Cropster Agro Ltd

Price story Before the numbers, the tape. A stock price moves through four repeating seasons: a flat base (stage 1), an advance (2), a top (3), a decline (4). Where the price sits in that cycle frames everything below.

Cropster Agro Ltd trades at ₹5.5, in a downtrend and 12 weeks into that stage. That is −66.7% against its own 200-day average. It sits at 0% of a 52-week range of ₹6 to ₹30. On relative strength it is currently behind the NIFTY 500 on a trailing-13-week view (19 weeks and counting).

Today the stock is in a downtrend — week 12 of stage 4, confirmed. At ₹5.5 it trades −66.7% versus its 200-day average and sits at 0% of its 52-week range (₹6–₹30).

Against the market, two honest reads. Cumulative: over the last 9.9 years the stock moved +37% while the NIFTY 500 moved +213% — behind the index over the full window. Recent form: on a trailing-13-week view the stock is currently behind (19 weeks and counting; last ahead the week of 2025-11-14) — the ribbon below is that same metric, week by week.

What would end the trend, mechanically: two Friday closes in a row below the 200-day line. That is the exit rule — no debates.

→ The trend is one thing; the bill is another. Are you paying up for it? Next: the P/E sits at the 17th percentile of its own range.

Valuation P/E is the price of ₹1 of annual profit: how many rupees the market pays for each rupee the company earns in a year.

Cropster Agro Ltd trades at 42.1× P/E, near the bottom of its own range — cheaper only 17% of the time. Its long-run median P/E is 108.3×, measured across 2.1 years of weekly readings. This places the multiple against the stock’s own record, and says nothing about what the business is worth.

Today's P/E of 42.1× is near the bottom of its own range — cheaper only 17% of the time, against a long-run median of 108.3× measured over 2.1 years of weekly readings. This is a comparison against the stock's own history — not a claim about what it is worth.

Why the multiple sits where it does: over the past year annual EPS moved +6.7% against a −73.3% price move — earnings outran the price, pushing the multiple DOWN its own range.

Put together: the multiple is low against its own past, so the story rests on the earnings line underneath it, not the multiple.

→ Cheap or dear rides on the earnings. Are they actually growing? Next: the fundamental stage — where the business sits in its arc, and how growth has compounded.

Stage: No read Every business sits somewhere on a fundamental arc, and this page names the spot before anything else. The last twelve quarters of revenue, profit and EPS growth — plus the return the business earns on its capital — are read as curves: Deteriorating (the curves are falling), Turning around (a trough has just formed and the last few quarters lift off it), Improving (the climb off the trough is sustained), Consistent (steadily positive with healthy returns), Topping out (still high but decelerating from the peak). When the curves genuinely disagree the read is Mixed; too little history is No read. CAGR (compound annual growth rate) is the smooth yearly pace that turns the starting value into the latest one — the fairest way to compare growth across different time spans. Read the columns together: if the 1-year number towers over the 10-year, recent growth is running hotter than the long-run trend. A dash means that window is not held, or the base year was a loss (where a growth rate is not meaningful).

Cropster Agro Ltd reads as no read on its fundamental arc. Under eight usable quarters on the growth trio — not enough history for an honest trajectory read. The read is built from 8 quarters across 2 curves, on partial evidence.

Why it matters: with too little history, an honest page says so instead of guessing a trajectory.

Return readings here are annual, not quarterly — read as level and direction only; they can confirm the growth curves but never drive the stage on their own.

Fewer than eight usable quarters on the growth curves — this page will not guess a trajectory from a stub of history.

→ The stage names the trajectory. Next: the revenue line that produces it, quarter by quarter.

4-Factor Sector Score

43.2/100 — rank 28 of 48 in Trading · 66% evidence confidence

Cropster Agro Ltd scores 43.2 out of 100 against the 48 companies it is compared with in Trading, ranking 28. Balanced evidence: keep at normal research priority and require another comparable period before raising conviction.

The four contributions add to the total exactly: 15.9 + 14.4 + 9.9 + 3 = 43.2. This is the SAME number shown on the sector comparison — it is computed once, for the whole peer set, and read here.

What would change it: The read weakens if profit growth turns negative or margin improvement reverses while sector-relative strength deteriorates.

Revenue Revenue is the top line: everything the company billed its customers in the period.

