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Fermenta Biotech Limited (FERMENTA)

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Fermenta Biotech Limited operates in Enzymes & API, within the Pharma sector. Use the latest filing and company disclosures below to verify its revenue mix and current business drivers.

₹461.35
+0.85 · +0.18%
Market cap ₹1,641 Cr
Data qualityFresh enough for analysisQuote updated 21 Oct, 10:46 am IST
Details
Quote21 Oct, 10:46 am IST
Base fundamentals06 Oct 2026 · screener
Latest result16 Aug, 01:36 am IST
Score21 Oct, 04:30 am IST · v4.3-runtime-valuation
Tags02 May 2026
Coverage14/14 · 100%
Valuation2026-07-20 · Rf 6.8% · Pharma P/E 33.5 (n=187)
Technical timing lens

Trend score and candlestick chart

72Bullish

SMA20 +5.3% / mo · MACD − · sector +4.2pp vs Nifty 500 (3M)

Stock trend: 54
Sector RS: 99
Sector 3M: -0.8% vs Nifty 500 -5.1%

FPI equity flow was positive in both fortnights, but the sector index is below its 100-session average. View sector evidence

Technical chart

FERMENTAD candles · FIT view+46.6%TODAY · PROVISIONAL
Latest price ₹461.35 on 2026-10-21

Daily history is available from 2026-04-20; the requested 1Y window is partially covered. Today's candle is provisional from the latest intraday quote; completed-candle scans remain unchanged.

Bar
-0.2%
RSI
37
MACD hist
-9.83
52W pos
64%
Visible chart range
Candle interval
2026-10-21O ₹462.30H ₹468.10L ₹451.60C ₹461.35Vol 26,952 shIntraday candle
₹232.16₹323.95₹415.75₹507.54₹599.3452H52L₹461.352026-06VolRSIMACD2026-042026-062026-072026-092026-11
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

FERMENTANifty PharmaNifty 500
-13%+2%+17%+32%20 Jul1 Sept19 Oct19 Oct 2026FERMENTA +3.7%Nifty Pharma -1.5%Nifty 500 -5.6%
FERMENTA
+3.7%
Nifty 500
-5.6%
Nifty Pharma
-1.5%
Vs Nifty 500
+9.3 pp
Chart stats
19 Oct 2026
From 52W high
-21.0%
₹582.7
52W range position
63%
₹248.9 - ₹582.7
ATR (14)
6.4%
₹29.3
Volume vs 20D
0.18x
Latest completed session
Avg traded value
₹24.8 Cr
20-session average
20D price channel
₹426.3 - ₹582.7
63.8% annualized volatility
Research snapshot

What the evidence says now

Mixed fundamentals, while price trend supports entry. This looks more like momentum/speculation than a clean fundamental investment setup.

Weak U-Score but strong trend: momentum may be ahead of fundamentals.

Suggested next step
Check latest quarters
Result consistency is weak; verify whether the thesis is improving or deteriorating.
U-Score
Legacy · FAIR VALUE
47

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

Latest result
Bad
0

Revenue -10.6% · PAT -55.9% YoY

Technical
Bullish
72

Price trend and sector-relative-strength timing.

Valuation
Legacy model
-38.7%

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

Trust
Limited evidence
73

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

Bad · 0/100

Rev -11% YoY · PAT -56% YoY · margin compression

Filed 30 Jun 2026
Open results browser →
MetricThis quarterYoYQoQ
Revenue₹121.8 Cr-10.6%+0.2%
EBITDA₹18.1 Cr-36.0%-9.7%
Operating margin14.8%-590 bps-162 bps
PAT₹9.5 Cr-55.9%-48.8%
PAT margin7.8%-803 bps-748 bps

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

Fundamentals

Valuation

P/E
30.00
P/B
4.04
EV/EBITDA
15.80
Market Cap
1641.00Cr

Profitability

ROE
16.40%
ROCE
20.60%
ROA
8.95%
Dividend Y
0.67%

Growth (CAGR)

Revenue 5Y
7.00%
EPS 5Y
7.00%
Revenue 3Y
14.00%
EPS 3Y
65.00%

Balance Sheet

Debt/Equity
0.28
Interest Coverage
8.18×
Altman Z
6.39
Book Value
138.00

Cash Flow

FCF Yield
3.05%
FCF Positive Y
7/5
OCF
93.00 Cr
EPS TTM
20.28

Shareholding

Promoter Hold
64.09%
Promoter Pledge
0.00%
Momentum 52W
93%

Financial History

Updated 19/10/2026

Revenue

₹ Cr
Latest: 523+11.8% vs prev
0523.0Mar 2017: 164Mar 2018: 302Mar 2019: 403Mar 2020: 292Mar 2021: 376Mar 2022: 397Mar 2023: 349Mar 2024: 335Mar 2025: 468Mar 2026: 523FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26

Net Profit

₹ Cr
Latest: 70.0-7.9% vs prev
-53.00117.0Mar 2017: -9.0Mar 2018: 46.0Mar 2019: 117Mar 2020: 60.0Mar 2021: 43.0Mar 2022: 15.0Mar 2023: -53.0Mar 2024: -24.0Mar 2025: 76.0Mar 2026: 70.0FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26

Return on Equity

%
Latest: 17.2-17.7% vs prev
-16.8046.6Mar 2017: -6.3%Mar 2018: 37.1%Mar 2019: 46.6%Mar 2020: 19.4%Mar 2021: 11.9%Mar 2022: 4.0%Mar 2023: -16.8%Mar 2024: -8.3%Mar 2025: 20.9%Mar 2026: 17.2%FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26

Technicals

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

Daily technical trend read

Mixed signals

Signals are conflicting — long-term trend unclear. RSI 37. Wait for confirmation.

