Christie Group – 2025 Finals to show over five times profit increase, shares on 7.6 pe, mkt cap £32m with £9m cash

Mark Watson-Mitchell - 20.04.2026

Next Monday, 27^th April, the Christie Group (LON:CTG) will declare its Final Results for its 2025 trading period – they should show a very strong profits advance, helping to push the professional business services group’s shares a great deal higher.

The group has a long-established reputation for offering valued services to client companies in agency, valuation services, investment, consultancy, project management, stock audit and inventory management. 

After a number of strategic exercises, including two disposals, over the last couple of years, the group could well show a massive recovery in its operations last year, with its profits having risen over five times in the year.

Its shares, now 120p, capitalise the company at only £32m, a valuation that I consider could soon be left well behind.

At the end of 2025, the group held over £9m in its cash balances, representing over 28% of its capitalisation figure.

The Business

The company has been evolving over the last 130 years and today operates 32 offices across the UK and Europe, catering to its specialist markets in the hospitality, leisure, healthcare, medical, childcare and education and retail sectors.

It operates two complementary business divisions: Professional & Financial Services (PFS) and Stock & Inventory Systems & Services (SISS).

The company advises and supports business owners in its chosen sectors, from supporting them in buying a business, to helping them secure funding and arranging specialist insurance cover and working with them to market and maximise the value of their assets should they choose to sell.

The Group’s Strategy

Its focus on a limited number of sectors gives it an unrivalled market awareness in each of these areas, meaning a greater understanding of its clients’ operations and a heightened ability to help them improve efficiency, enhance trading profits and to increase the value of their business.

Management Comment

CEO Dan Prickett stated that:

"The strength of performance we now expect to report for 2025 is testament to the incredible contributions, commitment and expertise of our people, the strength of our client offering and our commitment to providing unparalleled customer service.

Our 2025 results better reflect the earnings potential of our continuing brands.

We are pleased with the progress made in our European operations.

Continued investment to broaden and strengthen our continental offering will remain a focus for us, as will a continuing investment in attracting and retaining the strongest talent across the Group.We believe the volume of transactions we consistently advise on and our immersion in our specialist sectors - combined with our diversified and complimentary service offering - gives us an unrivalled insight to support our clients.

We expect economic conditions to remain challenging for many businesses in our chosen sectors.

However, demand for our own services appears robust and as long as lending conditions remain supportive, we remain optimistic for the year ahead and beyond."

The Equity

There are some 26.53m shares in issue.

The larger holders include The Estate of Philip Gwyn (27.93%), Lord Lee of Trafford (6.30%), Mr J P Rugg (6.00%), Mrs T C Rugg (4.76%), Christina Bretten (3.88%), Hwfa Gwyn (NE Dir) (3.87%), Katherine Gwyn (3.87%), and Anna Ross 3.87%.

Broker’s View

At Shore Capital Markets, its analyst Rob Sanders is expecting to update his views on the group’s prospects following next Monday’s 2025 Final Results publication.

His estimates for the 2025 year, to end-December, are for revenues of £70.0m (£60.4m), with adjusted pre-tax profits of £5.4m (£1.0m), lifting earnings to 15.8p (4.4p) and enabling a rise in the dividend to 2.8p (2.3p) per share.

At the time of the January Trading Update, Sanders noted that:

“Even after the very strong invoicing activity in December 2025 we note that Christie has begun 2026 with its M&A and finance brokerage pipelines higher than a year earlier and with encouraging ongoing demand for its services.

At this stage, we are removing our future year forecasts given Christie wants to be conservative on its ability to deliver further profit growth in 2026 while maintaining investment to expand its international brokerage operations.

Following the completion of the disposal of Vennersys and the FY25F results being reported in April, we shall reinstate forecasts with an updated divisional analysis for FY26F, FY27F and introduce forecasts for FY28F.”

In My View

Last year, the company advised on over 1,000 business transactions in the UK with improved average fees, alongside strong year-on-year revenue growth from international brokerage operations.

Its valuation activities were strong, while the finance brokerage brand should have delivered continued revenue and profit growth, the insurance intermediary renewals were also believed to have exceeded expectations. 

After next Monday’s Final Results, this cash-rich group’s shares,

now at 120p, trading on 7.6 times price-to-earnings, could so easily rise back over the 170p level reached last June after its 2024 AGM.

(Profile 19.01.26 @ 120p set a Target Price of 150p)