Garware Technical Fibres Ltd
GARFIBRESGarware Technical Fibres Ltd's three tracks disagree. Price, valuation and the earnings engine each tell a different story — the next quarter or two settles it.
Biggest watch item: the price is not yet in a confirmed uptrend — timing risk, not thesis risk.
The price is in a downtrend (45 weeks in) while the P/E sits at the 59th percentile of its own 10-year range. Underneath, the last four quarters read deteriorating — profit −19.7% year on year, and 90% of the last 3 years' profit arrived as cash. What settles it: the next one or two quarters of delivery.
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.
Garware Technical Fibres Ltd trades at ₹733, in a downtrend and 45 weeks into that stage. That is +4.2% against its own 200-day average. It sits at 63% of a 52-week range of ₹592 to ₹816. On relative strength it has been ahead of the NIFTY 500 on a trailing-13-week view for 14 straight weeks.
Today the stock is in a downtrend — week 45 of stage 4. At ₹733 it trades +4.2% versus its 200-day average and sits at 63% of its 52-week range (₹592–₹816).
Against the market, two honest reads. Cumulative: over the last 10.4 years the stock moved +1,111% while the NIFTY 500 moved +276% — ahead of the index over the full window. Recent form: on a trailing-13-week view the stock has been ahead for 14 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.
Garware Technical Fibres Ltd trades at 34.8× P/E, mid-range by its own standards (59th percentile). Its long-run median P/E is 32.9×, measured across 10.4 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 34.8× is mid-range by its own standards (59th percentile), against a long-run median of 32.9× measured over 10.4 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 −14.2% against a −18.1% price move — earnings outran the price, pushing the multiple DOWN its own range.
The price move, decomposed: over 5y, of the +1.2%/yr price move, ~+6.8%/yr came from earnings growth and ~−5.6 pp from the multiple (compressing); over 10y, of the +23.3%/yr price move, ~+14.0%/yr came from earnings growth and ~+9.3 pp from the multiple (expanding). 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 unremarkable against its own past, so the story rests on the earnings line underneath it, not the multiple.
Stage: Deteriorating 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).
Garware Technical Fibres Ltd reads as deteriorating on its fundamental arc. Deteriorating — profit and EPS growth are shrinking (profit growth −14.7% latest against +20.2% at its 12-quarter best), ROCE slipping at 20.5%. The read is built from 12 quarters across 4 curves, on full evidence.
🚨 Why it matters: falling curves mean every cheap-looking ratio below needs a discount for direction.
| 1yr | 3yr | 5yr | 10yr | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | −0.7% | +5.4% | +8.1% | +6.4% |
| Profit | −14.2% | +5.0% | +4.7% | +12.4% |
| EPS | −14.2% | +5.8% | +5.4% | +13.5% |
| Share price | −18.1% | +5.6% | +1.2% | +23.3% |
4-Factor Sector Score
43.5/100 — rank 3 of 3 in Textiles - Technical Textile · 91% evidence confidence
Garware Technical Fibres Ltd scores 43.5 out of 100 against the 3 companies it is compared with in Textiles - Technical Textile, ranking 3. Balanced evidence: keep at normal research priority and require another comparable period before raising conviction.
The four contributions add to the total exactly: 5.8 + 22 + 8.6 + 7.1 = 43.5. 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.
Garware Technical Fibres Ltd reported ₹426 Cr of revenue in the Mar 26 quarter, −1.6% year on year. Over 10 years it has compounded at 6.4% a year. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹1,529 Cr. The last four reported quarters add to ₹1,528 Cr.
FY26 revenue came in at ₹1,529 Cr (−0.7% on the year), capping 10 years at 6.4% compound. The latest quarter (Mar 26) printed ₹426 Cr, −1.6% year on year.
Pace check: the last four quarters averaged +0.1% growth against the decade's 6.4% — the current year is running slower than its own long-run rate.
Acceleration check: trailing-twelve-month revenue grew −0.8% over the last 4 quarters against +7.4%/yr over the last 8 — rolling over; TTM profit −14.7% vs −2.4%/yr — rolling over.
