Profits were positive in 10 years (at least 8 needed).
- 10y median
- GBP 414M
- Worst year
- GBP 222M
- Latest · 2025
- GBP 743M
# Admiral Group (ADM.LSE) Canonical: https://gigainvestors.com/s/ADM.LSE Analysis as of: 2026-10-16T07:35:10.332Z. Financial observations: FY2015–FY2025. Listing currency: GBX. Reporting currency: GBP. ## Verdict A wonderful business at too high a price Quality tests for Buy: pass (profit record: pass; earnings resilience is evidence only). Published buy qualification: no. Share price: GBX 3,750.00 per share; close as of 2026-10-15. Estimated value: low GBX 975.64 per share, central GBX 1,104.19 per share, high GBX 1,271.77 per share. Buy at or below the central value GBX 1,104.19 per share. Valuation as of 2026-10-16T07:35:10.332Z; scenarios are not confidence intervals. Expected annual return: 4.6% at the stated quote. About 4.6% a year at today's price (required return 10.0%). required return 10.0% a year (10% floor; GB 10-year bond 5.4% + 4 points). ## Checklist ### understandable: pass - Financial history: 10 years - Profitable years in the last ten: 10 - Required profitable years: 8 - Return on common equity variation (informational): 0.20× Chart: Net income; fiscal year observations. - FY2016: GBP 222M - FY2017: GBP 334M - FY2018: GBP 395M - FY2019: GBP 432M - FY2020: GBP 529M - FY2021: GBP 998M - FY2022: GBP 373M - FY2023: GBP 338M - FY2024: GBP 663M - FY2025: GBP 743M ### moat: pass - Common book per share - Parent-total proxy for preferred equity and common earnings - Underwriting economics assessed through return on tangible common equity - Bank / P&C ROTE, median of available years: 62.0% - Required median return: 12.0% - Return uses tangible common equity: Yes - Bank ROTE, second-lowest year: 54.4% - Years with reported combined ratio: 0 Chart: Return on tangible common equity; fiscal year observations. - FY2016: 54.4% - FY2017: 68.7% - FY2018: 66.3% - FY2019: 60.8% - FY2020: 58.0% - FY2021: 83.7% - FY2022: 55.3% - FY2023: 45.1% - FY2024: 63.2% - FY2025: 66.6% ### economics: pass - Common book per share - Parent-total proxy for preferred equity and common earnings - Book value per share + reinvested dividends, annualized return: 56.8% - Book return interval: 10 years - Starting book value per share: GBP 2.19 - Ending book value per share: GBP 4.68 Chart: Annual book + dividend return; fiscal year observations. - FY2016: 49.0% - FY2017: 63.9% - FY2018: 65.6% - FY2019: 67.2% - FY2020: 67.5% - FY2021: 88.0% - FY2022: 13.8% - FY2023: 33.9% - FY2024: 76.4% - FY2025: 56.6% ### management: pass - Common book per share - Parent-total proxy for preferred equity and common earnings - Diluted shares, 10-year annual growth: 0.9% - Diluted shares, 5-year annual growth: 0.8% - Share growth excluding flagged crisis recapitalisations: 0.9% - Five-year share growth excluding flagged crisis recapitalisations: 0.8% - Flagged crisis recapitalisations: 0 - Book created / earnings retained after dividends and buybacks: 1.70× - Book value created per share: GBP 2.49 - Earnings retained per share after dividends and buybacks: GBP 1.46 Chart: Shares (first year = 100); fiscal year observations. - FY2015: 100 - FY2016: 100 - FY2017: 102 - FY2018: 104 - FY2019: 104 - FY2020: 105 - FY2021: 107 - FY2022: 108 - FY2023: 110 - FY2024: 109 - FY2025: 110 ### accounting: pass - Financial accounting warning count: 0 - Known restatement years: 0 ## Holders ## Price story The price is 2.1 times annual sales · net income +12% Story as of 2026-10-16T10:00:03.877Z; price observation 2026-10-15. The price is 2.1 times annual sales ### Net income · FY2025 net income +12%; source https://filings.xbrl.org/213800FGVM7Z9EJB2685/2025-12-31/ESEF/GB/0/213800FGVM7Z9EJB2685-2025-12-31/reports/213800FGVM7Z9EJB2685-2025-12-31-T01.html; observed 2026-04-07. - FY2016: GBP 222M - FY2017: GBP 334M - FY2018: GBP 395M - FY2019: GBP 432M - FY2020: GBP 529M - FY2021: GBP 998M - FY2022: GBP 373M - FY2023: GBP 338M - FY2024: GBP 663M - FY2025: GBP 743M ## Owner memo Memo as of 2026-10-16T08:06:05.509Z. ### How it makes money Operates in insurance property & casualty; annual sales are GBP 5.6 billion. - Source: https://filings.xbrl.org/213800FGVM7Z9EJB2685/2025-12-31/ESEF/GB/0/213800FGVM7Z9EJB2685-2025-12-31/reports/213800FGVM7Z9EJB2685-2025-12-31-T01.html (filed 2026-04-07); FY2025: revenue 5571900000. - Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16); ADM.LSE: Admiral Group plc, a financial services company, provides insurance and personal lending products in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Spain. It operates through four segments: UK Insurance, European Insurance, Admiral Money, and Other. The company offers underwriting services that include motor, household, pet, travel, and other insurance, as well as car and home insurance; and distributes and underwrites unsecured personal loans, car finance products, and secured homeowner loans. It provides its insurance products and services under the Admiral, Admiral Business, Admiral Money, Admiral Pioneer, Balumba, Bell, Connect by Admiral, ConTe.it Assicurazioni, ConTe.it Prestiti, Diamond, Gladiator, L'olivier " assurance, More Than, Qualitas Auto, and Veygo brand names. The company was formerly known as Admiral Group Limited and changed its name to Admiral Group plc in September 2004. Admiral Group plc was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Cardiff, the United Kingdom. ### Why customers stay It earns 62% on shareholders’ money, excluding intangible assets. - Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-04-07); 10-year return on tangible equity observations [[2016,0.5438081253059227],[2017,0.6866652983083322],[2018,0.6625859466711387],[2019,0.6076447442383361],[2020,0.5804610318331503],[2021,0.8370239892635464],[2022,0.5531662464778289],[2023,0.45132861530244356],[2024,0.6322562196168144],[2025,0.6655911087209824]]; median 0.6199504819275753. ROIC follows the displayed moat series; financial companies use return on tangible equity. ### Where the cash goes Paid dividends in 10 of 10 years; bought back GBP 35.3 million of shares. - Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-04-07); Dividend observations: [[2016,349800000],[2017,300300000],[2018,332700000],[2019,367800000],[2020,425700000],[2021,720900000],[2022,658300000],[2023,307100000],[2024,369800000],[2025,715400000]]. Zero only counted when supported by a complete cash-flow statement. - Source: https://filings.xbrl.org/213800FGVM7Z9EJB2685/2025-12-31/ESEF/GB/0/213800FGVM7Z9EJB2685-2025-12-31/reports/213800FGVM7Z9EJB2685-2025-12-31-T01.html (filed 2026-04-07); FY2025: cash repurchases 35300000 GBP. ### Are managers owners Insiders own 15.6% of the company. - Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16); ADM.LSE SharesStats.PercentInsiders = 15.609 percentage points; cache date 2026-10-16. ### What the price says The price is 2.1 times annual