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Yu Group

April 2026

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Another year of strong operational growth in 2025, with total energy supplied rising 14% to 2.5TWh, lifting its market share to 3.5% (2024: 2.7%). Sales grew 8% to £700m, moderated by normalising energy prices, while pretax profit rose 7% to £48.7m and EPS increased 6p to 216p. A final dividend of 45p takes the total dividend to 67p, up 7%. Operationally the footprint expanded significantly, with meter points up 49% to 131k, including 60k smart meters now deployed. This enlarged meter base allows it to manage bad debt (provisioning is, however, up to 2.6% of sales) and to generate £2.2m in index-linked annualised recurring revenue. The aggregate contracted forward order book rose 40% to £1.4bn, with £668m contracted for t ...

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