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Universal Cables Limited (UNIVCABLES)
Small CapMedia stocks · Small cap · NSE
Universal Cables Limited operates in Telecom Services / Equipment, within the Media sector. Use the latest filing and company disclosures below to verify its revenue mix and current business drivers.
Data qualityFresh enough for analysisQuote updated 21 Oct, 02:02 pm ISTDetails
Quote21 Oct, 02:02 pm IST
Base fundamentals06 Oct 2026 · screener
Latest result16 Aug, 01:49 am IST
Score21 Oct, 04:30 am IST · v4.3-runtime-valuation
Tags02 May 2026
Coverage13/14 · 93%
Valuation2026-07-20 · Rf 6.8% · Media P/E 15.0 (n=57)
Technical timing lens
Trend score and candlestick chart
68BullishSMA20 -3.2% / mo · MACD − · sector +14.1pp vs Nifty 500 (3M)
Stock trend: 46
Sector RS: 100
Sector 3M: +8.0% vs Nifty 500 -6.1%
Media FPI tailwindBuilding
Latest FPI flow is positive, but a second consecutive positive fortnight is still required. View sector evidence
Technical chart
UNIVCABLESD candles · FIT view+57.8%TODAY · PROVISIONALLatest price ₹1368.40 on 2026-10-21
Today's candle is provisional from the latest intraday quote; completed-candle scans remain unchanged.
Bar
-6.9%
RSI
39
MACD hist
-14.08
52W pos
66%
2026-10-21O ₹1470.00H ₹1488.70L ₹1341.10C ₹1368.40Vol 1.4L shIntraday candle
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
UNIVCABLESNifty MediaNifty 500
- UNIVCABLES
- +21.6%
- Nifty 500
- -5.6%
- Nifty Media
- +7.0%
- Vs Nifty 500
- +27.2 pp
Chart stats
19 Oct 2026- From 52W high
- -17.7%
- 52W range position
- 74%
- ATR (14)
- 5.7%
- Volume vs 20D
- 0.94x
- Avg traded value
- ₹18.6 Cr
- 20D price channel
- ₹1,400 - ₹1,669.5
₹1,774.9
₹576 - ₹1,774.9
₹82.9
Latest completed session
20-session average
57.9% annualized volatility
Research snapshot
What the evidence says now
Weak 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
Momentum only
Trend is strong but fundamentals do not support a clean investment thesis.
U-Score
Legacy · OVERVALUED31
Fundamental lens: valuation, quality, growth, balance sheet, and cash flow.
Latest result
Excellent77
Revenue +57.5% · PAT +105.9% YoY
Technical
Bullish68
Price trend and sector-relative-strength timing.
Valuation
Legacy model-5.5%
Legacy margin-of-safety estimate; the revised evidence label remains in shadow validation.
Trust
Limited evidence76
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
Excellent · 77/100Rev +58% YoY · PAT +106% YoY · +13% QoQ · operating leverage · margin compression
Filed 30 Jun 2026
Open results browser →| Metric | This quarter | YoY | QoQ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | ₹945 Cr | +57.5% | +12.5% |
| EBITDA | ₹91 Cr | +56.9% | +31.9% |
| Operating margin | 10.0% | +0 bps | +200 bps |
| PAT | ₹70 Cr | +105.9% | +27.3% |
| PAT margin | 7.4% | +174 bps | +86 bps |
NDF means not disclosed in the current structured filing feed. It is intentionally not treated as zero.
Fundamentals
Valuation
- P/E
- 26.40
- P/B
- 2.79
- EV/EBITDA
- 19.14
- Market Cap
- 5274.00Cr
Profitability
- ROE
- 8.90%
- ROCE
- 11.70%
- ROA
- 4.63%
- Dividend Y
- 0.30%
Growth (CAGR)
- Revenue 5Y
- 19.00%
- EPS 5Y
- 19.00%
- Revenue 3Y
- 11.00%
- EPS 3Y
- 11.00%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 0.62
- Interest Coverage
- 2.31×
- Altman Z
- 3.06
- Book Value
- 545.00
Cash Flow
- FCF Yield
- —
- FCF Positive Y
- 4/5
- OCF
- 63.00 Cr
- EPS TTM
- 57.66
Shareholding
- Promoter Hold
- 61.89%
- Promoter Pledge
- 0.00%
- Momentum 52W
- 79%
Financial History
Updated 19/10/2026
Revenue
₹ CrLatest: 945+12.5% vs prev
Net Profit
₹ CrLatest: 70.0+27.3% vs prev
ROE is shown only in the Annual view — quarterly equity data isn't published.
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 39.
- Price above SMA200 (long-term uptrend) but mid-term MAs not aligned.
- SMA20 falling (~3.3% over last month) — short-term momentum negative.
- RSI(14) at 39 — falling, no extreme reading.
- MACD below signal, histogram expanding negatively — bearish momentum building.
- 23% off 52W high · 138% 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
95
RS percentile
Stage 2 UptrendEstablished S2
1M return
-1.1%
3M return
+21.6%
6M return
+76.7%
1Y return
+108.1%
RS 1D
+1
RS 20D
0
Sector rank
#15
Industry rank
#49
Stage evidence
- Price is 19.8% above the 30-week proxy.
