Indian Hume Pipe Company 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.

Indian Hume Pipe Company Ltd trades at ₹370, in a confirmed uptrend and 5 weeks into that stage. That is +1.9% against its own 200-day average. It sits at 61% of a 52-week range of ₹286 to ₹424. 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 confirmed uptrend — week 5 of stage 2, confirmed. At ₹370 it trades +1.9% versus its 200-day average and sits at 61% of its 52-week range (₹286–₹424).

Against the market, two honest reads. Cumulative: over the last 10.5 years the stock moved +123% while the NIFTY 500 moved +267% — 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.

Indian Hume Pipe Company Ltd trades at 20.8× P/E, mid-range by its own standards (54th percentile). Its long-run median P/E is 19.9×, measured across 10.5 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 20.8× is mid-range by its own standards (54th percentile), against a long-run median of 19.9× measured over 10.5 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 −74.7% against a −3.7% price move — the price outran earnings, pushing the multiple UP its own range.

The price move, decomposed: over 5y, of the +13.3%/yr price move, ~+10.6%/yr came from earnings growth and ~+2.7 pp from the multiple (expanding); over 10y, of the +1.1%/yr price move, ~+5.9%/yr came from earnings growth and ~−4.8 pp from the multiple (compressing). 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.

The PEG ratio and its quarterly curve, which only the second data source carries, are not drawn on this page: its two data sources do not share enough overlapping reported history to be compared. A figure nobody could check is not used to price growth — the gap is a decision, not missing data.

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, Indian Hume Pipe Company Ltd was paying for profit growth of about 3.5% a year. Profit itself has compounded 17.1% a year over the past 10 years. Today the market pays 20.8× P/E, the 54th percentile of its own 11-year range.

What the two numbers say together. The multiple is unremarkable 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: 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).

Indian Hume Pipe Company Ltd reads as deteriorating on its fundamental arc. Deteriorating — revenue, profit and EPS growth are shrinking (revenue growth −9.3% latest against +7.3% at its 12-quarter best), ROCE holding at 10.0%. The read is built from 8 quarters across 4 curves, on partial evidence.

🚨 Why it matters: falling curves mean every cheap-looking ratio below needs a discount for direction.

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

41.7/100 — rank 4 of 6 in Cement Products · 84% evidence confidence

Indian Hume Pipe Company Ltd scores 41.7 out of 100 against the 6 companies it is compared with in Cement Products, 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: 4.9 + 14.8 + 9.6 + 12.4 = 41.7. 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.

Indian Hume Pipe Company Ltd reported ₹303 Cr of revenue in the Jun 26 quarter, −1.3% year on year. Over 10 years it has compounded at 3.4% a year. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹1,306 Cr. The last four reported quarters add to ₹1,301 Cr.

FY26 revenue came in at ₹1,306 Cr (−12.4% on the year), capping 10 years at 3.4% compound. The latest quarter (Jun 26) printed ₹303 Cr, −1.3% year on year.

Pace check: the last four quarters averaged −8.7% growth against the decade's 3.4% — the current year is running slower than its own long-run rate.

Acceleration check: trailing-twelve-month revenue grew −9.3% over the last 4 quarters against −3.8%/yr over the last 8 — rolling over; TTM profit −73.7% vs +20.0%/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.

Indian Hume Pipe Company Ltd's operating margin is 10.0% in the Jun 26 quarter, −1.0 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. Across 13 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 9.0% to 13.0%. The current quarter sits inside that band.

The latest quarter's operating margin is 10.0%, −1.0 pp against the same quarter a year ago. Across 13 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 9.0%–13.0%.

🚨 Why the margin moved: operating margin went −1.1 pp year on year while gross margin went +0.5 pp — the loss came mostly below the gross line: operating leverage, with costs spread over a bigger revenue base.

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

Indian Hume Pipe Company Ltd earned ₹24.0 Cr of net profit in the Jun 26 quarter, +9.1% year on year. Full-year FY26 profit was ₹141 Cr. The 10-year compound rate is 17.1%. That is 7.9% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned ₹22.0 Cr.

