Forbes Precision Tools & Machine Parts 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.

Forbes Precision Tools & Machine Parts Ltd trades at ₹143, in a downtrend and 79 weeks into that stage. That is −5.9% against its own 200-day average. It sits at 40% of a 52-week range of ₹110 to ₹193. On relative strength it is currently behind the NIFTY 500 on a trailing-13-week view (1 week and counting).

Today the stock is in a downtrend — week 79 of stage 4, confirmed. At ₹143 it trades −5.9% versus its 200-day average and sits at 40% of its 52-week range (₹110–₹193).

Against the market, two honest reads. Cumulative: over the last 2.1 years the stock moved −44% while the NIFTY 500 moved +5% — behind the index over the full window. Recent form: on a trailing-13-week view the stock is currently behind (1 week and counting; last ahead the week of 2026-07-10) — 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 18th 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.

Forbes Precision Tools & Machine Parts Ltd trades at 25.2× P/E, near the bottom of its own range — cheaper only 18% of the time. Its long-run median P/E is 28.2×, measured across 1.2 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 25.2× is near the bottom of its own range — cheaper only 18% of the time, against a long-run median of 28.2× measured over 1.2 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 +0.2% against a −32.5% 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: Turning around 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).

Forbes Precision Tools & Machine Parts Ltd reads as turning around on its fundamental arc. Turning around — profit growth swung from −18.2% at the trough to +22.2%, a 3-quarter improving streak (single-quarter readings), ROCE slipping at 21.0%. The read is built from 8 quarters across 3 curves, on partial evidence.

Why it matters: growth inflections are where re-ratings start — the curves say a turn is forming, so the question becomes whether the next quarters confirm it.

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.

A partial read: at least one curve is short, or the returns curve is not the computed quarterly series — hold the stage word a little more loosely.

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

4-Factor Sector Score

46.3/100 — rank 2 of 3 in Capital Goods - Engineering General · 73% evidence confidence

Forbes Precision Tools & Machine Parts Ltd scores 46.3 out of 100 against the 3 companies it is compared with in Capital Goods - Engineering General, ranking 2. Balanced evidence: keep at normal research priority and require another comparable period before raising conviction.

The four contributions add to the total exactly: 10.7 + 21.1 + 10 + 4.5 = 46.3. 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.

Forbes Precision Tools & Machine Parts Ltd reported ₹71.0 Cr of revenue in the Mar 26 quarter, +7.6% year on year. That is the 3rd straight quarter of year-on-year growth. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹251 Cr. The last four reported quarters add to ₹250 Cr.

Forbes Precision Tools & Machine Parts Ltd reported ₹71.0 Cr of revenue in the Mar 26 quarter, +7.6% year on year. That is the 3rd straight quarter of year-on-year growth. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹251 Cr. The last four reported quarters add to ₹250 Cr.

FY26 revenue came in at ₹251 Cr (+7.7% on the year). The latest quarter (Mar 26) printed ₹71.0 Cr, +7.6% year on year — the 3rd consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth.

Acceleration check: trailing-twelve-month revenue grew +7.3% over the last 4 quarters against +4.7%/yr over the last 8 — stabilising; TTM profit +3.6% vs −3.3%/yr — accelerating.

→ Revenue grew — did margins hold as it scaled? Next: 26.0% this quarter (+1.0 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.

Forbes Precision Tools & Machine Parts Ltd's operating margin is 26.0% in the Mar 26 quarter, +1.0 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. Across 3 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 21.0% to 22.0%. The current quarter is running above every full year in that window.

Forbes Precision Tools & Machine Parts Ltd's operating margin is 26.0% in the Mar 26 quarter, +1.0 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. Across 3 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 21.0% to 22.0%. The current quarter is running above every full year in that window.

The latest quarter's operating margin is 26.0%, +1.0 pp against the same quarter a year ago. Across 3 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 21.0%–22.0%.

Why the margin moved: operating margin went +0.5 pp year on year while gross margin went +4.9 pp — the gain came mostly from the gross line: input costs and pricing.

→ Margins held — did that reach the bottom line? Next: profit +22.2% 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.

Forbes Precision Tools & Machine Parts Ltd earned ₹11.0 Cr of net profit in the Mar 26 quarter, +22.2% year on year. Full-year FY26 profit was ₹29.0 Cr. That is 15.5% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned ₹9.0 Cr.

Forbes Precision Tools & Machine Parts Ltd earned ₹11.0 Cr of net profit in the Mar 26 quarter, +22.2% year on year. Full-year FY26 profit was ₹29.0 Cr. That is 15.5% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned ₹9.0 Cr.

