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We have tracked profit warnings from UK-registered companies since 1999, giving us powerful insight into business, capital and economy.
Our analysis of UK-registered companies listed on the UK’s Main Market or Alternative Investment Market provides you with insights into profit warning trends and key economic, sector and market issues facing UK businesses. You can delve into the latest quarter’s findings and access over 17 years’ worth of data at the click of a button through our console. Use our profit warning data to understand trends and identify the forces affecting your market and reshaping your path ahead.
UK listed companies issued 55 profit warnings in Q4 2025, the lowest fourth quarter total in 15 years. This fall suggests that forecasts have caught up with tougher conditions, but it still feels like an uneasy pause rather than a turning point. Companies continue to face higher costs, volatile demand and geopolitical uncertainty, whilst many of the underlying pressures driving recent high warning levels remain in place.
Across 2025, companies issued 240 warnings, down 12% year‑on‑year, but still close to the elevated levels sustained over the last four years. Geopolitical and policy change and uncertainty remained the dominant driver, accounting for 42% of warnings, with warnings spreading from industrial into consumer‑facing industries as the year progressed.
In 2026 stress is still broad-based. Many retailers are weighed down by rising costs, weak sentiment and increasing investment needs. Meanwhile, sectors such as chemicals and construction continue to struggle with high input costs, regulatory pressures and fragile demand. Healthcare providers report intensifying cost and spending pressures. As a result, confidence remains fragile and risks continue to evolve, and we expect restructuring pressures to continue to build in the year ahead.
In 2025,
240
profit warnings have been issued by UK-based listed companies.
In 2025,
42%
of profit warnings cited geopolitical tensions or policy change.
In 2025,
34%
of FTSE Retailers issued a profit warning.
In 2025,
29%
of FTSE Chemicals companies issued a profit warning.
