Murudeshwar Ceramics Analysis

dividend

Pros

Cons

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

health

Pros

• Murudeshwar Ceramics is able to meet its short term (1 year) commitments with its holdings of cash and other short term assets.
• Murudeshwar Ceramics is profitable, therefore cash runway is not a concern.
• Murudeshwar Ceramics is profitable, therefore cash runway is not a concern.
• Debt is covered by short term assets, assets are 1.8x debt.
• Murudeshwar Ceramics'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 (37.5% vs 26.8% today).
• Murudeshwar Ceramics's level of debt (26.8%) compared to net worth is satisfactory (less than 40%).

Cons

• Debt is not well covered by operating cash flow (16%, less than 20% of total debt).
• Interest payments on debt are not well covered by earnings (EBIT is 1.4x annual interest expense, ideally 3x coverage).
• High level of physical assets or inventory.

management

Pros

• The tenure for the Murudeshwar Ceramics board of directors is about average.
• Satish's compensation has been consistent with company performance over the past year, both up more than 20%.

Cons

• Satish's remuneration is higher than average for companies of similar size in India.

misc

Pros

Cons

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

past

Pros

• Murudeshwar Ceramics's 1-year earnings growth exceeds its 5-year average (52.2% vs 39.9%)
• Murudeshwar Ceramics has delivered over 20% year on year earnings growth in the past 5 years.
• Murudeshwar Ceramics's earnings growth has exceeded the IN Building industry average in the past year (52.2% vs 2%).

Cons

• Murudeshwar Ceramics used its assets less efficiently than the IN Building industry average last year based on Return on Assets.
• Murudeshwar Ceramics's use of capital deteriorated last year versus 3 years ago (Return on Capital Employed).
• Murudeshwar Ceramics has not efficiently used shareholders’ funds last year (Return on Equity less than 20%).

value

Pros

• Murudeshwar Ceramics is good value based on assets compared to the IN Building industry average.
• Murudeshwar Ceramics is good value based on earnings compared to the IN Building industry average.
• Murudeshwar Ceramics is good value based on earnings compared to the India market.
• MURUDCERA outperformed the Building industry which returned -33.2% over the past year.
• MURUDCERA outperformed the Market in India which returned -14.5% over the past year.
• NSEI:MURUDCERA is up 34.7% outperforming the Building industry which returned 6.6% over the past month.
• NSEI:MURUDCERA is up 34.7% outperforming the market in India which returned 8% over the past month.

Cons

• Murudeshwar Ceramics's share price is above the future cash flow value, it's not available at a moderate discount (< 20%).
• Murudeshwar Ceramics's share price is above the future cash flow value, it's not available at a substantial discount (< 40%).