Studds Accessories 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.

Studds Accessories Ltd trades at ₹410, in a downtrend and 42 weeks into that stage. That is −13.5% against its own 200-day average. It sits at 2% of a 52-week range of ₹407 to ₹560. On relative strength it is currently behind the NIFTY 500 on a trailing-13-week view (11 weeks and counting).

Today the stock is in a downtrend — week 42 of stage 4, confirmed. At ₹410 it trades −13.5% versus its 200-day average and sits at 2% of its 52-week range (₹407–₹560).

Against the market, two honest reads. Cumulative: over the last 11 months the stock moved −27% while the NIFTY 500 moved −5% — behind the index over the full window. Recent form: on a trailing-13-week view the stock is currently behind (11 weeks and counting; last ahead the week of 2026-07-10) — 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.

Studds Accessories Ltd trades at 21.6× P/E, near the bottom of its own range — cheaper only 18% of the time. Its long-run median P/E is 23.7×, measured across 0.9 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 21.6× is near the bottom of its own range — cheaper only 18% of the time, against a long-run median of 23.7× measured over 0.9 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 +18.6% against a −26.8% price move — earnings outran the price, pushing the multiple DOWN its own range.

Put together: the multiple is low against its own past, so the story rests on the earnings line underneath it, not the multiple.

The PEG ratio, 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: 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).

Studds Accessories 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 4 quarters across 1 curve, on partial evidence.

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

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.

Fewer than eight usable quarters on the growth curves — this page will not guess a trajectory from a stub of history.

4-Factor Sector Score

No sector-relative score — Studds Accessories Ltd is score temporarily unavailable — [mlaSectorData] ambiguous sector slug "plastics-others": Plastics - Others, Plastics Others for undefined.

The score is a rank WITHIN a peer set: every metric is scored by percentile against the other members. Without the peer set there is no score to state, so none is invented here.

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

Studds Accessories Ltd reported ₹170 Cr of revenue in the Jun 26 quarter, +14.1% year on year. That is the 4th straight quarter of year-on-year growth. Over 5 years it has compounded at 5.7% a year. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹634 Cr. The last four reported quarters add to ₹655 Cr.

FY26 revenue came in at ₹634 Cr (+8.6% on the year), capping 5 years at 5.7% compound. The latest quarter (Jun 26) printed ₹170 Cr, +14.1% year on year — the 4th consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth.

Pace check: the last four quarters averaged +10.4% growth against the decade's 5.7% — the current year is running faster than its own long-run rate.

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.

Studds Accessories Ltd's operating margin is 12.0% in the Jun 26 quarter, −8.0 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. Across 6 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 12.0% to 23.0%. The current quarter sits inside that band.

The latest quarter's operating margin is 12.0%, −8.0 pp against the same quarter a year ago. Across 6 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 12.0%–23.0%.

🚨 Why the margin moved: operating margin went −8.8 pp year on year while gross margin went −5.9 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.

Studds Accessories Ltd earned ₹12.0 Cr of net profit in the Jun 26 quarter, −40.0% year on year. Full-year FY26 profit was ₹83.0 Cr. The 5-year compound rate is 2.3%. That is 7.1% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned ₹20.0 Cr.

Jun 26 profit was ₹12.0 Cr, −40.0% year on year. On the full year, FY26 printed ₹83.0 Cr (+18.6%), and the 5-year compound rate is 2.3%.

🚨 Why profit moved: revenue contributed +14.1% and the margin −8.0 pp — the quarter was revenue-led despite a thinner margin.

Pace comparison, last four quarters: profit +4.9% vs revenue +10.4%. 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 105% of Studds Accessories Ltd's reported profit arrived as operating cash — the cash follows the profit. In FY26 that was ₹86.0 Cr of operating cash against ₹83.0 Cr of profit. After ₹50.0 Cr of capital spending, ₹36.0 Cr was left as free cash.

FY26: operating cash of ₹86.0 Cr against reported profit of ₹83.0 Cr, leaving free cash of ₹36.0 Cr after ₹50.0 Cr of capital spending. Across the last 3 fiscal years the conversion rate is 105% 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 105%: the cash cycle stretched 97 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 2.2× 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).

Studds Accessories Ltd's cash conversion cycle runs 62 days in FY26, up from −35 days in FY21. Capital spending ran ₹134 Cr over the last 3 years. At FY26 sales of ₹634 Cr each day of that cycle holds about ₹1.7 Cr, so roughly ₹108 Cr sits inside the business at any moment.

FY26: debtors at 24 days, inventory at 107 days — roughly 3.5 months of stock waiting to sell; that is where the cash sits while it waits — for a full cycle of 62 days, looser than FY21's −35.

The full loop: cash goes out to suppliers and production on day 0; stock waits 107 days to sell; customers pay about 24 days after that; and suppliers themselves are paid at 69 days — netting out to the 62-day cycle.

In money terms: at FY26 sales of ₹634 Cr, each day of the cycle holds about ₹1.7 Cr — so the 62-day loop keeps roughly ₹108 Cr sitting inside the business at any moment.

On the investment side: capital spending of ₹134 Cr over the last 3 fiscal years against ₹61.0 Cr of depreciation — the company is building well ahead of wear-and-tear. Capital work-in-progress stands at ₹58.0 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

Studds Accessories Ltd earns a ROCE of 23% in FY26. That is up from a trough of 13% in FY22. Return on invested capital clears the cost of that capital by +2.9 percentage points, so growth here adds value rather than only size. The wiring behind it is 13.1% net margin on 0.99× asset turns.

FY26 ROCE is 23%, recovered from a FY22 trough of 13% — the full ladder below shows the fall and the climb, undoctored.

Why the return is what it is — the wiring (FY26): 13.1% net margin × 0.99× asset turns × 1.22× balance-sheet leverage ≈ 15.8% on equity. Margin does its share; leverage is modest — this is an earned return, not a borrowed one.

The capstone test — ROIC − WACC: 14.9% − 12.0% = a +2.9 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. Positive but thin — value creation with little room for error.

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

Studds Accessories Ltd carries total debt of ₹8.0 Cr against shareholder equity of ₹523 Cr as of Mar 26, a debt-to-equity of 0.02 — effectively unlevered. On the annual view that ratio went from 0.02 in FY25 to 0.02 in FY26. The returns elsewhere on this page are therefore earned rather than borrowed.

Mar 26: total debt of ₹8.0 Cr against shareholder equity of ₹523 Cr — a debt-to-equity of 0.02. On the annual view, debt-to-equity went from 0.02 (FY25) to 0.02 (FY26). The returns on this page are earned, not borrowed.

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 Studds Accessories Ltd moved a full percentage point over the last two years — the register is quiet. The register is read on the four disclosed classes only; nothing is inferred between filings.

The register over the last two years — .

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.

Studds Accessories 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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