KRN HEAT EXCHANGER n REFR LTD (KRN): Financials & Fundamentals History

Share price

Closing priceAdjusted for splits and bonus issues.

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₹967.4 latest close · −20.4% over the last 90 sessions

₹967.4 month-end · +18.9% over 12 months

₹967.4 month-end · +114.3% since Oct '24

52-week range ₹589.80 to ₹1687.00 · 1-year volatility 52.8%

Was the rally earned?

+19%share price, 1 yearLower P/E held it back

Mostly yes, with a catch.

Per-share earnings added 63 points, but investors now pay less per rupee of profit (P/E 94.9x to 63.1x), which took 45 points back.
The share count rose 6%.

Net profit growth+70 ptsNet profit rose about 90%, which lifts the price.

P/E change-45 ptsThe P/E fell from 94.9x to 63.1x, which lowers the price.

Share count change-6 ptsShare count rose 6%, which lowers the price.

What do "pts" mean?

"pts" are percentage points of the share price return. The parts add up to the total shown for each period. Because price = P/E × net profit ÷ share count, higher profit pushes the price up, a higher P/E pushes it up, and more shares push it down.

Example: if the price rose 34% and profit growth accounts for +58 pts while a lower P/E accounts for -24 pts, then 58 - 24 = 34. The +58 is not the profit growth rate itself: it is the part of the price move that profit growth explains.

Not shown for 3 years and 5 years: earnings were negative at one end, or there is not enough history.

Net profit is trailing twelve months as reported with a 60-day lag.

Compare this with BHARAT HEAVY ELECTRICALS

How rough has the ride been?

Maximum drawdown-43.4%not yet recovered

1-year volatility52.8%annualised

Beta vs sector index1.243-year daily, correlation 0.46

Volume spikes10last 90 sessions, 5x the 50-day median

Drawdown from peak

Largest drawdowns

-43.4% (2026-09 peak to 2026-11 low, not yet recovered)

-38.4% (2025-02 peak to 2026-01 low, recovered 2026-02)

-21.8% (2026-05 peak to 2026-05 low, recovered 2026-08)

Most recent volume spikes

2026-11-04: 11.9x the 50-day median, price -2.3% that day

2026-10-19: 8.3x the 50-day median, price -2.6% that day

2026-10-16: 7.2x the 50-day median, price -7.4% that day

Beta is the slope of daily returns against a market-cap-weighted index of the sector's other listed companies, built from today's constituents (so it excludes companies no longer listed).

Is it expensive against its own past and its peers?

63.1xP/E todayNear its historic low

Against its own history8th percentile

CheapestMedian 92.7xDearest

Usual range 71.0x to 103.4x since 2024-10.

Against Producer Manufacturing63.1x vs 29.6x

This company

63.1x

Sector median

29.6x

113% above the Producer Manufacturing median.

P/EP/BP/S

P/E (this company)10th to 90th percentile of its own historyIts medianProducer Manufacturing median

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P/B (this company)10th to 90th percentile of its own historyIts medianProducer Manufacturing median

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P/S (this company)10th to 90th percentile of its own historyIts medianProducer Manufacturing median

How to read this

Shaded band: 10th to 90th percentile of the company's own P/E history; dotted line: its median; orange line: sector median (companies with a positive multiple, at least 5 in the sector).

Sector figures are built from today's listed companies, so they exclude companies that are no longer listed.

All terms explained in the glossary →

How Producer Manufacturing is valued

Where does it rank among Producer Manufacturing peers?

Each cell is the company's percentile rank among its Producer Manufacturing peers (non-financial companies) that month.
Darker is better-ranked.
Rows marked ↓ are inverted (lower debt, shorter cash cycle and a lower P/E rank higher).

