Allcargo Terminals 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.

Allcargo Terminals Ltd trades at ₹25.0, in a downtrend and 39 weeks into that stage. That is −1.6% against its own 200-day average. It sits at 41% of a 52-week range of ₹20 to ₹32. On relative strength it has been ahead of the NIFTY 500 on a trailing-13-week view for 3 straight weeks.

Today the stock is in a downtrend — week 39 of stage 4, confirmed. At ₹25.0 it trades −1.6% versus its 200-day average and sits at 41% of its 52-week range (₹20–₹32).

Against the market, two honest reads. Cumulative: over the last 3.1 years the stock moved −41% while the NIFTY 500 moved +36% — behind the index over the full window. Recent form: on a trailing-13-week view the stock has been ahead for 3 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.

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.

Allcargo Terminals Ltd trades at 15.9× P/E, near the bottom of its own range — cheaper only 17% of the time. Its long-run median P/E is 23.1×, measured across 2.3 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 15.9× is near the bottom of its own range — cheaper only 17% of the time, against a long-run median of 23.1× measured over 2.3 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.

Why the multiple sits where it does: over the past year annual EPS moved +41.1% against a −5.4% price move — earnings outran the price, pushing the multiple DOWN its own range.

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

What the price assumes This reading works the multiple backwards. It asks one question: what yearly rate of profit growth is a buyer at the market price already paying for? The number is the growth rate that makes eleven years of profit — six years growing, then five fading — add up to that day's market price, once each year is discounted at 11% a year.

Solved at its 13 June 2026 price, Allcargo Terminals Ltd was paying for profit growth of about 7.5% a year. Profit itself has compounded 82.1% a year over the past 4 years. Today the market pays 15.9× P/E, the 17th percentile of its own 2-year range.

What the two numbers say together. The multiple is low against its own past, and the growth the price is paying for is below what this company has actually delivered.

How to hold this number: it is a reading of one day's price, taken on 13 June 2026, not a running figure — every other number on this page, the multiple included, is read off the live quote as of 11 September 2026. A higher price is paying for more growth and a lower price for less, so it moves whenever the price does, and this page does not restate it between measurements.

Stage: Turning around 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).

Allcargo Terminals Ltd reads as turning around on its fundamental arc. Turning around — profit growth swung from −33.3% at the trough to +39.2% off a 3-quarter-old trough, ROCE slipping at 11.0%. The read is built from 8 quarters across 3 curves, on partial evidence.

Why it matters: growth inflections are where re-ratings start — the curves say a turn is forming, so the question becomes whether the next quarters confirm 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

55.1/100 — rank 6 of 18 in Logistics · 87% evidence confidence

Allcargo Terminals Ltd scores 55.1 out of 100 against the 18 companies it is compared with in Logistics, ranking 6. Balanced evidence: keep at normal research priority and require another comparable period before raising conviction.

The four contributions add to the total exactly: 21.7 + 14.2 + 13.7 + 5.5 = 55.1. 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.

Allcargo Terminals Ltd reported ₹214 Cr of revenue in the Jun 26 quarter, +14.5% year on year. That is the 4th straight quarter of year-on-year growth. Over 4 years it has compounded at 59.1% a year. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹821 Cr. The last four reported quarters add to ₹848 Cr.

FY26 revenue came in at ₹821 Cr (+8.3% on the year), capping 4 years at 59.1% compound. The latest quarter (Jun 26) printed ₹214 Cr, +14.5% year on year — the 4th consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth.

Pace check: the last four quarters averaged +12.3% growth against the decade's 59.1% — the current year is running slower than its own long-run rate.

Acceleration check: trailing-twelve-month revenue grew +12.3% over the last 4 quarters against +6.9%/yr over the last 8 — accelerating; TTM profit +39.2% vs −4.3%/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.

Allcargo Terminals Ltd's operating margin is 22.1% in the Jun 26 quarter, +3.7 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. That is the widest this company has ever printed on a full-year basis. Across 5 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 11.0% to 20.0%. The current quarter is running above every full year in that window.

The latest quarter's operating margin is 22.1%, +3.7 pp against the same quarter a year ago. Across 5 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 11.0%–20.0%, and FY26's 20.0% is the top of that band — a record year.

