Madras Fertilizers Analysis

dividend

Pros

Cons

• Unable to evaluate Madras Fertilizers's dividend yield against the bottom 25% of dividend payers as the company has not reported any payouts.
• Unable to evaluate Madras Fertilizers's dividend against the top 25% market benchmark as the company has not reported any payouts.

health

Pros

• Madras Fertilizers's cash and other short term assets cover its long term commitments.

Cons

• Madras Fertilizers's short term (1 year) commitments are greater than its holdings of cash and other short term assets.
• Madras Fertilizers has less than a year of cash runway if free cash flow continues to grow at historical rates of 0.5% each year.
• Madras Fertilizers has less than a year of cash runway based on current free cash flow.
• Operating cash flow is negative therefore debt is not well covered.
• Madras Fertilizers has negative shareholder equity (liabilities exceed assets) therefore debt is not covered by short term assets.
• Irrelevant to check if Madras Fertilizers's debt level has increased considering it has negative shareholder equity.
• Madras Fertilizers has negative shareholder equity (liabilities exceed assets), this is a more serious situation compared with a high debt level.
• High level of physical assets or inventory.

management

Pros

• Ulaganathan's remuneration is about average for companies of similar size in India.

Cons

• The average tenure for the Madras Fertilizers board of directors is less than 3 years, this suggests a new board.
• Ulaganathan's compensation has increased whilst company is loss making.
• The average tenure for the Madras Fertilizers management team is less than 2 years, this suggests a new team.

misc

Pros

Cons

• Madras Fertilizers is not covered by any analysts.
• Madras Fertilizers has significant price volatility in the past 3 months.

past

Pros

Cons

• Unable to compare Madras Fertilizers's 1-year earnings growth to the 5-year average as it is not currently profitable.
• Madras Fertilizers does not make a profit even though their year on year earnings growth rate was positive over the past 5 years.
• It is difficult to establish if Madras Fertilizers has efficiently used its assets last year compared to the IN Chemicals industry average (Return on Assets) as it is loss-making.
• It is difficult to establish if Madras Fertilizers improved its use of capital last year versus 3 years ago (Return on Capital Employed) due to its liabilities exceeding its assets.
• It is difficult to establish if Madras Fertilizers has efficiently used shareholders’ funds last year (Return on Equity greater than 20%) due to its liabilities exceeding its assets.
• Unable to compare Madras Fertilizers's 1-year growth to the IN Chemicals industry average as it is not currently profitable.

value

Pros

• MADRASFERT outperformed the Market in India which returned -14.5% over the past year.
• NSEI:MADRASFERT is up 40.1% outperforming the Chemicals industry which returned 6.9% over the past month.
• NSEI:MADRASFERT is up 40.1% outperforming the market in India which returned 8% over the past month.

Cons

• Madras Fertilizers has negative assets, we can't compare the value of its assets to the IN Chemicals industry average.
• Madras Fertilizers is loss making, we can't compare its value to the IN Chemicals industry average.
• Madras Fertilizers is loss making, we can't compare the value of its earnings to the India market.
• MADRASFERT underperformed the Chemicals industry which returned 2.2% over the past year.