6.76------
Morgan Advanced Materials PLC996.60m-2.60m578.25m8.48k--1.8312.020.5802-0.01020.07493.551.140.9667--6.06--0.49475.830.73218.36----0.51175.520.79894.260.508365.34-9.461.82-105.18--17.4717.27
Ceres Power Holdings plc44.48m-35.34m616.33m478.00--4.56--13.86-0.1824-0.18240.22970.69430.24712.567.2193,062.76-19.63---22.45--76.20---79.44--5.25--0.0204--132.44--47.59------
Vesuvius PLC1.79bn70.30m1.13bn11.13k16.561.057.230.63130.27520.27527.024.340.77244.233.81160,882.103.555.214.806.8826.3227.054.606.441.5310.890.347152.11-5.681.25-26.411.669.0430.54
Bodycote PLC727.10m28.40m1.26bn4.38k46.012.0211.291.730.15860.15864.003.600.665521.614.61166,042.502.654.393.625.7113.8236.823.996.900.64411.000.229183.70-5.661.02-76.64-26.59-1.173.57
Goodwin plc248.93m39.65m1.83bn1.25k46.2218.1036.297.365.285.2833.1513.480.84983.103.74198,663.2014.057.2122.089.9145.3236.7016.549.980.772233.030.211167.3514.888.7445.3625.5812.5527.93
Renishaw plc737.26m74.15m3.02bn5.34k40.723.3127.064.101.021.0210.1312.550.67882.546.18138,011.606.8310.767.6512.1344.4049.1410.0615.873.32--0.015851.413.156.92-13.55210.98-0.9758--
Rotork PLC760.29m99.58m3.06bn3.49k31.645.5125.174.030.11750.11750.89720.67521.024.175.28217,662.2013.5712.9516.5315.6250.0147.1213.3314.521.80--0.040169.154.912.42-8.441.94-2.0327.50
RS Group PLC2.87bn157.40m3.15bn8.50k19.792.2713.091.100.33580.33586.112.931.072.675.07337,070.605.868.508.2312.4643.0043.665.497.301.1811.210.284347.82-1.328.25-16.93-0.273-7.987.78
Spirax Group PLC1.66bn162.70m5.57bn9.91k34.304.9020.723.352.202.2022.4515.400.6296--5.19167,547.906.178.897.6211.00--76.369.8013.461.317.380.480553.45-1.036.034.142.798.478.45
Data as of Mar 05 2026. Currency figures normalised to Bodycote PLC's reporting currency: UK Pound GBX

Institutional shareholders

55.23%Per cent of shares held by top holders
HolderShares% Held
Fidelity Management & Research Co. LLCas of 09 Feb 202616.63m9.62%
Goldman Sachs Advisors BVas of 01 Feb 202611.88m6.87%
Artemis Investment Management LLPas of 28 Feb 202511.76m6.80%
Goldman Sachs Asset Management BVas of 10 Feb 202611.68m6.75%
Franklin Templeton Fund Management Ltd.as of 01 Feb 20268.97m5.19%
ClearBridge Investment Management Ltd.as of 05 Jun 20258.83m5.11%
Baillie Gifford & Co.as of 28 Feb 20258.12m4.70%
Threadneedle Asset Management Ltd.as of 28 Feb 20256.29m3.64%
BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Ltd.as of 07 Jan 20265.94m3.43%
Royal London Asset Management Ltd.as of 01 Feb 20265.40m3.12%
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