Why the margin moved: operating margin went +3.7 pp year on year while gross margin went +0.0 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.

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

Allcargo Terminals Ltd earned ₹6.4 Cr of net profit in the Jun 26 quarter, −30.1% year on year. Full-year FY26 profit was ₹44.0 Cr. The 4-year compound rate is 82.1%. That is 3.0% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned ₹9.1 Cr. 1 of the last 12 reported quarters were loss-making.

Jun 26 profit was ₹6.4 Cr, −30.1% year on year. On the full year, FY26 printed ₹44.0 Cr (+46.7%), and the 4-year compound rate is 82.1%.

🚨 Why profit moved: revenue contributed +14.5% and the margin +3.7 pp — the quarter was margin-led: most of the profit growth came from keeping more of each sale.

Pace comparison, last four quarters: profit −0.9% vs revenue +12.3%. Profit is growing slower than sales — costs are eating the growth before it reaches 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 306% of Allcargo Terminals Ltd's reported profit arrived as operating cash — the cash follows the profit. In FY26 that was ₹157 Cr of operating cash against ₹44.0 Cr of profit. After ₹382 Cr of capital spending, ₹−225 Cr was left as free cash.

FY26: operating cash of ₹157 Cr against reported profit of ₹44.0 Cr, leaving free cash of ₹−225 Cr after ₹382 Cr of capital spending. Across the last 3 fiscal years the conversion rate is 306% 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 306%: the cash cycle tightened 35 days between FY22 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 2.8× 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).

Allcargo Terminals Ltd's cash conversion cycle runs 23 days in FY26, down from 58 days in FY22. Capital spending ran ₹505 Cr over the last 3 years. At FY26 sales of ₹821 Cr each day of that cycle holds about ₹2.2 Cr, so roughly ₹52.0 Cr sits inside the business at any moment.

FY26: debtors at 23 days (an asset-light business — no inventory to speak of) — for a full cycle of 23 days, tighter than FY22's 58.

In money terms: at FY26 sales of ₹821 Cr, each day of the cycle holds about ₹2.2 Cr — so the 23-day loop keeps roughly ₹52.0 Cr sitting inside the business at any moment.

On the investment side: capital spending of ₹505 Cr over the last 3 fiscal years against ₹178 Cr of depreciation — the company is building well ahead of wear-and-tear. Capital work-in-progress stands at ₹2.0 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.

Allcargo Terminals Ltd earns a ROCE of 11% in FY26. Return on invested capital clears the cost of that capital by −4.0 percentage points, so growth here is not yet paying for the capital it uses. The wiring behind it is 5.4% net margin on 0.66× asset turns.

FY26 ROCE is 11%.

🚨 Why the return is what it is — the wiring (FY26): 5.4% net margin × 0.66× asset turns × 3.54× balance-sheet leverage ≈ 12.6% on equity. Margin does its share; leverage is a meaningful part of the equation.

The capstone test — ROIC − WACC: 8.0% − 12.0% = a −4.0 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.

Allcargo Terminals Ltd carries ₹769 Cr of borrowings against ₹352 Cr of equity in FY26, a debt-to-equity of 2.18. Operating profit covers the interest bill 3×. Over 4 years borrowings went from ₹113 Cr to ₹769 Cr. Capital spending ran ₹505 Cr across the last 3 of those years.

FY26: borrowings of ₹769 Cr against equity of ₹352 Cr — a debt-to-equity of 2.18. Operating profit covers the interest bill 3×. Over 4 years borrowings went from ₹113 Cr to ₹769 Cr while capital spending ran ₹505 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.

Foreign institutions cut 1.7 points of Allcargo Terminals Ltd over 8 quarters, the biggest move on the register. That takes foreign institutions to 5.3% of the company. Promoters moved −1.0 points over the same window, to 67.2%. The register is read on the four disclosed classes only; nothing is inferred between filings.

The register over the last two years — Foreign institutions: −1.7 points over 8 quarters to 5.3%; Promoters: −1.0 points over 8 quarters to 67.2%; Domestic institutions: +0.2 points over 8 quarters to 0.2%.

🚨 Why the register moved: foreign institutions drove it (−1.7 points), alongside promoters (−1.0 points) — distribution into the market’s bid.

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.

Allcargo Terminals 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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