UNITED UTILITIES GROUP PLC financials
UNITED UTILITIES GROUP PLC
Country: GB Reporting currency: GBP Latest annual report: 2026-03-31
LEI:
2138002IEYQAOC88ZJ59 Financial statements
(GBP, as reported — unscaled; 90 line items across 2 annual periods)
| Line item | 2026 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Income statement | ||
| Revenue | £2.62B | £2.15B |
| Other income | £23.3M | £17.5M |
| Operating expenses | £1.52B | £1.51B |
| Employee benefits expense | £260.9M | £224.1M |
| Depreciation & amortisation | £29.1M | £29.2M |
| Operating profit (EBIT) | £1.10B | £631.5M |
| Finance costs | £415.7M | £371.9M |
| Profit before tax | £779.0M | £355.0M |
| Income tax expense | £192.2M | £90.3M |
| Profit for the year | £586.8M | £264.7M |
| Total comprehensive income | £600.0M | £288.2M |
| Per share | ||
| Basic EPS | £0.86 | £0.39 |
| Diluted EPS | £0.86 | £0.39 |
| Free cash flow / share | £-0.16 | £-0.10 |
| Cash flow statement | ||
| Cash generated from operations | £1.60B | £1.08B |
| Net cash from operating activities | £1.38B | £918.1M |
| Net cash from investing activities | -£1.48B | -£987.2M |
| Purchase of PP&E (capex) | £1.49B | £988.5M |
| Purchase of intangibles | £42.9M | £9.5M |
| Net cash from financing activities | £221.4M | £358.8M |
| Dividends paid | £357.6M | £344.1M |
| Repayments of borrowings | £433.2M | £631.4M |
| Balance sheet | ||
| Total assets | £18.13B | £16.77B |
| Non-current assets | £15.90B | £14.69B |
| Property, plant & equipment | £15.08B | £13.87B |
| Intangible assets & goodwill | £119.9M | £105.8M |
| Current assets | £2.22B | £2.08B |
| Trade & other receivables | £333.3M | £282.0M |
| Cash & equivalents | £1.79B | £1.67B |
| Total equity | £2.24B | £2.00B |
| Non-current liabilities | £15.01B | £13.69B |
| Long-term borrowings | £11.33B | £10.33B |
| Current liabilities | £872.1M | £1.08B |
| Short-term borrowings | £164.9M | £462.1M |
| Trade & other payables | £682.7M | £577.2M |
| Deferred tax liabilities | £2.22B | £2.03B |
| Derived metrics | ||
| Free cash flow | -£110.2M | -£70.4M |
| Operating margin | 42.0% | 29.4% |
| Net margin | 22.4% | 12.3% |
| Return on equity | 26.2% | 13.2% |
| Cash conversion ratio | 2.35× | 3.47× |
| Capex coverage | 0.93× | 0.93× |
| Other reported items | ||
| Cancellation of Treasury Shares | £400.0K | £0 |
| Cash and Cash Equivalents If Different From Statement of Financial Position | £1.79B | £1.67B |
| Current Derivative Financial Assets | £13.7M | £11.4M |
| Current Derivative Financial Liabilities | £7.0M | £17.6M |
| Current Provisions | £17.5M | £19.0M |
| Current Tax Assets Current | £73.2M | £93.3M |
| Current Tax Expense Income | £8.0M | £400.0K |
| Deferred Tax Expense Income Recognised In Profit Or Loss | -£184.2M | -£89.9M |
| Depreciation Property Plant and Equipment | £471.4M | £435.7M |
| Dividends Paid To Equity Holders of Parent Classified As Financing Activities | £357.6M | £344.1M |
| Dividends Proposed Or Declared Before Financial Statements Authorised For Issue But Not Recognised As Distribution To Owners | £244.0M | £226.3M |
| Dividends Proposed Or Declared Before Financial Statements Authorised For Issue But Not Recognised As Distribution To Owners Per Share | £0.54 | £0.52 |
| Gains Losses On Cash Flow Hedges Before Tax | £4.0M | £8.6M |
| Income Tax Relating To Cash Flow Hedges of Other Comprehensive Income | £1.0M | £2.2M |
