Financial prospects of largest UK corporations 2021

This statistic shows how chief financial officers of the largest corporations in the United Kingdom (UK), consider the financial prospects of their company compared to the previous three months. Data is presented quarterly from surveys conducted between the first quarter of 2017 and the second quarter of 2021. In the second quarter of 2020, 52 percent of sampled respondents felt somewhat more optimistic about the financial prospects of their business.

Compared with three months ago how do you feel about the financial prospects for your company?

Characteristic	Significantly less optimistic	Somewhat less optimistic	Broadly unchanged	Somewhat more optimistic	Significantly more optimistic
Q1 2017	1%	16%	52%	29%	2%
Q2 2017	4%	38%	40%	17%	1%
Q3 2017	1%	26%	47%	26%	1%
Q4 2017	2%	28%	53%	17%	1%
Q1 2018	1%	22%	58%	18%	2%
Q2 2018	1%	22%	52%	21%	3%
Q3 2018	1%	41%	45%	12%	1%
Q4 2018	2%	46%	43%	10%	0%
Q1 2019	1%	36%	49%	11%	2%
Q2 2019	4%	41%	47%	9%	0%
Q3 2019	2%	42%	47%	9%	0%
Q4 2019	0%	8%	40%	49%	4%
Q1 2020	53%	30%	10%	5%	2%
Q2 2020	6%	18%	28%	42%	6%
Q3 2020	6%	23%	34%	33%	4%
Q4 2020	0%	6%	31%	59%	4%
Q1 2021	1%	0%	21%	66%	12%
Q2 2021	1%	4%	32%	52%	11%

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Release date

July 2021

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

Q1 2017 to Q2 2021

Number of respondents

107 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Special properties

Chief financial officers*

Supplementary notes

* CFOs of 21 FTSE 100 and 43 FTSE 250 companies. The rest were CFOs of other UK-listed companies, large private companies and UK subsidiaries of major companies listed overseas.

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