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Company snapshot — Spirax Group plc

SPX.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
Spirax Group plc supplies thermal energy and fluid handling equipment used across manufacturing and processing industries. It runs three divisions: steam systems for heating, sterilising and drying; electric heating and temperature control equipment including heat tracing; and peristaltic pumps and fluid path products sold under the Watson-Marlow name for pharmaceutical and biotech use. Its customers span food and beverage, chemicals, oil and gas, power generation, healthcare and semiconductor manufacturing. The company is based in Cheltenham, England, and was previously named Spirax-Sarco Engineering before it took its current name in 2024.
Where it sits in the stack
Spirax Group holds no seat in our index; it sits in the industrial equipment sleeve of the wider universe we watch, within specialty industrial machinery, supplying thermal and fluid-handling gear that factories and process plants depend on rather than any AI-specific layer.
Who it is priced against
Closelook has not assigned it a peer group; the market most often compares it with IMI plc, another British engineering group selling fluid and thermal control equipment into similar industrial end markets.
Why Closelook tracks it
It carries no index seat and no Closelook score, and has not appeared in the diary's editions or quotes; coverage of the name sits outside the current index remit.
What the diary watches
Whether demand from semiconductor and biotech customers, a smaller part of its business, offsets any slowdown in the broader industrial and process-heating markets its steam and electric divisions serve.

Spirax Group plc (SPX.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 SPX.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 SPX.L on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 2.44%, semi-annual · last 121 GBP on 2026-04-23

Dividends and capital return

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

  • Trailing 12 months 170 GBP per share · a 2.44% yield on the 2026-09-17 close 2 distributions, paid twice a year 2026-09-17
  • Change on the year +3.0% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 165 GBP per share
  • Last distribution 121 GBP per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-04-23
  • By calendar year 2023: 46.00 GBP (partial) · 2024: 161 GBP · 2025: 166 GBP · 2026: 121 GBP to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-10-12

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 Spirax Group plc (SPX.L)?

Spirax Group plc trades as SPX.L on the LSE exchange (UK) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

Is SPX.L in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Spirax Group 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 SPX.L trade against its moving averages?

Mixed moving-average stack: Trades -0.3% vs the 50-day and -0.6% vs the 200-day average, 12% below the 52-week high and +17.1% off the 52-week low; a death cross printed 51 sessions ago. 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 Spirax Group plc do?

Spirax Group plc supplies thermal energy and fluid handling equipment used across manufacturing and processing industries. It runs three divisions: steam systems for heating, sterilising and drying; electric heating and temperature control equipment including heat tracing; and peristaltic pumps and fluid path products sold under the Watson-Marlow name for pharmaceutical and biotech use. Its customers span food and beverage, chemicals, oil and gas, power generation, healthcare and semiconductor manufacturing. Closelook has not assigned it a peer group; the market most often compares it with IMI plc, another British engineering group selling fluid and thermal control equipment into similar industrial end markets.

Where does Spirax Group plc sit in the AI build-out?

Spirax Group holds no seat in our index; it sits in the industrial equipment sleeve of the wider universe we watch, within specialty industrial machinery, supplying thermal and fluid-handling gear that factories and process plants depend on rather than any AI-specific layer. It carries no index seat and no Closelook score, and has not appeared in the diary's editions or quotes; coverage of the name sits outside the current index remit.

Does Spirax Group plc pay a dividend?

Spirax Group plc has paid 170 GBP per share over the last twelve months, paid twice a year, a trailing yield of 2.44% on the 2026-09-17 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 121 GBP on 2026-04-23. 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 SPX.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.