Rolls-Royce Hits £90bn Valuation as Shares Reach Record High
You know, it’s not every day that a company’s share price smashes through its own ceiling and keeps climbing, but that’s exactly what’s happening with Rolls-Royce right now. The engineering giant has just reached a jaw-dropping market valuation of around £90 billion for the first time in its history. This milestone comes as its shares traded this morning at roughly 1,090 pence—a record high—after jumping more than two percent in early trading.
This latest surge has been building for a while. In fact, the momentum really picked up last week when Rolls-Royce released its half-year results, which left analysts more than impressed. The numbers didn’t just meet expectations—they blew past them. After the announcement, the share price leapt from 988p to 1,072p, pushing through the £10 mark for the first time ever. For context, at the end of 2024, the shares were sitting at 568p, and over the past couple of years, they’ve been on a steady upward climb—only briefly interrupted by tariff news from then-US President Donald Trump back in April.
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The financial results themselves paint a pretty clear picture of why investors are so excited. In the first six months of the year, Rolls-Royce’s underlying pre-tax profit jumped from £1.03 billion in 2024 to £1.68 billion. Its operating profit rose 50 percent, from £1.14 billion to £1.73 billion. Statutory results were even more striking: revenue increased from £8.86 billion to £9.49 billion, operating profit grew from £1.64 billion to £2.07 billion, and pre-tax profit more than tripled from £1.41 billion to an astonishing £4.84 billion.
With such a strong start to the year, the company decided to raise its guidance for 2025. It’s now expecting to deliver between £3.1 and £3.2 billion in underlying operating profit, along with £3 to £3.1 billion in free cash flow.
Market commentators have been quick to point out just how remarkable this performance is. Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell, described Rolls-Royce as having “solid engines in more ways than one”—not only keeping planes in the sky but also driving growth at full throttle. He highlighted that the share price has surged by over 1,440 percent since October 2022, meaning investors who stuck with the stock have multiplied their money more than fifteen times.
It’s being seen as a showcase for what’s possible in the UK stock market—a reminder that even in a cautious investment climate, standout returns can happen. Rolls-Royce has gone from a pandemic-struck business facing uncertainty to one of Britain’s clearest examples of corporate resurgence. Right now, it’s not just an engineering powerhouse—it’s the market’s high-flying star.
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