Mar 26 profit was ₹11.0 Cr, +22.2% year on year. On the full year, FY26 printed ₹29.0 Cr (+0.0%).

Why profit moved: revenue contributed +7.6% and the margin +1.0 pp — the quarter was revenue-led, with the margin roughly flat.

Pace comparison, last four quarters: profit +0.5% vs revenue +7.1%. Profit is growing slower than sales — costs are eating the growth before it reaches the bottom line.

→ Profit rose — but did the cash follow? Next: 100% 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 100% of Forbes Precision Tools & Machine Parts Ltd's reported profit arrived as operating cash — the cash follows the profit. In FY26 that was ₹28.0 Cr of operating cash against ₹29.0 Cr of profit. After ₹12.0 Cr of capital spending, ₹16.0 Cr was left as free cash.

FY26: operating cash of ₹28.0 Cr against reported profit of ₹29.0 Cr, leaving free cash of ₹16.0 Cr after ₹12.0 Cr of capital spending. Across the last 3 fiscal years the conversion rate is 100% 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 100%: the cash cycle stretched 28 days between FY24 and FY26 — more of each rupee of profit waits inside the cycle before arriving.

Router verdict: the bigger cash user is investment — capital spending ran 3.8× depreciation over three years, so the next section's job is to check what that build-out is buying.

→ So follow the cash to where it goes. Next: ₹155 Cr of building over 3 years.

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).

Forbes Precision Tools & Machine Parts Ltd's cash conversion cycle runs 152 days in FY26, up from 124 days in FY24. Capital spending ran ₹155 Cr over the last 3 years. At FY26 sales of ₹251 Cr each day of that cycle holds about ₹0.7 Cr, so roughly ₹105 Cr sits inside the business at any moment.

FY26: debtors at 44 days, inventory at 255 days — roughly 8.4 months of stock waiting to sell; that is where the cash sits while it waits — for a full cycle of 152 days, looser than FY24's 124.

The full loop: cash goes out to suppliers and production on day 0; stock waits 255 days to sell; customers pay about 44 days after that; and suppliers themselves are paid at 146 days — netting out to the 152-day cycle.

In money terms: at FY26 sales of ₹251 Cr, each day of the cycle holds about ₹0.7 Cr — so the 152-day loop keeps roughly ₹105 Cr sitting inside the business at any moment.

On the investment side: capital spending of ₹155 Cr over the last 3 fiscal years against ₹41.0 Cr of depreciation — the company is building well ahead of wear-and-tear. Capital work-in-progress stands at ₹4.0 Cr (FY26) — capacity paid for but not yet earning.

The synthesis: the cash is going into capacity, not disappearing into the cycle — the question becomes whether the new capacity earns.

→ Does all this activity actually earn its cost of capital? Next: ROCE is 21%.

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.

Forbes Precision Tools & Machine Parts Ltd earns a ROCE of 21% in FY26. A return-on-invested-capital spread against the cost of capital is not computable from what is held here. The wiring behind it is 11.6% net margin on 1.00× asset turns.

FY26 ROCE is 21%.

Why the return is what it is — the wiring (FY26): 11.6% net margin × 1.00× asset turns × 1.49× balance-sheet leverage ≈ 17.3% 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 0.10.

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.

Forbes Precision Tools & Machine Parts Ltd carries ₹17.0 Cr of borrowings against ₹169 Cr of equity in FY26, a debt-to-equity of 0.10. Operating profit covers the interest bill 27×. Over 3 years borrowings went from ₹0.0 Cr to ₹17.0 Cr. Capital spending ran ₹155 Cr across the last 3 of those years.

FY26: borrowings of ₹17.0 Cr against equity of ₹169 Cr — a debt-to-equity of 0.10. Operating profit covers the interest bill 27×. Over 3 years borrowings went from ₹0.0 Cr to ₹17.0 Cr while capital spending ran ₹155 Cr in just the last 3 — part of the build-out is riding on borrowed money.

→ 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 Forbes Precision Tools & Machine Parts Ltd moved a full percentage point over the last two years — the register is quiet. Domestic institutions moved +0.2 points over the same window, to 0.3%. The register is read on the four disclosed classes only; nothing is inferred between filings.

The register over the last two years — Foreign institutions: −0.9 points over 8 quarters to 10.7%; Domestic institutions: +0.2 points over 8 quarters to 0.3%; Promoters: +0.0 points over 8 quarters to 73.8%.

→ 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.

Forbes Precision Tools & Machine Parts 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 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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