Rane Brake Lining 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.

Rane Brake Lining Ltd trades at ₹745, in a downtrend and 16 weeks into that stage. That is −13.1% against its own 200-day average. It sits at 11% of a 52-week range of ₹669 to ₹1,335. On relative strength it is currently behind the NIFTY 500 on a trailing-13-week view (23 weeks and counting).

Today the stock is in a downtrend — week 16 of stage 4, confirmed. At ₹745 it trades −13.1% versus its 200-day average and sits at 11% of its 52-week range (₹669–₹1,335).

Against the market, two honest reads. Cumulative: over the last 9.1 years the stock moved +97% while the NIFTY 500 moved +253% — behind the index over the full window. Recent form: on a trailing-13-week view the stock is currently behind (23 weeks and counting; last ahead the week of 2024-11-14) — 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.

Rane Brake Lining Ltd trades at 12.6× P/E, near the bottom of its own range — cheaper only 16% of the time. Its long-run median P/E is 17.4×, measured across 9.1 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 12.6× is near the bottom of its own range — cheaper only 16% of the time, against a long-run median of 17.4× measured over 9.1 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 +20.4% against a −4.1% price move — earnings outran the price, pushing the multiple DOWN its own range.

The price move, decomposed: over 5y, of the +12.7%/yr price move, ~+3.2%/yr came from earnings growth and ~+9.5 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 low 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, Rane Brake Lining Ltd was priced for profit growth of about 4.5% a year. Profit itself has compounded 8.9% a year over the past 10 years. The market pays that at 12.6× P/E, the 16th percentile of its own 9-year range.

What the two numbers say together. The multiple is low against its own past, and the growth the price is paying for is close to 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: 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).

Rane Brake Lining Ltd reads as mixed on its fundamental arc. Mixed — no clean majority across the growth curves, ROCE holding at 21.0% — the per-curve reads carry the story. The read is built from 9 quarters across 3 curves, on partial evidence.

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

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

49.1/100 — rank 2 of 2 in Auto Ancillaries - Axle & Brakes · 45% evidence confidence · provisional, ranked below fully-evidenced peers

Rane Brake Lining Ltd scores 49.1 out of 100 against the 2 companies it is compared with in Auto Ancillaries - Axle & Brakes, ranking 2. Fill the missing evidence before acting; the ranking is deliberately pulled toward neutral.

The four contributions add to the total exactly: 18.3 + 15 + 12.6 + 3.2 = 49.1. 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.

Rane Brake Lining Ltd reported ₹185 Cr of revenue in the Dec 24 quarter, +12.8% year on year. That is the 9th straight quarter of year-on-year growth. Over 10 years it has compounded at 6.0% a year. The last full year, FY24, came in at ₹661 Cr. The last four reported quarters add to ₹705 Cr.

FY24 revenue came in at ₹661 Cr (+10.4% on the year), capping 10 years at 6.0% compound. The latest quarter (Dec 24) printed ₹185 Cr, +12.8% year on year — the 9th consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth.

Pace check: the last four quarters averaged +10.1% growth against the decade's 6.0% — the current year is running faster than its own long-run rate.

Acceleration check: trailing-twelve-month revenue grew +10.3% over the last 4 quarters against +9.5%/yr over the last 8 — stabilising; TTM profit +21.2% vs +13.9%/yr — accelerating.

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.

Rane Brake Lining Ltd's operating margin is 10.0% in the Dec 24 quarter, −1.0 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. Across 12 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 9.0% to 16.0%. The current quarter sits inside that band.

The latest quarter's operating margin is 10.0%, −1.0 pp against the same quarter a year ago. Across 12 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 9.0%–16.0%.

🚨 Why the margin moved: operating margin went −1.0 pp year on year while gross margin went +1.3 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.

Rane Brake Lining Ltd earned ₹9.5 Cr of net profit in the Dec 24 quarter, −6.4% year on year. Full-year FY24 profit was ₹40.0 Cr. The 10-year compound rate is 8.9%. That is 5.1% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned ₹10.1 Cr.

