Lotus Chocolate 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.

Lotus Chocolate Company Ltd trades at ₹790, in a downtrend and 21 weeks into that stage. That is −16.7% against its own 200-day average. It sits at 14% of a 52-week range of ₹679 to ₹1,476. On relative strength it has been ahead of the NIFTY 500 on a trailing-13-week view for 1 straight week.

Today the stock is in a downtrend — week 21 of stage 4, confirmed. At ₹790 it trades −16.7% versus its 200-day average and sits at 14% of its 52-week range (₹679–₹1,476).

Against the market, two honest reads. Cumulative: over the last 10.0 years the stock moved +1,253% while the NIFTY 500 moved +260% — ahead of the index over the full window. Recent form: on a trailing-13-week view the stock has been ahead for 1 straight week — 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.

Lotus Chocolate Company Ltd trades at 173.2× P/E, at the pricey end of its own range (93rd percentile). Its long-run median P/E is 43.0×, measured across 10.1 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 173.2× is at the pricey end of its own range (93rd percentile), against a long-run median of 43.0× measured over 10.1 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 −99.4% against a −19.9% price move — the price outran earnings, pushing the multiple UP its own range.

The price move, decomposed: over 5y, of the +116.2%/yr price move, ~+43.3%/yr came from earnings growth and ~+72.9 pp from the multiple (expanding); over 10y, of the +29.8%/yr price move, ~+17.0%/yr came from earnings growth and ~+12.8 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 full against its own past, so the story rests on the earnings line underneath it, not the multiple.

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.

At its price on 13 June 2026, Lotus Chocolate Company Ltd was priced for profit growth of about 47.6% a year. The market pays that at 173.2× P/E, the 93rd percentile of its own 10-year range.

What the two numbers say together. The multiple is full against its own past, and the growth the price is paying for is the whole of what a buyer is backing. Both readings sit on the same earnings, so they are one reading rather than two.

How to hold this number: it is a reading of one day's price, taken on 13 June 2026, not a running figure. 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. Every other number on this page is read off the live quote.

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).

Lotus Chocolate Company Ltd reads as deteriorating on its fundamental arc. Deteriorating — revenue and profit growth are shrinking (revenue growth −13.3% latest against +293.5% at its 12-quarter best), ROCE holding at 10.0%. The read is built from 8 quarters across 3 curves, on partial evidence.

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

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.

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

21.4/100 — rank 2 of 2 in FMCG - Chocolate · 66% evidence confidence

Lotus Chocolate Company Ltd scores 21.4 out of 100 against the 2 companies it is compared with in FMCG - Chocolate, ranking 2. Balanced evidence: keep at normal research priority and require another comparable period before raising conviction.

The four contributions add to the total exactly: 2.2 + 6.2 + 10 + 3 = 21.4. 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.

Lotus Chocolate Company Ltd reported ₹92.0 Cr of revenue in the Jun 26 quarter, −42.1% year on year. Over 10 years it has compounded at 24.5% a year. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹580 Cr. The last four reported quarters add to ₹513 Cr.

FY26 revenue came in at ₹580 Cr (+1.0% on the year), capping 10 years at 24.5% compound. The latest quarter (Jun 26) printed ₹92.0 Cr, −42.1% year on year.

Pace check: the last four quarters averaged −11.3% growth against the decade's 24.5% — the current year is running slower than its own long-run rate.

Acceleration check: trailing-twelve-month revenue grew −13.3% over the last 4 quarters against +29.2%/yr over the last 8 — 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.

Lotus Chocolate Company Ltd's operating margin is −17.9% in the Jun 26 quarter, −21.0 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. Across 13 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged −9.0% to 7.0%. The current quarter is running below every full year in that window.

The latest quarter's operating margin is −17.9%, −21.0 pp against the same quarter a year ago. Across 13 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged −9.0%–7.0%.

🚨 Why the margin moved: operating margin went −21.0 pp year on year while gross margin went −9.9 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.

Lotus Chocolate Company Ltd earned ₹0.0 Cr of net profit in the Jun 26 quarter, −99.3% year on year. Full-year FY26 profit was ₹0.0 Cr. That is 0.0% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned ₹3.0 Cr. 1 of the last 12 reported quarters were loss-making.

