Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation 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.

Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation Ltd trades at ₹66.5, in a downtrend and 34 weeks into that stage. That is −9.2% against its own 200-day average. It sits at 19% of a 52-week range of ₹58 to ₹100. On relative strength it is currently behind the NIFTY 500 on a trailing-13-week view (8 weeks and counting).

Today the stock is in a downtrend — week 34 of stage 4, confirmed. At ₹66.5 it trades −9.2% versus its 200-day average and sits at 19% of its 52-week range (₹58–₹100).

Against the market, two honest reads. Cumulative: over the last 10.4 years the stock moved +229% while the NIFTY 500 moved +276% — behind the index over the full window. Recent form: on a trailing-13-week view the stock is currently behind (8 weeks and counting; last ahead the week of 2026-06-19) — 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.

Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation Ltd trades at 6.4× P/E, near the bottom of its own range — cheaper only 23% of the time. Its long-run median P/E is 10.0×, measured across 10.4 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 6.4× is near the bottom of its own range — cheaper only 23% of the time, against a long-run median of 10.0× measured over 10.4 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 +35.9% against a −28.9% price move — earnings outran the price, pushing the multiple DOWN its own range.

The price move, decomposed: over 5y, of the +0.8%/yr price move, ~+25.3%/yr came from earnings growth and ~−24.5 pp from the multiple (compressing); over 10y, of the +11.9%/yr price move, ~+35.2%/yr came from earnings growth and ~−23.3 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 low against its own past, so the story rests on the earnings line underneath it, not the multiple.

A quarterly PEG curve, which only the second data source carries, is not drawn on this page: its two data sources do not share enough overlapping reported history to be compared. A figure nobody could check is not used to price growth — the gap is a decision, not missing data.

Stage: Improving 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).

Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation Ltd reads as improving on its fundamental arc. Improving — profit growth bottomed 8 quarters ago at −63.3% and has held its recovery at +52.6% (single-quarter readings), ROCE holding at 18.0%. The read is built from 10 quarters across 3 curves, on partial evidence.

Why it matters: a sustained climb off the trough is the setup this page is built to catch — the question moves to what you pay for it.

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

49.6/100 — rank 8 of 15 in Fertilisers · 76% evidence confidence

Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation Ltd scores 49.6 out of 100 against the 15 companies it is compared with in Fertilisers, ranking 8. Balanced evidence: keep at normal research priority and require another comparable period before raising conviction.

The four contributions add to the total exactly: 17.5 + 14.3 + 11.3 + 6.5 = 49.6. 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.

Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation Ltd reported ₹584 Cr of revenue in the Mar 26 quarter, −22.5% year on year. Over 10 years it has compounded at 4.3% a year. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹2,956 Cr. The last four reported quarters add to ₹2,956 Cr.

FY26 revenue came in at ₹2,956 Cr (−4.2% on the year), capping 10 years at 4.3% compound. The latest quarter (Mar 26) printed ₹584 Cr, −22.5% year on year.

Pace check: the last four quarters averaged −4.2% growth against the decade's 4.3% — the current year is running slower than its own long-run rate.

Acceleration check: trailing-twelve-month revenue grew −4.2% over the last 4 quarters against +23.3%/yr over the last 8 — rolling over; TTM profit +36.1% vs +36.6%/yr — stabilising.

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.

Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation Ltd's operating margin is 8.0% in the Mar 26 quarter, +3.1 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. Across 13 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged −6.0% to 13.0%. The current quarter sits inside that band.

The latest quarter's operating margin is 8.0%, +3.1 pp against the same quarter a year ago. Across 13 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged −6.0%–13.0%.

Why the margin moved: operating margin went +2.8 pp year on year while gross margin went +4.0 pp — the gain 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.

Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation Ltd earned ₹29.0 Cr of net profit in the Mar 26 quarter, +52.6% year on year. It is the 4th consecutive quarter of growth. Full-year FY26 profit was ₹211 Cr. The 10-year compound rate is 21.1%. That is 5.0% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned ₹19.0 Cr.

