PVR Inox 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.

PVR Inox Ltd trades at ₹999, in a downtrend and 29 weeks into that stage. That is −2.2% against its own 200-day average. It sits at 25% of a 52-week range of ₹931 to ₹1,207. On relative strength it is currently behind the NIFTY 500 on a trailing-13-week view (5 weeks and counting).

Today the stock is in a downtrend — week 29 of stage 4, confirmed. At ₹999 it trades −2.2% versus its 200-day average and sits at 25% of its 52-week range (₹931–₹1,207).

Against the market, two honest reads. Cumulative: over the last 10.3 years the stock moved +39% while the NIFTY 500 moved +274% — behind the index over the full window. Recent form: on a trailing-13-week view the stock is currently behind (5 weeks and counting; last ahead the week of 2026-06-24) — 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 3rd 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.

PVR Inox Ltd trades at 32.9× P/E, near the bottom of its own range — cheaper only 3% of the time. Its long-run median P/E is 55.1×, measured across 10.4 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 32.9× is near the bottom of its own range — cheaper only 3% of the time, against a long-run median of 55.1× measured over 10.4 years of weekly readings. This is a comparison against the stock's own history — not a claim about what it is worth.

One caveat before moving on: margins are the best this company has ever printed — cheap against its own history on record margins is not the same thing as cheap. If profitability mean-reverts, today's multiple is higher than it looks.

The price move, decomposed: over 10y, of the +0.1%/yr price move, ~+4.3%/yr came from earnings growth and ~−4.2 pp from the multiple (compressing). 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.

→ 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).

PVR Inox 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 12 quarters across 2 curves, on partial evidence.

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

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.

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

59.0/100 — rank 5 of 25 in Entertainment & Media · 91% evidence confidence

PVR Inox Ltd scores 59.0 out of 100 against the 25 companies it is compared with in Entertainment & Media, ranking 5. Balanced evidence: keep at normal research priority and require another comparable period before raising conviction.

The four contributions add to the total exactly: 23.3 + 9 + 16.8 + 9.9 = 59. 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.

PVR Inox Ltd reported ₹1,622 Cr of revenue in the Jun 26 quarter, +11.9% year on year. That is the 5th straight quarter of year-on-year growth. Over 10 years it has compounded at 13.6% a year. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹6,646 Cr. The last four reported quarters add to ₹6,842 Cr.

PVR Inox Ltd reported ₹1,622 Cr of revenue in the Jun 26 quarter, +11.9% year on year. That is the 5th straight quarter of year-on-year growth. Over 10 years it has compounded at 13.6% a year. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹6,646 Cr. The last four reported quarters add to ₹6,842 Cr.

FY26 revenue came in at ₹6,646 Cr (+15.0% on the year), capping 10 years at 13.6% compound. The latest quarter (Jun 26) printed ₹1,622 Cr, +11.9% year on year — the 5th consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth.

Pace check: the last four quarters averaged +14.5% growth against the decade's 13.6% — the current year is running in line with its own long-run rate.

Acceleration check: trailing-twelve-month revenue grew +13.7% over the last 4 quarters against +6.8%/yr over the last 8 — accelerating.

→ Revenue grew — did margins hold as it scaled? Next: 33.0% this quarter (+5.0 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.

PVR Inox Ltd's operating margin is 33.0% in the Jun 26 quarter, +5.0 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. That is the widest this company has ever printed on a full-year basis. Across 13 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged −120.0% to 32.0%. The current quarter is running above every full year in that window.

PVR Inox Ltd's operating margin is 33.0% in the Jun 26 quarter, +5.0 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. That is the widest this company has ever printed on a full-year basis. Across 13 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged −120.0% to 32.0%. The current quarter is running above every full year in that window.

The latest quarter's operating margin is 33.0%, +5.0 pp against the same quarter a year ago. Across 13 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged −120.0%–32.0%, and FY26's 32.0% is the top of that band — a record year.

Why the margin moved: operating margin went +4.7 pp year on year while gross margin went +0.4 pp — the gain came mostly below the gross line: operating leverage, with costs spread over a bigger revenue base.

Worth repeating from the valuation section: cheap against its own history on record margins is not the same thing as cheap — a record margin flatters every ratio built on top of it.

→ Margins held — did that reach the bottom line? Next: profit null 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.

PVR Inox Ltd earned ₹56.0 Cr of net profit in the Jun 26 quarter. Full-year FY26 profit was ₹333 Cr. The 10-year compound rate is 12.9%. That is 3.5% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier lost ₹54.0 Cr. 5 of the last 12 reported quarters were loss-making.

