Behari Lal Engineering 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.

Behari Lal Engineering Ltd trades at ₹468, between stages. That is −4.5% against its own 200-day average. It sits at 52% of a 52-week range of ₹428 to ₹504. On relative strength it has been ahead of the NIFTY 500 on a trailing-13-week view for 4 straight weeks.

Today the stock is between stages. At ₹468 it trades −4.5% versus its 200-day average and sits at 52% of its 52-week range (₹428–₹504).

Against the market, two honest reads. Cumulative: over the last 1 months the stock moved −7% while the NIFTY 500 moved −7% — ahead of the index over the full window. Recent form: on a trailing-13-week view the stock has been ahead for 4 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.

Behari Lal Engineering Ltd trades at 28.9× P/E, against too little history to rank. Its long-run median P/E is 27.4×, measured across 0.1 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 28.9× is against too little history to rank, against a long-run median of 27.4× measured over 0.1 years of weekly readings. This is a comparison against the stock's own history — not a claim about what it is worth.

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

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).

Behari Lal Engineering 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.

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

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.

Fewer than eight usable quarters on the growth curves — this page will not guess a trajectory from a stub of history.

Revenue Revenue is the top line: everything the company billed its customers in the period.

Behari Lal Engineering Ltd reported ₹152 Cr of revenue in the Jun 26 quarter, +18.8% year on year. Over 3 years it has compounded at 4.9% a year. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹533 Cr.

FY26 revenue came in at ₹533 Cr (+5.1% on the year), capping 3 years at 4.9% compound. The latest quarter (Jun 26) printed ₹152 Cr, +18.8% year on year.

Pace check: the last four quarters averaged +18.8% growth against the decade's 4.9% — the current year is running faster than its own long-run rate.

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.

Behari Lal Engineering Ltd's operating margin is 18.0% in the Jun 26 quarter, +0.0 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. Across 4 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 10.0% to 17.0%. The current quarter is running above every full year in that window.

The latest quarter's operating margin is 18.0%, +0.0 pp against the same quarter a year ago. Across 4 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 10.0%–17.0%.

Why: the numbers show the operating margin move clearly, but the cost lines behind it sit below what we hold — so we state the move without inventing its driver.

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

Behari Lal Engineering Ltd earned ₹19.0 Cr of net profit in the Jun 26 quarter, +26.7% year on year. Full-year FY26 profit was ₹65.0 Cr. The 3-year compound rate is 30.9%. That is 12.5% of the quarter's revenue.

Jun 26 profit was ₹19.0 Cr, +26.7% year on year. On the full year, FY26 printed ₹65.0 Cr (+22.6%), and the 3-year compound rate is 30.9%.

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 82% of Behari Lal Engineering Ltd's reported profit arrived as operating cash — the cash follows the profit. In FY26 that was ₹28.0 Cr of operating cash against ₹65.0 Cr of profit. After ₹26.0 Cr of capital spending, ₹2.0 Cr was left as free cash.

FY26: operating cash of ₹28.0 Cr against reported profit of ₹65.0 Cr, leaving free cash of ₹2.0 Cr after ₹26.0 Cr of capital spending. Across the last 3 fiscal years the conversion rate is 82% 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 82%: the cash cycle stretched 69 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 2.1× 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).

Behari Lal Engineering Ltd's cash conversion cycle runs 175 days in FY26, up from 106 days in FY23. Capital spending ran ₹68.0 Cr over the last 3 years. At FY26 sales of ₹533 Cr each day of that cycle holds about ₹1.5 Cr, so roughly ₹256 Cr sits inside the business at any moment.

FY26: debtors at 66 days, inventory at 136 days — roughly 4.5 months of stock waiting to sell; that is where the cash sits while it waits — for a full cycle of 175 days, looser than FY23's 106.

The full loop: cash goes out to suppliers and production on day 0; stock waits 136 days to sell; customers pay about 66 days after that; and suppliers themselves are paid at 26 days — netting out to the 175-day cycle.

In money terms: at FY26 sales of ₹533 Cr, each day of the cycle holds about ₹1.5 Cr — so the 175-day loop keeps roughly ₹256 Cr sitting inside the business at any moment.

On the investment side: capital spending of ₹68.0 Cr over the last 3 fiscal years against ₹33.0 Cr of depreciation — the company is building well ahead of wear-and-tear. Capital work-in-progress stands at ₹4.0 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.

Behari Lal Engineering Ltd earns a ROCE of 31% in FY26. That is up from a trough of 25% in FY24. Return on invested capital clears the cost of that capital by +7.1 percentage points, so growth here adds value rather than only size. The wiring behind it is 12.2% net margin on 1.45× asset turns.

FY26 ROCE is 31%, recovered from a FY24 trough of 25% — the full ladder below shows the fall and the climb, undoctored.

Why the return is what it is — the wiring (FY26): 12.2% net margin × 1.45× asset turns × 1.20× balance-sheet leverage ≈ 21.2% on equity. Margin does its share; leverage is modest — this is an earned return, not a borrowed one.

The capstone test — ROIC − WACC: 19.1% − 12.0% = a +7.1 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. A spread this wide means every rupee reinvested creates more than a rupee of value — the engine compounds.

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.

Behari Lal Engineering Ltd carries ₹18.0 Cr of borrowings against ₹306 Cr of equity in FY26, a debt-to-equity of 0.06. Operating profit covers the interest bill 45×. Over 3 years borrowings went from ₹64.0 Cr to ₹18.0 Cr. Capital spending ran ₹68.0 Cr across the last 3 of those years.

FY26: borrowings of ₹18.0 Cr against equity of ₹306 Cr — a debt-to-equity of 0.06. Operating profit covers the interest bill 45×. Over 3 years borrowings went from ₹64.0 Cr to ₹18.0 Cr while capital spending ran ₹68.0 Cr in just the last 3 — the build-out is being paid for out of cash, not debt.

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 Behari Lal Engineering Ltd moved a full percentage point over the last two years — the register is quiet. The register is read on the four disclosed classes only; nothing is inferred between filings.

The register over the last two years — .

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.

Behari Lal Engineering 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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