Announcement
Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Newspaper Publication 29 Sep
Source: Bse
Andhra Cements Limited (ACL)
Small CapIndustrials stocks · Small cap · NSE
Andhra Cements Limited operates in Cement, within the Industrials sector. Use the latest filing and company disclosures below to verify its revenue mix and current business drivers.
Data qualityFresh enough for analysisQuote updated 19 Oct, 03:31 pm ISTDetails
Quote19 Oct, 03:31 pm IST
Base fundamentals06 Oct 2026 · screener
Latest result16 Aug, 01:24 am IST
Score20 Oct, 04:30 am IST · v4.3-runtime-valuation
Tags02 May 2026
Coverage12/14 · 86%
Valuation2026-07-20 · Rf 6.8% · Industrials P/E 26.2 (n=537)
Technical timing lens
Trend score and candlestick chart
37Bearishfull bear SMA stack · SMA20 -8.0% / mo · RSI oversold · MACD + · near 52W low
Stock trend: 28
Sector RS: 50
Sector 3M: -6.3% vs Nifty 500 -5.6%
Industrials FPI tailwindNot confirmed
Latest mapped FPI equity flow was not positive. View sector evidence
Technical chart
ACLD candles · FIT view-31.2%Latest close ₹38.16 on 2026-10-19
Bar
-1.4%
RSI
25
MACD hist
0.03
52W pos
2%
2026-10-19O ₹38.70H ₹38.97L ₹37.71C ₹38.16Vol 6,197 sh
Up bar
Down bar
EMA 20
EMA 50
Volume + 20D avg
Result date
RSI(14)
MACD / signal
Market context
Relative performance and chart statistics
Adjusted completed-session prices, rebased to 100
ACLNifty India ManufacturingNifty 500
- ACL
- -22.2%
- Nifty 500
- -5.6%
- Nifty India Manufacturing
- -5.8%
- Vs Nifty 500
- -16.6 pp
Chart stats
19 Oct 2026- From 52W high
- -54.6%
- 52W range position
- 2%
- ATR (14)
- 3.4%
- Volume vs 20D
- 0.52x
- Avg traded value
- ₹0 Cr
- 20D price channel
- ₹37.4 - ₹43.7
₹84
₹37.4 - ₹84
₹1.3
Latest completed session
20-session average
25.3% annualized volatility
Research snapshot
What the evidence says now
Weak fundamentals, management evidence is still limited to a financial-only Trust Lite signal, price trend argues for patience, and recent execution is mixed.
Suggested next step
Verify management risk first
Do not let cheap valuation override weak Trust or governance evidence.
U-Score
Legacy · OVERVALUED13
Fundamental lens: valuation, quality, growth, balance sheet, and cash flow.
Latest result
Bad22
Revenue +42.0% · PAT NDF YoY
Technical
Bearish37
Price trend and sector-relative-strength timing.
Valuation
Legacy model—
Legacy margin-of-safety estimate; the revised evidence label remains in shadow validation.
Trust
Limited evidence37
Financial-only signal; management claim evidence is not sufficient yet.
Financials
Fundamentals, quarterly history, margins, returns and balance-sheet evidence
Financials
Fundamentals, quarterly history, margins, returns and balance-sheet evidence
Latest result
Quarter ended 30 Jun 2026
Bad · 22/100margin compression · Rev +42% YoY
Filed 30 Jun 2026
Open results browser →| Metric | This quarter | YoY | QoQ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | ₹142 Cr | +42.0% | -8.4% |
| EBITDA | ₹4 Cr | -42.9% | -55.6% |
| Operating margin | 2.6% | -440 bps | -340 bps |
| PAT | ₹-36 Cr | NDF | -173.5% |
| PAT margin | -25.4% | +465 bps | -5696 bps |
NDF means not disclosed in the current structured filing feed. It is intentionally not treated as zero.
