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Softcat plc (SCT.L) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for SCT.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 Electronics & Computer Distribution · 4 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Electronics & Computer Distribution

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 SCT.L on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Softcat plc

SCT.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
Softcat sells and manages IT infrastructure and services for businesses and public sector bodies in the UK, acting as a reseller rather than a manufacturer. It advises on and supplies hybrid infrastructure, workplace technology, cyber security, networking, data, automation and AI tools, alongside cloud, device and licensing services. It is based in Marlow, England, and works with vendors across hardware, software and cloud to assemble solutions for its customers.
Where it sits in the stack
Softcat has no seat in our index; it sits in the technology sector, within electronics and computer distribution, as a reseller and integrator rather than a maker of chips or infrastructure. It sells the output of hardware and cloud vendors on to end users, so it is a customer of the build-out layers rather than a constraint within them.
Who it is priced against
There is no peer group set for it in the diary, but the market groups it with other UK value-added resellers such as Bytes Technology Group and Computacenter, which sell similar bundles of infrastructure and services.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
It carries no index seat and no Closelooknet score, and the diary has not quoted it in an edition; the only note on file is a chart reading showing it trading above its 200-day average and off its recent high.
What the diary watches
Whether its infrastructure and AI-related service lines grow as a share of sales, which would say more about client demand for build-out spending than the reseller model alone.

Softcat plc (SCT.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 2.53%, semi-annual · last 9.90 GBP on 2026-04-09

Dividends and capital return

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

  • Trailing 12 months 46.40 GBP per share · a 2.53% yield on the 2026-10-06 close 2 distributions, paid twice a year 2026-10-06
  • Change on the year −3.1% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 47.90 GBP per share
  • Last distribution 9.90 GBP per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-04-09
  • By calendar year 2023: 29.60 GBP (partial) · 2024: 47.50 GBP · 2025: 45.40 GBP · 2026: 9.90 GBP to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-11-09

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 Softcat plc (SCT.L)?

Softcat plc trades as SCT.L on the LSE exchange (UK) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-10-07.

Is SCT.L in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Softcat 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 SCT.L trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -6% vs the 50-day and +16% vs the 200-day average, 14.1% below the 52-week high and +70.6% 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 Softcat plc compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (Electronics & Computer Distribution), Softcat plc (SCT.L) sits 14.1% below its 52-week high, 6.0% below its 50-day average; Avnet Inc (AVT) is 2.1% below, Dicker Data Ltd (DDR.AX) is 0.5% below, Arrow Electronics Inc (ARW) is 3.6% below. Put any of them next to SCT.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 Softcat plc do?

Softcat sells and manages IT infrastructure and services for businesses and public sector bodies in the UK, acting as a reseller rather than a manufacturer. It advises on and supplies hybrid infrastructure, workplace technology, cyber security, networking, data, automation and AI tools, alongside cloud, device and licensing services. It is based in Marlow, England, and works with vendors across hardware, software and cloud to assemble solutions for its customers. There is no peer group set for it in the diary, but the market groups it with other UK value-added resellers such as Bytes Technology Group and Computacenter, which sell similar bundles of infrastructure and services.

Where does Softcat plc sit in the AI build-out?

Softcat has no seat in our index; it sits in the technology sector, within electronics and computer distribution, as a reseller and integrator rather than a maker of chips or infrastructure. It sells the output of hardware and cloud vendors on to end users, so it is a customer of the build-out layers rather than a constraint within them. It carries no index seat and no Closelooknet score, and the diary has not quoted it in an edition; the only note on file is a chart reading showing it trading above its 200-day average and off its recent high.

Does Softcat plc pay a dividend?

Softcat plc has paid 46.40 GBP per share over the last twelve months, paid twice a year, a trailing yield of 2.53% on the 2026-10-06 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 9.90 GBP on 2026-04-09. 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 SCT.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 Electronics & Computer Distribution, then Technology. 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.