Mar 26 profit was ₹29.0 Cr, +52.6% year on year — the 4th consecutive quarter of growth. On the full year, FY26 printed ₹211 Cr (+35.3%), and the 10-year compound rate is 21.1%.

Why profit moved: revenue contributed −22.5% and the margin +3.1 pp — the quarter was margin-led: most of the profit growth came from keeping more of each sale.

Pace comparison, last four quarters: profit +43.8% vs revenue −4.2%. 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 122% of Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation Ltd's reported profit arrived as operating cash — the cash follows the profit. In FY26 that was ₹395 Cr of operating cash against ₹211 Cr of profit. After ₹380 Cr of capital spending, ₹15.0 Cr was left as free cash.

FY26: operating cash of ₹395 Cr against reported profit of ₹211 Cr, leaving free cash of ₹15.0 Cr after ₹380 Cr of capital spending. Across the last 3 fiscal years the conversion rate is 122% 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 122%: the cash cycle stretched 237 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 4.4× 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).

Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation Ltd's cash conversion cycle runs −26 days in FY26, up from −263 days in FY21. Capital spending ran ₹526 Cr over the last 3 years. At FY26 sales of ₹2,956 Cr each day of that cycle holds about ₹8.1 Cr, so roughly ₹−211 Cr sits inside the business at any moment.

FY26: debtors at 2 days, inventory at 16 days — roughly 0.5 months of stock waiting to sell; that is where the cash sits while it waits — for a full cycle of −26 days, looser than FY21's −263.

The full loop: cash goes out to suppliers and production on day 0; stock waits 16 days to sell; customers pay about 2 days after that; and suppliers themselves are paid at 44 days — netting out to the −26-day cycle.

In money terms: at FY26 sales of ₹2,956 Cr, each day of the cycle holds about ₹8.1 Cr — so the −26-day loop keeps roughly ₹−211 Cr sitting inside the business at any moment.

On the investment side: capital spending of ₹526 Cr over the last 3 fiscal years against ₹120 Cr of depreciation — the company is building well ahead of wear-and-tear. Capital work-in-progress stands at ₹448 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.⚠ unverified

Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation Ltd earns a ROCE of 18% in FY26. That is up from a trough of −3% in FY14. Return on invested capital clears the cost of that capital by −1.9 percentage points, so growth here is not yet paying for the capital it uses. The wiring behind it is 7.1% net margin on 1.18× asset turns.

FY26 ROCE is 18%, recovered from a FY14 trough of −3% — the full ladder below shows the fall and the climb, undoctored.

🚨 Why the return is what it is — the wiring (FY26): 7.1% net margin × 1.18× asset turns × 1.82× balance-sheet leverage ≈ 15.2% on equity. Margin does its share; leverage is a meaningful part of the equation.

The capstone test — ROIC − WACC: 10.1% − 12.0% = a −1.9 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. Low is the safe corner; the trend matters as much as the level.⚠ unverified

Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation Ltd carries total debt of ₹703 Cr against shareholder equity of ₹1,370 Cr as of Mar 26, a debt-to-equity of 0.51. On the annual view that ratio went from 0.44 in FY22 to 0.51 in FY26. Read the returns elsewhere on this page with that leverage in mind.

Mar 26: total debt of ₹703 Cr against shareholder equity of ₹1,370 Cr — a debt-to-equity of 0.51. On the annual view, debt-to-equity went from 0.44 (FY22) to 0.51 (FY26). Read the returns on this page with that leverage in mind.

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.

Foreign institutions added 4.5 points of Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation Ltd over 8 quarters, the biggest move on the register. That takes foreign institutions to 4.8% of the company. Domestic institutions moved −1.5 points over the same window, to 0.1%. The register is read on the four disclosed classes only; nothing is inferred between filings.

The register over the last two years — Foreign institutions: +4.5 points over 8 quarters to 4.8%; Domestic institutions: −1.5 points over 8 quarters to 0.1%; Promoters: +0.0 points over 8 quarters to 53.4%.

Why the register moved: rotation — foreign institutions +4.5 points against domestic institutions −1.5 points over 8 quarters, with promoters holding steady — 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.

Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation 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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