Where it ranks today

ROCE54th▼ 15 pts vs a year ago
Op. margin85th▲ 16 pts vs a year ago
Revenue growth94th▲ 3 pts vs a year ago
EPS growth87th▲ 50 pts vs a year ago
Debt/equity ↓42nd▼ 30 pts vs a year ago
Cash cycle ↓22nd▼ 21 pts vs a year ago
P/E ↓16th▲ 7 pts vs a year ago
12M momentum72ndflat vs a year ago

Rank history

ROCE

Op. margin

Revenue growth

EPS growth

Debt/equity ↓

Cash cycle ↓

P/E ↓

12M momentum

Dec '21Jul '22Jan '23Jul '23Jan '24Jul '24Jan '25Jul '25Jan '26Jul '26Nov '26

Lower rank Higher rank Not enough data

Percentiles use today's listed companies in the sector and need at least 5 peers with a value; grey cells have too few.
ROE is computed from net profit and book value where the source does not report it.

The Producer Manufacturing sector page Watch it move against Producer Manufacturing in the Observatory

What is the price implying?

~37%annual earnings growth implied by the price

At a P/E of 109.2x, the price would imply about 36.6%/yr earnings growth for 10 years under the same assumptions, but it is not ranked.

Fewer than six years of annual earnings are available, which is too little to measure delivered growth.

“Implied growth” is what the current price would require under our stated assumptions, not what we expect.

What prices imply across Producer Manufacturing The market-wide Expectations lists

Key figures

Share Priceclose 9 Nov: ₹967.40
P/E: 63.1x
ROCE: 16.0%
Market Cap: ₹6333 cr
Revenue (TTM): ₹736 cr
P/S: 8.6x
P/B: 11.0x
ROE: 17.5%
Operating Margin: 19.0%
Debt / Equity: 0.3x
Promoter Holding: 65.7%
12M Momentum: 18.9%

52-week range

₹589.80₹1687.00

34% of the way from its 52-week low to its high

Price risk

1Y volatility

52.8%

Beta vs sector

1-year daily

1.36

Balance sheet & cash

Interest cover

operating profit ÷ interest

14.4x

Cash from profit, 3Y

operating cash flow ÷ net profit

-0.45x

low

Share count, 1Y

unchanged

Are profits backed by cash?

3 of 7checks within range2 beyond a threshold

Other income reliance7%Within range

Other income as a share of pre-tax profit (trailing twelve months): 7.4%. Bands: below 15%, 15% to 35%, above 35%.

Tax rate29%Within range

Median quarterly effective tax rate over about 2.5 years: 29.0%. Bands: 15% to 35%, 5% to 15% or 35% to 50%, outside 5% to 50%.

Cash conversion-0.45xBeyond threshold

Operating cash flow divided by net profit over the last three fiscal years: -0.45x (cash from operations ₹-76 cr, net profit ₹168 cr). Bands: 0.8x and above, 0.5x to 0.8x, below 0.5x.

Free cash flow0 of 3 yrsBeyond threshold

Fiscal years with positive free cash flow in the last 3: 0. Bands: at least 80% of years, 40% to 80%, below 40%.

Receivable days vs history+36 daysNear threshold

Debtor days are above the median of the previous three fiscal years by 36 days (106 vs 71). Bands: under 15 days, 15 to 45, over 45.

Capital work in progress11% of fixed assetsWithin range

Capital work-in-progress is 11% of fixed assets. Bands: not rising or up to 30%; rising for three years and above 30%; rising and above 60%.

Payable days+80 days / 2 yrsNear threshold

Days payable changed by +80 over two years. Bands: rise of up to 30 days; more than 30 days.

Tap a check to see how it is measured

How to read this

Each check is a named rule with fixed thresholds, not a score. Annual statements are the latest restated figures, so a past year may differ from what was originally reported.

All terms explained in the glossary →

Who has been buying and selling?

Over 2 years, promoters trimmed 5.1 pts; FIIs added 4.8 pts; DIIs added 0.9 pts.

Holdings, Jun '26

How each group changed

GroupSep '24Jun '26Change

Promoters70.8%65.7%-5.1 pts

FIIs4.0%8.9%+4.8 pts

DIIs7.5%8.3%+0.9 pts

Public and others17.7%17.1%-0.6 pts

Number of shareholders

91,234shareholders+4% since Sep '24

Quarterly shareholding as reported, labelled by the quarter it covers (it becomes visible about two months later).
Shareholder counts are only available for recent quarters.

