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Largest Aircraft & Space Systems Public Companies in the UK
Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like
Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems, QinetiQ, Amedeo Air Four Plus and Doric Nimrod Air Three.
 | Rolls-Royce operates three core business segments: civil aerospace, power systems, and defense. The civil aerospace segment builds engines powering wide-body aircraft, regional and business jets, and offers aftermarket services. Twenty years ago, the firm pioneered full-service flight hour contracts with the TotalCare package. Power systems provides power solutions to multiple end markets (defense, agriculture, marine, and power generation) while the defense business provides military, ground vehicle and naval propulsion solutions. | $15 | +32% | $127B | $125B | 4.4x | 11.4x | ||
| BAE Systems is a British global defense, security, and aerospace company and the largest defense contractor in Europe; it is one of six prime contractors to the US Department of Defense. For reporting purposes, the company has five operating segments: electronics systems is the group's US- and UK-based electronic warfare systems; the cyber, security, and intelligence segment supplies intelligence and security solutions to the US government; platforms and services manufactures combat vehicles and munitions and performs ship repair services to the US Defense Department; the air segment includes BAE’s share of US and European air programs as well as its businesses in Saudi Arabia and Australia, and the maritime segment comprises UK land- and marine-based activities. | $25 | -2% | $73B | $80B | 1.9x | 14.0x | ||
| QinetiQ Group PLC is a company operating in the aerospace, defense, and security sectors. The services and products offered are air (air engineering services, air traffic management, safety, and environmental management); C4ISR (communication, reconnaissance, intelligence and surveillance, space security, fast jet sensor fusion training, sensors, cyber and data science among many others); Cyber (accreditation support, security health check, data classification, insider threat management among others); Maritime ( Maritime Autonomy Centre, Naval Mission Systems, Maritime Stealth among many others). | $6 | -16% | $3B | $3B | 1.2x | 8.4x | ||
| Amedeo Air Four Plus Ltd is engaged in acquiring, leasing, and then selling aircraft. The company generates revenue from Rental income. | $1 | +25% | $249M | $1B | 4.4x | 4.6x | ||
| Doric Nimrod Air Three Ltd is a Guernsey-domiciled company. Its investment objective is to obtain income returns and a capital return for its shareholders by acquiring, leasing, and then selling aircraft. The company is engaged in a single business segment which is acquiring, leasing, and then selling aircraft. The company has four Airbus A380 aircraft, which it is leasing to Emirates Airline. | -- | -- | $189M | $189M | — | — | ||
| Median | $10 | +11% | $3B | $3B | 3.2x | 9.9x |
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