WPP plc (WPP)

NYSE: WPP · IEX Real-Time Price · USD
45.47
-0.02 (-0.04%)
Jul 2, 2024, 4:00 PM EDT - Market closed
-0.04%
Market Cap 9.80B
Revenue (ttm) 18.79B
Net Income (ttm) 139.75M
Shares Out 215.61M
EPS (ttm) 0.64
PE Ratio 70.60
Forward PE 8.61
Dividend $2.70 (5.94%)
Ex-Dividend Date Jun 7, 2024
Volume 707,042
Open 44.76
Previous Close 45.49
Day's Range 44.75 - 45.49
52-Week Range 41.13 - 57.30
Beta 1.12
Analysts Hold
Price Target n/a
Earnings Date Aug 2, 2024

About WPP

WPP plc, a creative transformation company, provides communications, experience, commerce, and technology services in North America, the United Kingdom, Western Continental Europe, the Asia Pacific, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Central and Eastern Europe. The company operates through three segments: Global Integrated Agencies, Public Relations, and Specialist Agencies. It offers marketing strategy, creative ideation, production, commerce, influencer marketing, social media management, and technology implementation services; media... [Read more]

Founded 1985
Employees 114,732
Stock Exchange NYSE
Ticker Symbol WPP
Full Company Profile

Financial Performance

In 2023, WPP plc's revenue was 14.84 billion, an increase of 2.88% compared to the previous year's 14.43 billion. Earnings were 110.40 million, a decrease of -83.83%.

Financial numbers in GBP Financial Statements

News

WPP, Ogilvy and The Coca-Cola Company win at Cannes Lions 2024

CANNES, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity today named WPP (NYSE: WPP) as Creative Company of the Year for 2024, with Ogilvy taking home Creative Network of...

11 days ago - Business Wire

WPP CEO: X content moderation lives up to industry expectation

Mark Read, CEO at WPP, discusses Elon's Musk's comments to advertisers at Cannes Lions and explains how the company are using AI in their latest innovations.

12 days ago - CNBC International TV

WPP and IBM Team Up to Revolutionize Business-to-Business Marketing with Generative AI

WPP Open for B2B is powered by IBM's watsonx AI and data platform to solve complex B2B marketing challenges  IBM  is the first user of the platform to accelerate its AI-driven marketing and communicat...

Other symbols: IBM
13 days ago - PRNewsWire

CMI Media Group Taps KERV Interactive Technology to Launch ‘Video Attention' Metrics for Pharmaceutical Advertising

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--KERV, the leader in AI-powered video analysis, performance and monetization, and CMI Media Group (CMI), the global healthcare media strategy agency and part of WPP (NYS...

20 days ago - Business Wire

WPP Integrates Anthropic's Claude Foundational AI Models into WPP Open Using Amazon Bedrock, Elevating Capabilities for its 114,000 Marketers

NEW YORK & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WPP (NYSE: WPP) today announces that it has integrated Anthropic's state-of-the-art Claude artificial intelligence (AI) model family into its intelligent marketing ...

5 weeks ago - Business Wire

WPP First Quarter Trading Update

NEW YORK & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WPP (NYSE: WPP) today reported its 2024 First Quarter Trading Update. Key figures First Quarter £ million ‘+/(-) % reported1 ‘+/(-) % LFL2 Revenue 3,412 (1.4) 2.1 R...

2 months ago - Business Wire

WPP Revenue Hit by Tech Pullback

WPP backed its full-year revenue guidance after its first-quarter results were hurt by weaker spending by technology clients and project delays.

2 months ago - WSJ

Ad group WPP reports 1.6% drop in first-quarter organic growth

British ad group WPP reported a 1.6% drop in organic growth in the first quarter, lagging its major rivals, after it was hit by loss of business from a healthcare client and reduced spending by techno...

2 months ago - Reuters

WPP looks to AI to boost bottom line following collapse in advertising giant's profits

Advertising giant WPP on Thursday outlined plans to use artificial intelligence to increase its profitability after reporting a collapse in its profits for the full-year 2023.

