Surani Steel Tubes 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.

Surani Steel Tubes Ltd trades at ₹99.3, in a confirmed uptrend and 9 weeks into that stage. That is −7.2% against its own 200-day average. It sits at 0% of a 52-week range of ₹99 to ₹134. On relative strength it has no relative-strength read yet.

Today the stock is in a confirmed uptrend — week 9 of stage 2, confirmed. At ₹99.3 it trades −7.2% versus its 200-day average and sits at 0% of its 52-week range (₹99–₹134).

Against the market, two honest reads. Cumulative: over the last 1 months the stock moved −25% while the NIFTY 500 moved +3% — behind the index over the full window. Recent form: no trailing-13-week read yet — 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.

Surani Steel Tubes Ltd trades at 212.0× P/E, at the pricey end of its own range (73rd percentile). Its long-run median P/E is 66.2×, measured across 2.1 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 212.0× is at the pricey end of its own range (73rd percentile), against a long-run median of 66.2× measured over 2.1 years of weekly readings. This is a comparison against the stock's own history — not a claim about what it is worth.

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

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).

Surani Steel Tubes 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.

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.

Surani Steel Tubes Ltd reported ₹41.3 Cr of revenue in the Mar 26 quarter, −63.8% year on year. Over 2 years it has compounded at −22.9% a year. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹92.3 Cr.

FY26 revenue came in at ₹92.3 Cr (−59.0% on the year), capping 2 years at −22.9% compound. The latest quarter (Mar 26) printed ₹41.3 Cr, −63.8% year on year.

Pace check: the last four quarters averaged −63.8% growth against the decade's −22.9% — the current year is running slower 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.

Surani Steel Tubes Ltd's operating margin is −2.1% in the Mar 26 quarter, −2.6 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. Across 3 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged −1.7% to 0.6%. The current quarter is running below every full year in that window.

The latest quarter's operating margin is −2.1%, −2.6 pp against the same quarter a year ago. Across 3 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged −1.7%–0.6%.

🚨 Why the margin moved: operating margin went −3.9 pp year on year while gross margin went +0.0 pp — the loss 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.

Surani Steel Tubes Ltd posted a net loss of ₹0.1 Cr in the Mar 26 quarter. Full-year FY26 profit was ₹2.0 Cr. The 2-year compound rate is 102.5%. That loss is 0.2% of the quarter's revenue.

Mar 26 profit was ₹−0.1 Cr, null year on year. On the full year, FY26 printed ₹2.0 Cr (+318.4%), and the 2-year compound rate is 102.5%.

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 −1,577% of Surani Steel Tubes Ltd's reported profit arrived as operating cash — a gap worth watching. In FY26 that was ₹0.0 Cr of operating cash against ₹2.0 Cr of profit. After ₹1.0 Cr of capital spending, ₹−1.0 Cr was left as free cash.

FY26: operating cash of ₹0.0 Cr against reported profit of ₹2.0 Cr, leaving free cash of ₹−1.0 Cr after ₹1.0 Cr of capital spending. Across the last 3 fiscal years the conversion rate is −1,577% 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 −1,577%: the cash cycle tightened 64 days between FY24 and FY26 — cash that used to wait in the cycle now reaches the bank sooner. Less than 70% of profit arriving as cash is the thing to watch on this page.

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).

Surani Steel Tubes Ltd's cash conversion cycle runs 87 days in FY26, down from 151 days in FY24. Capital spending ran ₹3.0 Cr over the last 2 years. At FY26 sales of ₹92.3 Cr each day of that cycle holds about ₹0.3 Cr, so roughly ₹22.0 Cr sits inside the business at any moment.

FY26: debtors at 12 days, inventory at 588 days — roughly 19.3 months of stock waiting to sell; that is where the cash sits while it waits — for a full cycle of 87 days, tighter than FY24's 151.

The full loop: cash goes out to suppliers and production on day 0; stock waits 588 days to sell; customers pay about 12 days after that; and suppliers themselves are paid at 513 days — netting out to the 87-day cycle.

In money terms: at FY26 sales of ₹92.3 Cr, each day of the cycle holds about ₹0.3 Cr — so the 87-day loop keeps roughly ₹22.0 Cr sitting inside the business at any moment.

On the investment side: capital spending of ₹3.0 Cr over the last 2 fiscal years against ₹2.0 Cr of depreciation — building somewhat ahead of wear-and-tear. Capital work-in-progress stands at ₹0.9 Cr (FY26) — 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.

Surani Steel Tubes Ltd earns a ROCE of 1% in FY26. Return on invested capital clears the cost of that capital by −13.6 percentage points, so growth here is not yet paying for the capital it uses. The wiring behind it is 2.2% net margin on 0.37× asset turns.

FY26 ROCE is 1%.

🚨 Why the return is what it is — the wiring (FY26): 2.2% net margin × 0.37× asset turns × 2.02× balance-sheet leverage ≈ 1.6% on equity. Margin does its share; leverage is a meaningful part of the equation.

The capstone test — ROIC − WACC: −1.6% − 12.0% = a −13.6 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. 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.

Surani Steel Tubes Ltd carries ₹0.0 Cr of borrowings against ₹124 Cr of equity in FY26, a debt-to-equity of 0.00. Over 2 years borrowings went from ₹42.4 Cr to ₹0.0 Cr. Capital spending ran ₹3.0 Cr across the last 2 of those years.

FY26: borrowings of ₹0.0 Cr against equity of ₹124 Cr — a debt-to-equity of 0.00. Over 2 years borrowings went from ₹42.4 Cr to ₹0.0 Cr while capital spending ran ₹3.0 Cr in just the last 2 — 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 cut 14.1 points of Surani Steel Tubes Ltd over 8 quarters, the biggest move on the register. That takes promoters to 30.8% of the company. The register is read on the four disclosed classes only; nothing is inferred between filings.

The register over the last two years — Promoters: −14.1 points over 8 quarters to 30.8%.

🚨 Why the register moved: promoters drove it (−14.1 points) — distribution into the market’s bid.

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.

Surani Steel Tubes 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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