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Is The National Grid Share Price Expensive At 1,013p?

Published 04/03/2020, 06:28
Updated 09/07/2023, 11:32

National Grid (LON:NG) (LON:NG.) is a large cap energy company that provides electricity and gas to customers. It operates through three segments: UK Electricity Transmission, UK Gas Transmission and US Regulated.

Right now the National Grid (LON:NG) share price is on the expensive side from a factor perspective, based on its Value Rank of 35. Let's see why this is.

A closer look at National Grid's Value Rank

We can see by using National Grid’s StockReport that the group has a:

  • Rolling price to book value of 1.86,
  • Trailing twelve month price to earnings ratio of 18.6
  • Trailing twelve month price to free cashflow of 379.6
  • Rolling dividend yield of 4.83%
  • Trailing twelve-month price to sales ratio of 2.37
  • This combination of financial traits suggests that National Grid (LON:NG) stock is toward the more expensive end of the market. Being expensive is not the end of the world, of course - but it does help to have favourable exposures to other factors to justify the share price premium.

    Studies indicate that combining factors such as Value, Quality and Momentum is a more effective way of outperforming the market over longer time frames. That's why we have constructed our StockReports to give an instant impression of how well exposed National Grid (LON:NG) (LON:NG.) is to these three factors. We go into greater detail on factor investing in this video.

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