Gooch & Housego Plc

GHH · LSE · Technology / Electronic Components

1,225.00GBX+0.00 (0.00%)

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Market Stats

Previous Close1,225.00

Open1,225.00

Day Range1,225.00 – 1,230.00

52-Week Range455.40 – 1,270.00

Volume52.82K

Market Cap335.29M

P/E (TTM)87.50

Forward P/E22.52

EPS0.14

Dividend Yield1.08%

Beta0.92

50-Day Avg1,213.50

200-Day Avg932.09

About

Gooch & Housego PLC engages in the manufacture and sale of acousto-optics, electro-optics, fiber optics, and precision optics and systems in the United Kingdom, North America, Europe, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. The company operates through A&D, Life Sciences, and Industrial segments. It offers acousto-optic products, such as acoustic-optic modulators, deflectors, frequency shifters, mode lockers, pulse pickers, Q-switches, tunable filters, and RF drivers; crystal optics, including crystals and nonlinear optics, lithium niobate wafers, and periodically-poled lithium niobite; and electro-optics, such as pockels cells, lithium niobate Q-switches, and pockels cell drivers. The company also provides fiber optics, such as fiber-coupled acousto-optic modulators, high power combiners, PM and SM couplers, polarization diverse receivers, ruggedized and wideband couplers, and variable optical delay line; precision optics, including beam splitters, corner cubes, optical domes, optical windows and flats, polymer optics, precision lenses, precision mirrors, precision prisms, ring laser gyroscope components, synchrotron mirrors, waveplates, optical bindings, magnetorheological finishing, optical coatings, single point diamond turning, and super polishing; lens systems; and vision systems for armored fighting vehicles, including embedded image periscope and sighting systems, enhanced drivers vision system, saber commander/gunner sights, spares and repairs, specter camera modules, and unity vision periscopes; and medical devices, in-vitro diagnostics, and laboratory instruments. Its products are used in semiconductor and microelectronic, metrology, telecommunications, remote sensing, and scientific research industries. The company serves aerospace and defense, industrial and telecom, life sciences markets. Gooch & Housego PLC was founded in 1948 and is headquartered in Ilminster, the United Kingdom.

Company Details

SectorTechnology
IndustryElectronic Components
CEOMr. Charles St. John Stewart Peppiatt
Employees975
HeadquartersDowlish Ford, Ilminster, United Kingdom, TA19 0PF, UK
Websitehttps://www.gandh.com

Leadership

Mr. Charles St. John Stewart PeppiattCEO & Director · b. 1970
Mr. James Roger CorteCFO, Company Secretary & Executive Director · b. 1976
Andy BackGroup Global Head of Quality & Compliance
Ms. Melinda ChudleighChief People Officer
Dr. Efstratios Kehayas BEng, DIC, MSc, Ph.D.President of Photonics Division
Mr. Jamie PindardExecutive Vice President of Optical Systems

Financials

Income Statement

Currency: GBP	1995-09-30	1996-09-30	1997-09-30	1998-09-30	1999-09-30	2000-09-30	2001-09-30	2002-09-30	2003-09-30	2004-09-30	2005-09-30	2006-09-30	2007-09-30	2008-09-30	2009-09-30	2010-09-30	2011-09-30	2012-09-30	2013-09-30	2014-09-30	2015-09-30	2016-09-30	2017-09-30	2018-09-30	2019-09-30	2020-09-30	2021-09-30	2022-09-30	2023-09-30	2024-09-30	2025-09-30

