ACS Technologies Ltd

Price story A share price tends to move through four phases: moving sideways (stage 1), rising (stage 2), stalling near a high (stage 3) and falling (stage 4). Today ACS Technologies Ltd is in stage 2. The phase helps read everything below.

ACS Technologies Ltd's share price was ₹66.4 at the close on 16 October 2026. It has been rising for 74 weeks. That is 42.2% above its average price over the last 200 trading days. In the last 52 weeks it traded between ₹50 and ₹85, and today it sits 47% of the way up from that low.

There is not enough history yet to compare it with the NIFTY 500.

Over the last 2 months the share price moved +33% while the NIFTY 500 moved −6%, so it is ahead of the index over that whole period. The chart below shows the 13-week comparison for every week.

This page treats a rise as over when the price closes below its 200-day average on two Fridays in a row.

Valuation P/E is the share price divided by a year's profit per share: how many rupees the market pays for each rupee of yearly profit.

ACS Technologies Ltd's P/E is 44.3×, near the high end of its own history: higher than 75% of past readings. Its usual P/E (the middle reading) is 34.2×, over 1.4 years of weekly prices. This compares the share price with the company’s own past. It does not say what the business is worth.

In short: the multiple is high against its own past, so the earnings trend underneath matters more than the multiple.

Business trend Every business is somewhere on a path of getting better or worse, and this section names where. The last 12 quarters of growth in revenue, profit and earnings per share, plus the return the business earns on its capital, are read as lines. Getting worse: the lines are falling. Turning around: a low point has just formed and the last few quarters are rising from it. Getting better: the rise from the low has lasted. Growing steadily: steady growth with healthy returns. Slowing from a peak: still high, but slowing. When the lines disagree the result is mixed; too little history means no reading. CAGR (compound annual growth rate) is the steady yearly rate that would turn the starting value into the latest one. It is the fairest way to compare growth over different periods. If the 1-year figure is much bigger than the 10-year one, recent growth is running faster than the long-run trend. A dash means there is no figure for that period, or the starting year was a loss, where a growth rate means nothing.

ACS Technologies Ltd's business is turning around. Profit growth has swung from −19.8% at its low to +378.0%, rising from a low 5 quarters ago (from single-quarter figures), with ROCE steady at 10.0%. This is based on 9 quarters of 3 measures, with some gaps.

Why it matters: a turn in growth is often where a bigger change starts. The lines say a turn is forming, so the question is whether the next quarters confirm it.

One or more growth lines have an extreme jump caused by comparing with a near-zero or loss-making quarter. Those jumps are capped before reading and drawn at the edge of the chart, so one odd quarter does not decide the result.

The return figures here are yearly, not quarterly. They show level and direction only; they can support the growth lines but never decide the reading alone.

This reading has some gaps: at least one line is short, or the return line is not the quarterly series, so treat it with a little more caution.

4-Factor Sector Score

55.2 out of 100, rank 21 of 68 in IT - Software, with 56% of the evidence available.

ACS Technologies Ltd scores 55.2 out of 100 against the 68 companies it is compared with in IT - Software, ranking 21. Some evidence is missing, so the score is pulled toward the middle on purpose.

The four parts add up to the total exactly: 25 + 8.8 + 9.1 + 12.3 = 55.2. This is the same number shown on the industry page; it is worked out once for the whole group and read here.

What would change it: The score would fall if profit growth turns negative or margins stop improving while the share price lags its sector.

Revenue Revenue is everything the company billed its customers in the period.

ACS Technologies Ltd reported ₹95.1 Cr of revenue in the Jun 26 quarter, +244.3% on the same quarter a year earlier. That is the 9th quarter in a row with growth on the year before. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹264 Cr. The last four reported quarters add to ₹332 Cr.

A growth rate over several years is not shown, because there are too few years of figures to work one out properly.

FY26 revenue was ₹264 Cr, +107.9% on the year before.

Is growth speeding up? Revenue over the last 12 months grew +140.7%, against +95.1% a year over the last 8 quarters (accelerating); profit over the last 12 months grew +138.4%, against +59.7% a year (accelerating).

Operating margin Operating margin is what is left from every ₹100 of sales after the costs of running the business, before interest and tax. It shows pricing power and cost control.

ACS Technologies Ltd's operating margin was 7.9% in the Jun 26 quarter, 1.1 percentage points lower than the same quarter a year ago. Across 4 years it has been between 7.0% and 13.0%. The latest quarter is within that range.

🚨 Why the margin moved: operating margin changed −1.1 percentage points on the year while gross margin changed −25.6 points. So the drop came mostly from the gross margin, which means input costs and prices charged.

Net profit Net profit is what is left after every cost, interest and tax. Earnings per share, dividends and book value all grow from it.

