Barak Valley Cements Analysis

dividend

Pros

Cons

• Unable to calculate sustainability of dividends as Barak Valley Cements has not reported any payouts.
• Unable to evaluate Barak Valley Cements's dividend yield against the bottom 25% of dividend payers as the company has not reported any payouts.
• Unable to evaluate Barak Valley Cements's dividend against the top 25% market benchmark as the company has not reported any payouts.

health

Pros

• Barak Valley Cements is profitable, therefore cash runway is not a concern.
• Barak Valley Cements is profitable, therefore cash runway is not a concern.
• Barak Valley Cements's cash and other short term assets cover its long term commitments.
• The level of debt compared to net worth has been reduced over the past 5 years (105.2% vs 79.1% today).

Cons

• Barak Valley Cements's short term (1 year) commitments are greater than its holdings of cash and other short term assets.
• Debt is not well covered by operating cash flow (11%, less than 20% of total debt).
• Debt is not covered by short term assets, assets are 0.7x debt.
• Interest payments on debt are not well covered by earnings (EBIT is 1.2x annual interest expense, ideally 3x coverage).
• Barak Valley Cements's level of debt (79.1%) compared to net worth is high (greater than 40%).
• High level of physical assets or inventory.

management

Pros

• The tenure for the Barak Valley Cements board of directors is about average.
• Mukesh's remuneration is lower than average for companies of similar size in India.
• Mukesh's compensation has increased in line with Barak Valley Cements recently becoming profitable.

Cons

misc

Pros

Cons

• Barak Valley Cements is not covered by any analysts.

past

Pros

• Barak Valley Cements has delivered over 20% year on year earnings growth in the past 5 years.
• Barak Valley Cements has improved its use of capital last year versus 3 years ago (Return on Capital Employed).

Cons

• Barak Valley Cements has become profitable in the last year making the earnings growth rate difficult to compare to the 5-year average.
• Barak Valley Cements used its assets less efficiently than the IN Basic Materials industry average last year based on Return on Assets.
• Barak Valley Cements has not efficiently used shareholders’ funds last year (Return on Equity less than 20%).
• Barak Valley Cements has become profitable in the last year making it difficult to compare the IN Basic Materials industry average.

value

Pros

• Barak Valley Cements is good value based on assets compared to the IN Basic Materials industry average.
• Barak Valley Cements is good value based on earnings compared to the IN Basic Materials industry average.
• Barak Valley Cements is good value based on earnings compared to the India market.
• BSE:532916 is up 27.2% outperforming the Basic Materials industry which returned 9.2% over the past month.
• BSE:532916 is up 27.2% outperforming the market in India which returned 8% over the past month.

Cons

• 532916 underperformed the Basic Materials industry which returned -15.5% over the past year.
• 532916 underperformed the Market in India which returned -14.5% over the past year.