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Company snapshot — Bodycote PLC

BOY.L in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Bodycote provides heat treatment and thermal processing services, altering the properties of metals and alloys such as steel and aluminium. It also offers metal-joining methods like electron beam welding and hot isostatic pressing, plus surface coatings that protect components from wear and corrosion. Customers span automotive, aerospace and defence, energy and general industrial markets. It is headquartered in Macclesfield, England, and was founded in 1923.
Where it sits in the stack
Bodycote sits outside our Rubin index; it belongs to the industrial-services sleeve of our wider universe rather than a chip-build layer. It supplies process treatments that harden or coat metal parts used across manufacturing supply chains, including aerospace and automotive components.
Who it is priced against
Closelook has not assigned a peer group to Bodycote yet. The market sometimes compares it with other specialist metal-treatment firms, and Precision Castparts is often cited as a broader aerospace-materials comparison.
Why Closelook tracks it
Bodycote carries no index seat and no Closelook score at present; the diary has not yet quoted it in an edition.
What the diary watches
Whether order volumes from aerospace and automotive customers shift enough to change how the diary reads its industrial exposure.

Bodycote PLC (BOY.L) trades on the LSE exchange in UK.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for BOY.L, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Specialty Industrial Machinery · UK · 6 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Specialty Industrial Machinery · UK

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against BOY.L on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 2.41%, semi-annual · last 16.21 GBP on 2026-04-27

Dividends and capital return

What BOY.L pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 23.11 GBP per share · a 2.41% yield on the 2026-09-17 close 2 distributions, paid twice a year 2026-09-17
  • Change on the year +43.5% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 16.10 GBP per share
  • Last distribution 16.21 GBP per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-04-27
  • By calendar year 2025: 23.00 GBP (partial) · 2026: 16.21 GBP to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-04-24

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 55/100 · S&P 500 fund at 58, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-17
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 94th percentile of the window, +2.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-17
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.00 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-17

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-18

Quick answers

What is Bodycote PLC (BOY.L)?

Bodycote PLC trades as BOY.L on the LSE exchange (UK) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

Is BOY.L in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Bodycote PLC is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-18.

Where does BOY.L trade against its moving averages?

Uptrend stack intact: Trades +14.6% vs the 50-day and +30.4% vs the 200-day average, 0.7% below the 52-week high and +68.1% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-17 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Bodycote PLC do?

Bodycote provides heat treatment and thermal processing services, altering the properties of metals and alloys such as steel and aluminium. It also offers metal-joining methods like electron beam welding and hot isostatic pressing, plus surface coatings that protect components from wear and corrosion. Customers span automotive, aerospace and defence, energy and general industrial markets. Closelook has not assigned a peer group to Bodycote yet. The market sometimes compares it with other specialist metal-treatment firms, and Precision Castparts is often cited as a broader aerospace-materials comparison.

Where does Bodycote PLC sit in the AI build-out?

Bodycote sits outside our Rubin index; it belongs to the industrial-services sleeve of our wider universe rather than a chip-build layer. It supplies process treatments that harden or coat metal parts used across manufacturing supply chains, including aerospace and automotive components. Bodycote carries no index seat and no Closelook score at present; the diary has not yet quoted it in an edition.

Does Bodycote PLC pay a dividend?

Bodycote PLC has paid 23.11 GBP per share over the last twelve months, paid twice a year, a trailing yield of 2.41% on the 2026-09-17 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 16.21 GBP on 2026-04-27. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for BOY.L, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Specialty Industrial Machinery. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.