Fundamentals
Valuation
- P/E
- —
- P/B
- 4.54
- EV/EBITDA
- 14.79
- Market Cap
- 367.00Cr
Profitability
- ROE
- -64.00%
- ROCE
- -6.01%
- ROA
- -5.14%
- Dividend Y
- —
Growth (CAGR)
- Revenue 5Y
- 436.00%
- EPS 5Y
- 11.00%
- Revenue 3Y
- -26.00%
- EPS 3Y
- -26.00%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 13.91
- Interest Coverage
- 0.12×
- Altman Z
- 0.55
- Book Value
- 8.76
Cash Flow
- FCF Yield
- —
- FCF Positive Y
- 7/5
- OCF
- -25.00 Cr
- EPS TTM
- -7.98
Shareholding
- Promoter Hold
- 75.00%
- Promoter Pledge
- 31.70%
- Momentum 52W
- 3%
Financial History
Updated 20/10/2026
Revenue
₹ CrLatest: 442+61.3% vs prev
Net Profit
₹ CrLatest: -67.0+55.9% vs prev
Return on Equity
%Latest: -82.7+21.6% vs prev
Technicals
Trend interpretation, Stage 2, relative strength, volume and indicator evidence
Technicals
Trend interpretation, Stage 2, relative strength, volume and indicator evidence
Daily technical trend read
Mixed signalsSignals are conflicting — long-term trend down. RSI 25. Wait for confirmation.
- Price < SMA20 < SMA50 < SMA200 — full bearish stack.
- SMA20 falling (~8.7% over last month) — short-term momentum negative.
- RSI(14) at 25 — oversold zone; bounce conditions.
- MACD above signal but histogram contracting — bullish momentum cooling.
- Within 5% of 52-week low — testing support.
Mechanical read from the price + indicator series above. Not a recommendation — technical setups can reverse without warning, especially around earnings and macro events.
Nifty 500 leadership
Relative Strength & Trend Stage
8
RS percentile
Stage 4 Downtrend
1M return
-10.5%
3M return
-22.2%
6M return
-32.0%
1Y return
-47.1%
RS 1D
0
RS 20D
-1
Sector rank
#2
Industry rank
#74
Stage evidence
- Price is 22.1% below the 30-week proxy.
- The 50-DMA is below the 30-week proxy and its slope is falling -3.6%.
- Both 3-month and 6-month returns are negative.
50-DMA
price below
200-DMA
price below
Sector
leading
Industry
lagging
Relative-strength line vs Nifty 500 (base 100)
262 observations
19 Oct 2026Value 44.95-0.38%
RS vs Nifty 50045
Valuation & peers
U-Score 13 · legacy U-Score band OVERVALUED · valuation evidence and comparable companies
Valuation & peers
U-Score 13 · legacy U-Score band OVERVALUED · valuation evidence and comparable companies
Distress Watch
Fundamental score breakdown
U band · OVERVALUEDValuation2/30
Growth10/25
Quality0/20
Balance Sheet0/15
Cash Flow3/10
Piotroski
2/9 (+0)
Penalties
-2
Raw sum
13
Why this score?
Top U-Score contributors and drags from the latest stored fundamentals.
13/100 · legacy band OVERVALUED
Positive drivers
- Growth contributes 10/25 to the score.
- Cash flow contributes 3/10 to the score.
- Valuation contributes 2/30 to the score.
Main drags
- Altman Z is 0.6, in distress territory.
- Promoter pledge is 31.7%.
- Penalty bucket subtracts 2 points.
Sector valuation model
Cyclical valuation: normalized earnings, not just trailing PE
Cyclical companies can look cheapest near peak profits, so IndiaPulse flags value-trap risk separately.
Primary lens
Mid-cycle PE/EV/EBITDA using multi-year average margins or earnings.
Secondary checks
Current margin versus 5-year average, balance sheet strength, commodity cycle.
Main risk check
A low trailing PE may mean peak-cycle earnings, not true cheapness.
PE
—
PB
4.5
EV/EBITDA
14.8
ROE
-64.0%
ROCE
-6.0%
FCF Yield
—
Debt/Equity
13.9
MoS
—
Cyclical/value-trap warning
This sector can look cheap when profits are temporarily high. Check mid-cycle margins/earnings before relying on trailing PE. Debt/equity is 13.9, so downturn resilience matters.
Score movement
Stored run vs live recompute
This shows the stored score trend when snapshots exist, and also compares the latest stored nightly score with a live recompute from current fundamentals and price.
Stored run: 20 Oct 2026
v4.3-runtime-valuation
Final score
13
Previous: 13
Legacy U-Score band
OVERVALUED
Previous: OVERVALUED
Margin of safety
—
No stored baseline yet
Score history
12 stored score snapshots. Latest stored move: +0 points.
20 Oct 2026
v4.3-runtime-valuation
13
13
13
13
13
13
13
13
13
13
13
13
Factor attribution
No pillar movement versus the latest stored run. Historical score trend will appear after snapshot storage is enabled.
