Coal India Ltd
NSE: COALINDIA BSE: 533278
₹399.65
-8.35 (2.05%)
Sat, 07 Nov 2026, 09:19 pm
Market Cap (in Cr)251901.53
PE Ratio7.38
Dividend6.48
Coal India Analysis
dividend
Pros
- Dividends paid are well covered by earnings (2.4x coverage).
- Dividends after 3 years are expected to be covered by earnings (1.4x coverage).
- Coal India's pays a higher dividend yield than the bottom 25% of dividend payers in India (0.76%).
- Coal India's dividend is above the markets top 25% of dividend payers in India (3.08%).
Cons
- Dividend payments have increased, but Coal India only paid a dividend in the past 9 years.
- Coal India has been paying a dividend for less than 10 years and during this time payments have been volatile (annual drop of over 20%).
future
Pros
- Cash flow for Coal India is expected to increase by more than 50% in 2 years time.
- Coal India is expected to make outstanding use of shareholders’ funds in the future (Return on Equity greater than 40%).
- Performance (ROE) is expected to be above the current IN Oil and Gas industry average.
Cons
- Coal India's earnings are expected to decrease over the next 1-3 years, this is not considered high growth.
- Coal India's earnings are expected to decrease over the next 1-3 years, this is below the India market average.
- Coal India's earnings are expected to decrease over the next 1-3 years, this is below the low risk savings rate of 7.2%.
- Coal India's earnings are expected to decrease over the next year.
- Coal India's earnings are expected to increase but not above the low risk growth rate in 3 years time
- Coal India's net income is expected to decrease over the next 2 years.
- A decline in Coal India's performance (ROE) is expected over the next 3 years.
- Coal India's revenue is expected to increase but not above the 50% threshold in 2 years time.
- Coal India's revenue is expected to grow by 4.1% yearly, however this is not considered high growth (20% yearly).
- Coal India's revenue growth is positive but not above the India market average.
health
Pros
- Coal India is able to meet its short term (1 year) commitments with its holdings of cash and other short term assets.
- Coal India is profitable, therefore cash runway is not a concern.
- Coal India is profitable, therefore cash runway is not a concern.
- Debt is well covered by operating cash flow (681.8%, greater than 20% of total debt).
- Debt is covered by short term assets, assets are 41.6x debt.
- Coal India's cash and other short term assets cover its long term commitments.
- Coal India earns more interest than it pays, coverage of interest payments is not a concern.
- Coal India's level of debt (5.3%) compared to net worth is satisfactory (less than 40%).
Cons
- The level of debt compared to net worth has increased over the past 5 years (0.4% vs 5.3% today).
- High level of physical assets or inventory.
management
Pros
Cons
- The average tenure for the Coal India board of directors is less than 3 years, this suggests a new board.
- The average tenure for the Coal India management team is less than 2 years, this suggests a new team.
misc
Pros
Cons
- Coal India has significant price volatility in the past 3 months.
past
Pros
- Coal India's 1-year earnings growth exceeds its 5-year average (42.6% vs 3.5%)
- Coal India's year on year earnings growth rate has been positive over the past 5 years.
- Coal India used its assets more efficiently than the IN Oil and Gas industry average last year based on Return on Assets.
- Coal India has significantly improved its use of capital last year versus 3 years ago (Return on Capital Employed).
- Coal India made outstanding use of shareholders’ funds last year (Return on Equity greater than 40%).
- Coal India's earnings growth has exceeded the IN Oil and Gas industry average in the past year (42.6% vs -22%).
Cons
value
Pros
- Coal India's share price is below the future cash flow value, and at a moderate discount (> 20%).
- Coal India is good value based on earnings compared to the IN Oil and Gas industry average.
- Coal India is good value based on earnings compared to the India market.
Cons
- Coal India's share price is below the future cash flow value, but not at a substantial discount (< 40%).
- Coal India is overvalued based on assets compared to the IN Oil and Gas industry average.
- Coal India earnings are not expected to grow next year, we can't assess if its growth is good value.
- 533278 underperformed the Oil and Gas industry which returned -4% over the past year.
- 533278 underperformed the Market in India which returned -14.5% over the past year.
- BSE:533278 is up 1.3% underperforming the Oil and Gas industry which returned 10.5% over the past month.
- BSE:533278 is up 1.3% underperforming the market in India which returned 8% over the past month.