Balanced news tone
News Sentiment
COST sentiment intelligence
Costain Group PLC news scored across direct company coverage, industry context, sector read-through, source quality, and freshness.
Weighted score
54
Balanced news tone
13 relevant articles
News tone and price action are not far from neutral.
84/100 classification confidence.
directly relevant articles
high-authority source matches
+0.6% over one week, -3.2% over four weeks, trend active, and materially above fair value.
REG - Costain Group PLC - Director/PDMR Shareholding
Market Reaction
Balanced read
News tone and price action are not far from neutral.
Primary event
Market update
84/100 classification
One-week reaction
0.6%
Price digesting
Trend fit
Trend active
-3.2% over four weeks
Fair value
76.7%
Materially above fair value
Sentiment Mix
Positive, neutral, negative
Positive
4
Neutral
9
Negative
0
Relevance
Why the article matched
Sources
Coverage mix
Event Lens
What the news is about
Sentiment Trail
Score over time
Above 50
Neutral zone
Below 50
News Tape
Relevant headlines
TradingView
Direct company coverage
REG - Costain Group PLC - Director/PDMR Shareholding
- Tone
- Neutral 50/100
- Event
- Market update
- Published
- 18 Jun 2026 10:46
- Source
- TradingView
Investing.com UK
Direct company coverage
Costain wins £122m West Winch housing road contract By Investing.com
- Tone
- Neutral 50/100
- Event
- Deals and strategy
- Published
- 18 Jun 2026 06:36
- Source
- Investing.com UK
Kalkine Media
Direct company coverage
Costain Group PLC (LSE:COST): A UK Infrastructure Stock Drawing Market Attention
- Tone
- Neutral 50/100
- Event
- Market update
- Published
- 17 Jun 2026 12:23
- Source
- Kalkine Media
simplywall.st
Direct company coverage
Is It Time To Consider Buying Costain Group PLC (LON:COST)?
- Tone
- Neutral 50/100
- Event
- Market update
- Published
- 17 Jun 2026 05:16
- Source
- simplywall.st
railuk.com
Direct company coverage
Costain wins place on £700m Transport for London framework
- Tone
- Neutral 50/100
- Event
- Market update
- Published
- 09 Jun 2026 14:26
- Source
- railuk.com
Investing.com UK
Direct company coverage
Costain 2025 profit rises, shares jump 10% on record £7 bln order book
- Tone
- Positive 82/100
- Event
- Earnings
- Published
- 10 Mar 2026 07:00
- Source
- Investing.com UK
Sharecast.com
Direct company coverage
Costain upbeat as forward work hits record £7bn
- Tone
- Positive 66/100
- Event
- Market update
- Published
- 10 Mar 2026 07:00
- Source
- Sharecast.com
Investing.com UK
Direct company coverage
Costain to double dividends and launch £20 mln buyback as cash beats forecasts
- Tone
- Positive 66/100
- Event
- Capital return
- Published
- 26 Jan 2026 08:00
- Source
- Investing.com UK
marketscreener.com
Direct company coverage
Costain pension accord frees up cash for GBP20 million share buyback
- Tone
- Positive 62/100
- Event
- Capital return
- Published
- 26 Jan 2026 08:00
- Source
- marketscreener.com
Hargreaves Lansdown
Direct company coverage
Costain Group plc Ordinary 1p share price | COST
- Tone
- Neutral 50/100
- Event
- Market update
- Published
- 17 May 2024 08:14
- Source
- Hargreaves Lansdown
TradingView
Direct company coverage
COST Stock Price and Chart — LSE:COST
- Tone
- Neutral 50/100
- Event
- Market update
- Published
- 01 Feb 2018 01:32
- Source
- TradingView
MarketBeat
Direct company coverage
Costain Group (COST) Share Price, Stock Value, News & Analysis $COST
- Tone
- Neutral 50/100
- Event
- Market update
- Published
- 07 Sep 2015 23:13
- Source
- MarketBeat
Proshare
Direct company coverage
Costain WA take legal action on name change
- Tone
- Neutral 50/100
- Event
- Market update
- Published
- 18 Feb 2009 08:00
- Source
- Proshare