Top 25 housebuilders by housing operating margins | Features

Top 25 housebuilders by housing operating margins
		%
1	McCarthy & Stone	32.1
2	Fairview Holdings	30.1
3	Bovis Homes	20.5
4	Wilson Bowden	16.6
5	Redrow Group	16.3
6	Berkeley Group	15.2
7	Bellway	14.6
8	Bloor Holdings	13.8
9	Wilson Connolly	13.7
10	Bryant Group	13.7
11	Persimmon	13.2
12	Beazer Group	13.1
13	Westbury	12.6
14	Prowting	12.3
15	Crest Nicholson	11.8
16	Barratt Developments	11.4
17	Taylor Woodrow	11.0
18	Linden	10.9
19	Wainhomes	10.7
20	Alfred McAlpine	10.5
21	John Laing	9.4
22	Countryside Properties	9.3
23	Cala Group	7.8
24	George Wimpey	7.8
25	Tay Homes	(7.7)
	Average	13.2
	Weighted average	12.5
	Weighted average 1998	11.6
Key Full split of activities not provided in reports and accounts, therefore turnover and/or profits assigned to contracting Total profit refers to pre-tax profit. Splits refer in most cases to operating profit before exceptional items. Total of splits plus non-interest = pre-tax profit **Net interest payments/receipts, exceptional, and other non-trading income or losses †Contracting is primarily in M&E, FM, repair and maintenance and/or planned maintenance ††Turnover figures estimated/company estimate †††Profit figures estimated §Housing profit is pre-tax