Jun 26 profit was ₹24.0 Cr, +9.1% year on year. On the full year, FY26 printed ₹141 Cr (−74.7%), and the 10-year compound rate is 17.1%.

Why profit moved: revenue contributed −1.3% and the margin −1.0 pp — the quarter was revenue-led, with the margin roughly flat.

Pace comparison, last four quarters: profit +106.4% vs revenue −8.7%. Profit is growing faster than sales — fixed costs are being spread over a bigger base, and each extra rupee of revenue drops more to 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 92% of Indian Hume Pipe Company Ltd's reported profit arrived as operating cash — the cash follows the profit. In FY26 that was ₹294 Cr of operating cash against ₹141 Cr of profit. After ₹14.0 Cr of capital spending, ₹280 Cr was left as free cash.

FY26: operating cash of ₹294 Cr against reported profit of ₹141 Cr, leaving free cash of ₹280 Cr after ₹14.0 Cr of capital spending. Across the last 3 fiscal years the conversion rate is 92% 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 92%: the cash cycle tightened 507 days between FY21 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 1.7× 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).

Indian Hume Pipe Company Ltd's cash conversion cycle runs −344 days in FY26, down from 163 days in FY21. Capital spending ran ₹83.0 Cr over the last 3 years. At FY26 sales of ₹1,306 Cr each day of that cycle holds about ₹3.6 Cr, so roughly ₹−1,231 Cr sits inside the business at any moment.

FY26: debtors at 136 days, inventory at 563 days — roughly 18.5 months of stock waiting to sell; that is where the cash sits while it waits — for a full cycle of −344 days, tighter than FY21's 163.

The full loop: cash goes out to suppliers and production on day 0; stock waits 563 days to sell; customers pay about 136 days after that; and suppliers themselves are paid at 1,042 days — netting out to the −344-day cycle.

In money terms: at FY26 sales of ₹1,306 Cr, each day of the cycle holds about ₹3.6 Cr — so the −344-day loop keeps roughly ₹−1,231 Cr sitting inside the business at any moment.

On the investment side: capital spending of ₹83.0 Cr over the last 3 fiscal years against ₹49.0 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.⚠ unverified

Indian Hume Pipe Company Ltd earns a ROCE of 10% in FY26. Return on invested capital clears the cost of that capital by −3.6 percentage points, so growth here is not yet paying for the capital it uses. The wiring behind it is 10.8% net margin on 0.47× asset turns.

FY26 ROCE is 10%.

🚨 Why the return is what it is — the wiring (FY26): 10.8% net margin × 0.47× asset turns × 1.89× balance-sheet leverage ≈ 9.6% on equity. Margin does its share; leverage is a meaningful part of the equation.

The capstone test — ROIC − WACC: 8.4% − 12.0% = a −3.6 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. Low is the safe corner; the trend matters as much as the level.⚠ unverified

Indian Hume Pipe Company Ltd carries total debt of ₹417 Cr against shareholder equity of ₹1,484 Cr as of Mar 26, a debt-to-equity of 0.28 — effectively unlevered. On the annual view that ratio went from 0.90 in FY22 to 0.28 in FY26. The returns elsewhere on this page are therefore earned rather than borrowed.

Mar 26: total debt of ₹417 Cr against shareholder equity of ₹1,484 Cr — a debt-to-equity of 0.28. On the annual view, debt-to-equity went from 0.90 (FY22) to 0.28 (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.

Domestic institutions cut 1.5 points of Indian Hume Pipe Company Ltd over 8 quarters, the biggest move on the register. That takes domestic institutions to 0.8% of the company. Foreign institutions moved −0.5 points over the same window, to 0.4%. The register is read on the four disclosed classes only; nothing is inferred between filings.

The register over the last two years — Domestic institutions: −1.5 points over 8 quarters to 0.8%; Foreign institutions: −0.5 points over 8 quarters to 0.4%; Promoters: +0.0 points over 8 quarters to 72.3%.

🚨 Why the register moved: domestic institutions drove it (−1.5 points), alongside foreign institutions (−0.5 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.

Indian Hume Pipe Company 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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