sales. - Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-04-07); Closing price 3750 GBX; reporting-to-trading FX 100; FY2025 annual sales per share 18.076029690379176; price multiple 2.0745706132558013. FY2025 cash earnings/share 2.376592873270873. Closing-price date 2026-10-15. ## Monthly share-price history (GBX per share) - 2016-10: GBX 1,917.00 per share - 2016-11: GBX 1,901.00 per share - 2016-12: GBX 1,827.00 per share - 2017-01: GBX 1,776.00 per share - 2017-02: GBX 1,828.00 per share - 2017-03: GBX 1,989.00 per share - 2017-04: GBX 2,011.00 per share - 2017-05: GBX 2,037.00 per share - 2017-06: GBX 2,003.00 per share - 2017-07: GBX 2,068.00 per share - 2017-08: GBX 1,931.00 per share - 2017-09: GBX 1,817.00 per share - 2017-10: GBX 1,924.00 per share - 2017-11: GBX 1,923.00 per share - 2017-12: GBX 2,002.00 per share - 2018-01: GBX 1,848.00 per share - 2018-02: GBX 1,843.00 per share - 2018-03: GBX 1,844.00 per share - 2018-04: GBX 1,993.00 per share - 2018-05: GBX 1,925.50 per share - 2018-06: GBX 1,907.50 per share - 2018-07: GBX 1,981.00 per share - 2018-08: GBX 2,080.00 per share - 2018-09: GBX 2,080.00 per share - 2018-10: GBX 2,013.00 per share - 2018-11: GBX 2,084.00 per share - 2018-12: GBX 2,047.00 per share - 2019-01: GBX 2,071.00 per share - 2019-02: GBX 2,182.00 per share - 2019-03: GBX 2,170.00 per share - 2019-04: GBX 2,204.00 per share - 2019-05: GBX 2,062.00 per share - 2019-06: GBX 2,208.00 per share - 2019-07: GBX 2,167.00 per share - 2019-08: GBX 2,147.00 per share - 2019-09: GBX 2,118.00 per share - 2019-10: GBX 2,022.00 per share - 2019-11: GBX 2,140.00 per share - 2019-12: GBX 2,309.00 per share - 2020-01: GBX 2,259.00 per share - 2020-02: GBX 2,112.00 per share - 2020-03: GBX 2,230.00 per share - 2020-04: GBX 2,330.00 per share - 2020-05: GBX 2,333.00 per share - 2020-06: GBX 2,299.00 per share - 2020-07: GBX 2,400.00 per share - 2020-08: GBX 2,637.00 per share - 2020-09: GBX 2,611.00 per share - 2020-10: GBX 2,750.00 per share - 2020-11: GBX 2,857.00 per share - 2020-12: GBX 2,906.00 per share - 2021-01: GBX 2,882.00 per share - 2021-02: GBX 3,088.00 per share - 2021-03: GBX 3,101.00 per share - 2021-04: GBX 3,129.00 per share - 2021-05: GBX 2,939.00 per share - 2021-06: GBX 3,144.00 per share - 2021-07: GBX 3,400.00 per share - 2021-08: GBX 3,611.00 per share - 2021-09: GBX 3,108.00 per share - 2021-10: GBX 2,870.00 per share - 2021-11: GBX 2,957.00 per share - 2021-12: GBX 3,157.00 per share - 2022-01: GBX 3,144.00 per share - 2022-02: GBX 2,977.00 per share - 2022-03: GBX 2,563.00 per share - 2022-04: GBX 2,524.00 per share - 2022-05: GBX 2,223.00 per share - 2022-06: GBX 2,244.00 per share - 2022-07: GBX 1,918.00 per share - 2022-08: GBX 2,122.00 per share - 2022-09: GBX 1,914.50 per share - 2022-10: GBX 2,017.00 per share - 2022-11: GBX 2,026.00 per share - 2022-12: GBX 2,137.00 per share - 2023-01: GBX 2,200.00 per share - 2023-02: GBX 2,201.00 per share - 2023-03: GBX 2,038.00 per share - 2023-04: GBX 2,311.00 per share - 2023-05: GBX 2,325.00 per share - 2023-06: GBX 2,082.00 per share - 2023-07: GBX 2,129.00 per share - 2023-08: GBX 2,490.00 per share - 2023-09: GBX 2,377.00 per share - 2023-10: GBX 2,443.00 per share - 2023-11: GBX 2,701.00 per share - 2023-12: GBX 2,684.00 per share - 2024-01: GBX 2,515.00 per share - 2024-02: GBX 2,666.00 per share - 2024-03: GBX 2,837.00 per share - 2024-04: GBX 2,729.00 per share - 2024-05: GBX 2,714.00 per share - 2024-06: GBX 2,615.00 per share - 2024-07: GBX 2,754.00 per share - 2024-08: GBX 2,918.00 per share - 2024-09: GBX 2,784.00 per share - 2024-10: GBX 2,564.00 per share - 2024-11: GBX 2,563.00 per share - 2024-12: GBX 2,644.00 per share - 2025-01: GBX 2,703.00 per share - 2025-02: GBX 2,875.00 per share - 2025-03: GBX 2,850.00 per share - 2025-04: GBX 3,258.00 per share - 2025-05: GBX 3,350.00 per share - 2025-06: GBX 3,270.00 per share - 2025-07: GBX 3,418.00 per share - 2025-08: GBX 3,626.00 per share - 2025-09: GBX 3,352.00 per share - 2025-10: GBX 3,276.00 per share - 2025-11: GBX 3,172.00 per share - 2025-12: GBX 3,176.00 per share - 2026-01: GBX 2,750.00 per share - 2026-02: GBX 2,964.00 per share - 2026-03: GBX 3,150.00 per share - 2026-04: GBX 3,378.00 per share - 2026-05: GBX 3,296.00 per share - 2026-06: GBX 3,560.00 per share - 2026-07: GBX 3,772.00 per share - 2026-08: GBX 4,024.00 per share - 2026-09: GBX 3,616.00 per share - 2026-10: GBX 3,750.00 per share ## Annual estimated value (GBX per share) - FY2016: low GBX 381.70 per share, central GBX 432.06 per share, high GBX 497.73 per share - FY2017: low GBX 453.17 per share, central GBX 513.86 per share, high GBX 593.33 per share - FY2018: low GBX 544.64 per share, central GBX 617.59 per share, high GBX 713.10 per share - FY2019: low GBX 649.82 per share, central GBX 737.95 per share, high GBX 853.74 per share - FY2020: low GBX 823.69 per share, central GBX 935.41 per share, high GBX 1,082.18 per share - FY2021: low GBX 1,059.85 per share, central GBX 1,203.59 per share, high GBX 1,392.44 per share - FY2022: low GBX 581.85 per share, central GBX 657.67 per share, high GBX 756.22 per share - FY2023: low GBX 630.11 per share, central GBX 710.91 per share, high GBX 815.47 per share - FY2024: low GBX 900.76 per share, central GBX 1,019.45 per share, high GBX 1,174.16 per share - FY2025: low GBX 951.90 per share, central GBX 1,077.33 per share, high GBX 1,240.83 per share Historical values use today's bond yield for every fiscal year Historical values use today's FX rate into trading currency for every fiscal year Historical values use current restated fundamentals and current commodity classification; they are not point-in-time estimates ## Sources [Original ESEF filing](https://filings.xbrl.org/213800FGVM7Z9EJB2685/2025-12-31/ESEF/GB/0/213800FGVM7Z9EJB2685-2025-12-31/reports/213800FGVM7Z9EJB2685-2025-12-31-T01.html); period 2025-12-31, filed 2026-04-07. 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ADM · LSE
FTSE 100 · STOXX Europe 600
A wonderful business at too high a price
Passes the quality tests.
Profits were positive in 10 years (at least 8 needed).
Earned a median 62% on tangible equity (minimum 12%).
Book value plus dividends grew 56.8% a year (minimum 7%).
Ordinary share growth was 0.9% over the full period and 0.8% over five years (either must be at most 2% a year).
0 accounting warnings were found (none allowed).
Profit record · pass 0 loss years in 10 (at most 2), three-year average earnings per share 1.89 GBP.
| Value range | GBX 975.64 – GBX 1,271.77 |
|---|---|
| Buy at or below | Central value GBX 1,104.19 |
| Discount to value | 1 − 3750.00 / 1104.19 = -239.6% |
| Return / year | About 4.6% a year at today's price (required return 10.0%) |
| Cash-flow inputs | Book GBX 370.97/share; ROE 25.0%; first payout GBX 83.80/share, growing 2.4% perpetually (4× book payout cap applied). |
| Required return | 10.0% / year, earned by construction at the central value |