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UCAL LIMITED (UCAL)
Small CapAuto stocks · Small cap · NSE
UCAL LIMITED operates in Fuel Systems, within the Auto sector. Use the latest filing and company disclosures below to verify its revenue mix and current business drivers.
₹132.26
+1.01 · +0.77%
Market cap ₹304 Cr
Data qualityFresh enough for analysisQuote updated 21 Oct, 04:45 am ISTDetails
Quote21 Oct, 04:45 am IST
Base fundamentals06 Oct 2026 · screener
Latest result16 Aug, 01:27 am IST
Score21 Oct, 04:30 am IST · v4.3-runtime-valuation
Tags02 May 2026
Coverage13/14 · 93%
Valuation2026-07-20 · Rf 6.8% · Auto P/E 25.7 (n=127)
Technical timing lens
Trend score and candlestick chart
47NeutralSMA20 -4.8% / mo · MACD −
Stock trend: 46
Sector RS: 49
Sector 3M: -6.3% vs Nifty 500 -5.6%
Auto FPI tailwindNot confirmed
Latest mapped FPI equity flow was not positive. View sector evidence
Technical chart
UCALD candles · FIT view+28.8%Latest close ₹132.26 on 2026-10-19
Bar
+1.3%
RSI
40
MACD hist
-1.05
52W pos
64%
2026-10-19O ₹130.55H ₹132.50L ₹129.50C ₹132.26Vol 4,550 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
UCALNifty AutoNifty 500
- UCAL
- +11.8%
- Nifty 500
- -5.6%
- Nifty Auto
- -5.4%
- Vs Nifty 500
- +17.4 pp
Chart stats
19 Oct 2026- From 52W high
- -19.3%
- 52W range position
- 64%
- ATR (14)
- 4.2%
- Volume vs 20D
- 0.54x
- Avg traded value
- ₹0.1 Cr
- 20D price channel
- ₹129.5 - ₹149.7
₹163.8
₹77 - ₹163.8
₹5.5
Latest completed session
20-session average
31.6% 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 is neutral, 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 · OVERVALUED28
Fundamental lens: valuation, quality, growth, balance sheet, and cash flow.
Latest result
Bad25
Revenue +4.4% · PAT NDF YoY
Technical
Neutral47
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 evidence67
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 · 25/100Rev +4% YoY · margin expansion
Filed 30 Jun 2026
Open results browser →| Metric | This quarter | YoY | QoQ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | ₹203.2 Cr | +4.4% | -13.0% |
| EBITDA | ₹19.4 Cr | +89.9% | +7.9% |
| Operating margin | 9.5% | +429 bps | +184 bps |
| PAT | ₹5.8 Cr | NDF | NDF |
| PAT margin | 2.9% | +596 bps | +850 bps |
NDF means not disclosed in the current structured filing feed. It is intentionally not treated as zero.
Fundamentals
Valuation
- P/E
- —
- P/B
- 0.93
- EV/EBITDA
- 5.27
- Market Cap
- 304.00Cr
Profitability
- ROE
- -5.29%
- ROCE
- 3.43%
- ROA
- -3.09%
- Dividend Y
- —
Growth (CAGR)
- Revenue 5Y
- 4.00%
- EPS 5Y
- -2.00%
- Revenue 3Y
- 1.00%
- EPS 3Y
- 1.00%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 0.57
- Interest Coverage
- 2.07×
- Altman Z
- 2.85
- Book Value
- 147.00
Cash Flow
- FCF Yield
- 51.32%
- FCF Positive Y
- 10/5
- OCF
- 91.00 Cr
- EPS TTM
- -9.71
Shareholding
- Promoter Hold
- 70.28%
- Promoter Pledge
- 0.00%
- Momentum 52W
- 69%
Financial History
Updated 20/10/2026
Revenue
₹ CrLatest: 838+4.5% vs prev
Net Profit
₹ CrLatest: -33.0-106.3% vs prev
Return on Equity
%Latest: -10.1-124.4% 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
Bearish setupTrend is weak — long-term uptrend intact. RSI 40.
- Price above SMA200 (long-term uptrend) but mid-term MAs not aligned.
- SMA20 falling (~5.1% over last month) — short-term momentum negative.
- RSI(14) at 40 — sideways, no extreme reading.
- MACD below signal, histogram expanding negatively — bearish momentum building.
