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Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Limited (GUJALKALI)

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Industrials stocks · Small cap · NSE

Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Limited operates in Chemicals, within the Industrials sector. Use the latest filing and company disclosures below to verify its revenue mix and current business drivers.

₹574.35
-10.75 · -1.84%
Market cap ₹4,454 Cr
Data qualityFresh enough for analysisQuote updated 19 Oct, 03:31 pm IST
Details
Quote19 Oct, 03:31 pm IST
Base fundamentals06 Oct 2026 · screener
Latest result24 Jul, 12:20 am IST
Score20 Oct, 04:30 am IST · v4.3-runtime-valuation
Tags02 May 2026
Coverage14/14 · 100%
Valuation2026-07-20 · Rf 6.8% · Industrials P/E 26.2 (n=537)
Technical timing lens

Trend score and candlestick chart

38Bearish

SMA20 -13.7% / mo · MACD −

Stock trend: 30
Sector RS: 50
Sector 3M: -6.3% vs Nifty 500 -5.6%

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

Technical chart

GUJALKALID candles · FIT view-25.4%
Latest close ₹574.35 on 2026-10-19
Bar
-2.3%
RSI
32
MACD hist
-1.19
52W pos
41%
Visible chart range
Candle interval
2026-10-19O ₹588.00H ₹588.00L ₹570.10C ₹574.35Vol 20,817 sh
₹557.86₹625.20₹692.55₹759.90₹827.2552H₹574.352026-032026-06VolRSIMACD2026-042026-062026-082026-092026-11
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

GUJALKALINifty India ManufacturingNifty 500
-10%+1%+12%+23%20 Jul1 Sept19 Oct19 Oct 2026GUJALKALI -5.2%Nifty India Manufactu… -5.8%Nifty 500 -5.6%
GUJALKALI
-5.2%
Nifty 500
-5.6%
Nifty India Manufacturing
-5.8%
Vs Nifty 500
+0.4 pp
Chart stats
19 Oct 2026
From 52W high
-29.5%
₹815
52W range position
41%
₹409.2 - ₹815
ATR (14)
3.6%
₹20.6
Volume vs 20D
0.33x
Latest completed session
Avg traded value
₹3.3 Cr
20-session average
20D price channel
₹570.1 - ₹645
29.9% 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
Research, do not rush
The evidence is not strongly aligned. Compare peers and wait for a cleaner setup.
U-Score
Legacy · WATCHLIST
33

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

Latest result
Average
45

Revenue +12.7% · PAT NDF YoY

Technical
Bearish
38

Price trend and sector-relative-strength timing.

Valuation
Legacy model
-1138.4%

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

Trust
Limited evidence
69

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

Average · 45/100

Rev +13% YoY · margin expansion · +11% QoQ

Filed 23 Jul 2026
Open results browser →
MetricThis quarterYoYQoQ
Revenue₹1,245 Cr+12.7%+10.7%
EBITDA₹222 Cr+133.7%+101.8%
Operating margin18.0%+900 bps+800 bps
PAT₹55 CrNDF+266.7%
PAT margin4.4%+569 bps+309 bps

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

Fundamentals

Valuation

P/E
67.10
P/B
0.86
EV/EBITDA
5.48
Market Cap
4454.00Cr

Profitability

ROE
-0.05%
ROCE
1.42%
ROA
0.88%
Dividend Y
2.92%

Growth (CAGR)

Revenue 5Y
12.00%
EPS 5Y
-5.00%
Revenue 3Y
-1.00%
EPS 3Y
-6.00%

Balance Sheet

Debt/Equity
0.11
Interest Coverage
7.59×
Altman Z
3.16
Book Value
707.00

Cash Flow

FCF Yield
4.06%
FCF Positive Y
7/5
OCF
406.00 Cr
EPS TTM
9.04

Shareholding

Promoter Hold
47.28%
Promoter Pledge
0.00%
Momentum 52W
49%

Financial History

Updated 20/10/2026

Revenue

₹ Cr
Latest: 4,498+3.2% vs prev
04516Mar 2016: 2,455Mar 2017: 3,161Mar 2018: 2,725Mar 2019: 2,429Mar 2020: 3,759Mar 2021: 4,516Mar 2022: 3,807Mar 2023: 4,073Mar 2024: 4,358Mar 2025: 4,498FY16FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25

