Manika Plastech Ltd

Price story A share price tends to move through four phases: moving sideways (stage 1), rising (stage 2), stalling near a high (stage 3) and falling (stage 4). The phase helps read everything below.

Manika Plastech Ltd's share price was ₹50.0 at the close on 16 October 2026. That is 13.9% above its average price over the last 200 trading days. In the last 52 weeks it traded between ₹41 and ₹59, and today it sits 50% of the way up from that low.

There is not enough history yet to compare it with the NIFTY 500.

Over the last 1 months the share price moved +16% while the NIFTY 500 moved −1%, so it is ahead of the index over that whole period. The chart below shows the 13-week comparison for every week.

This page treats a rise as over when the price closes below its 200-day average on two Fridays in a row.

Valuation P/E is the share price divided by a year's profit per share: how many rupees the market pays for each rupee of yearly profit.

Manika Plastech Ltd's P/E is 26.0×, with too little history to compare. Its usual P/E (the middle reading) is 22.4×, over 0.1 years of weekly prices. This compares the share price with the company’s own past. It does not say what the business is worth.

In short: the multiple is about average against its own past, so the earnings trend underneath matters more than the multiple.

Business trend Every business is somewhere on a path of getting better or worse, and this section names where. The last 12 quarters of growth in revenue, profit and earnings per share, plus the return the business earns on its capital, are read as lines. Getting worse: the lines are falling. Turning around: a low point has just formed and the last few quarters are rising from it. Getting better: the rise from the low has lasted. Growing steadily: steady growth with healthy returns. Slowing from a peak: still high, but slowing. When the lines disagree the result is mixed; too little history means no reading. CAGR (compound annual growth rate) is the steady yearly rate that would turn the starting value into the latest one. It is the fairest way to compare growth over different periods. If the 1-year figure is much bigger than the 10-year one, recent growth is running faster than the long-run trend. A dash means there is no figure for that period, or the starting year was a loss, where a growth rate means nothing.

Manika Plastech Ltd's business trend cannot be read yet. There are fewer than eight usable quarters of growth figures, so there is not enough history to read the trend.

Why it matters: with too little history, we say so rather than guess a direction.

There are fewer than eight usable quarters, so this page does not guess a direction from so little history.

Revenue Revenue is everything the company billed its customers in the period.

Manika Plastech Ltd's latest quarterly revenue is not on file. Over 5 years it has grown 10.2% a year on average. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹436 Cr.

FY26 revenue was ₹436 Cr, +7.4% on the year before.

Operating margin Operating margin is what is left from every ₹100 of sales after the costs of running the business, before interest and tax. It shows pricing power and cost control.

We do not have a clean operating margin for Manika Plastech Ltd. Its accounts do not report the operating-profit line this section uses, which is common for lenders and holding companies. The other sections show what its filings do report.

Why: the operating margin move is clear, but the cost details behind it are not in our data, so we show the move without guessing the reason.

As noted under valuation: when margins are at a record, every ratio built on profit looks better than usual, so a low multiple can mislead.

Net profit Net profit is what is left after every cost, interest and tax. Earnings per share, dividends and book value all grow from it.

Manika Plastech Ltd's latest quarterly profit is not on file. Full-year FY26 profit was ₹22.0 Cr. Over 5 years profit has grown 25.7% a year on average.

For the full year, FY26 profit was ₹22.0 Cr (+15.8% on the year before).

Cash flow The profit and loss account shows what was earned. The cash-flow statement shows the cash that actually came in. Comparing operating cash flow with profit is one of the best checks that a profit is real.

Over the last 3 years, 200% of Manika Plastech Ltd's reported profit came in as cash from its operations, so the profit is backed by cash. In FY26 it brought in ₹40.0 Cr of operating cash against ₹22.0 Cr of profit.

Cash-flow figures here are yearly, because quarterly cash statements are not published, so this section changes once a year.

Why 200% of profit came in as cash: the cash cycle got 14 days longer between FY21 and FY25, so more of each rupee of profit waits in the business before it arrives.

What to look at next: the bigger use of cash is spending on new assets, at 3.0× depreciation over three years. The next section checks what that spending is building.

Where the cash goes Working capital is the cash tied up between paying suppliers and getting paid. Debtor days: how long customers take to pay. Inventory days: how long stock sits. The cash cycle: the whole loop, in days of sales.

Manika Plastech Ltd's cash cycle, the days between paying suppliers and getting paid by customers, was 95 days in FY25, up from 81 days in FY21. It spent ₹111 Cr on assets over the last 3 years. Customers take 55 days to pay, and stock sits for 86 days on average.

At FY26 sales of ₹436 Cr, each day of that cycle ties up about ₹1.2 Cr, so roughly ₹113 Cr is tied up in the business at any time.

FY25: customers took 55 days to pay and stock sat for 86 days, about 2.8 months of sales sitting as stock, for a full cycle of 95 days, longer than FY21's 81.

The full loop: cash goes out to suppliers and production on day 0. Stock sits for 86 days. Customers pay about 55 days after that. Suppliers are paid at 45 days. Together that makes the 95-day cycle.

Spending on assets: ₹111 Cr over the last 3 years, against ₹37.0 Cr of depreciation (the yearly wear and tear on existing assets). So it is building well beyond replacing what wears out. Work still in progress is ₹3.0 Cr (FY25): assets paid for that are not earning yet.

In short: the cash is going into new capacity, not getting stuck in the daily cycle. The question is 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, from shareholders and lenders together. It is the best single test of whether growth adds value or just size.

Manika Plastech Ltd earned a ROCE of 18% in FY25. That is up from a low of 14% in FY22. We cannot compare its return on capital used with its cost of capital from the data we have. It comes from a 4.7% net margin and 1.26× asset turnover (sales divided by assets).

Why the return is what it is (FY25): a 4.7% net margin × 1.26× asset turnover × 2.57× leverage (assets divided by equity) ≈ 15.2% on equity. The margin does its share; borrowing is a big part of it.

Debt Debt-to-equity shows how much of the business is paid for with borrowed money. Interest cover shows how many times operating profit pays the interest bill. Low debt and high cover are the safe combination.

Manika Plastech Ltd had ₹107 Cr of borrowings against ₹125 Cr of equity in FY25, so its debt is 0.86× its equity. Its operating profit is 4 times its interest bill. Over 4 years borrowings went from ₹52.0 Cr to ₹107 Cr. Over the last 3 of those years it spent ₹111 Cr on assets.

Part of the spending on assets is being paid for with borrowed money.

Ownership Who owns the company each quarter: promoters (the founders or controlling owners), foreign institutions, domestic institutions such as mutual funds, and the public. When people close to the business steadily raise their stake, that is worth noticing; a quiet list is also an answer.

No group of Manika Plastech Ltd's owners changed its stake by a full percentage point over the last two years. This uses the four owner groups that companies report every quarter; nothing is guessed between filings.

Balance-sheet safety The Z-score estimates how far a company is from balance-sheet trouble. Above about 3 is safe; below about 1.8 is the danger zone. It was built for manufacturers, so it is not used for banks and lenders.

For Manika Plastech Ltd, the Z-score is not available, so we say so rather than guess one. It estimates how far the balance sheet is from trouble; it is not a forecast of failure. The debt, cash-flow and return sections show the balance-sheet figures we do have, each with its own date.

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