Cantabil Retail India Ltd (CANTABIL) — share price & stock analysis

Market cap

₹2,024 Cr

P/E

21.1×

ROE

22.0%

vs own 10-yr valuation

12th pctile

Book value / share

₹57.2

EPS (TTM)

₹11.5

10-yr median P/E

29.3×

Revenue (FY26)

₹853 Cr

Profit after tax (FY26)

₹96 Cr

Weinstein stage

Stage 4 (12 weeks)

Data as of

1 July 2026

4 of the 6 things we track are currently moving the right way — nearly everything is pulling in the same direction.

Where the levels actually stand: ROCE 19% — decent; real debt (1.14× equity); margins at an all-time high. Momentum says which way things are moving; these say where they are.

Read this number for what it is: it measures the DIRECTION of change, not the quality of the business. A mediocre business getting better scores high here; a great one having a soft quarter scores low. Profit, sales and margins count double.

The profits have outrun the price

Since Mar 2016, earnings per share grew 1,747% while the stock is up 1,679%. The business has outrun its own share price.pricettm_eps

When profits grow faster than the price, the stock quietly gets cheaper while doing better — the market hasn’t fully caught up.

Today’s P/E of 21.1× sits near the bottom of its own range — it has been cheaper than this only 12% of the time against its own 10-year history.pe_ratio

And the sharper caveat: today’s margins are the best this company has ever printed. The cheap multiple is only real if they hold — earnings at record profitability flatter every valuation ratio.operating_profit

Price is the weekly close (₹). EPS is trailing-twelve-month profit per share, anchored on Screener's own snapshots; between snapshots it is filled from price ÷ P/E (an exact identity), and any fill straying more than 18% from the neighbouring snapshots is dropped rather than shown. The lower panel is the P/E — what the market pays per rupee of profit; the dotted line is its long-run median (29.3×).

The price is in a downtrend — fighting it is expensive

Stock prices move through four repeating stages: basing (1), advancing (2), topping (3) and declining (4). This one is in Stage 4: declining, 12 weeks in, confirmed.stage

The price is below its falling 200-day average — history says most of the damage in stocks happens here. Cheap can get cheaper in Stage 4.dma_200

Trailing NIFTY 500 for 18 weeks — relative strength is the market’s live opinion, and right now it is against it.rs_mansfield

What would end it: two Friday closes in a row below the 200-day line. That is the house exit rule — mechanical, no debates.dma_200

From losing money in FY14 to record profits

Over 12 years, sales went from ₹100 Cr to ₹853 Cr (about 20% a year), and profit from ₹−9.0 Cr to ₹96.0 Cr.revenuenet_profit

The books show real losses in FY14 (worst: ₹−9.0 Cr). Everything about today’s cheap-looking numbers must be read against that history — the recovery is what you are buying.net_profit

Sales grew 15% last quarter — growth every single quarter for over 2 years

Mar 26 sales were ₹253 Cr, up 15% on the same quarter last year.revenue

That makes 10 quarters of growth in a row — this is a trend, not a blip.revenue

Margins are widening — 27% → 31% in a year

Of every ₹100 of sales, the company keeps ₹30.8 as operating profit (a year ago it kept ₹26.6).opm_pct

Zoom out and this is the page's quiet hero: annual operating margin bottomed at 23.4% in FY21 and has been rebuilt to 30.9% — that recovery, not sales alone, is what powers the profit growth elsewhere on this page.operating_profit

The gross margin moved the same way (64% → 65%), so this is about input costs and pricing power — the raw-material equation improved.gpm_pctopm_pct

Profit jumped 26% — mostly from keeping more of each sale

Mar 26 profit after tax was ₹29.0 Cr, up 26% year on year.net_profit

The profits are real — they turn into cash

Over the last 5 profitable years, the business reported ₹338 Cr of profit and collected ₹647 Cr of operating cash — about 191% conversion.operating_cash_flownet_profit

When cash tracks profit this closely, the earnings need no asterisk.

The cash cycle is tightening — money comes home faster

One rupee now takes about 337 days to go out the door as materials and come back as collected cash — down from 383 days the year before.cash_conversion_cycle

The biggest mover: inventory moving faster off the shelf (492 → 425 days).inventory_days

The asset base keeps compounding — this company builds

The productive asset base has gone from ₹45.0 Cr (FY14) to ₹699 Cr, with another ₹11.0 Cr of capacity under construction right now.fixed_assetscwip

The build is self-funded: the last 3 years' investing outflow (₹203 Cr) fits inside the operating cash the business generated (₹482 Cr).investing_cash_flowoperating_cash_flow

Debt is building — watch this

For every ₹100 shareholders have put in (and left in), the company has borrowed ₹114 — total borrowings have grown from ₹31.0 Cr to ₹544 Cr over the window.borrowings

Every ₹100 kept in the business earns ₹19 — decent, not special

Return on capital employed is 19.0% (a year ago: 18.0%). This is the single best test of business quality: what the company earns on the money it keeps.roce_pct

Institutions bought the story, then started backing away

Promoters hold 74.5%, essentially unchanged. Foreign funds own 2.2%, domestic funds 1.0%.promoters_pctfiis_pctdiis_pct

Worth studying deeper — with eyes open

The numbers lean positive, and the price hasn’t fully caught up with the improvement.

Best thing in the data: cash generation rising (₹150 Cr → ₹199 Cr).operating_cash_flow

Biggest worry: foreign-fund holding falling (4.9% → 2.2%).fiis_pct

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