Net Profit

₹ Cr
Latest: -65.0+72.6% vs prev
-237.00690.0Mar 2016: 220Mar 2017: 307Mar 2018: 534Mar 2019: 690Mar 2020: 332Mar 2021: 166Mar 2022: 560Mar 2023: 410Mar 2024: -237Mar 2025: -65.0FY16FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25

Return on Equity

%
Latest: -1.1+70.5% vs prev
-3.9016.1Mar 2016: 7.5%Mar 2017: 9.2%Mar 2018: 14.0%Mar 2019: 16.1%Mar 2020: 7.2%Mar 2021: 3.1%Mar 2022: 9.5%Mar 2023: 6.7%Mar 2024: -3.9%Mar 2025: -1.1%FY16FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25

Technicals

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

Daily technical trend read

Bearish setup

Trend is weak — long-term trend down. RSI 32.

  • Price below SMA200 (long-term downtrend) — short-term bounces likely countertrend.
  • SMA20 falling (~15.8% over last month) — short-term momentum negative.
  • RSI(14) at 32 — falling, no extreme reading.
  • MACD below signal, histogram expanding negatively — bearish momentum building.
  • 30% off 52W high · 40% 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

55
RS percentile
Stage 1 Base / Transition
1M return
-10.1%
3M return
-5.2%
6M return
-19.4%
1Y return
+2.8%
RS 1D
-1
RS 20D
-9
Sector rank
#2
Industry rank
#9
Stage evidence
  • Price is 12.9% below the 30-week proxy without full trend alignment.
  • The 30-week proxy changed +3.2% over 20 sessions.
  • The moving-average structure does not confirm Stage 2 or Stage 4.
50-DMA
price below
200-DMA
price below
Sector
leading
Industry
leading
Relative-strength line vs Nifty 500 (base 100)
262 observations
19 Oct 2026Value 105.76-0.83%
7492110129147Sept 25Feb 26Jun 26Oct 26106
RS vs Nifty 500106

Valuation & peers

U-Score 33 · legacy U-Score band WATCHLIST · valuation evidence and comparable companies

33U-SCORE
WATCHLIST

Fundamental score breakdown

U band · WATCHLIST
Valuation5/30
Growth5/25
Quality0/20
Balance Sheet11/15
Cash Flow9/10
Piotroski
6/9 (+3)
Penalties
0
Raw sum
33

Why this score?

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

33/100 · legacy band WATCHLIST

Positive drivers

  • FCF yield is supportive at 4.1%.
  • Cash flow contributes 9/10 to the score.
  • Balance sheet contributes 11/15 to the score.

Main drags

  • Fair-value margin of safety is negative at -1138.4%.
  • Quality is weaker at 0/20; verify the latest quarterly trend.
  • Valuation is weaker at 5/30; 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
67.1
PB
0.9
EV/EBITDA
5.5
ROE
-0.1%
ROCE
1.4%
FCF Yield
4.1%
Debt/Equity
0.1
MoS
-1138.4%
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: 20 Oct 2026
v4.3-runtime-valuation
Final score
33
Previous: 33
Legacy U-Score band
WATCHLIST
Previous: WATCHLIST
Margin of safety
-1138.4%
Previous: -1138.4%

Score history

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

20 Oct 2026
v4.3-runtime-valuation
33
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33
33
33
33
33
33
33
33
33
33

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
₹379.21
-51.5% MoS
Growth-justified P/E
5.1
Growth-justified Value
₹46.38
-1138.4% 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.

