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Dai-Ichi Karkaria Limited (DAICHI)

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Dai-Ichi Karkaria Limited operates in Specialty Chemicals, within the Industrials sector. Use the latest filing and company disclosures below to verify its revenue mix and current business drivers.

₹297.5
-3.65 · -1.21%
Market cap ₹240 Cr
Data qualityFresh enough for analysisQuote updated 21 Oct, 03:31 pm IST
Details
Quote21 Oct, 03:31 pm IST
Base fundamentals06 Oct 2026 · screener
Latest result13 Aug, 03:16 pm IST
Score21 Oct, 04:30 am IST · v4.3-runtime-valuation
Tags03 May 2026
Coverage13/14 · 93%
Valuation2026-07-20 · Rf 6.8% · Industrials P/E 26.2 (n=537)
Technical timing lens

Trend score and candlestick chart

41Neutral

SMA20 -8.2% / mo · MACD −

Stock trend: 37
Sector RS: 46
Sector 3M: -7.1% vs Nifty 500 -5.6%

Latest mapped FPI equity flow was not positive. View sector evidence

Technical chart

DAICHID candles · FIT view+16.4%
Latest close ₹297.50 on 2026-10-21

Daily history is available from 2026-04-20; the requested 1Y window is partially covered.

Bar
-1.2%
RSI
34
MACD hist
-1.39
52W pos
45%
Visible chart range
Candle interval
2026-10-21O ₹301.00H ₹314.70L ₹294.05C ₹297.50Vol 700 sh
₹222.40₹263.67₹304.95₹346.23₹387.5052H52L₹297.502026-032026-06VolRSIMACD2026-042026-062026-072026-092026-11
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

DAICHINifty India ManufacturingNifty 500
-11%+1%+13%+24%21 Jul2 Sept21 Oct21 Oct 2026DAICHI -2.5%Nifty India Manufactu… -7.7%Nifty 500 -6.5%
DAICHI
-2.5%
Nifty 500
-6.5%
Nifty India Manufacturing
-7.7%
Vs Nifty 500
+4.0 pp
Chart stats
21 Oct 2026
From 52W high
-21.7%
₹380
52W range position
45%
₹229.9 - ₹380
ATR (14)
4.9%
₹14.5
Volume vs 20D
0.78x
Latest completed session
Avg traded value
₹0 Cr
20-session average
20D price channel
₹294.1 - ₹332
28.1% 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 weak.

Suggested next step
Check latest quarters
Result consistency is weak; verify whether the thesis is improving or deteriorating.
U-Score
Legacy · OVERVALUED
28

Fundamental lens: valuation, quality, growth, balance sheet, and cash flow.

Latest result
Excellent
100

Revenue +46.6% · PAT +14550.0% YoY

Technical
Neutral
41

Price trend and sector-relative-strength timing.

Valuation
Legacy model
-160.1%

Legacy margin-of-safety estimate; the revised evidence label remains in shadow validation.

Trust
Limited evidence
63

Financial-only signal; management claim evidence is not sufficient yet.

Financials

Fundamentals, quarterly history, margins, returns and balance-sheet evidence

Latest result

Quarter ended 30 Jun 2026

Excellent · 100/100

Rev +47% YoY · PAT +14550% YoY · margin expansion · +40% QoQ · operating leverage

Filed 13 Aug 2026
Open results browser →
MetricThis quarterYoYQoQ
Revenue₹57.8 Cr+46.6%+40.2%
EBITDA₹6 Cr+368.0%+780.9%
Operating margin10.4%+712 bps+871 bps
PAT₹2.9 Cr+14550.0%+3155.6%
PAT margin5.1%+502 bps+485 bps

NDF means not disclosed in the current structured filing feed. It is intentionally not treated as zero.