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.
Garware Technical Fibres Ltd's operating margin is 23.0% in the Mar 26 quarter, +0.0 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. Across 13 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 9.0% to 21.0%. The current quarter is running above every full year in that window.
The latest quarter's operating margin is 23.0%, +0.0 pp against the same quarter a year ago. Across 13 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 9.0%–21.0%.
🚨 Why the margin moved: operating margin went −0.1 pp year on year while gross margin went −0.6 pp — the loss 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.
Garware Technical Fibres Ltd earned ₹57.0 Cr of net profit in the Mar 26 quarter, −19.7% year on year. Full-year FY26 profit was ₹199 Cr. The 10-year compound rate is 12.4%. That is 13.4% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned ₹71.0 Cr.
Mar 26 profit was ₹57.0 Cr, −19.7% year on year. On the full year, FY26 printed ₹199 Cr (−14.2%), and the 10-year compound rate is 12.4%.
🚨 Why profit moved: revenue contributed −1.6% and the margin +0.0 pp — the quarter was revenue-led, with the margin roughly flat.
Pace comparison, last four quarters: profit −10.4% vs revenue +0.1%. 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 90% of Garware Technical Fibres Ltd's reported profit arrived as operating cash — the cash follows the profit. In FY26 that was ₹162 Cr of operating cash against ₹199 Cr of profit. After ₹177 Cr of capital spending, ₹−15.0 Cr was left as free cash.
FY26: operating cash of ₹162 Cr against reported profit of ₹199 Cr, leaving free cash of ₹−15.0 Cr after ₹177 Cr of capital spending. Across the last 3 fiscal years the conversion rate is 90% 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 90%: the cash cycle stretched 160 days between FY21 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 3.0× 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).
Garware Technical Fibres Ltd's cash conversion cycle runs 172 days in FY26, up from 12 days in FY21. Capital spending ran ₹262 Cr over the last 3 years. At FY26 sales of ₹1,529 Cr each day of that cycle holds about ₹4.2 Cr, so roughly ₹721 Cr sits inside the business at any moment.
FY26: debtors at 66 days, inventory at 321 days — roughly 10.6 months of stock waiting to sell; that is where the cash sits while it waits — for a full cycle of 172 days, looser than FY21's 12.
The full loop: cash goes out to suppliers and production on day 0; stock waits 321 days to sell; customers pay about 66 days after that; and suppliers themselves are paid at 215 days — netting out to the 172-day cycle.
In money terms: at FY26 sales of ₹1,529 Cr, each day of the cycle holds about ₹4.2 Cr — so the 172-day loop keeps roughly ₹721 Cr sitting inside the business at any moment.
On the investment side: capital spending of ₹262 Cr over the last 3 fiscal years against ₹88.0 Cr of depreciation — the company is building well ahead of wear-and-tear. Capital work-in-progress stands at ₹1.0 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.
Garware Technical Fibres Ltd earns a ROCE of 22% in FY26. That is up from a trough of 14% in FY14. Return on invested capital clears the cost of that capital by +6.2 percentage points, so growth here adds value rather than only size. The wiring behind it is 13.0% net margin on 0.81× asset turns.
FY26 ROCE is 22%, recovered from a FY14 trough of 14% — the full ladder below shows the fall and the climb, undoctored.
Why the return is what it is — the wiring (FY26): 13.0% net margin × 0.81× asset turns × 1.39× balance-sheet leverage ≈ 14.6% on equity. Margin does its share; leverage is modest — this is an earned return, not a borrowed one.
The capstone test — ROIC − WACC: 18.2% − 12.0% = a +6.2 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. Low is the safe corner; the trend matters as much as the level.
Garware Technical Fibres Ltd carries total debt of ₹43.0 Cr against shareholder equity of ₹1,354 Cr as of Mar 26, a debt-to-equity of 0.03 — effectively unlevered. On the annual view that ratio went from 0.08 in FY22 to 0.03 in FY26. The returns elsewhere on this page are therefore earned rather than borrowed.