Currency: GBP	1995-09-30	1996-09-30	1997-09-30	1998-09-30	1999-09-30	2000-09-30	2001-09-30	2002-09-30	2003-09-30	2004-09-30	2005-09-30	2006-09-30	2007-09-30	2008-09-30	2009-09-30	2010-09-30	2011-09-30	2012-09-30	2013-09-30	2014-09-30	2015-09-30	2016-09-30	2017-09-30	2018-09-30	2019-09-30	2020-09-30	2021-09-30	2022-09-30	2023-09-30	2024-09-30	2025-09-30
Total Revenue	2.54M	5.95M	6.72M	7.15M	10.38M	12.51M	19.15M	15.59M	15.91M	18.81M	22.32M	25.36M	30.68M	33.37M	36.41M	44.68M	61.01M	60.85M	63.25M	70.06M	78.70M	86.05M	112.02M	124.88M	129.13M	122.09M	124.07M	124.80M	148.48M	135.99M	150.49M
Growth (%)	-	+134.29%	+12.89%	+6.49%	+45.05%	+20.56%	+53.05%	-18.59%	+2.08%	+18.24%	+18.62%	+13.66%	+20.94%	+8.78%	+9.13%	+22.71%	+36.54%	-0.26%	+3.95%	+10.76%	+12.34%	+9.34%	+30.17%	+11.49%	+3.40%	-5.45%	+1.62%	+0.59%	+18.97%	-8.41%	+10.66%
Cost of Revenue	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5.03M	15.16M	14.65M	17.48M	23.20M	25.99M	34.81M	37.41M	37.63M	41.71M	47.66M	53.75M	65.94M	74.81M	84.23M	82.84M	82.75M	85.74M	98.11M	94.34M	107.77M
Gross Profit	2.54M	5.95M	6.72M	7.15M	10.38M	12.51M	19.15M	15.59M	15.91M	18.81M	22.32M	25.36M	16.02M	15.89M	13.21M	18.69M	26.19M	23.45M	25.62M	28.35M	31.04M	32.30M	46.08M	50.07M	44.90M	39.25M	41.32M	39.06M	36.93M	41.65M	42.71M
Gross Margin	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%	52.24%	47.62%	36.27%	41.83%	42.93%	38.53%	40.50%	40.47%	39.44%	37.53%	41.14%	40.10%	34.77%	32.15%	33.30%	31.30%	24.87%	30.63%	28.38%
Operating Expense	2.02M	4.78M	5.37M	5.54M	8.26M	9.52M	14.53M	13.10M	13.35M	15.12M	17.19M	19.49M	9.24M	11.03M	9.89M	12.64M	13.84M	15.59M	16.67M	19.95M	20.75M	22.11M	32.80M	39.28M	36.49M	29.88M	31.28M	33.30M	27.05M	34.84M	32.34M
Operating Income	515.00K	1.17M	1.35M	1.62M	2.12M	2.99M	4.61M	2.48M	2.56M	3.69M	5.12M	5.87M	6.78M	4.86M	3.32M	6.05M	12.36M	7.85M	8.95M	8.39M	10.29M	10.18M	13.28M	10.80M	8.41M	9.37M	10.04M	5.76M	9.88M	6.81M	10.37M
Operating Margin	20.28%	19.68%	20.11%	22.59%	20.39%	23.88%	24.09%	15.92%	16.12%	19.62%	22.95%	23.15%	22.10%	14.56%	9.13%	13.54%	20.25%	12.90%	14.15%	11.98%	13.08%	11.83%	11.85%	8.64%	6.51%	7.67%	8.09%	4.62%	6.66%	5.01%	6.89%
EBITDA	657.00K	1.35M	1.92M	2.13M	2.52M	3.45M	5.18M	2.97M	3.03M	4.15M	5.58M	6.47M	7.89M	6.59M	6.90M	8.94M	13.43M	11.11M	11.95M	12.74M	14.94M	14.88M	18.99M	17.30M	17.34M	17.43M	15.79M	8.89M	18.84M	18.34M	20.03M
EBITDA Margin	25.87%	22.77%	28.55%	29.80%	24.27%	27.61%	27.08%	19.06%	19.03%	22.08%	25.00%	25.50%	25.74%	19.76%	18.95%	20.00%	22.01%	18.26%	18.90%	18.18%	18.98%	17.30%	16.95%	13.86%	13.43%	14.27%	12.72%	7.12%	12.69%	13.49%	13.31%
Net Income	388.00K	704.00K	1.11M	1.24M	1.09M	1.66M	2.39M	1.26M	1.31M	2.06M	2.90M	3.37M	4.15M	3.58M	960.00K	4.69M	7.52M	5.32M	6.19M	5.40M	7.46M	7.05M	8.89M	7.22M	3.76M	3.78M	3.40M	-2.01M	4.05M	-6.38M	3.54M
Net Income Margin	15.28%	11.83%	16.54%	17.37%	10.55%	13.29%	12.50%	8.08%	8.24%	10.97%	12.99%	13.29%	13.52%	10.72%	2.64%	10.50%	12.33%	8.75%	9.79%	7.71%	9.48%	8.19%	7.94%	5.78%	2.91%	3.10%	2.74%	-1.61%	2.73%	-4.69%	2.35%
R&D	214.00K	643.00K	544.00K	415.00K	545.00K	723.00K	891.00K	988.00K	901.00K	976.00K	870.00K	946.00K	1.90M	2.70M	2.79M	2.83M	3.75M	4.28M	4.91M	5.16M	5.71M	6.70M	8.12M	8.23M	7.07M	7.92M	8.15M	9.18M	7.37M	7.83M	7.30M
R&D as % of Total Revenue	8.43%	10.80%	8.10%	5.80%	5.25%	5.78%	4.65%	6.34%	5.66%	5.19%	3.90%	3.73%	6.19%	8.10%	7.66%	6.34%	6.14%	7.03%	7.77%	7.37%	7.26%	7.78%	7.25%	6.59%	5.48%	6.49%	6.57%	7.36%	4.97%	5.76%	4.85%
Interest Expense	2.00K	131.00K	80.00K	62.00K	191.00K	259.00K	332.00K	165.00K	124.00K	110.00K	126.00K	96.00K	124.00K	312.00K	1.06M	835.00K	834.00K	800.00K	623.00K	522.00K	214.00K	127.00K	703.00K	699.00K	2.48M	1.78M	722.00K	717.00K	1.77M	2.64M	2.53M
Interest Expense % of Total Revenue	0.08%	2.20%	1.19%	0.87%	1.84%	2.07%	1.73%	1.06%	0.78%	0.58%	0.56%	0.38%	0.40%	0.93%	2.90%	1.87%	1.37%	1.31%	0.98%	0.75%	0.27%	0.15%	0.63%	0.56%	1.92%	1.45%	0.58%	0.57%	1.19%	1.94%	1.68%