This quarter's smart-money board

What happened next to similar setups

−20.5%typical 12-month return vs the marketBelow the base rate

We found 50 past situations where a non-financial company looked like KRN HEAT EXCHANGER n REFR LTD today on valuation, return on capital, margins, debt, growth, price momentum, size and volatility.
Over the following 12 months the middle half of them returned −37% to +3% vs the market, against −9% for all non-financial companies in the same months.
The analogs' median sat below that base rate (gap −11.9%, 80% range −21.7% to −2.8%), but the matches cluster in only 5 distinct 12-month windows.

Where the 50 outcomes landed

Each dot is one past situation (hover or tap for details) · Solid dots are the closest matches, listed below · Shaded is the middle half of all companies in the same months · 1 beyond the range shown, drawn at the edge

Similar setups' median

−20.5%

All companies' median

−8.6%

Beat the market

30% vs 40%

50 past situations · 50 companies · 28 months · 2020–2025

The closest matches

Company	When	P/E	ROCE	12M mom.	Drawdown	Next 12 months
MATRIMONY Technology Services	Apr 2021	73x	16%	+186%	−21%	−39%
ASTEC Process Industries	Feb 2021	50x	20%	+125%	−19%	+21%
JYOTICNC Producer Manufacturing	Feb 2025	64x	21%	+36%	−44%	−13%
PREMEXPLN Process Industries	Dec 2024	116x	18%	+64%	−41%	−5%
COCHINSHIP Producer Manufacturing	Apr 2025	52x	21%	+22%	−44%	+2%

Show the other 3 matches

Company	When	P/E	ROCE	12M mom.	Drawdown	Next 12 months
JUBLINGREA Process Industries	Mar 2022	132x	8%	+73%	−45%	−16%
SHILPAMED Health Technology	Nov 2020	25x	12%	+56%	−29%	−18%
PARAS Electronic Technology	Dec 2024	87x	10%	+40%	−35%	+29%

How reliable is this?

Matched on P/E, P/S, ROCE, operating margin, debt/equity, interest cover, revenue growth, 12-month momentum, drawdown from 12-month high, size and volatility. Closest on: 12-month momentum, size and debt/equity. One match per company and at most 7 from any one month.

Independent periods: the matches fall in 5 distinct 12-month windows. Matches from nearby months share the same market conditions, so fewer windows means less evidence.

How this is built

This is history, not a forecast. These are past situations where other companies had broadly similar reported numbers and price trends. What happened to them does not tell you what will happen to KRN HEAT EXCHANGER n REFR LTD. The comparison covers only 2020–2025, a single market period, and only companies still listed today. Companies that were delisted or went bankrupt are missing, which makes past outcomes look better than they were. Returns exclude dividends and are measured against an ApnaFunda-built index, not an official benchmark. Fundamentals are matched on a 60-day assumed reporting lag, not actual announcement dates. Its historical skill has not yet been measured. Past patterns may not repeat.

Methodology

How historical analogs are built

Data as of 2026-11-09. Outcome pool: Jan 2020 to Oct 2025.

For every company we look at the situation it is in today (valuation, return on capital, margins, debt, growth, 12-month price momentum, drawdown, size and volatility) and find past company-months that looked most like it. We then show what happened to those past situations over the following 12 months, measured against the ApnaFunda All index and against the base rate. It describes history. It does not predict anything.

What is compared

Feature	Weight	Non-financial	Financial
P/E	1	yes	yes
P/S	1	yes	—
P/B	1	—	yes
ROCE	1	yes	—
operating margin	1	yes	—
ROE	1	—	yes
debt/equity	0.75	yes	—
interest cover	0.5	yes	—
revenue growth	0.75	yes	yes
12-month momentum	1	yes	yes
drawdown from 12-month high	0.75	yes	yes
size	0.75	yes	yes
volatility	0.5	yes	yes

Weights were set by judgement before any outcome was looked at and are never tuned on results. Loss-making companies (negative P/E or net profit) are only matched with other loss-making companies. Banks, NBFCs and insurers are compared only with each other and use a different feature set. Every feature is converted, month by month, to its rank among companies in the same pool in that month, so a P/E of 30 in a hot market and a P/E of 22 in a cold one can match if both were equally expensive for their time. Only that month's data is used.