Mar 26: total debt of ₹43.0 Cr against shareholder equity of ₹1,354 Cr — a debt-to-equity of 0.03. On the annual view, debt-to-equity went from 0.08 (FY22) to 0.03 (FY26). The returns on this page are earned, not borrowed.
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.
Promoters added 1.3 points of Garware Technical Fibres Ltd over 8 quarters, the biggest move on the register. That takes promoters to 54.3% of the company. Foreign institutions moved −0.9 points over the same window, to 8.7%. The register is read on the four disclosed classes only; nothing is inferred between filings.
The register over the last two years — Promoters: +1.3 points over 8 quarters to 54.3%; Foreign institutions: −0.9 points over 8 quarters to 8.7%; Domestic institutions: −0.3 points over 8 quarters to 10.1%.
Why the register moved: promoters drove it (+1.3 points), absorbed on the other side by foreign institutions (−0.9 points) — steady accumulation by institutions reading the same numbers this page reads.
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.
Garware Technical Fibres 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.
| Company | Score | Price stage | Growth & earnings/35 | Capital efficiency/25 | Valuation/20 | Relative strength/20 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Precot LtdPRECOT | 50.2/100Mixed-positive evidence84% evidence | LEADER | 13.8/35 Revenue -1.8% · PAT 9.1% · OPM change 2 pp 95% evidence | 10.6/25 ROCE 10.8% · OPM 14% 95% evidence | 8.3/20 P/E 27.1× · PEG — 35% evidence | 17.5/20 RS sector 23.6% · RS bench 50.1% · 1Y 34.5%12 of 12 weeks ahead 100% evidence |
| Exact sum: 13.8 + 10.6 + 8.3 + 17.5 = 50.2 · Decision use: Price leads the evidence: RS versus the benchmark is 50.1%, but earnings trajectory is weak. Wait for revenue and profit confirmation. | ||||||
| 2Shri Jagdamba Polymers LtdSHRJAGP | 46.8/100Mixed-negative evidence69% evidence | 14.6/35 Revenue -7.8% · PAT 19.5% · OPM change -9.1 pp 83% evidence | 18.4/25 ROCE 22.5% · OPM 5.7% 76% evidence | 10.8/20 P/E 11.4× · PEG — 35% evidence | 3.0/20 RS sector -15.7% · RS bench -29.7% · 1Y -43.2%0 of 12 weeks ahead to 2026-03-08 70% evidence | |
| Exact sum: 14.6 + 18.4 + 10.8 + 3 = 46.8 · Decision use: Balanced evidence: keep at normal research priority and require another comparable period before raising conviction. | ||||||
| 3Garware Technical Fibres Ltdthis pageGARFIBRES | 43.5/100Mixed-negative evidence91% evidence | TURNING | 5.8/35 Revenue -0.8% · PAT -14.7% · OPM change 0 pp 100% evidence | 22.0/25 ROCE 22% · OPM 23% 100% evidence | 8.6/20 P/E 34.8× · PEG 1.9 85% evidence | 7.1/20 RS sector -14.3% · RS bench 3.2% · 1Y -18.5%6 of 10 weeks ahead 70% evidence |
| Exact sum: 5.8 + 22 + 8.6 + 7.1 = 43.5 · Decision use: Balanced evidence: keep at normal research priority and require another comparable period before raising conviction. | ||||||
Missing observations are not scored as bad. Their missing weight lowers confidence and pulls the final score toward neutral. PEG is not shown when the ratio cannot mean anything: the company must be making a profit, its price-to-earnings must be positive, and its three-year earnings growth must fall between 5% and 60%. Dividing a price multiple by a loss, or by growth measured off a tiny base, produces a number that looks precise and tells you nothing. Under relative strength, one mark per week shows the last 12 weeks: a mark is filled where the company led NIFTY 500 by 5% or more over the 13 weeks ending that week, which is the same test used everywhere on this site. Price stage places the company on the same six-step curve the sector itself is placed on — basing, turning, breaking out, leader, fading, asleep — read from how many weeks running it has led NIFTY 500 and whether that lead is widening or shrinking. It describes where the PRICE stands, not the earnings trajectory and not a recommendation, and it is left blank for a company whose weekly history is too short or too stale to read.