Modelled fair value
Graham Number
—
Growth-justified P/E
44.0
Growth-justified Value
—
— MoS
PEG
—
Comparable companies
Peers
Business-comparable peers in Industrials — ranked by industry, sub-sector, theme-tag overlap, market cap, and U-Score similarity. Green cells mark the best available peer metric in this table.
Ticker
Name
Why peer
Score
PE
ROE
MoS
Verdict
APCL
Small
Anjani Portland Cement Limited
Cement
match 169
16
—
-10.1%
—
OVERVALUED
SAURASHCEM
Small
Saurashtra Cement Limited
Cement
match 165
35
35.7
2.3%
-3484%
WATCHLIST
REGENCERAM
Small
Regency Ceramics Limited
Cement
match 164
17
—
—
—
OVERVALUED
BVCL
Small
Barak Valley Cements Limited
Cement
match 164
20
45.2
0.2%
-3027%
OVERVALUED
NIRAJ
Small
Niraj Cement Structurals Limited
Cement
match 163
53
7.0
8.2%
+83%
FAIR VALUE
Business, management & trust
Growth engines, risks, management commitments and evidence-backed delivery
Business, management & trust
Growth engines, risks, management commitments and evidence-backed delivery
Business and thesis
Issuer presentation review pending
Andhra Cements Limited operates in Cement, within the Industrials sector. Use the latest filing and company disclosures below to verify its revenue mix and current business drivers. The structured result feed currently covers the quarter ended 30 Jun 2026. Investor presentations and earnings-call PDFs will be added as issuer-backed evidence before management claims appear here.
Trust Score
37Limited evidence · low confidenceTrust Lite
Trust asks: does management behaviour match later outcomes? Higher is better, but confidence and evidence depth matter as much as the number.
Limited evidence: Claim history is still being built. It ranks around the 1st percentile of the scored universe and 1st percentile within Industrials. Main check: balance sheet trust is weak at 8/100.
This is a financial-behaviour screen, not a claim-tested management reliability verdict.
Computed 05 Sept 2026
management-trust-v1
4 docs text-extracted · 0 concalls text-extracted
Score band
Limited evidence
Financial behaviour is scored, but management claims do not yet have enough outcome checks.
Relative rank
1st percentile
overall median 67 · Industrials: 1st pctile, median 68 · Small: 1st pctile, median 66
Evidence depth
Financial-only
4 documents have extracted text, but claim history is not strong enough yet.
Claim delivery
Outcome history still building
0 claims extracted · No contradicted claim yet
How to read this Trust Score
Limited evidence · low confidenceWhat it measures
Reliability of management and financial delivery, using financial behaviour only.
Confidence
Treat this as an early read until more concalls and outcomes are matched.
Investor use
Do not rely on management narrative unless hard turnaround evidence is visible.
Read Trust alongside U-Score, result consistency, and technical trend. A cheap stock with weak Trust needs a larger margin of safety; a high Trust score does not make an expensive stock attractive by itself.
Forensic breakdown
Read low sub-scores as due-diligence warnings, not automatic sell signals.
Promoter
36
weak · holding, pledge, alignment
Cash flow
52
watch · profit to cash conversion
Balance sheet
8
weak · leverage and solvency
Discipline
32
weak · capital discipline
Results
57
watch · quarterly consistency
Trust positives
- ▸Promoter holding is 75%.
- ▸7 years of positive FCF.
- ▸4/4 latest quarters had positive YoY revenue growth.
Trust risks
- ▸Promoter pledge is elevated at 31.7%.
- ▸Promoter holding fell 15%.
- ▸Operating cash flow is negative at ₹-25 Cr.
- ▸Debt/equity is 13.91.
Trust Lite uses financial behaviour only. Prefer claim-tested Trust when enough concall claims have later outcomes.
Continue researching Andhra Cements Limited
Important announcements & filings
Latest exchange and company disclosures found within the past two years.
Open source ↗
Announcement
Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Newspaper Publication 30 Jul - Sumission of News Paper Publication dt. 30-07-2027
Source: Bse
Credit rating
Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Credit Rating 3 Jul - India Ratings affirmed Andhra Cements' IND BBB/Stable and IND A3+ ratings on INR 9,389.70 million facilities.
Source: Bse
Announcement
Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Newspaper Publication 1 Jun
Source: Bse
Announcement
Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Newspaper Publication 30 May
Source: Bse
Annual report
Annual Report 2026
Source: Bse
Annual report
Annual Report 2025
Source: Bse
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