Balfour Beatty: who owns it, who runs it and what the accounts show

Balfour Beatty is an infrastructure group that builds, maintains and invests in roads, railways, power networks, buildings and other public and private infrastructure. It works in the UK, the US and Hong Kong, mostly for governments, regulated utilities and large private clients. Its business covers construction services, support services such as maintaining power and road networks, and infrastructure investments, where it helps finance and then operate projects. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange.

In brief: infrastructure contractor · construction, support services and investments · UK, US and Hong Kong · listed

Balfour Beatty PLC, company number 00395826, has no person with significant control on the register. That is normal for a company whose shares trade on a regulated market: ownership sits with the shareholders who hold the shares at any given time.

The Companies House register lists 11 current officers for Balfour Beatty PLC.

Balfour Beatty PLC reported turnover of £9,489m in the year to December 2025. That was up 15.2% on £8,234m the year before.

It reported 19,290 employees. The year before it reported 18,568.

It filed a pre-tax profit of £323m for the year, against a pre-tax profit of £214m the year before.

Staff costs came to £1,664m. That is an average of £86,000 a head. It paid dividends of £64m.

Balfour Beatty PLC has registered 8 charges at Companies House, and all of them have since been satisfied. A charge is security a lender takes over a company's assets; one is satisfied when the lending behind it is repaid or released.