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Intrinsic value · Buy/Sell verdict · scores — free· 1088 Nifty 500 stocks· EOD 2026-06-16

Punjab Chemicals and Crop Protection Limited

PUNJABCHEM · NSE · Basic Materials

₹1,025.8
-8.40 (-0.81%)
Our verdictOvervalued
Sell43/100
Quality56
Valuation27
Momentum16
Financial trend73
Intrinsic value
Our fair value
₹758.16
Overvalued by 26%
Price ₹1,025.8Range ₹512.9₹1,116.83

With a 20% margin of safety, our buy-below price is ₹606.52.

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Financial health 58/100
Altman Z 3.33 · Safe zone

Piotroski F-score 5/9 — quality of earnings & balance sheet.

Investability checklist

Passed 6 of 13 checks46/100
  • ROE above 15%16.2%
  • Low debt (D/E < 0.5)0.36x
  • Positive free cash flow
  • Revenue growth > 10%3%
  • Earnings growing56%
  • Net margin ≥ 10%6.2%
  • Current ratio > 1.51.52
  • Below our fair value
  • Margin of safety ≥ 20%
  • Above 200-day average
  • Above 50-day average
  • Positive 1-year return
  • Altman Z in safe zoneZ 3.33
  • Piotroski ≥ 75/9

1-year price

EOD · 2026-06-16
1W
+8.2%
1M
+0.9%
3M
-5.1%
6M
-19.1%
1Y

Our scores

Durability56
Valuation48
Momentum16

Durability rewards strong, low-debt, profitable businesses; Valuation rewards stocks cheap vs their sector; Momentum rewards strong price trends.

Quarterly results

3Q2018
₹137 Cr5%
4Q2018
₹180 Cr0%
3Q2019
₹122 Cr0%
4Q2019
₹159 Cr1%
Revenue Net profitRevenue 4-period change +16%

Annual financials

2012
₹666 Cr-5%
2018
₹502 Cr0%
2019
₹651 Cr0%
2020
₹567 Cr3%
Revenue Net profitRevenue 4-period change -15%

Shareholding

Promoter71.9%
Institutions0.1%
Public & other28.0%

Promoter holding via insider stake; institutional via reported holdings.

Key fundamentals

Market cap
₹1,258 Cr
P/E ratio
19.7
P/B ratio
2.97
EPS (TTM)
₹52.12
ROE
16.2%
Debt / Equity
0.36x
Profit margin
6.2%
Free cash flow
₹19 Cr
52-week high
₹1,547
-33.69% from high
52-week low
₹892.7
Dividend yield
0.3%
Beta
0.50

SWOT snapshot

Strengths

  • Lightly leveraged balance sheet.
  • Financially solid — Altman Z 3.33.

Weaknesses

  • Price below its 200-day moving average (downtrend).

Opportunities

  • Earnings growing (56% YoY).

Threats

  • Trades ~26% above our estimated fair value.

About Punjab Chemicals and Crop Protection Limited

Punjab Chemicals and Crop Protection Limited manufactures and sells agrochemicals, specialty chemicals, bulk drugs, and related intermediates in India, Europe, Japan, Israel, the United States, Latin America, and internationally. It offers herbicides, including metamitron, ethofumesate, diflufenican, lenacil, and cyanazine; insecticides and fungicides; pharma active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) comprising trimethoprim IP/BP/USP/EP, etoricoxib, celecoxib, albendazole USP/B

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Our verdict, fair value, financial-health and checklist are StocksWizard's own estimates, computed from public end-of-day data using standard models (DCF, relative valuation, Altman Z, Piotroski). For information only — not investment advice or a recommendation. Verify independently before investing.