- The 50-DMA is above the 30-week proxy and its slope is rising +10.3%.
- Both 3-month and 6-month returns are positive.
50-DMA
price below
200-DMA
price above
S2 entered
18 May 2026
S2 age
109 trading sessions
Sector
lagging
Industry
improving
Relative-strength line vs Nifty 500 (base 100)
261 observations
19 Oct 2026Value 212.77+1.81%
RS vs Nifty 500213
Valuation & peers
U-Score 31 · legacy U-Score band OVERVALUED · valuation evidence and comparable companies
Valuation & peers
U-Score 31 · legacy U-Score band OVERVALUED · valuation evidence and comparable companies
OVERVALUED
Fundamental score breakdown
U band · OVERVALUEDValuation0/30
Growth12/25
Quality3/20
Balance Sheet7/15
Cash Flow4/10
Piotroski
7/9 (+5)
Penalties
0
Raw sum
31
Why this score?
Top U-Score contributors and drags from the latest stored fundamentals.
31/100 · legacy band OVERVALUED
Positive drivers
- Piotroski is strong at 7/9.
- Growth contributes 12/25 to the score.
- Balance sheet contributes 7/15 to the score.
Main drags
- Fair-value margin of safety is negative at -5.5%.
- Valuation is weaker at 0/30; verify the latest quarterly trend.
- Quality is weaker at 3/20; verify the latest quarterly trend.
Sector valuation model
Telecom valuation: EV/EBITDA against ARPU, debt, and capex
Telecom needs enterprise-value and cash-flow framing because leverage is structurally important.
Primary lens
EV/EBITDA and debt-adjusted cash generation.
Secondary checks
ARPU growth, subscriber quality, spectrum liabilities, capex intensity.
Main risk check
High EBITDA can still be weak equity value if debt and capex absorb cash.
PE
26.4
PB
2.8
EV/EBITDA
19.1
ROE
8.9%
ROCE
11.7%
FCF Yield
—
Debt/Equity
0.6
MoS
-5.5%
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
31
Previous: 31
Legacy U-Score band
OVERVALUED
Previous: OVERVALUED
Margin of safety
-5.5%
Previous: -12.6%
Score history
12 stored score snapshots. Latest stored move: +0 points.
21 Oct 2026
v4.3-runtime-valuation
31
31
31
31
31
31
31
31
31
31
31
31
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
₹840.87
-62.7% MoS
Growth-justified P/E
22.5
Growth-justified Value
₹1,297.35
-5.5% MoS
PEG
1.67
Comparable companies
Peers
Business-comparable peers in Media — 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
PARACABLES
Small
Paramount Communications Limited
Telecom
match 99
33
30.1
8.0%
-47%
WATCHLIST
TVSSRICHAK
Small
TVS Srichakra Limited
Telecom
match 98
26
32.0
5.8%
-464%
OVERVALUED
MMWL
Small
Media Matrix Worldwide Limited
Telecom
match 95
21
261.0
6.6%
-1951%
OVERVALUED
VETO
Small
Veto Switchgears And Cables Limited
Telecom
match 94
57
9.6
8.8%
+64%
FAIR VALUE
STLNETWORK
Small
STL Networks Limited
Telecom
match 94
4
—
-11.3%
—
OVERVALUED
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
Universal Cables Limited operates in Telecom Services / Equipment, within the Media 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
76Limited 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 81st percentile of the scored universe and 92nd percentile within Media. No major sub-score weakness stands out.
This is a financial-behaviour screen, not a claim-tested management reliability verdict.
Computed 05 Sept 2026
management-trust-v1
8 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
81st percentile
overall median 67 · Media: 92nd pctile, median 63 · Small: 83rd pctile, median 66
Evidence depth
Financial-only
8 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
Can support position sizing if valuation and trend also agree.
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
73
acceptable · leverage and solvency
Discipline
68
acceptable · capital discipline
Results
95
strong · quarterly consistency
Trust positives
- ▸Promoter holding is 61.9%.
- ▸Promoter pledge is zero.
- ▸4 years of positive FCF.
- ▸4/4 latest quarters had positive YoY revenue growth.
Trust risks
- ▸No major Trust Lite risk flags.
Trust Lite uses financial behaviour only. Prefer claim-tested Trust when enough concall claims have later outcomes.
Continue researching Universal Cables 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 11 Jul - Newspaper Advertisement - Notice of 81st Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Remote e-Voting Information
Source: Bse
Announcement
Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Newspaper Publication 26 Jun - Newspaper Advertisement(s)- Notice regarding Compulsory transfer of Unpaid /Unclaimed Dividend and Equity Shares of the Company to IEPF.
Source: Bse
Announcement
Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Newspaper Publication 24 Jun - Newspaper Publication regarding Special Window for transfer of Dematerialisation of physical securities.
Source: Bse
Annual report
Annual Report 2026
Source: Bse
Annual report
Annual Report 2025
Source: Bse
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