Balance Sheet

Currency: GBP	1995-09-30	1996-09-30	1997-09-30	1998-09-30	1999-09-30	2000-09-30	2001-09-30	2002-09-30	2003-09-30	2004-09-30	2005-09-30	2006-09-30	2007-09-30	2008-09-30	2009-09-30	2010-09-30	2011-09-30	2012-09-30	2013-09-30	2014-09-30	2015-09-30	2016-09-30	2017-09-30	2018-09-30	2019-09-30	2020-09-30	2021-09-30	2022-09-30	2023-09-30	2024-09-30	2025-09-30

Currency: GBP	1995-09-30	1996-09-30	1997-09-30	1998-09-30	1999-09-30	2000-09-30	2001-09-30	2002-09-30	2003-09-30	2004-09-30	2005-09-30	2006-09-30	2007-09-30	2008-09-30	2009-09-30	2010-09-30	2011-09-30	2012-09-30	2013-09-30	2014-09-30	2015-09-30	2016-09-30	2017-09-30	2018-09-30	2019-09-30	2020-09-30	2021-09-30	2022-09-30	2023-09-30	2024-09-30	2025-09-30
Total Assets	2.97M	3.70M	4.95M	7.14M	11.78M	17.81M	18.94M	18.24M	17.66M	19.54M	21.29M	24.15M	39.44M	43.24M	54.96M	57.47M	84.27M	82.01M	86.18M	93.17M	101.44M	130.19M	149.34M	184.90M	183.77M	178.15M	160.71M	176.09M	192.61M	166.31M	206.86M
Total Liabilities	464.00K	1.85M	2.08M	1.88M	5.72M	7.79M	7.15M	6.10M	4.92M	5.98M	4.82M	5.10M	13.45M	14.20M	24.16M	21.41M	30.17M	23.44M	21.24M	23.23M	23.07M	40.02M	51.20M	77.06M	70.93M	64.80M	46.43M	57.55M	72.88M	57.92M	89.42M
Total Equity	2.50M	1.85M	2.87M	5.27M	6.06M	10.02M	11.78M	12.14M	12.74M	13.56M	16.46M	19.05M	26.00M	29.04M	30.80M	36.05M	54.10M	58.57M	64.94M	69.94M	78.37M	90.17M	98.14M	107.85M	112.84M	113.35M	114.28M	118.54M	119.73M	108.39M	117.44M
Cash	634.00K	110.00K	278.00K	1.42M	269.00K	1.93M	2.48M	2.59M	1.96M	2.54M	3.53M	4.06M	5.43M	3.90M	6.71M	8.29M	13.84M	11.71M	14.56M	17.09M	22.56M	23.17M	26.43M	19.43M	17.51M	19.73M	8.35M	6.00M	7.29M	6.62M	7.20M
Total Debt	-	939.00K	845.00K	523.00K	3.85M	5.00M	4.24M	3.54M	2.27M	2.22M	1.16M	1.16M	6.41M	7.20M	18.82M	13.53M	15.70M	12.04M	8.84M	8.41M	5.23M	11.50M	11.50M	30.04M	31.80M	34.47M	17.59M	25.07M	39.00M	32.43M	51.05M
Net Debt	-634.00K	829.00K	567.00K	-893.00K	3.58M	3.07M	1.76M	946.00K	312.00K	-327.00K	-2.37M	-2.90M	980.00K	3.29M	12.11M	5.24M	1.85M	323.00K	-5.72M	-8.69M	-17.33M	-11.67M	-14.93M	10.61M	14.29M	14.74M	9.24M	19.07M	31.71M	25.81M	43.86M