Cropster Agro Ltd reported ₹17.7 Cr of revenue in the Mar 26 quarter, −68.3% year on year. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹175 Cr. The last four reported quarters add to ₹175 Cr. A multi-year compound rate is not shown because the annual history behind it is too short to compute one honestly.

Cropster Agro Ltd reported ₹17.7 Cr of revenue in the Mar 26 quarter, −68.3% year on year. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹175 Cr. The last four reported quarters add to ₹175 Cr. A multi-year compound rate is not shown because the annual history behind it is too short to compute one honestly.

FY26 revenue came in at ₹175 Cr (−9.8% on the year). The latest quarter (Mar 26) printed ₹17.7 Cr, −68.3% year on year.

Acceleration check: trailing-twelve-month revenue grew −9.8% over the last 4 quarters against +69.9%/yr over the last 8 — rolling over; TTM profit +8.9% vs +14.2%/yr — rolling over.

→ Revenue slipped — did margins hold as it scaled? Next: 8.7% this quarter (+2.1 pp YoY).

Operating margin Operating margin is what is left of every ₹100 of sales after running the business, before interest and tax. It is the cleanest read on pricing power and cost control.

Cropster Agro Ltd's operating margin is 8.7% in the Mar 26 quarter, +2.1 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. Across 4 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged −4.0% to 18.0%. The current quarter sits inside that band.

Cropster Agro Ltd's operating margin is 8.7% in the Mar 26 quarter, +2.1 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. Across 4 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged −4.0% to 18.0%. The current quarter sits inside that band.

The latest quarter's operating margin is 8.7%, +2.1 pp against the same quarter a year ago. Across 4 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged −4.0%–18.0%.

Why the margin moved: operating margin went +2.1 pp year on year while gross margin went +1.0 pp — the gain came mostly below the gross line: operating leverage, with costs spread over a bigger revenue base.

→ Margins held — did that reach the bottom line? Next: profit −54.5% in the latest quarter.

Net profit Net profit is what survives every cost, interest and tax — the number EPS, dividends and book value all grow from.

Cropster Agro Ltd earned ₹1.5 Cr of net profit in the Mar 26 quarter, −54.5% year on year. Full-year FY26 profit was ₹14.0 Cr. That is 8.3% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned ₹3.2 Cr. 1 of the last 12 reported quarters were loss-making.

Cropster Agro Ltd earned ₹1.5 Cr of net profit in the Mar 26 quarter, −54.5% year on year. Full-year FY26 profit was ₹14.0 Cr. That is 8.3% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned ₹3.2 Cr. 1 of the last 12 reported quarters were loss-making.

Mar 26 profit was ₹1.5 Cr, −54.5% year on year. On the full year, FY26 printed ₹14.0 Cr (+7.7%).

🚨 Why profit moved: revenue contributed −68.3% and the margin +2.1 pp — the quarter was margin-led: most of the profit growth came from keeping more of each sale.

Pace comparison, last four quarters: profit +9.7% vs revenue −6.3%. Profit is growing faster than sales — fixed costs are being spread over a bigger base, and each extra rupee of revenue drops more to the bottom line.

→ Profit rose — but did the cash follow? Next: −192% of the last 3 years' profit arrived as cash.

Cash flow — the router The P&L says what was earned; the cash-flow statement says what actually arrived. Operating cash flow (CFO) against profit is the cleanest lie detector in the accounts.

Over the last 3 fiscal years −192% of Cropster Agro Ltd's reported profit arrived as operating cash — a gap worth watching. In FY26 that was ₹−1.0 Cr of operating cash against ₹14.0 Cr of profit. After ₹0.0 Cr of capital spending, ₹−1.0 Cr was left as free cash.

FY26: operating cash of ₹−1.0 Cr against reported profit of ₹14.0 Cr, leaving free cash of ₹−1.0 Cr after ₹0.0 Cr of capital spending. Across the last 3 fiscal years the conversion rate is −192% of profit.

Cash-flow readings here are annual — that is the resolution our series carries, so this section moves once a year.

🚨 Why conversion sits at −192%: the cash cycle stretched 220 days between FY14 and FY26 — more of each rupee of profit waits inside the cycle before arriving. Less than 70% of profit arriving as cash is the thing to watch on this page.

Router verdict: conversion is below par and the cash cycle has stretched 220 days — the next section's job is to find where the cash is stuck.

