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Year on year WPP PLC 's net income fell -41.49% from 1.82bn to 1.06bn despite relatively flat revenues. A contributing factor has been an increase in the selling, general and administrative costs as a percentage of sales from 8.02% to 9.66%.
| Gross margin | 18.38% |
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| Net profit margin | 4.93% |
| Operating margin | 7.86% |
| Return on assets | 2.27% |
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| Return on equity | 7.24% |
| Return on investment | 4.28% |
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Cash flow in GBPView more
In 2018, WPP PLC increased its cash reserves by 10.16%, or 203.00m. The company earned 1.69bn from its operations for a Cash Flow Margin of 10.86%. In addition the company generated 184.50m cash from investing, though they paid out 1.61bn more in financing than they received.
| Cash flow per share | 1.17 |
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| Price/Cash flow per share | 8.41 |
| Book value per share | 7.63 |
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| Tangible book value per share | -4.28 |
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Balance sheet in GBPView more
| Current ratio | 0.9517 |
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| Quick ratio | 0.9261 |
| Total debt/total equity | 0.9126 |
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| Total debt/total capital | 0.4669 |
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Growth rates in GBP
Year on year, growth in dividends per share remained flat while earnings per share excluding extraordinary items fell by -33.70%. Additionally when measured on a five year annualized basis, both dividend per share and earnings per share growth ranked in-line with the industry average relative to its peers.
| Div yield(5 year avg) | 0.04% |
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| Div growth rate (5 year) | 11.89% |
| Payout ratio (TTM) | 67.60% |
| EPS growth(5 years) | 3.75 |
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| EPS (TTM) vs TTM 1 year ago | -58.55 |
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