PVR Inox Ltd earned ₹56.0 Cr of net profit in the Jun 26 quarter. Full-year FY26 profit was ₹333 Cr. The 10-year compound rate is 12.9%. That is 3.5% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier lost ₹54.0 Cr. 5 of the last 12 reported quarters were loss-making.

Jun 26 profit was ₹56.0 Cr, null year on year. On the full year, FY26 printed ₹333 Cr (null), and the 10-year compound rate is 12.9%.

→ Profit rose — but did the cash follow? Next: 688% 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 688% of PVR Inox Ltd's reported profit arrived as operating cash — the cash follows the profit. In FY26 that was ₹2,160 Cr of operating cash against ₹333 Cr of profit. After ₹673 Cr of capital spending, ₹1,487 Cr was left as free cash.

FY26: operating cash of ₹2,160 Cr against reported profit of ₹333 Cr, leaving free cash of ₹1,487 Cr after ₹673 Cr of capital spending. Across the last 3 fiscal years the conversion rate is 688% 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 688%: the cash cycle stretched 2,094 days between FY21 and FY26 — more of each rupee of profit waits inside the cycle before arriving.

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 −391-day cycle and ₹2,718 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).

PVR Inox Ltd's cash conversion cycle runs −391 days in FY26, up from −2,485 days in FY21. Capital spending ran ₹2,718 Cr over the last 3 years. At FY26 sales of ₹6,646 Cr each day of that cycle holds about ₹18.2 Cr, so roughly ₹−7,119 Cr sits inside the business at any moment.

FY26: debtors at 15 days, inventory at 57 days — roughly 1.9 months of stock waiting to sell; that is where the cash sits while it waits — for a full cycle of −391 days, looser than FY21's −2,485.

The full loop: cash goes out to suppliers and production on day 0; stock waits 57 days to sell; customers pay about 15 days after that; and suppliers themselves are paid at 462 days — netting out to the −391-day cycle.

In money terms: at FY26 sales of ₹6,646 Cr, each day of the cycle holds about ₹18.2 Cr — so the −391-day loop keeps roughly ₹−7,119 Cr sitting inside the business at any moment.

On the investment side: capital spending of ₹2,718 Cr over the last 3 fiscal years against ₹3,769 Cr of depreciation — spending at or below maintenance level. Capital work-in-progress stands at ₹32.0 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 7% and the ROIC − WACC spread is −6.7 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.

PVR Inox Ltd earns a ROCE of 7% in FY26. That is up from a trough of −9% in FY21. Return on invested capital clears the cost of that capital by −6.7 percentage points, so growth here is not yet paying for the capital it uses. The wiring behind it is 5.0% net margin on 0.43× asset turns.

FY26 ROCE is 7%, recovered from a FY21 trough of −9% — the full ladder below shows the fall and the climb, undoctored.

🚨 Why the return is what it is — the wiring (FY26): 5.0% net margin × 0.43× asset turns × 2.12× balance-sheet leverage ≈ 4.6% on equity. Margin does its share; leverage is a meaningful part of the equation.

The capstone test — ROIC − WACC: 5.3% − 12.0% = a −6.7 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 0.92.

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.

PVR Inox Ltd carries total debt of ₹6,779 Cr against shareholder equity of ₹7,379 Cr as of Mar 26, a debt-to-equity of 0.92. On the annual view that ratio went from 3.79 in FY22 to 0.92 in FY26. Read the returns elsewhere on this page with that leverage in mind.

Mar 26: total debt of ₹6,779 Cr against shareholder equity of ₹7,379 Cr — a debt-to-equity of 0.92. On the annual view, debt-to-equity went from 3.79 (FY22) to 0.92 (FY26). Read the returns on this page with that leverage in mind.

→ Who owns this, and are they adding or leaving? Next: Domestic institutions cut 3.1 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.

Domestic institutions cut 3.1 points of PVR Inox Ltd over 8 quarters, the biggest move on the register. That takes domestic institutions to 35.7% of the company. Promoters moved −0.3 points over the same window, to 27.5%. The register is read on the four disclosed classes only; nothing is inferred between filings.

The register over the last two years — Domestic institutions: −3.1 points over 8 quarters to 35.7%; Promoters: −0.3 points over 8 quarters to 27.5%; Foreign institutions: +0.0 points over 8 quarters to 18.1%.

🚨 Why the register moved: domestic institutions drove it (−3.1 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.

PVR Inox 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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