Dec 24 profit was ₹9.5 Cr, −6.4% year on year. On the full year, FY24 printed ₹40.0 Cr (+21.2%), and the 10-year compound rate is 8.9%.

🚨 Why profit moved: revenue contributed +12.8% and the margin −1.0 pp — the quarter was revenue-led, with the margin roughly flat.

Pace comparison, last four quarters: profit +26.8% vs revenue +10.1%. 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 89% of Rane Brake Lining Ltd's reported profit arrived as operating cash — the cash follows the profit. In FY24 that was ₹29.0 Cr of operating cash against ₹40.0 Cr of profit. After ₹34.0 Cr of capital spending, ₹−5.0 Cr was left as free cash.

FY24: operating cash of ₹29.0 Cr against reported profit of ₹40.0 Cr, leaving free cash of ₹−5.0 Cr after ₹34.0 Cr of capital spending. Across the last 3 fiscal years the conversion rate is 89% 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 89%: the cash cycle stretched 100 days between FY19 and FY24 — more of each rupee of profit waits inside the cycle before arriving.

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).

Rane Brake Lining Ltd's cash conversion cycle runs 112 days in FY24, up from 12 days in FY19. Capital spending ran ₹77.0 Cr over the last 3 years. At FY24 sales of ₹661 Cr each day of that cycle holds about ₹1.8 Cr, so roughly ₹203 Cr sits inside the business at any moment.

FY24: debtors at 81 days, inventory at 94 days — roughly 3.1 months of stock waiting to sell; that is where the cash sits while it waits — for a full cycle of 112 days, looser than FY19's 12.

The full loop: cash goes out to suppliers and production on day 0; stock waits 94 days to sell; customers pay about 81 days after that; and suppliers themselves are paid at 64 days — netting out to the 112-day cycle.

In money terms: at FY24 sales of ₹661 Cr, each day of the cycle holds about ₹1.8 Cr — so the 112-day loop keeps roughly ₹203 Cr sitting inside the business at any moment.

On the investment side: capital spending of ₹77.0 Cr over the last 3 fiscal years against ₹63.0 Cr of depreciation — building somewhat ahead of wear-and-tear. Capital work-in-progress stands at ₹7.0 Cr (FY24) — 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.

Rane Brake Lining Ltd earns a ROCE of 21% in FY24. That is up from a trough of 10% in FY13. Return on invested capital clears the cost of that capital by +3.6 percentage points, so growth here adds value rather than only size. The wiring behind it is 6.1% net margin on 1.65× asset turns.

FY24 ROCE is 21%, recovered from a FY13 trough of 10% — the full ladder below shows the fall and the climb, undoctored.

Why the return is what it is — the wiring (FY24): 6.1% net margin × 1.65× asset turns × 1.43× balance-sheet leverage ≈ 14.4% on equity. Margin does its share; leverage is modest — this is an earned return, not a borrowed one.

The capstone test — ROIC − WACC: 15.6% − 12.0% = a +3.6 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. Positive but thin — value creation with little room for error.

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.

Rane Brake Lining Ltd carries ₹1.0 Cr of borrowings against ₹281 Cr of equity in FY24, a debt-to-equity of 0.00. Over 5 years borrowings went from ₹0.0 Cr to ₹1.0 Cr. Capital spending ran ₹77.0 Cr across the last 3 of those years.

FY24: borrowings of ₹1.0 Cr against equity of ₹281 Cr — a debt-to-equity of 0.00. Over 5 years borrowings went from ₹0.0 Cr to ₹1.0 Cr while capital spending ran ₹77.0 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 Rane Brake Lining Ltd moved a full percentage point over the last two years — the register is quiet. Promoters moved +0.0 points over the same window, to 70.9%. The register is read on the four disclosed classes only; nothing is inferred between filings.

The register over the last two years — Domestic institutions: −0.3 points over 8 quarters to 3.3%; Promoters: +0.0 points over 8 quarters to 70.9%; Foreign 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.

Rane Brake Lining 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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