Light Science Technologies Holdings Plc

0.88pAs of Sun 8 Nov 2026, 12:00 UTC

LSE:LSTTechnology

Ctry United Kingdom

PE (Fwd) •••

TSR 5Y CAGR (47.19%)

Div yield —

ROE (25.69%)

Hardware, Equipment & Parts

Beta (5Y) 0.16

PE TTM —

TSR TTM (85.17%)

Mkt cap £8.689M

ROIC (22.69%)

SE Grade™

Value

Quality

Moat

Consensus

Reference

0.942p

7.62%

(78.94%)

Hold 10|12|7|6|1

TTM

FYE 30 Nov GBP

FY2016

FY2017

FY2018

FY2019

FY2020

FY2021

FY2022

FY2023

FY2024

FY2025

FY2026E

Trend

5Y

10Y

Peers

0.868

Revenue£M

1.307

1.369

1.409

1.433

1.522

1.599

1.650

1.701

1.741

1.839

0.921

3.86%

3.67%

47

24.53

Revenue growth%

5.96

5.56

7.43

7.72

8.53

10.78

13.39

16.00

15.12

12.13

11.99

13.39

9.66

58

25.50

Gross margin%

20.44

21.36

20.30

23.22

25.63

26.28

27.09

28.87

26.00

24.40

9.79

26.28

25.01

48

3.93

Operating margin%

9.09

8.64

7.99

8.05

6.01

6.32

6.37

8.20

8.49

8.08

25.27

8.08

8.07

12

8.72

Net margin%

19.05

18.24

19.99

19.13

18.72

16.60

16.64

13.78

12.11

11.92

25.26

13.78

17.44

91

26.73

P/E ratio (avg)x

51.43

52.38

57.13

66.49

71.14

82.32

85.01

88.22

102.9

111.4

10.03

88.22

76.73

56

32.20

EV/EBITx

23.58

25.64

26.46

25.13

25.90

23.83

23.34

21.46

20.93

19.13

10.31

21.46

23.71

28

13.64

FCF yield (avg)%

20.55

19.07

18.48

20.39

19.69

17.70

19.81

22.06

22.66

23.88

6.79

22.06

20.10

82

21.18

FCF margin%

0.41

0.40

0.40

1.41

4.02

2.49

3.39

4.07

5.73

3.01

29.56

3.39

2.75

75

0.853

FCF / Net incomex

1.116

1.089

1.116

1.061

1.171

1.190

1.269

1.187

1.303

1.394

1.716

1.269

1.179

27

20.50

ROIC%

10.20

12.34

13.50

15.17

16.47

18.16

19.20

19.72

22.64

20.12

10.45

19.72

17.31

88

12.57

Return on equity%

22.94

21.63

23.17

23.87

21.91

24.24

24.44

21.72

21.46

20.69

5.32

21.72

22.42

86

4.68

Return on assets%

7.86

9.60

8.54

8.21

7.98

5.32

3.36

4.71

2.27

1.31

26.31

3.36

6.59

67

—

EPS£

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

(1.15%)

(1.44%)

—

7.18

EPS growth%

21.00

22.97

21.92

23.08

24.97

26.41

23.74

25.44

23.75

25.23

3.79

25.23

23.74

72

—

Bookvalue per sh£

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

1.86%

2.19%

—

—

FCF per share£

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

(2.30%)

(0.92%)

—

—

Dividend per sh£

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

8.46%

5.97%

—

15.09

Div yield (avg)%

17.30

15.94

18.51

20.27

19.41

17.69

17.62

16.45

15.21

14.87

2.61

16.45

17.46

57

21.73

Payout ratio%

9.36

11.69

11.94

9.67

7.11

8.30

11.23

14.16

14.75

12.76

25.58

12.76

11.46

56

0.976

Shares (diluted)B

1.041

1.151

1.112

1.064

1.128

1.211

1.224

1.150

1.052

1.126

1.012

(0.04%)

1.82%

89

15.62

Buyback yield%

32.27

34.17

31.76

33.51

31.25

34.08

32.02

34.49

34.10

35.40

11.53

34.10

33.79

84

1.234

D/E ratiox

0.965

1.025

1.092

1.134

1.328

1.313

1.337

1.392

1.383

1.590

0.968

1.383

1.320

74

0.793

Enterprise value£M

0.883

0.884

0.952

0.913

0.995

0.883

0.884

0.838

0.820

0.833

1.580

(3.50%)

(1.45%)

64

0.589

LT debt£M

0.157

0.154

0.166

0.170

0.185

0.192

0.207

0.187

0.163

0.173

0.711

(1.39%)

0.53%

42

Peers (US$10.89M)

Cap (US$)

PE

Kromek Group plc

47.97M

54.40x

29.89M

—

Windar Photonics PLC

10.57M

—

10.99M

—

Capital

TTM

5Y

10Y

Leveragex

0.127

(0.011)

—

EBIT/Intx

0.179

0.296

0.225

Own earn%

113.68

(18.06)

(32.89)

Sh yield%

30.72

50.27

50.27

Owners

Insiders/Inst%

4.28

59.89

Short interest%

1.20

SBC / revenue%

4.40

Record

10Y

Profitable years

10/10

Revenue growth years

10/10

EPS growth years

10/10

Dividend streakyrs

3

Op margin range%

6–9

$1 testx

—

Incr. ROIC%

22

Growth vs revenue

Latest

Trend

10Y CAGR

Rel growth

Revenue

£1.839M

3.67%

1.00×

Cost of revenue

£1.148M

3.36%

0.97×

Operating expenses

£0.289M

4.00%

1.03×