Frequently asked questions
What is Garware Technical Fibres Ltd's share price today?
Garware Technical Fibres Ltd trades at ₹733, −18.1% over the past year. The company is valued at ₹7,275 Cr. The stock sits at 63% of its 52-week range of ₹592–₹816, +4.2% versus its 200-day average. On the tape, the price is in a downtrend, 45 weeks in. — as of 31 July 2026.
What were Garware Technical Fibres Ltd's latest quarterly results?
Garware Technical Fibres Ltd reported revenue of ₹426 Cr and net profit of ₹57.0 Cr for the Mar 26 quarter. Revenue fell 1.6% and profit fell 19.7% year on year. Earnings per share were ₹5.77. The operating margin was 23.0%, 0.0 pp higher than a year earlier. — as of 31 July 2026.
What is Garware Technical Fibres Ltd's revenue?
Garware Technical Fibres Ltd reported revenue of ₹426 Cr in the Mar 26 quarter, −1.6% year on year. For the full FY26 fiscal year, revenue was ₹1,529 Cr (−0.7%). Over the last 10 years revenue compounded at 6.4% a year. — as of 31 July 2026.
What is Garware Technical Fibres Ltd's profit?
Garware Technical Fibres Ltd earned ₹57.0 Cr of net profit in the Mar 26 quarter, −19.7% year on year. Full-year FY26 profit was ₹199 Cr. The operating margin ran 23.0% in the latest quarter. — as of 31 July 2026.
What is Garware Technical Fibres Ltd's market cap?
Garware Technical Fibres Ltd's market capitalisation is ₹7,275 Cr at a share price of ₹733. Market cap is the share price multiplied by shares outstanding, so it is restated whenever the price moves. — as of 31 July 2026.
What is Garware Technical Fibres Ltd's P/E ratio?
Garware Technical Fibres Ltd trades at a P/E of 34.8×, at the 59th percentile of its own 10-year range, against a long-run median of 32.9×. This is a comparison with the stock's own history, not a value call — as of 31 July 2026.
Does Garware Technical Fibres Ltd pay a dividend?
Yes — Garware Technical Fibres Ltd's dividend payout was 5% of profit in FY26, and it recorded a payout in each of its last 13 reported fiscal years. This page holds the payout ratio, not a per-share amount. — as of 31 July 2026.
Is Garware Technical Fibres Ltd overvalued?
On its own history, Garware Technical Fibres Ltd looks mid-range against its own history: its P/E of 34.8× sits at the 59th percentile of its 10-year range (long-run median 32.9×). That is a percentile read against the stock's own past, not a price opinion or a direction call. — as of 31 July 2026.
Is Garware Technical Fibres Ltd growing?
Not right now — Garware Technical Fibres Ltd's latest numbers are shrinking: latest-quarter revenue −1.6% year on year, profit −19.7%, and the margin +0.0 pp at 23.0%. The 10-year compound rates are 6.4% (revenue) and 12.4% (profit). The earnings engine currently reads: deteriorating — as of 31 July 2026.
How is Garware Technical Fibres Ltd performing?
Garware Technical Fibres Ltd is in a downtrend, 45 weeks in. Its latest quarter's revenue fell 1.6% and profit fell 19.7% year on year. Against the NIFTY 500 it has been ahead on a trailing-13-week view for 14 weeks. This describes what the data did, not a rating. — as of 31 July 2026.
What stage is Garware Technical Fibres Ltd in?
Deteriorating — profit and EPS growth are shrinking (profit growth −14.7% latest against +20.2% at its 12-quarter best), ROCE slipping at 20.5%. The read comes from the last 12 quarters of growth (revenue growth −0.8% latest, profit growth −14.7% latest, eps growth −14.2% latest) plus the ROCE curve, classified by deterministic rules — a trajectory read, not a buy or sell call — as of 31 July 2026.
