Century Enka 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.

Century Enka Ltd trades at ₹541, in a confirmed uptrend and 5 weeks into that stage. That is +14.2% against its own 200-day average. It sits at 100% of a 52-week range of ₹389 to ₹541. On relative strength it has been ahead of the NIFTY 500 on a trailing-13-week view for 1 straight week.

Today the stock is in a confirmed uptrend — week 5 of stage 2, confirmed. At ₹541 it trades +14.2% versus its 200-day average and sits at 100% of its 52-week range (₹389–₹541).

Against the market, two honest reads. Cumulative: over the last 10.3 years the stock moved +235% while the NIFTY 500 moved +274% — behind the index over the full window. Recent form: on a trailing-13-week view the stock has been ahead for 1 straight week — 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.

Century Enka Ltd trades at 12.3× P/E, near the bottom of its own range — cheaper only 18% of the time. Its long-run median P/E is 16.8×, measured across 3.2 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 12.3× is near the bottom of its own range — cheaper only 18% of the time, against a long-run median of 16.8× measured over 3.2 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 +51.7% against a +5.1% price move — earnings outran the price, pushing the multiple DOWN its own range.

The price move, decomposed: over 3y, of the +8.3%/yr price move, ~+4.3%/yr came from earnings growth and ~+4.0 pp from the multiple (expanding). The split is the honest approximate (price return minus earnings growth); it makes the rally itself visible instead of hiding it behind the percentile.

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

A quarterly PEG curve, which only the second data source carries, is not drawn on this page: its two data sources do not share enough overlapping reported history to be compared. A figure nobody could check is not used to price growth — the gap is a decision, not missing data.

→ 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).

Century Enka Ltd reads as mixed on its fundamental arc. Mixed — no clean majority across the growth curves, ROCE lifting at 9.0% — the per-curve reads carry the story. The read is built from 10 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.

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

59.7/100 — rank 3 of 4 in Textiles - Manmade Fibre - PFY/PSF · 84% evidence confidence

Century Enka Ltd scores 59.7 out of 100 against the 4 companies it is compared with in Textiles - Manmade Fibre - PFY/PSF, ranking 3. Balanced evidence: keep at normal research priority and require another comparable period before raising conviction.

The four contributions add to the total exactly: 24.9 + 13.9 + 12.5 + 8.4 = 59.7. 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.

Century Enka Ltd reported ₹484 Cr of revenue in the Mar 26 quarter, +9.0% year on year. Over 3 years it has compounded at −6.3% a year. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹1,705 Cr. The last four reported quarters add to ₹1,707 Cr.

Century Enka Ltd reported ₹484 Cr of revenue in the Mar 26 quarter, +9.0% year on year. Over 3 years it has compounded at −6.3% a year. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹1,705 Cr. The last four reported quarters add to ₹1,707 Cr.

FY26 revenue came in at ₹1,705 Cr (−14.8% on the year), capping 3 years at −6.3% compound. The latest quarter (Mar 26) printed ₹484 Cr, +9.0% year on year.

Pace check: the last four quarters averaged −13.7% growth against the decade's −6.3% — the current year is running slower than its own long-run rate.

Acceleration check: trailing-twelve-month revenue grew −14.7% over the last 4 quarters against −1.1%/yr over the last 8 — rolling over; TTM profit +51.5% vs +52.5%/yr — stabilising.

→ Revenue grew — did margins hold as it scaled? Next: 11.0% this quarter (+9.0 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.

Century Enka Ltd's operating margin is 11.0% in the Mar 26 quarter, +9.0 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. Across 4 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 5.0% to 9.0%. The current quarter is running above every full year in that window.

Century Enka Ltd's operating margin is 11.0% in the Mar 26 quarter, +9.0 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. Across 4 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 5.0% to 9.0%. The current quarter is running above every full year in that window.

The latest quarter's operating margin is 11.0%, +9.0 pp against the same quarter a year ago. Across 4 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 5.0%–9.0%.

Why the margin moved: operating margin went +9.4 pp year on year while gross margin went +7.1 pp — the gain came mostly from the gross line: input costs and pricing.

→ Margins held — did that reach the bottom line? Next: profit +457.1% 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.

Century Enka Ltd earned ₹39.0 Cr of net profit in the Mar 26 quarter, +457.1% year on year. It is the 3rd consecutive quarter of growth. Full-year FY26 profit was ₹101 Cr. The 3-year compound rate is 3.9%. That is 8.1% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned ₹7.0 Cr.

Century Enka Ltd earned ₹39.0 Cr of net profit in the Mar 26 quarter, +457.1% year on year. It is the 3rd consecutive quarter of growth. Full-year FY26 profit was ₹101 Cr. The 3-year compound rate is 3.9%. That is 8.1% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned ₹7.0 Cr.