4 months ago - Market Watch

WPP 2023 Preliminary Results

NEW YORK & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WPP (NYSE: WPP) today reported its 2023 Preliminary Results. Key figures £m 2023 +/(-) % reported1 +/(-) % LFL2 2022 Revenue 14,845 2.9 3.2 14,429 Revenue less pass...

4 months ago - Business Wire

WPP Profits Hurt by Impairments

WPP's full-year core profit slightly missed expectations and the advertising group guided for like-for-like revenue growth in 2024 of 0% to 1%, adding that it was confident of delivering accelerated a...

4 months ago - WSJ

WPP Capital Markets Day 2024

NEW YORK & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WPP (NYSE: WPP) is today announcing the next phase of its strategy to capture the opportunities offered by AI, maximise the potential of creative transformation and...

5 months ago - Business Wire

WPP's revenue less pass-through costs grew 0.9% in 2023

British advertising group WPP said its revenue less pass-through costs grew 0.9% last year, and it expects at best a similar result in 2024, with a small increase in its operating profit margin of 20 ...

5 months ago - Reuters

WPP gets double-downgrade to sell at UBS

Ad agency WPP got a double-downgrade, to sell from buy, at UBS, which argues organic sales growth will be below consensus and below the sector for both this year and the medium term, and that free cas...

6 months ago - Market Watch

WPP is considering sale of stake in Bain's Kantar-source

WPP is considering the sale of its 40% stake in Kantar, a person with knowledge of the situation said, which could be valued at up to $8 billion including debt.

6 months ago - Reuters

BT chief Jansen approached about WPP chairmanship, Sky News reports

BT Group's outgoing boss Philip Jansen has been approached about becoming the next chair of advertising group WPP , replacing Roberto Quarta, Sky News reported on Monday.

6 months ago - Reuters

Inside WPP's volatile 2023

WPP issued two profit warnings this year amid a slowdown in ad spending from its tech clients. The company has been undergoing a massive transformation that has involved merging agencies.

6 months ago - Business Insider

Jon Iwata, 35-Year IBM Veteran and Founding Executive Director of Yale School of Management's Data & Trust Alliance, to be Awarded the Harold Burson Award at PRSA-NY 2023 Big Apple Awards

NEW YORK , Nov. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The New York Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America ( PRSA-NY) has announced that Jon Iwata, IBM marketing and communications veteran and founding ...

8 months ago - PRNewsWire

WPP issues second profit warning of 2023 as tech sector trims ad spending

WPP, one of the world's biggest advertising groups, delivered its second profit warning of the year after activity in China stuttered and companies in the technology sector reduced spending.

8 months ago - Market Watch

WPP Third Quarter Trading Update

NEW YORK & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WPP (NYSE: WPP) today reported its 2023 Third Quarter Trading Update.           £m     % reported1     % LFL2 Third Quarter                   Revenue     3,508     ...

8 months ago - Business Wire

WPP cuts full-year outlook again as tech clients rein in spend

WPP , the world's largest ad group, cut its outlook for the second quarter in a row on Thursday, saying it now expected like-for-like growth this year to be 0.5-1.0%, as big tech client continued in r...

8 months ago - Reuters

Current and ex-employees at WPP-owned media agency detained in China - sources

Four people linked to WPP-owned media agency GroupM have been questioned by authorities in Shanghai, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

9 months ago - Reuters

Advertising group WPP to merge two major creative agencies

WPP , the world's biggest advertising group, said on Tuesday it will combine two of its major creative agencies Wunderman Thompson and VMLY&R to simplify its business.

9 months ago - Reuters

Conrad Persons Named President of Grey London

Creative Entrepreneur and Growth Strategist appointed UK Leader for Grey Group LONDON, Sept. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Grey London has appointed Conrad Persons as its new President.

9 months ago - PRNewsWire

WPP Launches ‘Screaming Creativity' Podcast Series Hosted by Chief Creative Officer Rob Reilly

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WPP (NYSE: WPP) today announces the launch of a new video podcast series hosted by WPP's Chief Creative Officer, Rob Reilly. Titled ‘Screaming Creativity', the podcast will ...

10 months ago - Business Wire