Compare all ↗
Ticker
Name
Why peer
Score
PE
ROE
MoS
Verdict
MOL
Small
Meghmani Organics Limited
Specialty Chemicals
match 161
31
23.6
1.9%
-1349%
OVERVALUED
GRAUWEIL
Small
Grauer & Weil India Limited
Specialty Chemicals
match 161
54
23.6
15.2%
+44%
FAIR VALUE
EPIGRAL
Small
Epigral Limited
Specialty Chemicals
match 161
71
16.2
16.0%
+60%
UNDERVALUED
UNIENTER
Small
Uniphos Enterprises Limited
Specialty Chemicals
match 159
33
29.6
0.8%
-405%
WATCHLIST
MWL
Small
Mangalam Worldwide Limited
Specialty Chemicals
match 159
55
21.5
18.0%
+44%
FAIR VALUE

Business, management & trust

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

Business and thesis

Issuer presentation review pending

Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Limited operates in 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
69Limited 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 59th percentile of the scored universe and 56th percentile within Industrials. Main check: financial discipline is weak at 30/100.

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

Computed 05 Sept 2026
management-trust-v1
44 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
59th percentile

overall median 67 · Industrials: 56th pctile, median 68 · Small: 63rd pctile, median 66

Evidence depth
Financial-only

44 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
78
strong · holding, pledge, alignment
Cash flow
77
strong · profit to cash conversion
Balance sheet
89
strong · leverage and solvency
Discipline
30
weak · capital discipline
Results
67
acceptable · quarterly consistency

Trust positives

  • ▸Promoter pledge is zero.
  • ▸FCF yield is positive at 3.4%.
  • ▸7 years of positive FCF.
  • ▸4/4 latest quarters had positive YoY revenue growth.

Trust risks

  • ▸ROCE is low at 1.4%.
  • ▸ROE is low at 0%.
  • ▸ROCE trend is -6.9%.

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 (LODR)-Analyst / Investor Meet - Intimation 11 Sep - Intimation of Schedule of Analyst / Institutional Investor Meeting with HSBC Securities and Capital Markets (India) Pvt. Ltd. For more details kindly refer attached file.

Source: Bse

Open source ↗
Announcement

Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Newspaper Publication 28 Aug - Newspaper clippings of Notice of 53rd Annual General Meeting E-voting information and Record Date.

Source: Bse

Open source ↗
Annual report

Reg. 34 (1) Annual Report. 27 Aug

Source: Bse

Open source ↗
Announcement

Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Newspaper Publication 21 Aug - Notice to Shareholders published in the Newspapers regarding 53rd Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Company. For more details kindly refer attached file.

Source: Bse

Open source ↗
Announcement

Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Analyst / Investor Meet - Intimation 18 Aug - Intimation of Schedule of Analyst / Investor Meet to be held on 24.08.2026. Kindly refer attached file for more information.

Source: Bse

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Investor presentation

Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Investor Presentation 7 Aug - We have uploaded an updated Investors Presentation on Company''s website for the benefit of Investors/Shareholders at large. For more details kindly refer attached file.

Source: Bse

Open source ↗
Credit rating

Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Credit Rating 4 Aug - CARE downgraded GACL's long-term bank facilities to CARE AA-; short-term facilities and CP remained CARE A1+.

Source: Bse

Open source ↗
Investor presentationJul 2026

Jul 2026 · PPT

Source: Company Ir

Open source ↗
Credit rating

Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Credit Rating 30 Jul - CARE downgraded long-term bank facilities to AA-; short-term and ₹100 crore CP reaffirmed.

Source: Bse

Open source ↗
Investor presentation

Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Investor Presentation 8 Jul - We have uploaded an updated Investors Presentation on Company''s website for the benefit of Investors/Shareholders at Large. For more details kindly refer attached file.

Source: Bse

Open source ↗
Announcement

Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Newspaper Publication 2 Jul - Copies of Notices published in News Paper in respect of proposed transfer of equity shares to Investor Education and Protection Fund (IEPF) Authority.

Source: Bse

Open source ↗
AnnouncementJun 2026

Jun 2026 · Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Press Release / Media Release 1h - Q1 FY27 revenue rose 14% to Rs1,224.84 crore; EBITDA up 83%; Rs55 crore HCL unit approved.

Source: Bse

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