Few FTSE 100 stocks have captured the investment imagination quite like Rolls-Royce. An investor who ploughed £5,000 into the aerospace and defence engineer on January 1, 2025, would now find their money has nearly doubled—their investment worth approximately £9,750 as the share price soared an extraordinary 95 per cent to 1150 pence per share.
Yet as the company begins 2026, a critical question confronts both loyal shareholders and would-be investors: is this one of the great industrial turnaround stories of our time, or has the market priced in more optimism than the business can realistically deliver?