Is Garware Technical Fibres Ltd in an uptrend?
No — the price is in a downtrend (week 45 of stage 4), trading +4.2% versus its 200-day average and at 63% of its 52-week range. Price stages cycle base → advance → top → decline, and the stage names where this stock sits in that cycle — as of 31 July 2026.
Is Garware Technical Fibres Ltd beating the market?
On recent form, yes — Garware Technical Fibres Ltd has been ahead of the NIFTY 500 on a trailing-13-week view for 14 straight weeks, the same metric the week-by-week ribbon on this page draws. Separately, on the cumulative view: over the last 10.4 years the stock moved +1,111% against the NIFTY 500's +276% — ahead of the index over the full window. — as of 31 July 2026.
Will Garware Technical Fibres Ltd's share price go up?
This page publishes no price forecast for Garware Technical Fibres Ltd. What it measures instead: the share price is ₹733, the price is in a downtrend 45 weeks in. Its P/E of 34.8× sits at the 59th percentile of its own 10-year range. — as of 31 July 2026.
Who owns Garware Technical Fibres Ltd?
Promoters hold 54.3% of Garware Technical Fibres Ltd, foreign institutions 8.7%, domestic institutions 10.1% and the public 27.0% (latest quarter). The biggest move on the register over the last two years: Promoters added 1.3 points over 8 quarters. — as of 31 July 2026.
Does Garware Technical Fibres Ltd have too much debt?
No — Garware Technical Fibres Ltd's debt-to-equity is 0.03, and operating profit covers the interest bill 20×. FY26 borrowings were ₹43.0 Cr against equity of ₹1,354 Cr. The returns on this page are earned, not borrowed — as of 31 July 2026.
What is Garware Technical Fibres Ltd's capex?
Garware Technical Fibres Ltd spent ₹262 Cr on capital expenditure over the last 3 fiscal years, a figure derived from the change in fixed assets plus depreciation. In FY26 alone that was ₹177 Cr, with ₹1.0 Cr in capital work-in-progress — capacity paid for but not yet earning. — as of 31 July 2026.
What is Garware Technical Fibres Ltd's cash flow?
Garware Technical Fibres Ltd generated ₹162 Cr of operating cash flow in FY26 and ₹−15.0 Cr of free cash flow after ₹177 Cr of capital spending. Reported profit that year was ₹199 Cr, so operating cash ran behind profit. Cash-flow resolution for India is annual. — as of 31 July 2026.
Is Garware Technical Fibres Ltd's profit real cash?
Yes — over the last 3 fiscal years, 90% of Garware Technical Fibres Ltd's reported profit arrived as operating cash. In FY26, operating cash was ₹162 Cr against reported profit of ₹199 Cr. The cash then goes mostly into building capacity. Cash-flow resolution is annual — as of 31 July 2026.
Where is Garware Technical Fibres Ltd in its business cycle?
Garware Technical Fibres Ltd's FY26 operating margin was 19.0%, against a 13-year band of 9.0%–21.0%: mid-band by its own history — neither the peak that precedes mean-reversion nor the trough that precedes recovery. The latest quarter ran 23.0%. Profitability versus a company's own long band is the cleanest cycle clock this page holds — as of 31 July 2026.
What could break the Garware Technical Fibres Ltd story?
Biggest watch item: the price is not yet in a confirmed uptrend — timing risk, not thesis risk. Mechanically, two Friday closes in a row below the 200-day average would end the price trend — that is the exit rule this page tracks — as of 31 July 2026.
Is Garware Technical Fibres Ltd a stock worth studying right now?
This is not investment advice. The machine read: Garware Technical Fibres Ltd's three tracks disagree. Price, valuation and the earnings engine each tell a different story — the next quarter or two settles it. The sharpest open question: the next one or two quarters of delivery. Every number on this page is drawn deterministically from the raw series, with no forecasts and no price opinions — as of 31 July 2026.