Vesuvius (V4S) Stock Price & Analysis
V4S Stock Chart & Stats
- Day’s Range
- EUR 5.45 - EUR 5.50
- 52-Week Range
- EUR 3.96 - EUR 6.05
- Previous Close
- EUR 5.45
- Volume
- 0
- Average Volume (3M)
- 295
- Market Cap
- EUR 1.37B
- Enterprise Value
- EUR 1.65B
- Total Cash (Recent Filing)
- EUR 226.50M
- Total Debt (Recent Filing)
- EUR 655.60M
- Price to Earnings (P/E)
- 30.5
- Beta
- 0.85
- Next Earnings
- Mar 04, 2027 (Est.)
- EPS Estimate
- 0.18
- Next Dividend Ex-Date
- N/A
- Dividend Yield
- 4.91%
Bulls Say, Bears Say
Bulls Say
Foundry Growth And Acquisition Integration
Foundry is showing strong organic and integration-led momentum, with revenue and profit growth materially ahead of the group. Successful MMS integration and expected synergies can strengthen the division’s earnings contribution and support more diversified, durable growth.
Structural Cost Savings Ahead Of Plan
Cost savings delivered ahead of the stated trajectory provide a visible source of future margin support. The multi-year programme can improve earnings resilience, offset inflation or pricing pressure, and create operating leverage as implementation progresses.
Improved Cash Conversion And Deleveraging
The sharp improvement in cash conversion indicates better translation of reported earnings into liquidity, while lower leverage improves financial flexibility. Sustained cash generation would support investment, dividends, and debt reduction without relying as heavily on external funding.
Bears Say
Long-term Margin And Earnings Deterioration
The multiyear decline in profitability is more concerning than a single weak period because it suggests pressure from pricing, mix, costs, or end markets. Persistently lower margins reduce earnings capacity and make it harder to achieve management’s longer-term margin ambitions.
Structural European Pricing Pressure
Chinese import competition creates a continuing challenge for Advanced Refractories in Europe rather than a brief demand fluctuation. If pricing remains constrained, the division may need footprint changes or efficiency gains simply to defend margins and market position.
Weakening Free Cash Flow Generation
A sustained gap between accounting profit and free cash flow limits the funds available for debt reduction, investment, and shareholder returns. The recent downtrend also increases reliance on working-capital improvement and disciplined capital allocation to restore cash generation.
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Company Description
Vesuvius
Vesuvius plc, established in 1916 and headquartered in London, United Kingdom, is a global engineering firm delivering specialized services and solutions primarily to the steel and foundry industries. The company operates through its dedicated Steel and Foundry divisions. Its comprehensive offerings for foundries encompass a wide range of consumables and equipment, including various binders, coatings, feeding systems, filtration and gating solutions, melt shop refractories, advanced metallurgical and pouring control systems, die dressings, melt treatment products, crucibles, and ceramics, serving iron, steel, and nonferrous applications. Beyond its core foundry expertise, Vesuvius provides critical solutions for nonferrous metals, such as primary and secondary aluminum, copper, and other alloys. The company also caters to diverse industrial processes, offering solutions for cement and lime production, iron ore pelletizing and calcination, grains and powders, and various industrial plants including process heaters, FCC units, hydrogen reformers, boilers, coke calciners, thermal oxidizers, and facilities for sulphur, ethylene, and ammonia. Its reach extends to power generation, incineration, and the glass sector, where it supplies products for artistic, display, float, hollow, and optical glass, alongside tempering, reheat, and forming technologies. Additionally, Vesuvius supports the solar industry with solutions for multicrystal silicon ingots, thin film and cell processing, and feedstock. For the steel industry, Vesuvius delivers an extensive array of solutions covering the entire production chain. This includes blast furnace stack repair, specialized materials like taphole clay, iron and slag runners, samplers, temperature control, tilting runners, and torpedo ladle solutions. It also addresses iron ladle requirements, advanced lining systems, taphole and bath agitation/tuyere systems, maintenance for electric arc furnaces (EAF) and basic oxygen furnaces (BOF), and metallurgical sensors. Furthermore, the company provides vital solutions for continuous casting, ranging from ladle to tundish, tundish systems, and tundish to mold applications for various caster types, including conventional slab, thin and slim slab, beam blank, flow control valve bloom or billet, and calibrated nozzle billet casters. Ingot casting solutions are also part of its portfolio, alongside technologies for reheat furnaces, steel hot forming, galvanized steel, and electrical and stainless-steel applications.
- Sector
- Basicmaterials
- Industry
- Manufacturing - Miscellaneous
- CEO
- Patrick Georges Felix Andre
- Employees
- 11,116
- Website
- www.vesuvius.com
- Address
- 165 Fleet Street, London, GL, EC4A 2AE, GB
Vesuvius (V4S) Earnings & Revenues
V4S Earnings Call
Earnings Call SentimentPositive
The call presented a predominantly positive strategic and financial picture: strong cash generation, improved leverage, clear recovery in the Foundry division (MMS integration success), ongoing structural cost savings ahead of plan, and favorable structural steel market dynamics outside China. These positives were partially offset by identifiable short-term operational disruptions (US supplier/maintenance issues and India ramp-up) and pricing pressure in European Advanced Refractories, which depressed near-term performance by an estimated single-digit millions and created temporary market-share and revenue timing effects. Management communicated concrete remediation actions with timelines (resolution expected by year-end and structural benefits into 2027), supporting confidence in longer-term targets (including 12.5% margin ambition). On balance, the highlights (cash, deleveraging, Foundry strength, cost savings, innovation and favorable market trends) outweigh the transitory lowlights tied to operational issues and regional pricing pressure.
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Average Price Target
Technical Analysis
Overall Consensus
| Indicator | Bullish | Neutral | Bearish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall Consensus | 15 | 3 | 4 |
| Technical Analysis | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Moving Averages | 12 | 0 | 0 |