Discoverie Group /£DSCV
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About Discoverie Group
DiscoverIE Group plc, traded as DSCV on the London Stock Exchange, is an international group of businesses specializing in the design, manufacture, and supply of innovative electronic components. Their products are utilized in a variety of industrial applications globally. Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Surrey, England, DiscoverIE operates across two main segments, namely Magnetics & Controls and Sensing & Connectivity, providing application-specific components tailored to customer needs.
- Ticker
- £DSCV
- Sector
- Industrials
- Primary listing
- LSE
- Employees
- 4,600
- Headquarters
- Guildford, United Kingdom
- Website
- www.discoverieplc.com
DSCV Metrics
BasicAdvanced
£741M
26.33
£0.29
1.30
£0.13
1.68%
Price and volume
Market cap
£741M
Beta
1.3
52-week high
£8.40
52-week low
£5.05
Average daily volume
251K
Dividend rate
£0.13
Financial strength
Current ratio
1.452
Quick ratio
1.038
Long term debt to equity
0.419
Total debt to equity
0.73
Dividend payout ratio (TTM)
42.07%
Interest coverage (TTM)
3.77%
Profitability
EBITDA (TTM)
77.6
Gross margin (TTM)
54.48%
Net profit margin (TTM)
6.54%
Operating margin (TTM)
10.04%
Effective tax rate (TTM)
19.67%
Revenue per employee (TTM)
£100,000
Management effectiveness
Return on assets (TTM)
5.03%
Return on equity (TTM)
9.11%
Valuation
Price to earnings (TTM)
26.327
Price to revenue (TTM)
1.678
Price to book
2.26
Price to tangible book (TTM)
-390.08
Price to free cash flow (TTM)
19.222
Free cash flow yield (TTM)
5.20%
Free cash flow per share (TTM)
0.403
Dividend yield (TTM)
1.68%
Growth
Revenue change (TTM)
4.82%
Earnings per share change (TTM)
17.60%
3-year revenue growth (CAGR)
-0.42%
10-year revenue growth (CAGR)
4.42%
3-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
10.65%
10-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
10.43%
3-year dividend per share growth (CAGR)
6.38%
10-year dividend per share growth (CAGR)
4.91%
What the Analysts think about DSCV
Analyst ratings (Buy, Hold, Sell) for Discoverie Group stock.
Analyst projections of the future price of Discoverie Group stock.
Bulls say / Bears say
First-quarter organic orders rose 31%, organic sales grew 6% and book-to-bill reached 1.15. Management said adjusted earnings were tracking ahead of expectations, suggesting the industrial recovery is beginning to feed into profits. (Investegate)
The recent acquisitions add exposure to defence, security and other structural-growth markets, while the acquired businesses carry margins above discoverIE’s current target. This could accelerate progress towards the group’s 17% medium-term operating-margin goal. (Edison Group, Investegate)
Cash generation remains a strength: FY26 free cash flow was £36.6m, equal to 92% of adjusted earnings, while year-end gearing fell to 1.2 times. That gives the group scope to fund investment and reduce acquisition-related debt. (ADVFN)
FY26 adjusted operating margin fell to 13.8% from 14.3%, while adjusted operating profit rose only 1%. Continued spending on capacity, engineering and sales may delay the promised 17% margin and pressure near-term earnings. (LSE.co.uk, Edison Group)
The acquisition programme lifts pro forma gearing to 2.2 times, and a large share of forecast FY27 EBITA growth is acquisition-driven. Higher financing costs mean that expected EBITA growth of 18% translates into only 8% EPS growth, increasing execution and integration risk. (Proactive Investors, Edison Group)
The shares have already rallied sharply, prompting RBC to cut its rating to sector perform because valuation had returned to its long-term average. At about 18 times forecast 2027 earnings versus 16.9 times for RBC’s UK coverage, the shares may have limited room for disappointment if industrial demand or order conversion slows. (Proactive Investors, Kalkine)
Data summarised monthly by Lightyear AI. Last updated on 16 Sept 2026.
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Funds containing DSCV
AllGBPEURUSD
Fund name | Fund size | £DSCV weighting |
|---|---|---|
Vanguard FTSE 250£VMID | £1.6B | 0.24% |
iShares FTSE 250£MIDD | £661M | 0.23% |
Xtrackers MSCI Europe Small Cap€DX2J | €3.2B | 0.07% |
Xtrackers MSCI Europe Small Cap£XXSC | £2.8B | 0.07% |
iShares MSCI World Small Cap$WSML | $9B | 0.00% |
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