Fundamentals

Valuation

P/E
101.00
P/B
1.27
EV/EBITDA
14.06
Market Cap
240.00Cr

Profitability

ROE
-0.34%
ROCE
-1.06%
ROA
0.89%
Dividend Y
0.48%

Growth (CAGR)

Revenue 5Y
11.00%
EPS 5Y
15.00%
Revenue 3Y
-4.00%
EPS 3Y
-11.00%

Balance Sheet

Debt/Equity
0.07
Interest Coverage
8.00×
Altman Z
5.92
Book Value
248.00

Cash Flow

FCF Yield
—
FCF Positive Y
6/5
OCF
5.00 Cr
EPS TTM
2.91

Shareholding

Promoter Hold
63.98%
Promoter Pledge
0.00%
Momentum 52W
58%

Financial History

Updated 20/10/2026

Revenue

₹ Cr
Latest: 161-11.0% vs prev
0184.0Mar 2017: 126Mar 2018: 147Mar 2019: 92.0Mar 2020: 107Mar 2021: 97.0Mar 2022: 122Mar 2023: 184Mar 2024: 132Mar 2025: 181Mar 2026: 161FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26

Net Profit

₹ Cr
Latest: -1.0-111.1% vs prev
-23.0051.0Mar 2017: 25.0Mar 2018: 14.0Mar 2019: -13.0Mar 2020: -23.0Mar 2021: 51.0Mar 2022: -18.0Mar 2023: 20.0Mar 2024: 14.0Mar 2025: 9.0Mar 2026: -1.0FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26

Return on Equity

%
Latest: -0.5-111.3% vs prev
-19.3030.0Mar 2017: 16.8%Mar 2018: 8.9%Mar 2019: -9.2%Mar 2020: -19.3%Mar 2021: 30.0%Mar 2022: -12.1%Mar 2023: 11.8%Mar 2024: 7.8%Mar 2025: 4.8%Mar 2026: -0.5%FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26

Technicals

Trend interpretation, Stage 2, relative strength, volume and indicator evidence

Daily technical trend read

Bearish setup

Trend is weak — long-term trend unclear. RSI 34.

  • SMA20 falling (~8.9% over last month) — short-term momentum negative.
  • RSI(14) at 34 — falling, no extreme reading.
  • MACD below signal, histogram expanding negatively — bearish momentum building.
  • 22% off 52W high · 29% above 52W low.

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

73
RS percentile
Insufficient history
1M return
-6.9%
3M return
-2.5%
6M return
+12.7%
1Y return
-
RS 1D
+2
RS 20D
-
Sector rank
#2
Industry rank
#6
Stage evidence
  • At least 170 daily sessions are required for the trend-stage read.
50-DMA
price below
200-DMA
unavailable
Sector
leading
Industry
leading
Partial-history RS: the 3M and 6M weights are re-normalised because 12M history is unavailable.
Relative-strength line vs Nifty 500 (base 100)
128 observations
21 Oct 2026Value 118.26-0.30%
8710111412814120 Apr19 Jun19 Aug21 Oct118
RS vs Nifty 500118

Valuation & peers

U-Score 28 · legacy U-Score band OVERVALUED · valuation evidence and comparable companies

28U-SCORE
OVERVALUED

Fundamental score breakdown

U band · OVERVALUED
Valuation2/30
Growth9/25
Quality0/20
Balance Sheet13/15
Cash Flow4/10
Piotroski
6/9 (+3)
Penalties
-3
Raw sum
28

Why this score?

Top U-Score contributors and drags from the latest stored fundamentals.

28/100 · legacy band OVERVALUED

Positive drivers

  • Balance sheet contributes 13/15 to the score.
  • Cash flow contributes 4/10 to the score.
  • Growth contributes 9/25 to the score.

Main drags

  • Penalty bucket subtracts 3 points.
  • Fair-value margin of safety is negative at -160.1%.
  • Quality is weaker at 0/20; verify the latest quarterly trend.
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.

Cyclical normalized
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
101.0
PB
1.3
EV/EBITDA
14.1
ROE
-0.3%
ROCE
-1.1%
FCF Yield
—
Debt/Equity
0.1
MoS
-160.1%
Cyclical/value-trap warning
This sector can look cheap when profits are temporarily high. Check mid-cycle margins/earnings before relying on trailing PE.
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: 21 Oct 2026
v4.3-runtime-valuation
Final score
28
Previous: 28
Legacy U-Score band
OVERVALUED
Previous: OVERVALUED
Margin of safety
-160.1%
Previous: -163.3%

Score history

12 stored score snapshots. Latest stored move: +0 points.

21 Oct 2026
v4.3-runtime-valuation
28
28
28
28
28
28
28
28
28
28
28
28

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
₹127.43
-133.5% MoS
Growth-justified P/E
39.3
Growth-justified Value
₹114.36
-160.1% MoS
PEG
6.73

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.