Cash Flow

Currency: GBP	1995-09-30	1996-09-30	1997-09-30	1998-09-30	1999-09-30	2000-09-30	2001-09-30	2002-09-30	2003-09-30	2004-09-30	2005-09-30	2006-09-30	2007-09-30	2008-09-30	2009-09-30	2010-09-30	2011-09-30	2012-09-30	2013-09-30	2014-09-30	2015-09-30	2016-09-30	2017-09-30	2018-09-30	2019-09-30	2020-09-30	2021-09-30	2022-09-30	2023-09-30	2024-09-30	2025-09-30

Currency: GBP	1995-09-30	1996-09-30	1997-09-30	1998-09-30	1999-09-30	2000-09-30	2001-09-30	2002-09-30	2003-09-30	2004-09-30	2005-09-30	2006-09-30	2007-09-30	2008-09-30	2009-09-30	2010-09-30	2011-09-30	2012-09-30	2013-09-30	2014-09-30	2015-09-30	2016-09-30	2017-09-30	2018-09-30	2019-09-30	2020-09-30	2021-09-30	2022-09-30	2023-09-30	2024-09-30	2025-09-30
Operating Cash Flow	387.00K	515.00K	974.00K	884.00K	382.00K	2.67M	2.13M	1.61M	1.38M	2.82M	3.63M	3.70M	3.59M	3.63M	6.79M	8.09M	10.94M	8.91M	9.25M	13.67M	13.63M	12.57M	17.57M	9.17M	11.65M	20.44M	16.25M	6.54M	16.17M	14.19M	6.84M
Investing Cash Flow	-143.00K	-1.98M	-710.00K	-907.00K	-4.81M	-4.42M	-834.00K	-608.00K	-854.00K	-1.09M	-1.03M	-2.29M	-6.00M	-4.92M	-13.15M	-945.00K	-17.16M	-5.78M	-2.17M	-8.26M	-3.19M	-16.10M	-12.33M	-31.17M	-10.97M	-10.16M	-9.96M	-9.29M	-18.49M	-3.89M	-16.03M
Financing Cash Flow	-	937.00K	-184.00K	1.26M	3.16M	3.73M	-794.00K	-1.09M	-1.28M	-370.00K	-1.75M	-953.00K	-643.00K	-666.00K	9.61M	-2.41M	11.68M	-5.08M	-4.08M	-397.00K	-5.51M	3.33M	-1.89M	14.61M	-2.92M	-7.65M	-17.27M	299.00K	4.19M	-10.89M	9.84M
Capital Expenditure	152.00K	145.00K	899.00K	1.19M	612.00K	404.00K	597.00K	612.00K	855.00K	1.10M	1.68M	1.75M	4.43M	5.01M	1.20M	954.00K	2.77M	3.80M	2.23M	2.76M	3.85M	10.34M	6.40M	7.23M	7.41M	6.79M	6.24M	8.57M	7.32M	5.24M	4.57M
Free Cash Flow	235.00K	370.00K	75.00K	-309.00K	-230.00K	2.26M	1.53M	1.00M	523.00K	1.72M	1.95M	1.95M	-837.00K	-1.38M	5.59M	7.13M	8.17M	5.12M	7.01M	10.91M	9.78M	2.23M	11.17M	1.94M	4.23M	13.66M	10.00M	-2.03M	8.85M	8.94M	2.28M
Dividends Paid	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	522.00K	558.00K	576.00K	666.00K	720.00K	785.00K	859.00K	-	-	872.00K	1.09M	1.23M	1.57M	1.82M	2.06M	2.29M	2.65M	2.85M	1.80M	1.13M	3.10M	3.18M	3.38M	3.47M
FCF to OCF	60.72%	71.84%	7.70%	-34.95%	-60.21%	84.85%	71.96%	62.03%	37.95%	60.92%	53.75%	52.67%	-23.30%	-38.00%	82.32%	88.20%	74.67%	57.41%	75.84%	79.81%	71.77%	17.77%	63.56%	21.20%	36.36%	66.80%	61.57%	-31.01%	54.73%	63.05%	33.28%
Dividend Paid to FCF	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	52.20%	106.69%	33.57%	34.17%	36.90%	-93.79%	-62.20%	-	-	10.67%	21.36%	17.52%	14.38%	18.64%	91.99%	20.50%	136.16%	67.29%	13.20%	11.27%	-153.11%	35.94%	37.77%	152.35%