- 19% off 52W high · 72% 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
75
RS percentile
Stage 2 UptrendEstablished S2
1M return
-4.3%
3M return
+11.8%
6M return
+28.4%
1Y return
+2.0%
RS 1D
+2
RS 20D
+4
Sector rank
#3
Industry rank
#30
Stage evidence
- Price is 13.6% above the 30-week proxy.
- The 50-DMA is above the 30-week proxy and its slope is rising +4.3%.
- Both 3-month and 6-month returns are positive.
50-DMA
price below
200-DMA
price above
S2 entered
21 Jul 2026
S2 age
63 trading sessions
Sector
leading
Industry
neutral
Relative-strength line vs Nifty 500 (base 100)
261 observations
19 Oct 2026Value 97.9+1.81%
RS vs Nifty 50098
Valuation & peers
U-Score 28 · legacy U-Score band OVERVALUED · valuation evidence and comparable companies
Valuation & peers
U-Score 28 · legacy U-Score band OVERVALUED · valuation evidence and comparable companies
OVERVALUED
Fundamental score breakdown
U band · OVERVALUEDValuation7/30
Growth3/25
Quality0/20
Balance Sheet8/15
Cash Flow10/10
Piotroski
5/9 (+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
- FCF yield is supportive at 51.3%.
- Cash flow contributes 10/10 to the score.
- Balance sheet contributes 8/15 to the score.
Main drags
- Penalty bucket subtracts 3 points.
- Quality is weaker at 0/20; verify the latest quarterly trend.
- Growth is weaker at 3/25; verify the latest quarterly trend.
Sector valuation model
Consumer valuation: PE/PEG and brand-quality premium
Consumer franchises can deserve higher multiples, but only when growth quality supports them.
Primary lens
PE and PEG relative to growth, ROE, margins, and brand strength.
Secondary checks
Volume growth, pricing power, distribution, same-store or category growth.
Main risk check
Premium valuation needs durable growth and margin resilience.
PE
—
PB
0.9
EV/EBITDA
5.3
ROE
-5.3%
ROCE
3.4%
FCF Yield
51.3%
Debt/Equity
0.6
MoS
—
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
—
No stored baseline yet
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
—
Growth-justified P/E
6.3
Growth-justified Value
—
— MoS
PEG
—
Comparable companies
Peers
Business-comparable peers in Auto — 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
SUNDRMBRAK
Small
Sundaram Brake Linings Limited
Auto Components
match 138
21
74.7
2.5%
-2386%
OVERVALUED
PPAP
Small
PPAP Automotive Limited
Auto Components
match 138
42
79.5
-4.7%
-2%
WATCHLIST
KALYANIFRG
Small
Kalyani Forge Limited
Auto Components
match 137
46
27.8
10.1%
+41%
FAIR VALUE
TOLINS
Small
Tolins Tyres Limited
Auto Components
match 137
56
10.3
10.4%
+49%
FAIR VALUE
PRITIKAUTO
Small
Pritika Auto Industries Limited
Auto Components
match 136
56
12.2
8.6%
+69%
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
UCAL LIMITED operates in Fuel Systems, within the Auto 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
67Limited 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 52nd percentile of the scored universe and 35th percentile within Auto. Main check: financial discipline is weak at 40/100.
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
52nd percentile
overall median 67 · Auto: 35th pctile, median 74 · Small: 56th 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 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
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
89
strong · profit to cash conversion
Balance sheet
65
acceptable · leverage and solvency
Discipline
40
weak · capital discipline
Results
41
weak · quarterly consistency
Trust positives
- ▸Promoter holding is 70.3%.
- ▸Promoter pledge is zero.
- ▸FCF yield is 47.1%.
- ▸10 years of positive FCF.
Trust risks
- ▸2 latest quarters had PAT decline worse than 25% YoY.
- ▸ROCE is low at 3.3%.
- ▸ROE is low at -5.4%.
Trust Lite uses financial behaviour only. Prefer claim-tested Trust when enough concall claims have later outcomes.
Continue researching UCAL 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 2 Sep
Source: Bse
Announcement
Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Newspaper Publication 15 Jul - Newspaper advertisement on Postal Ballot Notice
Source: Bse
Annual report
Annual Report 2026
Source: Bse
Annual report
Annual Report 2026
Source: Bse
Annual report
Annual Report 2025
Source: Bse
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