| Income Tax Relating To Components of Other Comprehensive Income | -£1.2M | £8.2M |
| Income Tax Relating To Components of Other Comprehensive Income That Will Be Reclassified To Profit Or Loss | £5.5M | -£300.0K |
| Income Tax Relating To Components of Other Comprehensive Income That Will Not Be Reclassified To Profit Or Loss | -£2.2M | £6.0M |
| Income Taxes Refund Classified As Operating Activities | £16.1M | £6.4M |
| Increase Decrease In Cash and Cash Equivalents | £125.3M | £289.7M |
| Increase Decrease Through Sharebased Payment Transactions | £4.5M | £4.7M |
| Interest Paid Classified As Operating Activities | £322.1M | £263.5M |
| Interest Received Classified As Operating Activities | £85.7M | £92.5M |
| Investment Income | £99.9M | £106.2M |
| Issued Capital | £499.8M | £499.8M |
| Liabilities | £15.89B | £14.77B |
| Net Assets Liabilities | £2.24B | £2.00B |
| Noncurrent Derivative Financial Assets | £334.0M | £329.3M |
| Noncurrent Derivative Financial Liabilities | £302.4M | £275.0M |
| Noncurrent Payables | £1.17B | £1.06B |
| Noncurrent Receivables | £54.6M | £73.6M |
| Noncurrent Recognised Assets Defined Benefit Plan | £310.9M | £302.3M |
| Other Comprehensive Income Before Tax Change In Fair Value of Financial Liability Attributable To Change In Credit Risk of Liability | -£3.1M | £1.9M |
| Other Comprehensive Income Before Tax Change In Value of Foreign Currency Basis Spreads | £2.7M | £3.6M |
| Other Comprehensive Income Before Tax Gains Losses On Remeasurements of Defined Benefit Plans | -£7.9M | £18.6M |
| Other Comprehensive Income That Will Be Reclassified To Profit Or Loss Net of Tax | £19.3M | £5.4M |
| Other Comprehensive Income That Will Not Be Reclassified To Profit Or Loss Net of Tax | -£6.1M | £18.1M |
| Other Expense By Nature | £707.4M | £630.6M |
| Other Inventories | £6.2M | £21.9M |
| Other Reserves | £340.5M | £319.2M |
| Payments To Acquire Or Redeem Entitys Shares | £5.8M | £5.0M |
| Proceeds From Government Grants Classified As Investing Activities | £35.2M | £9.2M |
| Proceeds From Sale Or Issue of Treasury Shares | £400.0K | £0 |
| Proceeds From Sales of Property Plant and Equipment Classified As Investing Activities | £800.0K | £1.1M |
| Property Intended For Sale In Ordinary Course of Business | £2.9M | £2.7M |
| Purchase of Treasury Shares | £5.8M | £5.0M |
| Retained Earnings | £1.40B | £1.18B |
| Share of Profit Loss of Joint Ventures Accounted For Using Equity Method | -£4.6M | -£10.8M |
| Share Premium | £2.9M | £2.9M |
Methodology
Every line item above is a fact tagged in UNITED UTILITIES GROUP PLC's annual report
filed in the European Single Electronic Format (ESEF) under the IFRS
taxonomy (ifrs-full) — the income statement, balance sheet
and cash-flow statement as the filer reported them. Values are shown
as-is, in the reporting currency (GBP), without
rescaling; the row labels map to the underlying concept name (e.g.
Revenue → ifrs-full:Revenue, Operating profit →
ifrs-full:ProfitLossFromOperatingActivities, Diluted EPS →
ifrs-full:DilutedEarningsLossPerShare), and any concept
without a curated label is shown under “Other reported items” with its
de-camel-cased tag name. Only consolidated, default-member facts are
shown (segment / dimensional breakdowns are excluded).
“Derived metrics” (free cash flow, margins, ROE, …) are computed from those facts by the same model the U.S. financials pages use — not tagged by the filer.
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