ACS Technologies Ltd earned ₹3.9 Cr of net profit in the Jun 26 quarter, +378.0% on the same quarter a year earlier. That is the 5th quarter in a row of profit growth. Full-year FY26 profit was ₹9.0 Cr. That is 4.1% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned ₹0.8 Cr.

For the full year, FY26 profit was ₹9.0 Cr (+80.0% on the year before).

Why profit moved: revenue changed +244.3% on a year earlier and the margin moved −1.1 percentage points. Sales did the work, and the margin was about flat.

On average over the last four quarters, profit changed +208.4% and revenue +143.0%. Profit is growing faster than sales: fixed costs are spread over more sales, so each extra rupee of revenue adds more to profit.

Cash flow The profit and loss account shows what was earned. The cash-flow statement shows the cash that actually came in. Comparing operating cash flow with profit is one of the best checks that a profit is real.

Over the last 3 years ACS Technologies Ltd's operations used more cash than they brought in, so cash conversion was −106%, a gap worth watching. In FY26 its operations used ₹36.0 Cr of cash, against ₹9.0 Cr of profit. After ₹5.0 Cr of spending on assets, free cash was ₹−41.0 Cr: it spent more than its operations brought in.

Cash-flow figures here are yearly, because quarterly cash statements are not published, so this section changes once a year.

🚨 Why −106% of profit came in as cash: the cash cycle got 137 days shorter between FY23 and FY26, so cash that used to wait in the business now arrives sooner. When less than 70% of profit comes in as cash, it is the thing to watch on this page.

What to look at next: no single use of cash stands out. The next section checks both the cash tied up in daily operations and the spending on assets.

Where the cash goes Working capital is the cash tied up between paying suppliers and getting paid. Debtor days: how long customers take to pay. Inventory days: how long stock sits. The cash cycle: the whole loop, in days of sales.

ACS Technologies Ltd's cash cycle, the days between paying suppliers and getting paid by customers, was 105 days in FY26, down from 242 days in FY23. It spent ₹18.0 Cr on assets over the last 3 years.

At FY26 sales of ₹264 Cr, each day of that cycle ties up about ₹0.7 Cr, so roughly ₹76.0 Cr is tied up in the business at any time.

Spending on assets: ₹18.0 Cr over the last 3 years, against ₹12.0 Cr of depreciation (the yearly wear and tear on existing assets). So it is building a little beyond replacing what wears out. Work still in progress is ₹0.0 Cr (FY26): assets paid for that are not earning yet.

In short: neither the daily cycle nor new spending is soaking up the cash, so the picture is fairly clean.

Return on capital Return on capital employed (ROCE) is the profit the whole business earns on all the money in it, from shareholders and lenders together. It is the best single test of whether growth adds value or just size.

ACS Technologies Ltd earned a ROCE of 10% in FY26. That is up from a low of 6% in FY24. We cannot compare its return on capital used with its cost of capital from the data we have. It comes from a 3.4% net margin and 1.07× asset turnover (sales divided by assets).

Why the return is what it is (FY26): a 3.4% net margin × 1.07× asset turnover × 1.84× leverage (assets divided by equity) ≈ 6.7% on equity. The margin does its share; borrowing is a big part of it.

Debt Debt-to-equity shows how much of the business is paid for with borrowed money. Interest cover shows how many times operating profit pays the interest bill. Low debt and high cover are the safe combination.

ACS Technologies Ltd had ₹47.0 Cr of borrowings against ₹134 Cr of equity in FY26, so its debt is 0.35× its equity. Its operating profit is 7 times its interest bill. Over 4 years borrowings went from ₹28.0 Cr to ₹47.0 Cr. Over the last 3 of those years it spent ₹18.0 Cr on assets.

Part of the spending on assets is being paid for with borrowed money.

Ownership Who owns the company each quarter: promoters (the founders or controlling owners), foreign institutions, domestic institutions such as mutual funds, and the public. When people close to the business steadily raise their stake, that is worth noticing; a quiet list is also an answer.

Promoters cut their stake in ACS Technologies Ltd by 10.3 percentage points over 8 quarters, the biggest change among its owners. Promoters now own 37.4% of the company. Foreign institutions moved +0.1 points over the same period, to 0.1%. This uses the four owner groups that companies report every quarter; nothing is guessed between filings.

🚨 Why the owners changed: promoters drove it (−10.3 points). They reduced their stake.

Balance-sheet safety The Z-score estimates how far a company is from balance-sheet trouble. Above about 3 is safe; below about 1.8 is the danger zone. It was built for manufacturers, so it is not used for banks and lenders.

For ACS Technologies Ltd, the Z-score is not available, so we say so rather than guess one. It estimates how far the balance sheet is from trouble; it is not a forecast of failure. The debt, cash-flow and return sections show the balance-sheet figures we do have, each with its own date.

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