Rentokil Initial plc (RTO) Stock

About Rentokil Initial plc

Rentokil Initial plc is a global service provider operating across North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific, delivering a wide array of essential business support solutions through a route-based model. The company offers comprehensive pest control for both commercial and residential customers, addressing issues ranging from rodents and insects to wildlife management. Its extensive hygiene services include the provision and maintenance of products like soap and hand sanitizer dispensers, air purification systems, feminine hygiene units, and floor protection mats. Rentokil Initial also specializes in the supply and laundering of various workwear, uniforms—including those for cleanrooms—and protective equipment. For commercial clients, the company enhances environments through the installation and maintenance of interior and exterior plant displays, floral arrangements, seasonal decorations like Christmas displays, and ambient scenting. Additionally, it provides property care services such as damp proofing, property conservation, and treatments for woodworm and wood rot. A significant part of its expertise lies in specialist cleaning services, which encompass routine deep cleaning of kitchens and washrooms, graffiti removal, trauma cleaning, flood and fire damage restoration, industrial cleaning, and the professional disinfection of bio-hazardous environments like crime scenes, healthcare facilities, or areas exposed to biological contaminants. Furthermore, Rentokil Initial offers critical healthcare waste management, handling the collection, disposal, and recycling of hazardous and offensive medical waste, along with providing specialized color-coded sharps disposal bins. Established in 1903, the company is headquartered in Crawley, United Kingdom.

Rentokil Initial plc is headquartered in GB.

Rentokil Initial plc (RTO) stock trades at $24.29 with a market capitalization of $12.22B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 25.54, price-to-book of 2.19, price-to-sales of 1.48. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $23.26 and $34.67, and currently trades 29.9% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 1.85%.

On profitability, Rentokil Initial plc generates a return on equity (ROE) of 5.82%, return on capital employed of 9.19%, an operating margin of 12.13%, a net profit margin of 3.92%.

Official website: www.rentokil-initial.com

Rentokil Initial plc by the numbers, 2016–2025

Between 2016 and 2025 Rentokil Initial plc reported revenue of $2.2B rising to $6.9B, a change of +218.9% across 10 years. Compounded, revenue has grown 19.9% a year over five years, 23.0% over three, 27.2% over the last twelve months. Net profit rose to $470.0M.

Operating margin went from 10.7% in 2016 to 13.7% in 2025, a gain of 3.0 percentage points. The most recent net margin is 3.92%. On a trailing twelve-month basis to Jun '26, revenue is $14.4B and net profit $845.0M.

Borrowings rose from $1.3B to $6.1B, cash on hand is $2.5B, cash from operations was $978.0M in the latest year, positive in 10 of the last 10.

Return on equity has averaged 10.3% over five years, and was 8.6% in the most recent year.

The share price itself has compounded at -7.7% a year over five years, -12.8% over three, -1.6% over the last year. Past price movement is history, not a forecast.

Figures are as reported and in the company's own reporting currency. They describe what has already happened and carry no implication about what follows.

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