ACME Solar Holdings 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.

ACME Solar Holdings Ltd trades at ₹385, in a confirmed uptrend and 14 weeks into that stage. That is +33.6% against its own 200-day average. It sits at 97% of a 52-week range of ₹199 to ₹391. On relative strength it has been ahead of the NIFTY 500 on a trailing-13-week view for 27 straight weeks.

Today the stock is in a confirmed uptrend — week 14 of stage 2, confirmed. At ₹385 it trades +33.6% versus its 200-day average and sits at 97% of its 52-week range (₹199–₹391).

Against the market, two honest reads. Cumulative: over the last 1.7 years the stock moved +68% while the NIFTY 500 moved +6% — ahead of the index over the full window. Recent form: on a trailing-13-week view the stock has been ahead for 27 straight weeks — 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 64th 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.

ACME Solar Holdings Ltd trades at 52.0× P/E, mid-range by its own standards (64th percentile). Its long-run median P/E is 42.5×, measured across 1.7 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 52.0× is mid-range by its own standards (64th percentile), against a long-run median of 42.5× measured over 1.7 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 +97.4% against a +39.8% price move — earnings outran the price, pushing the multiple DOWN its own range.

Put together: the multiple is unremarkable 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: Mixed 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).

ACME Solar Holdings Ltd reads as mixed on its fundamental arc. Mixed — growth is normalizing off a hyper-growth base: revenue growth has eased from +65.1% at its peak to +12.5% (single-quarter readings) but is still expanding, ROCE holding at 8.5%. The read is built from 8 quarters across 3 curves, on partial evidence.

Why it matters: when the curves disagree, the per-curve reads above matter more than any single verdict.

One or more growth curves carry a base-effect spike — a large year-on-year move off a near-zero or loss-making comparable quarter. Those spikes are capped before the classifier reads the trajectory, and shown pinned on the chart, so a single distorted quarter does not drive the stage call.

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

63.9/100 — rank 1 of 9 in Engineering - Turnkey Services · 93% evidence confidence

ACME Solar Holdings Ltd scores 63.9 out of 100 against the 9 companies it is compared with in Engineering - Turnkey Services, ranking 1. Balanced evidence: keep at normal research priority and require another comparable period before raising conviction.

The four contributions add to the total exactly: 23.6 + 9.7 + 12.1 + 18.5 = 63.9. 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.

ACME Solar Holdings Ltd reported ₹548 Cr of revenue in the Mar 26 quarter, +12.5% year on year. That is the 6th straight quarter of year-on-year growth. Over 6 years it has compounded at 2.2% a year. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹2,023 Cr. The last four reported quarters add to ₹2,024 Cr.

ACME Solar Holdings Ltd reported ₹548 Cr of revenue in the Mar 26 quarter, +12.5% year on year. That is the 6th straight quarter of year-on-year growth. Over 6 years it has compounded at 2.2% a year. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹2,023 Cr. The last four reported quarters add to ₹2,024 Cr.

FY26 revenue came in at ₹2,023 Cr (+44.0% on the year), capping 6 years at 2.2% compound. The latest quarter (Mar 26) printed ₹548 Cr, +12.5% year on year — the 6th consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth.

Pace check: the last four quarters averaged +49.9% growth against the decade's 2.2% — the current year is running faster than its own long-run rate.

Acceleration check: trailing-twelve-month revenue grew +44.0% over the last 4 quarters against +23.9%/yr over the last 8 — accelerating; TTM profit +99.2% vs −15.5%/yr — accelerating.

→ Revenue grew — did margins hold as it scaled? Next: 87.0% this quarter (−3.0 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.

ACME Solar Holdings Ltd's operating margin is 87.0% in the Mar 26 quarter, −3.0 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. Across 7 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 83.0% to 93.0%. The current quarter sits inside that band.

ACME Solar Holdings Ltd's operating margin is 87.0% in the Mar 26 quarter, −3.0 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. Across 7 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 83.0% to 93.0%. The current quarter sits inside that band.

The latest quarter's operating margin is 87.0%, −3.0 pp against the same quarter a year ago. Across 7 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 83.0%–93.0%.

🚨 Why the margin moved: operating margin went −2.1 pp year on year while gross margin went +0.0 pp — the loss came mostly below the gross line: operating leverage, with costs spread over a bigger revenue base.

→ Margins slipped — did that reach the bottom line? Next: profit +13.1% 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.

ACME Solar Holdings Ltd earned ₹138 Cr of net profit in the Mar 26 quarter, +13.1% year on year. It is the 4th consecutive quarter of growth. Full-year FY26 profit was ₹498 Cr. The 6-year compound rate is 34.0%. That is 25.2% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned ₹122 Cr.

ACME Solar Holdings Ltd earned ₹138 Cr of net profit in the Mar 26 quarter, +13.1% year on year. It is the 4th consecutive quarter of growth. Full-year FY26 profit was ₹498 Cr. The 6-year compound rate is 34.0%. That is 25.2% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned ₹122 Cr.