→ So follow the cash to where it goes. Next: the 220-day cycle, in money terms.

Where the cash goes Working capital is the cash tied up between paying suppliers and getting paid: debtor days (customers owe), inventory days (stock waits), and the cash conversion cycle (the whole loop, in days of sales).

Cropster Agro Ltd's cash conversion cycle runs 220 days in FY26, up from 0 days in FY14. Capital spending ran ₹0.0 Cr over the last 3 years. At FY26 sales of ₹175 Cr each day of that cycle holds about ₹0.5 Cr, so roughly ₹105 Cr sits inside the business at any moment.

FY26: debtors at 287 days, inventory at 4 days — roughly 0.1 months of stock waiting to sell; that is where the cash sits while it waits — for a full cycle of 220 days, looser than FY14's 0.

The full loop: cash goes out to suppliers and production on day 0; stock waits 4 days to sell; customers pay about 287 days after that; and suppliers themselves are paid at 70 days — netting out to the 220-day cycle.

In money terms: at FY26 sales of ₹175 Cr, each day of the cycle holds about ₹0.5 Cr — so the 220-day loop keeps roughly ₹105 Cr sitting inside the business at any moment.

On the investment side: capital spending of ₹0.0 Cr over the last 3 fiscal years. Capital work-in-progress stands at ₹0.0 Cr (FY26) — capacity paid for but not yet earning.

The synthesis: the working-capital loop is the cash sink the router flagged — watch the cycle, not the P&L.

→ Does all this activity actually earn its cost of capital? Next: ROCE is 12%.

Return on capital Return on capital employed (ROCE) is the profit the whole business earns on all the money in it — equity and debt together. It is the single best test of whether growth creates value or just size.

Cropster Agro Ltd earns a ROCE of 12% in FY26. That is up from a trough of −800% in FY16. A return-on-invested-capital spread against the cost of capital is not computable from what is held here. The wiring behind it is 8.0% net margin on 1.14× asset turns.

FY26 ROCE is 12%, recovered from a FY16 trough of −800% — the full ladder below shows the fall and the climb, undoctored.

Why the return is what it is — the wiring (FY26): 8.0% net margin × 1.14× asset turns × 1.26× balance-sheet leverage ≈ 11.5% on equity. Margin does its share; leverage is modest — this is an earned return, not a borrowed one.

→ Returns like these — is the balance sheet borrowing to make them? Next: debt-to-equity is 0.00.

Debt Debt-to-equity says how much of the business is funded by borrowings; interest cover says how many times operating profit pays the interest bill. Low and high, respectively, is the safe corner.

Cropster Agro Ltd carries ₹0.0 Cr of borrowings against ₹122 Cr of equity in FY26, a debt-to-equity of 0.00. Over 5 years borrowings went from ₹0.0 Cr to ₹0.0 Cr. Capital spending ran ₹0.0 Cr across the last 3 of those years.

FY26: borrowings of ₹0.0 Cr against equity of ₹122 Cr — a debt-to-equity of 0.00. Over 5 years borrowings went from ₹0.0 Cr to ₹0.0 Cr while capital spending ran ₹0.0 Cr in just the last 3 — the build-out is being paid for out of cash, not debt.

→ Who owns this, and are they adding or leaving? Next: the register is quiet.

Ownership Who owns the stock, quarter by quarter: promoters (the controlling owners), foreign and domestic institutions, and the public. Steady accumulation by people close to the numbers is a signal; a quiet register is also an answer.

No holder of Cropster Agro Ltd moved a full percentage point over the last two years — the register is quiet. The register is read on the four disclosed classes only; nothing is inferred between filings.

The register over the last two years — .

→ One last check: does the safety math agree? Next: the balance-sheet safety line.

Safety line The Z-score estimates how far a company sits from balance-sheet distress — above roughly 3 is safe, below roughly 1.8 is the danger zone. It was built for manufacturers, so it is not applied to banks and lenders.

Cropster Agro Ltd: the Z-score is not available for this stock, so we say so rather than invent one. It is a distance-to-distress estimate from the balance sheet, not a forecast of failure. The debt, cash-flow and return sections above carry the balance-sheet evidence this page does hold, and each of them states its own reporting date.

The safety line in one sentence: the Z-score is not available for this stock, so we say so rather than invent one.

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