Kalpataru 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.

Kalpataru Ltd trades at ₹286, in a downtrend and 59 weeks into that stage. That is −12.5% against its own 200-day average. It sits at 15% of a 52-week range of ₹266 to ₹397. On relative strength it is currently behind the NIFTY 500 on a trailing-13-week view (9 weeks and counting).

Today the stock is in a downtrend — week 59 of stage 4, confirmed. At ₹286 it trades −12.5% versus its 200-day average and sits at 15% of its 52-week range (₹266–₹397).

Against the market, two honest reads. Cumulative: over the last 1.1 years the stock moved −31% while the NIFTY 500 moved +0% — behind the index over the full window. Recent form: on a trailing-13-week view the stock is currently behind (9 weeks and counting; last ahead the week of 2026-06-24) — 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.

Kalpataru Ltd trades at 48.0× P/E, about the cheapest it has ever traded. Its long-run median P/E is 274.6×, measured across 0.9 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 48.0× is about the cheapest it has ever traded, against a long-run median of 274.6× measured over 0.9 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 +252.7% against a −26.4% price move — earnings outran the price, pushing the multiple DOWN its own range.

Put together: the multiple is low 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).

Kalpataru 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. The read is built from 6 quarters across 1 curve, on partial evidence.

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

One or more growth curves carry a base-effect spike — a large year-on-year move off a near-zero or loss-making comparable quarter. Those spikes are capped before the classifier reads the trajectory, and shown pinned on the chart, so a single distorted quarter does not drive the stage call.

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.

4-Factor Sector Score

31.5/100 — rank 2 of 2 in Construction - Housing · 58% evidence confidence

Kalpataru Ltd scores 31.5 out of 100 against the 2 companies it is compared with in Construction - Housing, ranking 2. Fill the missing evidence before acting; the ranking is deliberately pulled toward neutral.

The four contributions add to the total exactly: 15.5 + 3 + 10 + 3 = 31.5. 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.

Kalpataru Ltd reported ₹472 Cr of revenue in the Jun 26 quarter, +6.5% year on year. That is the 2nd straight quarter of year-on-year growth. Over 6 years it has compounded at 16.7% a year. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹3,436 Cr. The last four reported quarters add to ₹3,465 Cr.

FY26 revenue came in at ₹3,436 Cr (+54.6% on the year), capping 6 years at 16.7% compound. The latest quarter (Jun 26) printed ₹472 Cr, +6.5% year on year — the 2nd consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth.

Pace check: the last four quarters averaged +58.3% growth against the decade's 16.7% — 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.

Kalpataru Ltd's operating margin is −10.0% in the Jun 26 quarter, −4.0 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. Across 7 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged −7.0% to 8.0%. The current quarter is running below every full year in that window.

The latest quarter's operating margin is −10.0%, −4.0 pp against the same quarter a year ago. Across 7 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged −7.0%–8.0%.

🚨 Why the margin moved: operating margin went −3.3 pp year on year while gross margin went +0.0 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.

Kalpataru Ltd posted a net loss of ₹29.0 Cr in the Jun 26 quarter. Full-year FY26 profit was ₹80.0 Cr. That loss is 6.1% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier lost ₹52.0 Cr. 4 of the last 10 reported quarters were loss-making.

Jun 26 profit was ₹−29.0 Cr, null year on year. On the full year, FY26 printed ₹80.0 Cr (+220.0%).

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 2 fiscal years 1,272% of Kalpataru Ltd's reported profit arrived as operating cash — the cash follows the profit. In FY26 that was ₹848 Cr of operating cash against ₹80.0 Cr of profit. After ₹−15.0 Cr of capital spending, ₹863 Cr was left as free cash.

FY26: operating cash of ₹848 Cr against reported profit of ₹80.0 Cr, leaving free cash of ₹863 Cr after ₹−15.0 Cr of capital spending. Across the last 2 fiscal years the conversion rate is 1,272% 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 1,272%: the cash cycle tightened 2,204 days between FY21 and FY26 — cash that used to wait in the cycle now reaches the bank sooner.

Router verdict: no single sink dominates — the next section checks both the working-capital cycle and the capital spending.

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).

Kalpataru Ltd's cash conversion cycle runs 68 days in FY26, down from 2,272 days in FY21. Capital spending ran ₹115 Cr over the last 3 years. At FY26 sales of ₹3,436 Cr each day of that cycle holds about ₹9.4 Cr, so roughly ₹640 Cr sits inside the business at any moment.

FY26: debtors at 68 days (an asset-light business — no inventory to speak of) — for a full cycle of 68 days, tighter than FY21's 2,272.

In money terms: at FY26 sales of ₹3,436 Cr, each day of the cycle holds about ₹9.4 Cr — so the 68-day loop keeps roughly ₹640 Cr sitting inside the business at any moment.

On the investment side: capital spending of ₹115 Cr over the last 3 fiscal years against ₹117 Cr of depreciation — spending at or below maintenance level. Capital work-in-progress stands at ₹109 Cr (FY26) — capacity paid for but not yet earning.

The synthesis: neither the cycle nor the build-out is hoarding the cash — the machine is reasonably clean.

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.

Kalpataru Ltd earns a ROCE of 1% in FY26. That is up from a trough of −1% in FY24. A return-on-invested-capital spread against the cost of capital is not computable from what is held here. The wiring behind it is 2.3% net margin on 0.19× asset turns.

FY26 ROCE is 1%, recovered from a FY24 trough of −1% — the full ladder below shows the fall and the climb, undoctored.

Why the return is what it is — the wiring (FY26): 2.3% net margin × 0.19× asset turns × 4.29× balance-sheet leverage ≈ 1.9% on equity. Margin does its share; leverage is a meaningful part of the equation.

The quarterly return curves and the return-on-invested-capital overlay, which only the second data source carries, are not drawn on this page: its two data sources disagree by up to 33% on reported income across 9 comparable periods. A figure two sources cannot agree on is not drawn — the gap is a decision, not missing data.

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.

Kalpataru Ltd carries ₹9,168 Cr of borrowings against ₹4,117 Cr of equity in FY26, a debt-to-equity of 2.23. Operating profit covers the interest bill 2×. Over 5 years borrowings went from ₹7,374 Cr to ₹9,168 Cr. Capital spending ran ₹115 Cr across the last 3 of those years.

FY26: borrowings of ₹9,168 Cr against equity of ₹4,117 Cr — a debt-to-equity of 2.23. Operating profit covers the interest bill 2×. Over 5 years borrowings went from ₹7,374 Cr to ₹9,168 Cr while capital spending ran ₹115 Cr in just the last 3 — part of the build-out is riding on borrowed money.

The total-debt and debt-to-equity series, which only the second data source carries, are not drawn on this page: its two data sources disagree by up to 33% on reported income across 9 comparable periods. A figure two sources cannot agree on is not drawn — the gap is a decision, not missing data.

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 added 2.0 points of Kalpataru Ltd over 4 quarters, the biggest move on the register. That takes domestic institutions to 8.2% of the company. Foreign institutions moved −1.8 points over the same window, to 5.9%. The register is read on the four disclosed classes only; nothing is inferred between filings.

The register over the last two years — Domestic institutions: +2.0 points over 4 quarters to 8.2%; Foreign institutions: −1.8 points over 4 quarters to 5.9%; Promoters: +0.0 points over 4 quarters to 81.3%.

Why the register moved: rotation — foreign institutions −1.8 points against domestic institutions +2.0 points over 4 quarters, with promoters holding steady — one class of institutions handing the register to the other, not a verdict change by the people closest to the numbers.

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.

Kalpataru 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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