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Company snapshot — Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited

JAR.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
Jardine Matheson is a conglomerate holding businesses across motor vehicles, property investment and development, health and beauty retail, home furnishings, engineering and construction, and transport, operating mainly through Hong Kong, Macau, Southeast Asia and mainland China. It runs retail chains such as Mannings, Guardian, 7-Eleven, Wellcome and IKEA under licence, alongside heavy equipment distribution and mining contracting. Founded in 1832, the group is now based in Hamilton, Bermuda.
Where it sits in the stack
Jardine Matheson holds no seat in Rubin, our index for the AI build-out; it sits in the diary's Industrials sector, under the Conglomerates industry, outside the build-out stack. Its earnings track Asian consumer spending, property cycles and retail footfall rather than chip or data-centre demand.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group places it with other scored Industrials names — Accelleron Industries, ZTO Express, Wolters Kluwer, Relx, Vestas Wind Systems, Nordson and Sunbelt Rentals — grouped by sector rather than by business model. The market's usual comparison is Swire Pacific, another Hong Kong-based trading house with similar spread across retail, property and transport.
Why Closelook tracks it
Jardine Matheson carries a Closelook score, strongest on valuation and weakest on quality; it holds no seat in our indices and has drawn no mentions or quotes in the diary's editions so far.
What the diary watches
Whether the retail and property arms, which depend on footfall and rents across Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, show any turn that would lift the quality module away from its current weak reading.

Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited (JAR.L) trades on the LSE exchange in UK, classified under Industrials.

The Closelook company score reads 51/100 composite (momentum 53, quality 34, valuation 93) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

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 JAR.L, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Conglomerates · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Conglomerates

Names in the same industry from the Closelook universe; scored names rank on their Closelook score, the rest on trend state.

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

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 3.84%, semi-annual · buybacks 69 m USD in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

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

  • Trailing 12 months 2.40 GBP per share · a 3.84% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 2 distributions, paid twice a year 2026-09-18
  • Last distribution 0.65 GBP per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-08-17
  • By calendar year 2026: 2.40 GBP to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2026-03-18
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 461 m USD 61% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 69 m USD
  • Share count +1.4% in FY2025 24 m USD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 530 m USD · 13% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

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 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

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 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sector × region Industrials in Europe: −0.4% week · −3.5% month · +0.1% quarter · +2.4% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from EXH4.XETRA; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-20
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · 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 → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited (JAR.L)?

Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited trades as JAR.L on the LSE exchange (UK) and is classified under Industrials in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is JAR.L in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

What is Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited's Closelook composite score?

51 out of 100, with momentum 53, quality 34 and valuation 93 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-19. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does JAR.L trade against its moving averages?

Bullish stack, 200-day still turning: Trades +0% vs the 50-day and +0.1% vs the 200-day average, 24.2% below the 52-week high and +8.9% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited do?

Jardine Matheson is a conglomerate holding businesses across motor vehicles, property investment and development, health and beauty retail, home furnishings, engineering and construction, and transport, operating mainly through Hong Kong, Macau, Southeast Asia and mainland China. It runs retail chains such as Mannings, Guardian, 7-Eleven, Wellcome and IKEA under licence, alongside heavy equipment distribution and mining contracting. Founded in 1832, the group is now based in Hamilton, Bermuda. Closelook's peer group places it with other scored Industrials names — Accelleron Industries, ZTO Express, Wolters Kluwer, Relx, Vestas Wind Systems, Nordson and Sunbelt Rentals — grouped by sector rather than by business model. The market's usual comparison is Swire Pacific, another Hong Kong-based trading house with similar spread across retail, property and transport.

Where does Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited sit in the AI build-out?

Jardine Matheson holds no seat in Rubin, our index for the AI build-out; it sits in the diary's Industrials sector, under the Conglomerates industry, outside the build-out stack. Its earnings track Asian consumer spending, property cycles and retail footfall rather than chip or data-centre demand. Jardine Matheson carries a Closelook score, strongest on valuation and weakest on quality; it holds no seat in our indices and has drawn no mentions or quotes in the diary's editions so far.

Does Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited pay a dividend?

Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited has paid 2.40 GBP per share over the last twelve months, paid twice a year, a trailing yield of 3.84% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.65 GBP on 2026-08-17. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 461 m USD in dividends and bought back 69 m USD of its own shares, 13% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count rose 1.4% over the fiscal year. 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 JAR.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 Conglomerates, then Industrials. 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.