Jun 26 profit was ₹0.0 Cr, −99.3% year on year. On the full year, FY26 printed ₹0.0 Cr (−100.0%).

🚨 Why profit moved: revenue contributed −42.1% and the margin −21.0 pp — the quarter was revenue-led despite a thinner margin.

Pace comparison, last four quarters: profit −170.7% vs revenue −11.3%. 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 −518% of Lotus Chocolate Company Ltd's reported profit arrived as operating cash — a gap worth watching. In FY26 that was ₹93.0 Cr of operating cash against ₹0.0 Cr of profit. After ₹10.0 Cr of capital spending, ₹83.0 Cr was left as free cash.

FY26: operating cash of ₹93.0 Cr against reported profit of ₹0.0 Cr, leaving free cash of ₹83.0 Cr after ₹10.0 Cr of capital spending. Across the last 3 fiscal years the conversion rate is −518% 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 −518%: the cash cycle tightened 42 days between FY21 and FY26 — cash that used to wait in the cycle now reaches the bank sooner. Less than 70% of profit arriving as cash is the thing to watch on this page.

Router verdict: the bigger cash user is investment — capital spending ran 5.6× 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).

Lotus Chocolate Company Ltd's cash conversion cycle runs 75 days in FY26, down from 117 days in FY21. Capital spending ran ₹39.0 Cr over the last 3 years. At FY26 sales of ₹580 Cr each day of that cycle holds about ₹1.6 Cr, so roughly ₹119 Cr sits inside the business at any moment.

FY26: debtors at 105 days, inventory at 32 days — roughly 1.1 months of stock waiting to sell; that is where the cash sits while it waits — for a full cycle of 75 days, tighter than FY21's 117.

The full loop: cash goes out to suppliers and production on day 0; stock waits 32 days to sell; customers pay about 105 days after that; and suppliers themselves are paid at 62 days — netting out to the 75-day cycle.

In money terms: at FY26 sales of ₹580 Cr, each day of the cycle holds about ₹1.6 Cr — so the 75-day loop keeps roughly ₹119 Cr sitting inside the business at any moment.

On the investment side: capital spending of ₹39.0 Cr over the last 3 fiscal years against ₹7.0 Cr of depreciation — the company is building well ahead of wear-and-tear. Capital work-in-progress stands at ₹3.0 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.

Lotus Chocolate Company Ltd earns a ROCE of 10% in FY26. That is up from a trough of −41% in FY23. A return-on-invested-capital spread against the cost of capital is not computable from what is held here. The wiring behind it is 0.0% net margin on 2.10× asset turns.

FY26 ROCE is 10%, recovered from a FY23 trough of −41% — the full ladder below shows the fall and the climb, undoctored.

Why the return is what it is — the wiring (FY26): 0.0% net margin × 2.10× asset turns × 4.60× balance-sheet leverage ≈ 0.0% on equity. Margin does its share; leverage is a meaningful part of the equation.

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.

Lotus Chocolate Company Ltd carries ₹93.0 Cr of borrowings against ₹60.0 Cr of equity in FY26, a debt-to-equity of 1.55. Operating profit covers the interest bill −1×. Over 5 years borrowings went from ₹24.0 Cr to ₹93.0 Cr. Capital spending ran ₹39.0 Cr across the last 3 of those years.

FY26: borrowings of ₹93.0 Cr against equity of ₹60.0 Cr — a debt-to-equity of 1.55. Operating profit covers the interest bill −1×. Over 5 years borrowings went from ₹24.0 Cr to ₹93.0 Cr while capital spending ran ₹39.0 Cr in just the last 3 — part of the build-out is riding on borrowed money.

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.

No holder of Lotus Chocolate Company Ltd moved a full percentage point over the last two years — the register is quiet. Foreign institutions moved +0.0 points over the same window, to 0.0%. The register is read on the four disclosed classes only; nothing is inferred between filings.

The register over the last two years — Promoters: +0.0 points over 8 quarters to 72.1%; Foreign institutions: +0.0 points over 8 quarters to 0.0%; Domestic institutions: +0.0 points over 8 quarters to 0.0%.

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.

Lotus Chocolate 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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