Gulf Oil Lubricants India 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.

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd trades at ₹1,069, in a downtrend and 29 weeks into that stage. That is +1.5% against its own 200-day average. It sits at 42% of a 52-week range of ₹902 to ₹1,301. On relative strength it has been ahead of the NIFTY 500 on a trailing-13-week view for 10 straight weeks.

Today the stock is in a downtrend — week 29 of stage 4, confirmed. At ₹1,069 it trades +1.5% versus its 200-day average and sits at 42% of its 52-week range (₹902–₹1,301).

Against the market, two honest reads. Cumulative: over the last 10.4 years the stock moved +125% while the NIFTY 500 moved +276% — behind the index over the full window. Recent form: on a trailing-13-week view the stock has been ahead for 10 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.

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd trades at 14.6× P/E, mid-range by its own standards (52nd percentile). Its long-run median P/E is 14.3×, measured across 4.2 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 14.6× is mid-range by its own standards (52nd percentile), against a long-run median of 14.3× measured over 4.2 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 −3.6% against a −8.7% price move — earnings outran the price, pushing the multiple DOWN its own range.

The price move, decomposed: over 3y, of the +27.4%/yr price move, ~+15.8%/yr came from earnings growth and ~+11.6 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).

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd reads as deteriorating on its fundamental arc. Deteriorating — profit and EPS growth are shrinking (profit growth −3.4% latest against +32.8% at its 12-quarter best), ROCE slipping at 31.7%. 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.

4-Factor Sector Score

45.7/100 — rank 4 of 4 in Lubricants · 91% evidence confidence

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd scores 45.7 out of 100 against the 4 companies it is compared with in Lubricants, ranking 4. Balanced evidence: keep at normal research priority and require another comparable period before raising conviction.

The four contributions add to the total exactly: 12.9 + 18.1 + 11.2 + 3.5 = 45.7. 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.

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd reported ₹1,055 Cr of revenue in the Mar 26 quarter, +10.7% year on year. That is the 12th straight quarter of year-on-year growth. Over 4 years it has compounded at 16.6% a year. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹4,056 Cr. The last four reported quarters add to ₹4,056 Cr.

FY26 revenue came in at ₹4,056 Cr (+11.7% on the year), capping 4 years at 16.6% compound. The latest quarter (Mar 26) printed ₹1,055 Cr, +10.7% year on year — the 12th consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth.

Pace check: the last four quarters averaged +11.7% growth against the decade's 16.6% — the current year is running slower than its own long-run rate.

Acceleration check: trailing-twelve-month revenue grew +11.7% over the last 4 quarters against +10.8%/yr over the last 8 — stabilising; TTM profit −3.4% vs +5.8%/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.

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd's operating margin is 13.0% in the Mar 26 quarter, −1.0 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 13.0%. The current quarter sits inside that band.

The latest quarter's operating margin is 13.0%, −1.0 pp against the same quarter a year ago. Across 5 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 11.0%–13.0%, and FY26's 13.0% is the top of that band — a record year.

🚨 Why the margin moved: operating margin went −0.6 pp year on year while gross margin went −0.7 pp — the loss came mostly from the gross line: input costs and pricing.

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.

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd earned ₹90.0 Cr of net profit in the Mar 26 quarter, −3.2% year on year. Full-year FY26 profit was ₹345 Cr. The 4-year compound rate is 13.1%. That is 8.5% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned ₹93.0 Cr.

Mar 26 profit was ₹90.0 Cr, −3.2% year on year. On the full year, FY26 printed ₹345 Cr (−3.4%), and the 4-year compound rate is 13.1%.

🚨 Why profit moved: revenue contributed +10.7% and the margin −1.0 pp — the quarter was revenue-led, with the margin roughly flat.

Pace comparison, last four quarters: profit −2.6% vs revenue +11.7%. 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 108% of Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd's reported profit arrived as operating cash — the cash follows the profit. In FY26 that was ₹350 Cr of operating cash against ₹345 Cr of profit. After ₹108 Cr of capital spending, ₹242 Cr was left as free cash.

FY26: operating cash of ₹350 Cr against reported profit of ₹345 Cr, leaving free cash of ₹242 Cr after ₹108 Cr of capital spending. Across the last 3 fiscal years the conversion rate is 108% 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 108%: the cash cycle tightened 77 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 2.0× 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).

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd's cash conversion cycle runs 38 days in FY26, down from 115 days in FY22. Capital spending ran ₹344 Cr over the last 3 years. At FY26 sales of ₹4,056 Cr each day of that cycle holds about ₹11.1 Cr, so roughly ₹422 Cr sits inside the business at any moment.

FY26: debtors at 48 days, inventory at 93 days — roughly 3.1 months of stock waiting to sell; that is where the cash sits while it waits — for a full cycle of 38 days, tighter than FY22's 115.

The full loop: cash goes out to suppliers and production on day 0; stock waits 93 days to sell; customers pay about 48 days after that; and suppliers themselves are paid at 103 days — netting out to the 38-day cycle.

In money terms: at FY26 sales of ₹4,056 Cr, each day of the cycle holds about ₹11.1 Cr — so the 38-day loop keeps roughly ₹422 Cr sitting inside the business at any moment.

On the investment side: capital spending of ₹344 Cr over the last 3 fiscal years against ₹176 Cr of depreciation — the company is building well ahead of wear-and-tear. Capital work-in-progress stands at ₹7.0 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.

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd earns a ROCE of 26% in FY26. That is up from a trough of 23% in FY23. Return on invested capital clears the cost of that capital by +23.8 percentage points, so growth here adds value rather than only size. The wiring behind it is 8.5% net margin on 1.35× asset turns.

FY26 ROCE is 26%, recovered from a FY23 trough of 23% — the full ladder below shows the fall and the climb, undoctored.

Why the return is what it is — the wiring (FY26): 8.5% net margin × 1.35× asset turns × 1.96× balance-sheet leverage ≈ 22.5% on equity. Margin does its share; leverage is a meaningful part of the equation.

The capstone test — ROIC − WACC: 35.8% − 12.0% = a +23.8 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.

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd carries total debt of ₹567 Cr against shareholder equity of ₹1,584 Cr as of Mar 26, a debt-to-equity of 0.36. On the annual view that ratio went from 0.37 in FY22 to 0.36 in FY26. Read the returns elsewhere on this page with that leverage in mind.

Mar 26: total debt of ₹567 Cr against shareholder equity of ₹1,584 Cr — a debt-to-equity of 0.36. On the annual view, debt-to-equity went from 0.37 (FY22) to 0.36 (FY26). Read the returns on this page with that leverage in mind.

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 cut 4.9 points of Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd over 8 quarters, the biggest move on the register. That takes promoters to 66.8% of the company. Domestic institutions moved +2.8 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: −4.9 points over 8 quarters to 66.8%; Domestic institutions: +2.8 points over 8 quarters to 8.7%; Foreign institutions: +2.1 points over 8 quarters to 7.8%.

🚨 Why the register moved: promoters drove it (−4.9 points), absorbed on the other side by domestic institutions (+2.8 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.

Gulf Oil Lubricants India 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.

Frequently asked questions