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Hargreaves Services

HSP.L
57
Specialty Business Services · Industrials
Price
818.00 GBp
-2.00 (-0.24%)
Market Cap
£251.2M
Exchange
London Stock Exchange
Winston Score
57
Winston is curious
A decent business — some strong pillars, some weaker.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through May 31, 2026
How the score breaks down
Quality
Weak
Growth
Strong
Cash Flow
Strong
Stability
Strong
Valuation
Good
Dividends
Exceptional

Winston Score History

The full picture

Hargreaves Services is a UK-based industrial company that handles bulk materials — things like coal, biomass, and other heavy goods — and also develops land for new uses. Its main customers include energy companies, industrial businesses, and property developers. The company is best known in the UK for its history in coal distribution, though it has been shifting away from that as coal use declines.

Hargreaves makes money through a mix of services: transporting and storing bulk materials, running industrial services for large facilities, and developing former industrial land into housing or commercial sites. It operates almost entirely in the UK and Germany, with a market cap of around £160 million, making it a small-cap business. The biggest risk it faces is the ongoing decline in coal demand across Europe, which shrinks a core part of its traditional business and puts pressure on the company to grow its land development and services divisions fast enough to replace that lost revenue.

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+21.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Steady revenue growth

EPS Growth

+93.9% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Strong earnings growth

R&D Spend

£0/ year

0.0% of revenue

Below sector average (4%)

Research and development spending

Insider Activity

12.4%ownership

Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

£97M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↑ Burn rate improving

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Growth + cash flow

Hargreaves Services is a rare growth stock that's already generating positive cash flow while growing at 21%. The Winston Score doesn't fully credit this transition from "burner" to "earner."

The Winston Score above measures business quality today. Growth stocks often score lower because they invest in the future rather than maximising current profits. These metrics show what matters most for evaluating that future.

Share count broadly stable

0.0% over 4y

The share count has stayed roughly flat over this period — little dilution or buyback activity.

Diluted shares outstanding: 33.3M (2022) → 33.3M (2026)

Score breakdown

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Quality

Profit per sale
Gross Margin
20.1%
Thin — 20.1% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
3.6%
Thin — 3.6% operating margin
Return on the money invested
ROCE
6.3%
Weak — 6.3% return on capital

ROIC between 5% and 15%. They earn 5 to 15 cents back per year on every dollar invested.

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Growth

Sales growth
Sales YoY
+32.9%
Fast-growing sales (+32.9% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
+115.6%
Earnings growing fast (+115.6% YoY)

Earnings growing 25%+ a year. The compounder zone.

How steady the profit is
EPS Consistency
5/8 quarters
Mixed — about half the quarters showed growth

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Cash Flow

Profit that turns into cash
Cash Conversion
124%
Turns 124% of profit into real cash
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
9.4%
Modest free cash flow (9.4%)

FCF margin between 0% and 10%. Some cash from sales, but not a lot.

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Stability

What it owes vs what it owns
Debt / Equity
0.11
Conservative — low debt load (0.11)
Covers its interest
Interest Cover
3.52x
Tight — interest eats into profit (3.5x)

Interest coverage between 3 and 8. Profits cover interest several times over.

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Valuation

Price vs profit
P/E Ratio (TTM)
8.4x
Attractive valuation — P/E 8.4

P/E under 10. The price tag is small relative to last year's profit.

Cheaper or dearer next year
P/E vs Forward
-8.8
SLOWING
Earnings expected to fall — forward P/E higher than today

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Dividends

Dividend
Dividend Yield
4.65%
Healthy income — 4.65% yield

Generous yield. Worth checking whether the payout is sustainable.

Dividend record
Dividend Growth
+31.6%
Dividend growing fast (31.6% YoY)

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