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The BSE, founded in 1875, is Asia's oldest stock exchange — it started under a banyan tree on Dalal Street, where the bronze bull stands today.
The BSE, founded in 1875, is Asia's oldest stock exchange — it started under a banyan tree on Dalal Street, where the bronze bull stands today.
GMM Pfaudler Limited is an India-based company. The Company is the technologies, systems and services provider for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, as well as many others. The Company designs, manufactures, installs and services corrosion-resistant equipment and…
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A middling, stagnant business, fully valued.
GMM Pfaudler is scored on the general / industrial framework. It keeps a thin 1.4% of every rupee of sales as net profit. Those profits are backed by real cash — operating cash flow runs 7.50× reported profit. Free cash flow is worth about 4.7% of its market value.
Over the last 3 years revenue compounded at 3%/yr and profit at -37%/yr. Book value has grown 15%/yr. Return on equity is a modest 9.5%. In the latest quarter profit grew 44% versus the prior quarter.
At 87× earnings, the stock sits at the 73rd percentile of its own 3.6-year range — the middle of where it has historically traded. Today's price already implies ~28%/yr earnings growth sustained for a decade — a demanding bar. The books come through clean — a forensic grade of A, and Altman puts distress risk in the safe zone.
A plain-English restatement of the figures on this page — rules-based, for education and research context, not investment advice or a recommendation.
| Ratio | Company | Sector | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| P/E | 82.02 | 13.83 | worse |
| P/B | 3.87 | 5.03 | better |
| EV/EBITDA | 16.14 | 9.51 | worse |
| ROE | 9.47 | 10.2 | worse |
| ROCE | 11.12 | 12.05 | worse |
| ROA | 1.48 | 4.66 | worse |
| Quick Ratio | 1.18 | 3.69 | worse |
| Peer | P/E | P/B | ROE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cummins India | 49.9 | 13.5 | 27.1% |
| Welspun Corp | 24.6 | 5.5 | 22.3% |
| Indo-mim | 109.9 | 21.2 | 23.4% |
3% CAGR — growing but slowly. Growth is accelerating — latest year outpaced the prior year's rate.
Revenue is outpacing profit (3% vs -37%) — costs are rising faster than the top line.
Operating margin has compressed from 8% to 3% — costs or competition are eating into profitability. Margins have declined for 3 consecutive years — watch for a structural cost problem.
ROE at 4% — modest; the capital isn't working hard. Capital efficiency declining — ROE down 22pp.
EPS outpaced profit growth — possible buybacks are concentrating earnings into fewer shares. -30% EPS CAGR — this is the rate at which each share's claim on earnings is compounding.
Operating cash flow has been positive every year — the business generates real cash, not just accounting profit. Cash conversion at 7.5× PAT — earnings are well-backed by cash; strong accrual quality. Heavy investing spend every year, but operations generate enough to cover it — the business self-funds its growth.
When operating cash keeps pace with reported profit, earnings are cash-backed; a persistent shortfall is a quality flag.
Revenue broadly flat QoQ — stable but not accelerating. Low quarterly variance (7% spread) — a predictable, non-seasonal revenue stream.
1 of 4 quarters loss-making — quarterly profitability is uneven. Profit jumped 44% QoQ — check if this is operating leverage or a one-off item.
How today's P/E compares to the stock's own historical range. Dashed line = the 3.6y median.
Promoters hold just 25.2% — widely held; sentiment-driven. FIIs trimmed 4.5pp — foreign money is rotating out. MF holding up 2.2pp — domestic institutional discovery underway.
Produced by a rules-based engine over licensed exchange fundamentals — every sentence above is derived from the numbers shown, no analyst or AI opinion involved. Education and research context, not investment advice. We are not SEBI-registered as an Investment Adviser or Research Analyst.