Clarkson (CKN) fair value: what the stock is really worth
As of Sep 23, 2026: fair value of Clarkson £56.16, price £51.05, upside +10.0%, quality 63 out of 100. Calculated from audited financials with 26 valuation models and 37 quality factors, updated daily.
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- Good quality? Yes
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Clarkson
CKN · LSENeutralQuality growthThe stock looks roughly fairly valued with average quality.
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Price vs Fair Value
White line = price, green steps = our fair value per fiscal year, dashed = 300-day average. As of Sep 24, 2026.
How to read this chart
60‑month range £22.45 – £51.55 · fair‑value band £42.11 – £70.20 · the £51.05 price screens below the £56.16 fair value. Green steps = our fair value per fiscal year (point-in-time, no hindsight). 1 fiscal year is left out: there the valuation rested on only a fraction of the usual models. Dashed = 300-day average. As of Sep 24, 2026.
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Company profile
Clarkson PLC provides shipping services in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, and the Asia-Pacific. It operates through Broking, Financial, Support, and Research segments.
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Clarkson PLC provides shipping services in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, and the Asia-Pacific. It operates through Broking, Financial, Support, and Research segments. The company's Broking segment offers services to shipowners and charterers in the transportation of various cargoes by sea; and to buyers and sellers/yards related to sale and purchase services, as well as futures broking operation. Its Financial segment provides investment banking services for maritime, oil services, and natural resources sectors; structured asset finance services and projects in the shipping, offshore, and real estate sectors; and project finance and bespoke asset finance solutions. The company's Support segment offers port and agency, project logistics, freight forwarding, warehousing, crew travel, vessel agency, customs clearance, stevedoring, shortsea broking, and industrial supplies for the marine and offshore industries. Its Research segment provides shipping-related information and publications. This segment also offers digital products, including Shipping Intelligence Network, World Fleet Register, Offshore Intelligence Network, Renewables Intelligence Network and API portal; and data and intelligence to shipyards, equipment suppliers, class societies, regulators, and ship financiers. It is involved in property management services; real estate project management, shipping and offshore project syndication, and property-related services; investment banking, and trading in instruments and financial services; and advisory services related to finance structuring for shipping-related projects. The company also provides brokerage of shipping-related derivative financial instruments; supply of MRO, PPE, and safety equipment; and accounting and financial advisory services. The company was formerly known as Horace Clarkson PLC and changed its name to Clarkson PLC in May 2001. The company was founded in 1852 and is based in London, the United Kingdom.
Stock analysis
Clarkson (CKN) currently trades at £51.05, while our model-based Fair Value estimate is £56.16, implying the stock looks roughly 9.1% undervalued today.
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Valuation
Bull case: the DCF Models group reads highest at a median of £52.11 per share, and 8 of the 26 models we run sit above the £51.05 price.
Bear case: the Asset-Based group reads lowest at £11.45, and 18 of the 26 models stay below the price. Evidence for this calculation is high.
Scenario range: £42.11 (bear) to £70.20 (bull), the price of £51.05 sits inside it. Bear and bull are the same models on cautious and optimistic assumptions, a range, not a price target.
Quality & growth
The Quality Score stands at 63/100 (solid quality), in the Industrials sector.
Mixed Growth: Revenue is growing, but margins or cash flow do not fully confirm the trend.
Clarkson reported revenue of £631M in FY2025 versus £443M in FY2021, a compound +9.2%/yr. Reported net income was £65.7M in FY2025, compounding +7.0%/yr from FY2021.
Key figures
Market cap 1.6B GBX · P/E ratio 24.0 · P/S ratio 2.49 · EPS (TTM) £2.13 · Dividend yield 2.2% · Net margin 10.4% · Return on equity 13.0% · Return on assets (EBIT) 10.5%.
Competitive moat
Our AI-assisted moat analysis scores the competitive advantage at 50 out of 100 (low confidence).
What moves the price
The share trades about 1% below its 52-week high and 51% above its 52-week low, currently above its 200-day average.
For context, the median of 10 Industrials peers we cover trades at 61% fair-value upside, at 10%, CKN screens richer than that median.
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Of which business quality 65 · Market factors (momentum, volatility) 80
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