Compare all ↗
Ticker
Name
Why peer
Score
PE
ROE
MoS
Verdict
CHEMBOND
Small
Chembond Material Technologies Limited
Specialty Chemicals
match 164
28
15.8
8.8%
-285%
OVERVALUED
DSFCL
Small
DCM Shriram Fine Chemicals Limited
Specialty Chemicals
match 163
23
—
-0.3%
—
OVERVALUED
DIAMINESQ
Small
Diamines & Chemicals Limited
Specialty Chemicals
match 163
17
—
-7.9%
—
OVERVALUED
KANCHI
Small
Kanchi Karpooram Limited
Specialty Chemicals
match 160
16
21.5
2.4%
-733%
OVERVALUED
HINDCON
Small
Hindcon Chemicals Limited
Specialty Chemicals
match 159
10
37.5
5.5%
-620%
OVERVALUED

Business, management & trust

Growth engines, risks, management commitments and evidence-backed delivery

Business and thesis

Issuer presentation review pending

Dai-Ichi Karkaria Limited operates in Specialty Chemicals, 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
63Limited 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 38th percentile of the scored universe and 35th percentile within Industrials. Main check: results consistency is weak at 27/100.

This is a financial-behaviour screen, not a claim-tested management reliability verdict.

Computed 05 Sept 2026
management-trust-v1
6 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
38th percentile

overall median 67 · Industrials: 35th pctile, median 68 · Small: 43rd pctile, median 66

Evidence depth
Financial-only

6 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 confidence
What 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
Acceptable, but check the weakest sub-score before increasing exposure.

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
86
strong · holding, pledge, alignment
Cash flow
67
acceptable · profit to cash conversion
Balance sheet
96
strong · leverage and solvency
Discipline
30
weak · capital discipline
Results
27
weak · quarterly consistency

Trust positives

  • ▸Promoter holding is 64%.
  • ▸Promoter pledge is zero.
  • ▸6 years of positive FCF.
  • ▸Debt/equity is 0.07.

Trust risks

  • ▸3 latest quarters had PAT decline worse than 25% YoY.
  • ▸ROCE is low at -1.1%.
  • ▸ROE is low at -0.3%.
  • ▸ROCE trend is -7.7%.

Trust Lite uses financial behaviour only. Prefer claim-tested Trust when enough concall claims have later outcomes.

Important announcements & filings

Latest exchange and company disclosures found within the past two years.

12 shown
Announcement

Announcement Under Regulation 30 Of The SEBI (LODR) Regulations, 2015. 21 Sep - Received ₹15.18 lakh Income Tax penalty order for AY2024-25; company plans to appeal.

Source: Bse

Open source ↗
AnnouncementJul 2026

Jul 2026 · Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Newspaper Publication 1d - Enclosed herewith Newspaper Publication on July 22, 2026, for information regarding 66th Annual General Meeting of the Company, published in Financial Express in English language …

Source: Bse

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AnnouncementJun 2026

Jun 2026 · Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Newspaper Publication 14 Aug - Enclosed herewith newspaper publication for extract of Unaudited standalone and consolidated financial results of the Company for the quarter ended June 30, 2026.

Source: Bse

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Investor presentationJun 2026

Jun 2026 · Results Presentation For The Period Ended June 30, 2026 13 Aug - Q1 FY26-27 results presentation: revenue rose 47% to Rs. 57.84 crore; additional ethylene oxide reactor commissioned.

Source: Bse

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Annual reportMar 2026

Mar 2026 · Annual Report 2026

Source: Bse

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Investor presentationMar 2026

Mar 2026 · Results Presentation For The Period Ended March 31, 2026 8 May - FY26 results presentation submitted for quarter and year ended March 31, 2026.

Source: Bse

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Investor presentationAug 2025

Aug 2025 · PPT

Source: Bse

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Investor presentationAug 2025

Aug 2025 · PPT

Source: Bse

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Investor presentationMay 2025

May 2025 · PPT

Source: Bse

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Investor presentationMay 2025

May 2025 · PPT

Source: Bse

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Annual reportMar 2025

Mar 2025 · Annual Report 2025

Source: Bse

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