Earnings

Report Date	Dec 3, 2013	Jun 10, 2014	Dec 2, 2014	Jun 7, 2016	Jan 12, 2017	Jun 6, 2017	Nov 28, 2017	Jun 4, 2018	Nov 27, 2018	Jun 4, 2019	Jun 2, 2020	Dec 1, 2020	Jun 1, 2021	Nov 30, 2021	Jun 7, 2022	Dec 6, 2022	Jun 6, 2023	Dec 21, 2024	Jun 3, 2025	Dec 1, 2025
EPS Estimate	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	41.00	19.20	0.00	0.00	-	20.40	9.00	14.60	0.00	0.00	0.14	0.24
EPS Actual	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.11	0.18	0.14	0.22	0.18	0.14	0.01	0.05	0.10	0.02	0.11	0.07	-0.15	0.00	0.12	0.15	0.20
Surprise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-99.66%	-99.95%	-	-	-	-99.46%	-99.22%	-101.03%	-	-	6.47%	-18.35%
Timing	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Pre-market	Pre-market	Pre-market	-	Pre-market	Pre-market

Key Statistics & Ratios

Market Cap335.29M

Enterprise Value384.37M

Trailing P/E87.50

Forward P/E22.52

PEG Ratio0.00

Price / Sales2.08

Price / Book2.82

EPS0.14

Book Value4.35

Revenue (TTM)161.48M

Gross Profit (TTM)49.16M

EBITDA21.79M

Profit Margin2.44%

Operating Margin6.94%

Return on Equity3.43%

Return on Assets4.09%

Shares Outstanding27.37M

Shares Float16.84M

Beta0.92

Dividend Yield1.08%

Dividend Rate0.13

Payout Ratio66.67%

Dividends

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0.05Jun 18, 20260.08Jan 29, 2026

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0.05Jun 19, 20250.08Jan 23, 2025

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0.05Jun 20, 20240.08Jan 18, 2024

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0.05Jun 22, 20230.08Jan 19, 2023

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0.05Jun 23, 20220.08Jan 20, 2022

20211×

0.04Jun 24, 2021

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0.07Jan 23, 2020

20192×

0.04Jun 20, 20190.07Jan 24, 2019

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0.04Jun 21, 20180.07Jan 25, 2018

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0.04Jun 22, 2017

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0.06Dec 15, 20160.03Jun 23, 2016

20152×

0.05Dec 17, 20150.03Jun 25, 2015

20143×

0.05Dec 18, 20140.03Jun 25, 20140.04Feb 5, 2014