  • SMA20 rising (~5.0% over last month) — short-term momentum positive.
  • RSI(14) at 37 — falling, no extreme reading.
  • MACD below signal, histogram expanding negatively — bearish momentum building.
  • 21% off 52W high · 85% 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

84
RS percentile
Insufficient history
1M return
-2.9%
3M return
+3.7%
6M return
+46.3%
1Y return
-
RS 1D
-2
RS 20D
-
Sector rank
#1
Industry rank
#11
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)
127 observations
19 Oct 2026Value 150.04-4.26%
8411013616318920 Apr19 Jun18 Aug19 Oct150
RS vs Nifty 500150

Valuation & peers

U-Score 47 · legacy U-Score band FAIR VALUE · valuation evidence and comparable companies

47U-SCORE
Financial Turnaround

Fundamental score breakdown

U band · FAIR VALUE
Valuation4/30
Growth8/25
Quality13/20
Balance Sheet10/15
Cash Flow8/10
Piotroski
8/9 (+5)
Penalties
-1
Raw sum
47

Why this score?

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

47/100 · legacy band FAIR VALUE

Positive drivers

  • FCF yield is supportive at 3.0%.
  • Piotroski is strong at 8/9.
  • Cash flow contributes 8/10 to the score.

Main drags

  • Penalty bucket subtracts 1 points.
  • Fair-value margin of safety is negative at -38.7%.
  • Valuation is weaker at 4/30; verify the latest quarterly trend.
Sector valuation model

Healthcare valuation: PE/EVEBITDA with regulatory and pipeline checks

Healthcare valuation needs both earnings quality and regulatory/pipeline context.

Pharma PE/EVEBITDA
Primary lens
PE and EV/EBITDA adjusted for product mix and R&D/pipeline quality.
Secondary checks
USFDA risk, launch pipeline, margin trend, domestic vs export mix.
Main risk check
Regulatory setbacks or one-off product cycles can distort valuation.
PE
30.0
PB
4.0
EV/EBITDA
15.8
ROE
16.4%
ROCE
20.6%
FCF Yield
3.0%
Debt/Equity
0.3
MoS
-38.7%
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
47
Previous: 47
Legacy U-Score band
FAIR VALUE
Previous: FAIR VALUE
Margin of safety
-38.7%
Previous: -38.5%

Score history

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

21 Oct 2026
v4.3-runtime-valuation
46
46
46
46
46
46
46
46
46
46
47
47

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
₹250.94
-83.9% MoS
Growth-justified P/E
16.4
Growth-justified Value
₹332.59
-38.7% MoS
PEG
2.68

Comparable companies

Peers

Business-comparable peers in Pharma — 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
WINDLAS
Small
Windlas Biotech Limited
Pharmaceuticals
match 141
49
31.6
12.2%
+36%
FAIR VALUE
AHCL
Small
Anlon Healthcare Limited
Pharmaceuticals
match 139
41
52.5
18.4%
-11%
WATCHLIST
JAGSNPHARM
Small
Jagsonpal Pharmaceuticals Limited
Pharmaceuticals
match 138
58
32.2
17.3%
+29%
FAIR VALUE
NGLFINE
Small
NGL Fine-Chem Limited
Pharmaceuticals
match 138
38
32.3
17.4%
-339%
WATCHLIST
BETA
Small
Beta Drugs Limited
Pharmaceuticals
match 136
44
48.7
18.8%
+13%
WATCHLIST

Business, management & trust

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

Business and thesis

Issuer presentation review pending

Fermenta Biotech Limited operates in Enzymes & API, within the Pharma 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
73Limited 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 72nd percentile of the scored universe and 63rd percentile within Pharma. Main check: results consistency is weak at 5/100.

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

Computed 05 Sept 2026
management-trust-v1
141 docs text-extracted · 15 concalls text-extracted
Score band
Limited evidence

Financial behaviour is scored, but management claims do not yet have enough outcome checks.

Relative rank
72nd percentile

overall median 67 · Pharma: 63rd pctile, median 70 · Small: 75th pctile, median 66

Evidence depth
Financial-only

141 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
77
strong · profit to cash conversion
Balance sheet
89
strong · leverage and solvency
Discipline
90
strong · capital discipline
Results
5
weak · quarterly consistency

Trust positives

  • ▸Promoter holding is 64.1%.
  • ▸Promoter pledge is zero.
  • ▸FCF yield is positive at 3.4%.
  • ▸7 years of positive FCF.

Trust risks

  • ▸3 latest quarters had PAT decline worse than 25% YoY.
  • ▸1/4 latest quarters had positive YoY revenue growth.
  • ▸1/4 latest quarters had positive YoY PAT growth.
  • ▸OPM spread across recent quarters is 19.2%.

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.

7 shown
Announcement

Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Analyst / Investor Meet - Intimation 24 Sep

Source: Bse

Open source ↗
Announcement

Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Analyst / Investor Meet - Intimation 21 Sep

Source: Bse

Open source ↗
Announcement

Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Analyst / Investor Meet - Intimation 17 Sep

Source: Bse

Open source ↗
Announcement

Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Newspaper Publication 16 Sep - Copy of Newspaper Publication regarding notice to equity shareholders for transfer of shares to IEPF.

Source: Bse

Open source ↗
Announcement

Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Newspaper Publication 26 Aug - We hereby submit newspaper publication pertaining to Notice for Special window for transfer and dematerialization of physical securities.

Source: Bse

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