Paradeep Phosphates 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.

Paradeep Phosphates Ltd trades at ₹156, in a confirmed uptrend and 5 weeks into that stage. That is +10.1% against its own 200-day average. It sits at 70% of a 52-week range of ₹105 to ₹178. On relative strength it has been ahead of the NIFTY 500 on a trailing-13-week view for 22 straight weeks.

Today the stock is in a confirmed uptrend — week 5 of stage 2, confirmed. At ₹156 it trades +10.1% versus its 200-day average and sits at 70% of its 52-week range (₹105–₹178).

Against the market, two honest reads. Cumulative: over the last 4.3 years the stock moved +255% while the NIFTY 500 moved +62% — ahead of the index over the full window. Recent form: on a trailing-13-week view the stock has been ahead for 22 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.

Paradeep Phosphates Ltd trades at 14.9× P/E, mid-range by its own standards (47th percentile). Its long-run median P/E is 15.5×, measured across 4.3 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 14.9× is mid-range by its own standards (47th percentile), against a long-run median of 15.5× measured over 4.3 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 +18.2% against a −8.6% price move — earnings outran the price, pushing the multiple DOWN its own range.

The price move, decomposed: over 3y, of the +29.1%/yr price move, ~+96.9%/yr came from earnings growth and ~−67.8 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 disagree by up to 24% on reported income across 14 comparable periods. A figure two sources cannot agree on is not drawn — 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, Paradeep Phosphates Ltd was paying for profit growth of about 4.5% a year. Profit itself has compounded 30.0% a year over the past 7 years. Today the market pays 14.9× P/E, the 47th percentile of its own 4-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: Mixed 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).

Paradeep Phosphates Ltd reads as mixed on its fundamental arc. Mixed — no clean majority across the growth curves, ROCE lifting at 15.0% — the per-curve reads carry the story. The read is built from 8 quarters across 4 curves, on partial evidence.

Why it matters: when the curves disagree, the per-curve reads above matter more than any single verdict.

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

49.2/100 — rank 7 of 15 in Fertilisers · 69% evidence confidence

Paradeep Phosphates Ltd scores 49.2 out of 100 against the 15 companies it is compared with in Fertilisers, ranking 7. Balanced evidence: keep at normal research priority and require another comparable period before raising conviction.

The four contributions add to the total exactly: 18 + 13.2 + 9.4 + 8.6 = 49.2. 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.

Paradeep Phosphates Ltd reported ₹6,124 Cr of revenue in the Jun 26 quarter, +36.0% year on year. That is the 8th straight quarter of year-on-year growth. Over 7 years it has compounded at 25.9% a year. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹21,826 Cr. The last four reported quarters add to ₹23,447 Cr.

FY26 revenue came in at ₹21,826 Cr (+28.7% on the year), capping 7 years at 25.9% compound. The latest quarter (Jun 26) printed ₹6,124 Cr, +36.0% year on year — the 8th consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth.

Pace check: the last four quarters averaged +28.0% growth against the decade's 25.9% — the current year is running faster than its own long-run rate.

Acceleration check: trailing-twelve-month revenue grew +28.1% over the last 4 quarters against +46.7%/yr over the last 8 — rolling over; TTM profit +12.6% vs +118.4%/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.

Paradeep Phosphates Ltd's operating margin is 12.0% in the Jun 26 quarter, −1.0 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. Across 8 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 6.0% to 11.0%. The current quarter is running above every full year in that window.

The latest quarter's operating margin is 12.0%, −1.0 pp against the same quarter a year ago. Across 8 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 6.0%–11.0%.

🚨 Why the margin moved: operating margin went −1.1 pp year on year while gross margin went −4.6 pp — the loss came mostly from the gross line: input costs and pricing.

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

Paradeep Phosphates Ltd earned ₹393 Cr of net profit in the Jun 26 quarter, +24.0% year on year. Full-year FY26 profit was ₹996 Cr. The 7-year compound rate is 30.0%. That is 6.4% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned ₹317 Cr.