Mar 26 profit was ₹138 Cr, +13.1% year on year — the 4th consecutive quarter of growth. On the full year, FY26 printed ₹498 Cr (+98.4%), and the 6-year compound rate is 34.0%.

Why profit moved: revenue contributed +12.5% and the margin −3.0 pp — the quarter was revenue-led despite a thinner margin.

Pace comparison, last four quarters: profit +3,420.4% vs revenue +49.9%. 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: 292% 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 292% of ACME Solar Holdings Ltd's reported profit arrived as operating cash — the cash follows the profit. In FY26 that was ₹1,249 Cr of operating cash against ₹498 Cr of profit. After ₹6,881 Cr of capital spending, ₹−5,632 Cr was left as free cash.

FY26: operating cash of ₹1,249 Cr against reported profit of ₹498 Cr, leaving free cash of ₹−5,632 Cr after ₹6,881 Cr of capital spending. Across the last 3 fiscal years the conversion rate is 292% 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 292%: the cash cycle tightened 96 days between FY21 and FY26 — cash that used to wait in the cycle now reaches the bank sooner.

Router verdict: the bigger cash user is investment — capital spending ran 11.6× 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: ₹12,375 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).

ACME Solar Holdings Ltd's cash conversion cycle runs 60 days in FY26, down from 156 days in FY21. Capital spending ran ₹12,375 Cr over the last 3 years. At FY26 sales of ₹2,023 Cr each day of that cycle holds about ₹5.5 Cr, so roughly ₹333 Cr sits inside the business at any moment.

FY26: debtors at 60 days (an asset-light business — no inventory to speak of) — for a full cycle of 60 days, tighter than FY21's 156.

In money terms: at FY26 sales of ₹2,023 Cr, each day of the cycle holds about ₹5.5 Cr — so the 60-day loop keeps roughly ₹333 Cr sitting inside the business at any moment.

On the investment side: capital spending of ₹12,375 Cr over the last 3 fiscal years against ₹1,063 Cr of depreciation — the company is building well ahead of wear-and-tear. Capital work-in-progress stands at ₹4,358 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 9% and the ROIC − WACC spread is −6.4 pp.

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.

ACME Solar Holdings Ltd earns a ROCE of 9% in FY26. That is up from a trough of 7% in FY22. Return on invested capital clears the cost of that capital by −6.4 percentage points, so growth here is not yet paying for the capital it uses. The wiring behind it is 24.6% net margin on 0.07× asset turns.

FY26 ROCE is 9%, recovered from a FY22 trough of 7% — the full ladder below shows the fall and the climb, undoctored.

🚨 Why the return is what it is — the wiring (FY26): 24.6% net margin × 0.07× asset turns × 5.64× balance-sheet leverage ≈ 9.7% on equity. Margin is doing the heavy lifting; leverage is a meaningful part of the equation.

The capstone test — ROIC − WACC: 5.6% − 12.0% = a −6.4 pp spread. The 12.0% is a standing assumption for the cost of capital in India, not a per-stock estimate — read the sign and the size of the spread, not the decimals. Negative — growth at these returns destroys value until the returns recover.

→ Returns like these — is the balance sheet borrowing to make them? Next: debt-to-equity is 3.93.

Debt Debt-to-equity says how much of the business is funded by borrowings. Low is the safe corner; the trend matters as much as the level.

ACME Solar Holdings Ltd carries total debt of ₹19,896 Cr against shareholder equity of ₹5,060 Cr as of Mar 26, a debt-to-equity of 3.93. On the annual view that ratio went from 3.29 in FY24 to 3.93 in FY26. Read the returns elsewhere on this page with that leverage in mind.

Mar 26: total debt of ₹19,896 Cr against shareholder equity of ₹5,060 Cr — a debt-to-equity of 3.93. On the annual view, debt-to-equity went from 3.29 (FY24) to 3.93 (FY26). Read the returns on this page with that leverage in mind.

→ Who owns this, and are they adding or leaving? Next: Domestic institutions added 12.1 points over 6 quarters.

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.

Domestic institutions added 12.1 points of ACME Solar Holdings Ltd over 6 quarters, the biggest move on the register. That takes domestic institutions to 19.1% of the company. Promoters moved −12.0 points over the same window, to 71.4%. The register is read on the four disclosed classes only; nothing is inferred between filings.

The register over the last two years — Domestic institutions: +12.1 points over 6 quarters to 19.1%; Promoters: −12.0 points over 6 quarters to 71.4%; Foreign institutions: −1.2 points over 6 quarters to 4.4%.

Why the register moved: domestic institutions drove it (+12.1 points), absorbed on the other side by promoters (−12.0 points) — steady accumulation by institutions reading the same numbers this page reads.

→ 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.

ACME Solar Holdings 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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