Orient Bell 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.

Orient Bell Ltd trades at ₹348, in a downtrend and 25 weeks into that stage. That is +19.8% against its own 200-day average. It sits at 100% of a 52-week range of ₹245 to ₹348. On relative strength it has been ahead of the NIFTY 500 on a trailing-13-week view for 5 straight weeks.

Today the stock is in a downtrend — week 25 of stage 4. At ₹348 it trades +19.8% versus its 200-day average and sits at 100% of its 52-week range (₹245–₹348).

Against the market, two honest reads. Cumulative: over the last 10.0 years the stock moved +127% while the NIFTY 500 moved +240% — behind the index over the full window. Recent form: on a trailing-13-week view the stock has been ahead for 5 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.

Orient Bell Ltd trades at 57.1× P/E, mid-range by its own standards (67th percentile). Its long-run median P/E is 32.3×, measured across 7.7 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 57.1× is mid-range by its own standards (67th percentile), against a long-run median of 32.3× measured over 7.7 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 +212.9% against a +32.7% price move — earnings outran the price, pushing the multiple DOWN its own range.

The price move, decomposed: over 5y, of the +8.8%/yr price move, ~+36.7%/yr came from earnings growth and ~−27.9 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 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, Orient Bell Ltd was priced for profit growth of about 32.2% a year. Profit itself has compounded −9.5% a year over the past 12 years. The market pays that at 57.1× P/E, the 67th percentile of its own 8-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 above what this company has actually delivered. 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: 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).

Orient Bell 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 9 quarters across 2 curves, on partial evidence.

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

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.

Revenue Revenue is the top line: everything the company billed its customers in the period.

Orient Bell Ltd reported ₹169 Cr of revenue in the Dec 25 quarter, +3.6% year on year. That is the 2nd straight quarter of year-on-year growth. Over 12 years it has compounded at 1.6% a year. The last full year, FY25, came in at ₹670 Cr. The last four reported quarters add to ₹675 Cr.

FY25 revenue came in at ₹670 Cr (−0.6% on the year), capping 12 years at 1.6% compound. The latest quarter (Dec 25) printed ₹169 Cr, +3.6% year on year — the 2nd consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth.

Pace check: the last four quarters averaged −0.4% growth against the decade's 1.6% — the current year is running slower than its own long-run rate.

Acceleration check: trailing-twelve-month revenue grew −0.7% over the last 4 quarters against +0.6%/yr over the last 8 — stabilising; TTM profit +78.8% vs +94.8%/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.

Orient Bell Ltd's operating margin is 6.1% in the Dec 25 quarter, +1.5 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. Across 12 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 3.0% to 10.0%. The current quarter sits inside that band.

The latest quarter's operating margin is 6.1%, +1.5 pp against the same quarter a year ago. Across 12 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 3.0%–10.0%.

Why the margin moved: operating margin went +1.5 pp year on year while gross margin went −0.5 pp — the gain 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.

Orient Bell Ltd earned ₹3.4 Cr of net profit in the Dec 25 quarter, +245.9% year on year. It is the 2nd consecutive quarter of growth. Full-year FY25 profit was ₹3.0 Cr. The 12-year compound rate is −9.5%. That is 2.0% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned ₹1.0 Cr.

Dec 25 profit was ₹3.4 Cr, +245.9% year on year — the 2nd consecutive quarter of growth. On the full year, FY25 printed ₹3.0 Cr (+200.0%), and the 12-year compound rate is −9.5%.

Why profit moved: revenue contributed +3.6% and the margin +1.5 pp — the quarter was revenue-led, with the margin roughly flat.

Pace comparison, last four quarters: profit +143.5% vs revenue −0.4%. 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 412% of Orient Bell Ltd's reported profit arrived as operating cash — the cash follows the profit. In FY25 that was ₹33.0 Cr of operating cash against ₹3.0 Cr of profit. After ₹6.0 Cr of capital spending, ₹27.0 Cr was left as free cash.

FY25: operating cash of ₹33.0 Cr against reported profit of ₹3.0 Cr, leaving free cash of ₹27.0 Cr after ₹6.0 Cr of capital spending. Across the last 3 fiscal years the conversion rate is 412% 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 412%: the cash cycle tightened 57 days between FY20 and FY25 — cash that used to wait in the cycle now reaches the bank sooner.

Router verdict: the bigger cash user is investment — capital spending ran 2.1× 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).

Orient Bell Ltd's cash conversion cycle runs 14 days in FY25, down from 71 days in FY20. Capital spending ran ₹136 Cr over the last 3 years. At FY25 sales of ₹670 Cr each day of that cycle holds about ₹1.8 Cr, so roughly ₹26.0 Cr sits inside the business at any moment.

FY25: debtors at 71 days, inventory at 71 days — roughly 2.3 months of stock waiting to sell; that is where the cash sits while it waits — for a full cycle of 14 days, tighter than FY20's 71.

The full loop: cash goes out to suppliers and production on day 0; stock waits 71 days to sell; customers pay about 71 days after that; and suppliers themselves are paid at 129 days — netting out to the 14-day cycle.

In money terms: at FY25 sales of ₹670 Cr, each day of the cycle holds about ₹1.8 Cr — so the 14-day loop keeps roughly ₹26.0 Cr sitting inside the business at any moment.

On the investment side: capital spending of ₹136 Cr over the last 3 fiscal years against ₹65.0 Cr of depreciation — the company is building well ahead of wear-and-tear. Capital work-in-progress stands at ₹1.0 Cr (FY25) — 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.

Orient Bell Ltd earns a ROCE of 2% in FY25. That is up from a trough of 1% in FY24. Return on invested capital clears the cost of that capital by −7.3 percentage points, so growth here is not yet paying for the capital it uses. The wiring behind it is 0.4% net margin on 1.27× asset turns.

FY25 ROCE is 2%, 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 (FY25): 0.4% net margin × 1.27× asset turns × 1.67× balance-sheet leverage ≈ 0.8% on equity. Margin does its share; leverage is a meaningful part of the equation.

The capstone test — ROIC − WACC: 4.7% − 12.0% = a −7.3 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; interest cover says how many times operating profit pays the interest bill. Low and high, respectively, is the safe corner.

Orient Bell Ltd carries ₹46.0 Cr of borrowings against ₹316 Cr of equity in FY25, a debt-to-equity of 0.15. Operating profit covers the interest bill 6×. Over 5 years borrowings went from ₹61.0 Cr to ₹46.0 Cr. Capital spending ran ₹136 Cr across the last 3 of those years.

FY25: borrowings of ₹46.0 Cr against equity of ₹316 Cr — a debt-to-equity of 0.15. Operating profit covers the interest bill 6×. Over 5 years borrowings went from ₹61.0 Cr to ₹46.0 Cr while capital spending ran ₹136 Cr in just the last 3 — the build-out is being paid for out of cash, not debt.

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 added 1.0 points of Orient Bell Ltd over 8 quarters, the biggest move on the register. That takes promoters to 65.9% of the company. Foreign institutions moved +0.1 points over the same window, to 0.2%. The register is read on the four disclosed classes only; nothing is inferred between filings.

The register over the last two years — Promoters: +1.0 points over 8 quarters to 65.9%; Foreign institutions: +0.1 points over 8 quarters to 0.2%; Domestic institutions: +0.0 points over 8 quarters to 0.0%.

Why the register moved: promoters drove it (+1.0 points) — steady accumulation by institutions reading the same numbers this page reads.

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.

Orient Bell 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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