Mar 26 profit was ₹39.0 Cr, +457.1% year on year — the 3rd consecutive quarter of growth. On the full year, FY26 printed ₹101 Cr (+53.0%), and the 3-year compound rate is 3.9%.

Why profit moved: revenue contributed +9.0% and the margin +9.0 pp — the quarter was margin-led: most of the profit growth came from keeping more of each sale.

Pace comparison, last four quarters: profit +124.0% vs revenue −13.7%. 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: 158% 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 158% of Century Enka Ltd's reported profit arrived as operating cash — the cash follows the profit. In FY26 that was ₹125 Cr of operating cash against ₹101 Cr of profit. After ₹29.0 Cr of capital spending, ₹96.0 Cr was left as free cash.

FY26: operating cash of ₹125 Cr against reported profit of ₹101 Cr, leaving free cash of ₹96.0 Cr after ₹29.0 Cr of capital spending. Across the last 3 fiscal years the conversion rate is 158% 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 158%: the cash cycle held roughly steady between FY23 and FY26 — so conversion tracks profitability rather than the cycle.

Router verdict: no single sink dominates — the next section checks both the working-capital cycle and the capital spending.

→ So follow the cash to where it goes. Next: a 73-day cycle and ₹184 Cr of building.

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).

Century Enka Ltd's cash conversion cycle runs 73 days in FY26, down from 74 days in FY23. Capital spending ran ₹184 Cr over the last 3 years. At FY26 sales of ₹1,705 Cr each day of that cycle holds about ₹4.7 Cr, so roughly ₹341 Cr sits inside the business at any moment.

FY26: debtors at 42 days, inventory at 92 days — roughly 3.0 months of stock waiting to sell; that is where the cash sits while it waits — for a full cycle of 73 days, tighter than FY23's 74.

The full loop: cash goes out to suppliers and production on day 0; stock waits 92 days to sell; customers pay about 42 days after that; and suppliers themselves are paid at 61 days — netting out to the 73-day cycle.

In money terms: at FY26 sales of ₹1,705 Cr, each day of the cycle holds about ₹4.7 Cr — so the 73-day loop keeps roughly ₹341 Cr sitting inside the business at any moment.

On the investment side: capital spending of ₹184 Cr over the last 3 fiscal years against ₹160 Cr of depreciation — building somewhat ahead of wear-and-tear. Capital work-in-progress stands at ₹13.0 Cr (FY26) — capacity paid for but not yet earning.

The synthesis: neither the cycle nor the build-out is hoarding the cash — the machine is reasonably clean.

→ Does all this activity actually earn its cost of capital? Next: ROCE is 9% and the ROIC − WACC spread is −5.6 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.⚠ unverified

Century Enka Ltd earns a ROCE of 9% in FY26. That is up from a trough of 3% in FY24. Return on invested capital clears the cost of that capital by −5.6 percentage points, so growth here is not yet paying for the capital it uses. The wiring behind it is 5.9% net margin on 0.92× asset turns.

FY26 ROCE is 9%, recovered from a FY24 trough of 3% — the full ladder below shows the fall and the climb, undoctored.

🚨 Why the return is what it is — the wiring (FY26): 5.9% net margin × 0.92× asset turns × 1.24× balance-sheet leverage ≈ 6.7% on equity. Margin does its share; leverage is modest — this is an earned return, not a borrowed one.

The capstone test — ROIC − WACC: 6.4% − 12.0% = a −5.6 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 0.01.

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.⚠ unverified

Century Enka Ltd carries total debt of ₹22.0 Cr against shareholder equity of ₹1,496 Cr as of Mar 26, a debt-to-equity of 0.01 — effectively unlevered. On the annual view that ratio went from 0.01 in FY22 to 0.01 in FY26. The returns elsewhere on this page are therefore earned rather than borrowed.

Mar 26: total debt of ₹22.0 Cr against shareholder equity of ₹1,496 Cr — a debt-to-equity of 0.01. On the annual view, debt-to-equity went from 0.01 (FY22) to 0.01 (FY26). The returns on this page are earned, not borrowed.

→ Who owns this, and are they adding or leaving? Next: Foreign institutions cut 1.5 points over 8 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.

Foreign institutions cut 1.5 points of Century Enka Ltd over 8 quarters, the biggest move on the register. That takes foreign institutions to 2.0% of the company. Domestic institutions moved +1.3 points over the same window, to 10.9%. The register is read on the four disclosed classes only; nothing is inferred between filings.

The register over the last two years — Foreign institutions: −1.5 points over 8 quarters to 2.0%; Domestic institutions: +1.3 points over 8 quarters to 10.9%; Promoters: +0.0 points over 8 quarters to 24.9%.

🚨 Why the register moved: foreign institutions drove it (−1.5 points), absorbed on the other side by domestic institutions (+1.3 points) — distribution into the market’s bid.

→ 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.

Century Enka 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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