Universus Photo Imagings 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.

Universus Photo Imagings Ltd trades at ₹473, in a confirmed uptrend and 24 weeks into that stage. That is +28.1% against its own 200-day average. It sits at 90% of a 52-week range of ₹194 to ₹503. On relative strength it has been ahead of the NIFTY 500 on a trailing-13-week view for 1 straight week.

Today the stock is in a confirmed uptrend — week 24 of stage 2, confirmed. At ₹473 it trades +28.1% versus its 200-day average and sits at 90% of its 52-week range (₹194–₹503).

Against the market, two honest reads. Cumulative: over the last 6.5 years the stock moved +580% while the NIFTY 500 moved +145% — ahead of the index over the full window. Recent form: on a trailing-13-week view the stock has been ahead for 1 straight week — 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.

Universus Photo Imagings Ltd trades at 3.6× P/E, mid-range by its own standards (58th percentile). Its long-run median P/E is 3.4×, measured across 5.3 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 3.6× is mid-range by its own standards (58th percentile), against a long-run median of 3.4× measured over 5.3 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 −191.9% against a +91.6% price move — the price outran earnings, pushing the multiple UP its own range.

The price move, decomposed: over 5y, of the +10.2%/yr price move, ~+13.2%/yr came from earnings growth and ~−3.0 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.

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).

Universus Photo Imagings 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 8 quarters across 2 curves, on partial evidence.

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

The latest quarter’s profit carries a one-off item larger than the operating base, so the profit curve is shown but does not vote in 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

38.4/100 — rank 1 of 1 in Photographic & Allied Products · 63% evidence confidence

Universus Photo Imagings Ltd scores 38.4 out of 100 against the 1 companies it is compared with in Photographic & Allied Products, ranking 1. Balanced evidence: keep at normal research priority and require another comparable period before raising conviction.

The four contributions add to the total exactly: 11.8 + 4.1 + 10 + 12.5 = 38.4. 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.

Universus Photo Imagings Ltd reported ₹5.0 Cr of revenue in the Jun 26 quarter, +0.0% year on year. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹19.0 Cr. The last four reported quarters add to ₹19.0 Cr. A multi-year compound rate is not shown because the annual history behind it is too short to compute one honestly.

FY26 revenue came in at ₹19.0 Cr (−24.0% on the year). The latest quarter (Jun 26) printed ₹5.0 Cr, +0.0% year on year.

Acceleration check: trailing-twelve-month revenue grew −5.0% over the last 4 quarters against −25.2%/yr over the last 8 — 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.

Universus Photo Imagings Ltd's operating margin is 15.0% in the Jun 26 quarter, +548.0 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. Across 7 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged −692.0% to 19.0%. The current quarter sits inside that band.

The latest quarter's operating margin is 15.0%, +548.0 pp against the same quarter a year ago. Across 7 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged −692.0%–19.0%.

Why the margin moved: operating margin went +547.4 pp year on year while gross margin went −2.0 pp — the gain 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.

Universus Photo Imagings Ltd earned ₹45.0 Cr of net profit in the Jun 26 quarter. That quarter carries a one-off item larger than its own revenue, so the year-on-year figure is an artefact rather than a trading result. The full FY26 year was a loss of ₹80.0 Cr. That is 900.0% of the quarter's revenue.

Jun 26 profit was ₹45.0 Cr, null year on year. On the full year, FY26 printed ₹−80.0 Cr (−192.0%).

🚨 Read this profit with care: at ₹45.0 Cr it is larger than the whole quarter's revenue of ₹5.0 Cr — no operating business earns more than it sells, so this is a one-off item (a debt-to-equity conversion, a tax write-back or an asset sale), not money the business earned. The underlying operations are running at 15.0% operating margin; the year-on-year jump and any P/E built on this number are artefacts of the one-off, not a real earnings turn.

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 29% of Universus Photo Imagings Ltd's reported profit arrived as operating cash — a gap worth watching. In FY26 that was ₹2.0 Cr of operating cash against ₹−80.0 Cr of profit. After ₹0.0 Cr of capital spending, ₹2.0 Cr was left as free cash.

FY26: operating cash of ₹2.0 Cr against reported profit of ₹−80.0 Cr, leaving free cash of ₹2.0 Cr after ₹0.0 Cr of capital spending. Across the last 3 fiscal years the conversion rate is 29% 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 29%: the cash cycle held roughly steady between FY21 and FY26 — so conversion tracks profitability rather than the cycle. 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).

Universus Photo Imagings Ltd's cash conversion cycle runs 51 days in FY26, down from 61 days in FY21. Capital spending ran ₹0.0 Cr over the last 3 years. At FY26 sales of ₹19.0 Cr each day of that cycle holds about ₹0.1 Cr, so roughly ₹3.0 Cr sits inside the business at any moment.

FY26: debtors at 7 days, inventory at 55 days — roughly 1.8 months of stock waiting to sell; that is where the cash sits while it waits — for a full cycle of 51 days, tighter than FY21's 61.

The full loop: cash goes out to suppliers and production on day 0; stock waits 55 days to sell; customers pay about 7 days after that; and suppliers themselves are paid at 11 days — netting out to the 51-day cycle.

In money terms: at FY26 sales of ₹19.0 Cr, each day of the cycle holds about ₹0.1 Cr — so the 51-day loop keeps roughly ₹3.0 Cr sitting inside the business at any moment.

On the investment side: capital spending of ₹0.0 Cr over the last 3 fiscal years. Capital work-in-progress stands at ₹0.0 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.

Universus Photo Imagings Ltd earns a ROCE of −9% in FY26. That is up from a trough of −20% in FY24. Return on invested capital clears the cost of that capital by −12.1 percentage points, so growth here is not yet paying for the capital it uses. The wiring behind it is −421.1% net margin on 0.02× asset turns.

FY26 ROCE is −9%, recovered from a FY24 trough of −20% — the full ladder below shows the fall and the climb, undoctored.

🚨 Why the return is what it is — the wiring (FY26): −421.1% net margin × 0.02× asset turns × 1.02× balance-sheet leverage ≈ −8.6% on equity. Margin does its share; leverage is modest — this is an earned return, not a borrowed one.

The capstone test — ROIC − WACC: −0.1% − 12.0% = a −12.1 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.

Universus Photo Imagings Ltd carries ₹0.0 Cr of borrowings against ₹811 Cr of equity in FY26, a debt-to-equity of 0.00. Over 5 years borrowings went from ₹0.0 Cr to ₹0.0 Cr. Capital spending ran ₹0.0 Cr across the last 3 of those years.

FY26: borrowings of ₹0.0 Cr against equity of ₹811 Cr — a debt-to-equity of 0.00. Over 5 years borrowings went from ₹0.0 Cr to ₹0.0 Cr while capital spending ran ₹0.0 Cr in just the last 3 — 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.

No holder of Universus Photo Imagings 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 — Promoters: +0.0 points over 8 quarters to 74.5%.

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.

Universus Photo Imagings 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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