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Smiths Group PLC (SMIN.L) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

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

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 61/100 · S&P 500 fund at 75, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-10-06
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 98th percentile of the window, +5.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-10-06
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.74 · up 0.17 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-10-06
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 Closelooknet 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 SMIN.L on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Smiths Group PLC

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

What it does
Smiths Group is a UK industrial company built from four separate businesses. John Crane makes mechanical seals and filtration systems for heavy industry, Flex-Tek supplies flexible hoses and tubing that carry heat and fluids, Smiths Detection builds scanners that find explosives, weapons and contraband, and Smiths Interconnect makes specialised connectors and radio-frequency components for secure links. It sells across general industry, energy, aerospace and security markets and is based in London.
Where it sits in the stack
Smiths Group carries no seat in our index and sits outside the AI build-out sleeves the diary tracks; it belongs to the wider diversified industrials sector of our universe, spanning seals, detection and connector hardware rather than compute infrastructure.
Who it is priced against
There is no defined peer group for this name in our universe; it is best read against other diversified industrial conglomerates with security or detection arms, such as Honeywell, which the market often names in the same breath.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
Smiths Group holds no index seat and carries no Closelooknet score; the diary has not quoted or featured it in any edition so far.
What the diary watches
Whether the four segments keep being run as one company or whether any split or disposal changes how the detection and interconnect businesses are valued separately.

Smiths Group PLC (SMIN.L) trades on the LSE exchange in UK.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’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.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 1.62%, semi-annual · last 14.25 GBP on 2026-03-30

Dividends and capital return

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

  • Trailing 12 months 46.02 GBP per share · a 1.62% yield on the 2026-10-06 close 2 distributions, paid twice a year 2026-10-06
  • Change on the year +3.6% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 44.43 GBP per share
  • Last distribution 14.25 GBP per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-03-30
  • By calendar year 2023: 28.70 GBP (partial) · 2024: 43.75 GBP · 2025: 46.00 GBP · 2026: 14.25 GBP to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-10-19

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.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-10-07

Quick answers

What is Smiths Group PLC (SMIN.L)?

Smiths Group PLC trades as SMIN.L on the LSE exchange (UK) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-10-07.

Is SMIN.L in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Smiths Group PLC is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-10-07.

Where does SMIN.L trade against its moving averages?

Uptrend stack intact: Trades +7.5% vs the 50-day and +11.8% vs the 200-day average, 1.3% below the 52-week high and +37.2% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-10-06 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does Smiths Group PLC compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (Specialty Industrial Machinery · UK), Smiths Group PLC (SMIN.L) sits 1.3% below its 52-week high, 7.5% above its 50-day average; Spirax Group plc (SPX.L) is 7.1% below, IMI PLC (IMI.L) is 1.4% below, Bodycote PLC (BOY.L) is 5.9% below. Put any of them next to SMIN.L in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

What does Smiths Group PLC do?

Smiths Group is a UK industrial company built from four separate businesses. John Crane makes mechanical seals and filtration systems for heavy industry, Flex-Tek supplies flexible hoses and tubing that carry heat and fluids, Smiths Detection builds scanners that find explosives, weapons and contraband, and Smiths Interconnect makes specialised connectors and radio-frequency components for secure links. It sells across general industry, energy, aerospace and security markets and is based in London. There is no defined peer group for this name in our universe; it is best read against other diversified industrial conglomerates with security or detection arms, such as Honeywell, which the market often names in the same breath.

Where does Smiths Group PLC sit in the AI build-out?

Smiths Group carries no seat in our index and sits outside the AI build-out sleeves the diary tracks; it belongs to the wider diversified industrials sector of our universe, spanning seals, detection and connector hardware rather than compute infrastructure. Smiths Group holds no index seat and carries no Closelooknet score; the diary has not quoted or featured it in any edition so far.

Does Smiths Group PLC pay a dividend?

Smiths Group PLC has paid 46.02 GBP per share over the last twelve months, paid twice a year, a trailing yield of 1.62% on the 2026-10-06 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 14.25 GBP on 2026-03-30. 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 SMIN.L, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

then Specialty Industrial Machinery. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet 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.