KSB Ltd
NSE: KSB BSE: 500249
â‚ą659.20
-7 (1.05%)
Sat, 07 Nov 2026, 09:16 pm
Market Cap (in Cr)11573.61
PE Ratio48.08
Dividend0.66
Producer Manufacturing
Industrial Machinery
24.5KKSB Analysis
dividend
- Dividends per share have increased over the past 10 years.
- Dividends paid are well covered by earnings (3.4x coverage).
- KSB's pays a higher dividend yield than the bottom 25% of dividend payers in India (0.76%).
- Dividends per share have been volatile in the past 10 years (annual drop of over 20%).
- KSB's dividend is below the markets top 25% of dividend payers in India (3.08%).
future
- KSB is not expected to efficiently use shareholders’ funds in the future (Return on Equity less than 20%).
- Performance (ROE) is not expected to exceed the current IN Machinery industry average.
- A decline in KSB's performance (ROE) is expected over the next 3 years.
- KSB's revenue is expected to decrease over the next 2 years.
- KSB's revenue is expected to grow by 1.5% yearly, however this is not considered high growth (20% yearly).
- KSB's revenue growth is positive but not above the India market average.
health
- KSB is able to meet its short term (1 year) commitments with its holdings of cash and other short term assets.
- KSB is profitable, therefore cash runway is not a concern.
- KSB is profitable, therefore cash runway is not a concern.
- Debt is well covered by operating cash flow (336.8%, greater than 20% of total debt).
- Debt is covered by short term assets, assets are 16.5x debt.
- KSB's cash and other short term assets cover its long term commitments.
- Interest payments on debt are well covered by earnings (EBIT is 17.5x coverage).
- KSB's level of debt (7.2%) compared to net worth is satisfactory (less than 40%).
- The level of debt compared to net worth has increased over the past 5 years (3.3% vs 7.2% today).
- High level of physical assets or inventory.
management
- The tenure for the KSB board of directors is about average.
- Rajeev's remuneration is about average for companies of similar size in India.
- Rajeev's compensation has been consistent with company performance over the past year, both up more than 20%.
- The tenure for the KSB management team is about average.
misc
- KSB is covered by less than 3 analysts.
- KSB has significant price volatility in the past 3 months.
past
- KSB's 1-year earnings growth exceeds its 5-year average (25.3% vs 8.9%)
- KSB's year on year earnings growth rate has been positive over the past 5 years.
- KSB used its assets more efficiently than the IN Machinery industry average last year based on Return on Assets.
- KSB's earnings growth has exceeded the IN Machinery industry average in the past year (25.3% vs -7.2%).
- KSB's use of capital deteriorated last year versus 3 years ago (Return on Capital Employed).
- KSB has not efficiently used shareholders’ funds last year (Return on Equity less than 20%).
value
- KSB's share price is above the future cash flow value, it's not available at a moderate discount (< 20%).
- KSB's share price is above the future cash flow value, it's not available at a substantial discount (< 40%).
- KSB is overvalued based on assets compared to the IN Machinery industry average.
- KSB is overvalued based on earnings compared to the IN Machinery industry average.
- KSB is overvalued based on earnings compared to the India market.
- 500249 underperformed the Machinery industry which returned -23.7% over the past year.
- 500249 underperformed the Market in India which returned -14.5% over the past year.
- BSE:500249 is up 6.1% underperforming the Machinery industry which returned 8.3% over the past month.
- BSE:500249 is up 6.1% underperforming the market in India which returned 8% over the past month.
