Birla Cable 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.

Birla Cable Ltd trades at ₹254, in a confirmed uptrend and 10 weeks into that stage. That is +47.4% against its own 200-day average. It sits at 100% of a 52-week range of ₹112 to ₹254. 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 10 of stage 2, confirmed. At ₹254 it trades +47.4% versus its 200-day average and sits at 100% of its 52-week range (₹112–₹254).

Against the market, two honest reads. Cumulative: over the last 10.2 years the stock moved +648% while the NIFTY 500 moved +258% — ahead of 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.

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.

Birla Cable Ltd trades at 16.5× P/E, near the bottom of its own range — cheaper only 7% of the time. Its long-run median P/E is 53.1×, measured across 3.3 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 16.5× is near the bottom of its own range — cheaper only 7% of the time, against a long-run median of 53.1× measured over 3.3 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 +245.4% against a +51.9% price move — earnings outran the price, pushing the multiple DOWN its own range.

The price move, decomposed: over 3y, of the +10.6%/yr price move, ~+12.0%/yr came from earnings growth and ~−1.4 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.

Stage: Improving 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).

Birla Cable Ltd reads as improving on its fundamental arc. Improving — profit growth bottomed 5 quarters ago at −82.6% and has held its recovery at +840.0%, ROCE holding at 9.0%. The read is built from 8 quarters across 4 curves, on partial evidence.

Why it matters: a sustained climb off the trough is the setup this page is built to catch — the question moves to what you pay for 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.

4-Factor Sector Score

70.1/100 — rank 1 of 5 in Cables - Telecom · 87% evidence confidence

Birla Cable Ltd scores 70.1 out of 100 against the 5 companies it is compared with in Cables - Telecom, 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: 29.7 + 12.4 + 13.4 + 14.6 = 70.1. 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.

Birla Cable Ltd reported ₹267 Cr of revenue in the Jun 26 quarter, +51.7% year on year. That is the 3rd straight quarter of year-on-year growth. Over 3 years it has compounded at −0.9% a year. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹771 Cr. The last four reported quarters add to ₹862 Cr.

FY26 revenue came in at ₹771 Cr (+16.5% on the year), capping 3 years at −0.9% compound. The latest quarter (Jun 26) printed ₹267 Cr, +51.7% year on year — the 3rd consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth.

Pace check: the last four quarters averaged +28.8% growth against the decade's −0.9% — the current year is running faster than its own long-run rate.

Acceleration check: trailing-twelve-month revenue grew +28.3% over the last 4 quarters against +12.8%/yr over the last 8 — accelerating; TTM profit +840.0% vs +106.7%/yr — accelerating.

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.

Birla Cable Ltd's operating margin is 17.0% in the Jun 26 quarter, +12.6 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. Across 4 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 4.9% to 8.0%. The current quarter is running above every full year in that window.

The latest quarter's operating margin is 17.0%, +12.6 pp against the same quarter a year ago. Across 4 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 4.9%–8.0%.

Why the margin moved: operating margin went +12.8 pp year on year while gross margin went +9.1 pp — the gain came mostly from the gross line: input costs and pricing.

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

Birla Cable Ltd earned ₹31.0 Cr of net profit in the Jun 26 quarter, +3,000.0% year on year. It is the 3rd consecutive quarter of growth. Full-year FY26 profit was ₹17.0 Cr. The 3-year compound rate is −19.8%. That is 11.6% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned ₹1.0 Cr.

Jun 26 profit was ₹31.0 Cr, +3,000.0% year on year — the 3rd consecutive quarter of growth. On the full year, FY26 printed ₹17.0 Cr (+240.0%), and the 3-year compound rate is −19.8%.

Why profit moved: revenue contributed +51.7% and the margin +12.6 pp — the quarter was margin-led: most of the profit growth came from keeping more of each sale.

Pace comparison, last four quarters: profit +1,062.5% vs revenue +28.8%. 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.

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 243% of Birla Cable Ltd's reported profit arrived as operating cash — the cash follows the profit. In FY26 that was ₹−21.0 Cr of operating cash against ₹17.0 Cr of profit. After ₹−2.0 Cr of capital spending, ₹−19.0 Cr was left as free cash.

FY26: operating cash of ₹−21.0 Cr against reported profit of ₹17.0 Cr, leaving free cash of ₹−19.0 Cr after ₹−2.0 Cr of capital spending. Across the last 3 fiscal years the conversion rate is 243% 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 243%: the cash cycle stretched 13 days between FY23 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 1.6× depreciation over three years, so the next section's job is to check what that build-out is buying.

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).

Birla Cable Ltd's cash conversion cycle runs 124 days in FY26, up from 111 days in FY23. Capital spending ran ₹67.0 Cr over the last 3 years. At FY26 sales of ₹771 Cr each day of that cycle holds about ₹2.1 Cr, so roughly ₹262 Cr sits inside the business at any moment.

FY26: debtors at 96 days, inventory at 46 days — roughly 1.5 months of stock waiting to sell; that is where the cash sits while it waits — for a full cycle of 124 days, looser than FY23's 111.

The full loop: cash goes out to suppliers and production on day 0; stock waits 46 days to sell; customers pay about 96 days after that; and suppliers themselves are paid at 18 days — netting out to the 124-day cycle.

In money terms: at FY26 sales of ₹771 Cr, each day of the cycle holds about ₹2.1 Cr — so the 124-day loop keeps roughly ₹262 Cr sitting inside the business at any moment.

On the investment side: capital spending of ₹67.0 Cr over the last 3 fiscal years against ₹43.0 Cr of depreciation — the company is building well ahead of wear-and-tear. Capital work-in-progress stands at ₹0.0 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.

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.

Birla Cable Ltd earns a ROCE of 9% in FY26. That is up from a trough of 5% in FY25. Return on invested capital clears the cost of that capital by −6.1 percentage points, so growth here is not yet paying for the capital it uses. The wiring behind it is 2.2% net margin on 1.66× asset turns.

FY26 ROCE is 9%, recovered from a FY25 trough of 5% — the full ladder below shows the fall and the climb, undoctored.

🚨 Why the return is what it is — the wiring (FY26): 2.2% net margin × 1.66× asset turns × 1.65× balance-sheet leverage ≈ 6.0% on equity. Margin does its share; leverage is a meaningful part of the equation.

The capstone test — ROIC − WACC: 5.9% − 12.0% = a −6.1 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.

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.

Birla Cable Ltd carries ₹133 Cr of borrowings against ₹281 Cr of equity in FY26, a debt-to-equity of 0.47. Operating profit covers the interest bill 4×. Over 3 years borrowings went from ₹129 Cr to ₹133 Cr. Capital spending ran ₹67.0 Cr across the last 3 of those years.

FY26: borrowings of ₹133 Cr against equity of ₹281 Cr — a debt-to-equity of 0.47. Operating profit covers the interest bill 4×. Over 3 years borrowings went from ₹129 Cr to ₹133 Cr while capital spending ran ₹67.0 Cr in just the last 3 — part of the build-out is riding on borrowed money.

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 Birla Cable Ltd moved a full percentage point over the last two years — the register is quiet. Foreign institutions moved +0.0 points over the same window, to 0.0%. The register is read on the four disclosed classes only; nothing is inferred between filings.

The register over the last two years — Promoters: +0.0 points over 8 quarters to 66.3%; Foreign institutions: +0.0 points over 8 quarters to 0.0%; Domestic institutions: +0.0 points over 8 quarters to 0.0%.

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.

Birla Cable 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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