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GKN (GKN)
Share Price: 158.20p Change Today: 4.30p  Market Cap: £2,456.51m

GKN Overview

Engineer GKN is responsible for making most of the cars around the world move. It designs and manufactures drive shafts and axle joints and dominates its field. Its other businesses include metallurgical powders but it is the car side of the business that now dominates the group's operations. GKN employs over 48,000 people within its companies and joint ventures in more than 30 countries.

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GKN Fundamentals

Year Ending Revenue (£m) Pre-tax (£m) EPS P/E PEG EPS Grth. Div Yield
31-Dec-05 3,648.00 73.00 15.05p 12.9 n/a n/a 8.23p 4.2%
31-Dec-06 3,634.00 182.00 20.32p 9.2 0.3 +35% 8.64p 4.6%
31-Dec-07 3,869.00 199.00 23.69p 8.0 0.5 +17% 9.11p 4.8%
31-Dec-08 4,376.00 (130.00) 23.70p 2.8 n/a 0% 4.50p 6.9%
31-Dec-09 4,223.00 (54.00) 5.50p 21.3 n/a -77% n/a 0.0%

a. Based on UK GAAP presentation of accounts - includes discontinued activities

GKN Forecasts

Year Ending Revenue (£m) Pre-tax (£m) EPS P/E PEG EPS Grth. Div Yield
31-Dec-10 4,967.70 288.86 13.95p 11.3 0.1 +154% 4.11p 2.7%
31-Dec-11 5,223.95 369.97 17.80p 8.9 0.3 +28% 5.88p 3.9%

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GKN Company Announcements

Half Yearly Report 03-Aug-2010 07:00 RNS
Final Results 25-Feb-2010 07:00 RNS
Interim Management Statement 15-Oct-2009 07:00 RNS

Latest GKN Director Deals

No deals were found in the last 28 days.

Note 1: Prices and trades are provided by Digital Look Corporate Solutions and are delayed by at least 15 minutes.

Note 2: Above ratios are on a 'per annum' basis, adjusted for corporate actions and based on the fundamentals of the primary listed security.

Note 3: Under IFRS, all figures are based on 'Continuing' operations unless otherwise stated.

Note 4: In the case of dual listed securities, broker recommendations and forecasts relate to the primary listing.

Note 5: Forecast figures based on normalised accounts.

 

Price Data

Currency UK Pounds
Share Price 158.20p Price Up
Change Today +4.30p
% Change +2.79%
Volume 6,351,489
10-Sep-10 Close 158.20p
Shares Issued 1,552.79m
Market Cap £2,456.51m
Year End 31-Dec-09

What The Brokers Say

Strong Buy 5
Buy 2
Neutral 2
Sell 1
Strong Sell 0
Total 10
buy
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GKN Dividends

  Latest Previous
  Interim Interim
Ex-Div 11-Aug-10 13-Aug-08
Paid 29-Sep-10 30-Sep-08
Amount 1.50p 4.50p

Trades for 10-Sep-2010

Time Volume / Share Price
16:35 1,004,864 @ 158.20p
16:29 1,101 @ 158.70p
16:29 5,000 @ 158.70p
16:28 874 @ 158.60p
16:28 2,475 @ 158.60p

GKN Key Personnel

Finance Director Nigel Stein
CEO Sir Kevin Smith
Chair Roy D Brown
Finance Director William C Seeger