Jun 26 profit was ₹393 Cr, +24.0% year on year. On the full year, FY26 printed ₹996 Cr (+50.5%), and the 7-year compound rate is 30.0%.

Why profit moved: revenue contributed +36.0% and the margin −1.0 pp — the quarter was revenue-led, with the margin roughly flat.

Pace comparison, last four quarters: profit +9.0% vs revenue +28.0%. 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 118% of Paradeep Phosphates Ltd's reported profit arrived as operating cash — the cash follows the profit. In FY26 that was ₹−1,012 Cr of operating cash against ₹996 Cr of profit. After ₹1,075 Cr of capital spending, ₹−2,087 Cr was left as free cash.

FY26: operating cash of ₹−1,012 Cr against reported profit of ₹996 Cr, leaving free cash of ₹−2,087 Cr after ₹1,075 Cr of capital spending. Across the last 3 fiscal years the conversion rate is 118% 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 118%: the cash cycle stretched 37 days between FY21 and FY26 — more of each rupee of profit waits inside the cycle before arriving.

Router verdict: the bigger cash user is investment — capital spending ran 4.0× 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).

Paradeep Phosphates Ltd's cash conversion cycle runs 115 days in FY26, up from 78 days in FY21. Capital spending ran ₹3,839 Cr over the last 3 years. At FY26 sales of ₹21,826 Cr each day of that cycle holds about ₹59.8 Cr, so roughly ₹6,877 Cr sits inside the business at any moment.

FY26: debtors at 80 days, inventory at 105 days — roughly 3.5 months of stock waiting to sell; that is where the cash sits while it waits — for a full cycle of 115 days, looser than FY21's 78.

The full loop: cash goes out to suppliers and production on day 0; stock waits 105 days to sell; customers pay about 80 days after that; and suppliers themselves are paid at 70 days — netting out to the 115-day cycle.

In money terms: at FY26 sales of ₹21,826 Cr, each day of the cycle holds about ₹59.8 Cr — so the 115-day loop keeps roughly ₹6,877 Cr sitting inside the business at any moment.

On the investment side: capital spending of ₹3,839 Cr over the last 3 fiscal years against ₹958 Cr of depreciation — the company is building well ahead of wear-and-tear. Capital work-in-progress stands at ₹424 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.

Paradeep Phosphates Ltd earns a ROCE of 15% in FY26. That is up from a trough of 7% 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 4.6% net margin on 1.22× asset turns.

FY26 ROCE is 15%, recovered from a FY24 trough of 7% — the full ladder below shows the fall and the climb, undoctored.

Why the return is what it is — the wiring (FY26): 4.6% net margin × 1.22× asset turns × 2.64× balance-sheet leverage ≈ 14.8% 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 24% on reported income across 14 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.

Paradeep Phosphates Ltd carries ₹6,906 Cr of borrowings against ₹6,783 Cr of equity in FY26, a debt-to-equity of 1.02. Operating profit covers the interest bill 4×. Over 5 years borrowings went from ₹1,251 Cr to ₹6,906 Cr. Capital spending ran ₹3,839 Cr across the last 3 of those years.

FY26: borrowings of ₹6,906 Cr against equity of ₹6,783 Cr — a debt-to-equity of 1.02. Operating profit covers the interest bill 4×. Over 5 years borrowings went from ₹1,251 Cr to ₹6,906 Cr while capital spending ran ₹3,839 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 24% on reported income across 14 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 cut 8.8 points of Paradeep Phosphates Ltd over 8 quarters, the biggest move on the register. That takes domestic institutions to 18.1% of the company. Foreign institutions moved +3.2 points over the same window, to 5.1%. The register is read on the four disclosed classes only; nothing is inferred between filings.

The register over the last two years — Domestic institutions: −8.8 points over 8 quarters to 18.1%; Foreign institutions: +3.2 points over 8 quarters to 5.1%; Promoters: +1.8 points over 8 quarters to 57.9%.

Why the register moved: rotation — foreign institutions +3.2 points against domestic institutions −8.8 points over 8 quarters, with promoters +1.8 points — 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.

Paradeep Phosphates 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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