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Kainos Group PLC (KNOS.L) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for KNOS.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 Software - Application · UK · 6 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Software - Application · 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 KNOS.L on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Kainos Group PLC

KNOS.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
Kainos provides digital services, Workday deployment support, and a set of Workday add-on products sold as software, working across the UK, Ireland, North America and Central Europe. Its Digital Services arm builds custom platforms for clients, its Workday Services arm helps organisations roll out Workday's finance, HR and planning tools, and its Workday Products arm sells testing, auditing, data-privacy and compliance software that runs on top of Workday. Clients span financial services, insurance, life sciences, healthcare and government. It is headquartered in Belfast.
Where it sits in the stack
Kainos carries no seat in our index and sits outside the AI build-out layers the diary tracks; it belongs to the software-and-services sleeve of our wider universe, classed as application software. It is a customer of the cloud platforms it builds on top of, rather than a supplier into chip, data-centre or model layers.
Who it is priced against
There is no peer group set for Kainos in our records; the comparison the market draws most often is with Endava, another UK-listed technology-services firm that also builds custom digital platforms and cloud consulting work.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
Kainos holds no index seat and carries no Closelooknet score, so no module can be named as stronger or weaker; coverage here rests on the chart reading alone, which shows the shares above both their 50-day and 200-day levels.
What the diary watches
Whether Workday-related bookings keep growing as clients renew multi-year service contracts, since that mix drives most of the recurring revenue the diary would look for.

Kainos Group PLC (KNOS.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 2.39%, semi-annual · last 19.80 GBP on 2026-10-01

Dividends and capital return

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

  • Trailing 12 months 29.60 GBP per share · a 2.39% yield on the 2026-10-06 close 2 distributions, paid twice a year 2026-10-06
  • Change on the year +4.2% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 28.40 GBP per share
  • Last distribution 19.80 GBP per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-10-01
  • By calendar year 2023: 8.20 GBP (partial) · 2024: 28.40 GBP · 2025: 28.90 GBP · 2026: 19.80 GBP to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-11-23

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 Kainos Group PLC (KNOS.L)?

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

Is KNOS.L in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Kainos 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 KNOS.L trade against its moving averages?

Uptrend stack intact: Trades +9.7% vs the 50-day and +37.1% vs the 200-day average, 4.3% below the 52-week high and +80.5% off the 52-week low; a golden cross printed 31 sessions ago. 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 Kainos Group PLC compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (Software - Application · UK), Kainos Group PLC (KNOS.L) sits 4.3% below its 52-week high, 9.7% above its 50-day average; Sage Group PLC (SGE.L) is 14.0% below, Trustpilot Group PLC (TRST.L) is 23.0% below, Alfa Financial Software Holdings PLC (ALFA.L) is 32.5% below. Put any of them next to KNOS.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 Kainos Group PLC do?

Kainos provides digital services, Workday deployment support, and a set of Workday add-on products sold as software, working across the UK, Ireland, North America and Central Europe. Its Digital Services arm builds custom platforms for clients, its Workday Services arm helps organisations roll out Workday's finance, HR and planning tools, and its Workday Products arm sells testing, auditing, data-privacy and compliance software that runs on top of Workday. Clients span financial services, insurance, life sciences, healthcare and government. There is no peer group set for Kainos in our records; the comparison the market draws most often is with Endava, another UK-listed technology-services firm that also builds custom digital platforms and cloud consulting work.

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

Kainos carries no seat in our index and sits outside the AI build-out layers the diary tracks; it belongs to the software-and-services sleeve of our wider universe, classed as application software. It is a customer of the cloud platforms it builds on top of, rather than a supplier into chip, data-centre or model layers. Kainos holds no index seat and carries no Closelooknet score, so no module can be named as stronger or weaker; coverage here rests on the chart reading alone, which shows the shares above both their 50-day and 200-day levels.

Does Kainos Group PLC pay a dividend?

Kainos Group PLC has paid 29.60 GBP per share over the last twelve months, paid twice a year, a trailing yield of 2.39% on the 2026-10-06 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 19.80 GBP on 2026-10-01. 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 KNOS.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 Software - Application. 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.