How closeness and the sample are defined

Distance is the weighted root-mean-square gap between the standardised features both companies have. A match needs at least 70% of the query's feature weight, a distance of at most 0.9, and 30 matches at minimum to be shown. We keep up to 50 matches with these exclusions: never the company itself, one match per company (its closest month), and at most 7 from any one calendar month so a single market episode cannot dominate.

Base rate

The base rate is the distribution of 12-month returns, relative to the market, of every eligible company-month in the same pool, with each month weighted to match the months the analogs came from. It answers: how did a random company do in these same months? Because matches from nearby months share the same market conditions, we also report the number of distinct 12-month windows behind a result, and a bootstrap that resamples months decides whether the analog median differs from the base rate at all. "Not meaningfully different" is the usual outcome and the page copy is written for it.

Limits you should know

One market period. The outcome pool covers 2020–2025 only (70 months), including the 2020 crash and the 2020–21 rally.
Survivorship. Only companies listed today are included. Delisted and bankrupt companies are missing, which flatters past outcomes, particularly for distressed-looking setups.
Price return only. Dividends are excluded, and the benchmark is an ApnaFunda market-cap-weighted index of the same listed companies, not an official index.
Reporting lag. Fundamentals are matched on an assumed 60-day lag after the quarter end, not on real announcement dates.
Pools: non-financial: 98,395 company-months from 2019 companies; financial: 5,659 company-months from 108 companies. 2349 companies currently have a result; the rest are suppressed because too few comparable situations exist.

Does it work? A walk-forward check

The walk-forward check has not been run for this build, so skill is shown as not yet measured.

Disclaimer

This is history, not a forecast. These are past situations where other companies had broadly similar reported numbers and price trends. What happened to them does not tell you what will happen to any company shown. The comparison covers only 2020–2025, a single market period, and only companies still listed today. Companies that were delisted or went bankrupt are missing, which makes past outcomes look better than they were. Returns exclude dividends and are measured against an ApnaFunda-built index, not an official benchmark. Fundamentals are matched on a 60-day assumed reporting lag, not actual announcement dates. Its historical skill has not yet been measured. Past patterns may not repeat.

What else looks like this?

Companies with the most similar financial profile today, regardless of industry.

SMS PHARMACEUTICALSSMSPHARMA

Health Technology

75%similar

operating marginrevenue

ORIENTAL HOTELSORIENTHOT

Consumer Services

60%similar

promoter holdingoperating margin

BETA DRUGSBETA

Health Technology

56%similar

operating marginvolatility

APOLLO MICRO SYSTEMSAPOLLO

Electronic Technology

55%similar

ROCEvolatility

MISHRA DHATU NIGAMMIDHANI

Non-Energy Minerals

55%similar

market capP/E

STANDARD ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGSETL

Producer Manufacturing

67%similar

volatilitymarket cap

OBSC PERFECTIONOBSCP

Producer Manufacturing

62%similar

volatilityP/E

MARINE ELECTRICALS INDIAMARINE

Producer Manufacturing

60%similar

market capvolatility

Similarity is statistical, based on reported metrics; it does not imply similar business quality or future returns.

What changed?

22 events since Nov '24

2026
NovPriceFell 43% from the Sep 2026 peak to the Nov 2026 low.
NovPriceVolume reached 11.9x its 50-day median on 2026-11-04; price -2.3% that day.
OctValuationP/E fell below the 10th percentile of its own history to date (74.8x).
SepPromoterPromoter holding fell 5.1 pts to 65.7%.
SepPeer rankMoved into the top quartile of Producer Manufacturing on EPS growth (from the 2nd quartile).
AugPriceVolume reached 12.1x its 50-day median on 2026-08-17; price +4.9% that day.
MayDebtDebt / equity halved over 12 months to 0.07x.
AprPriceVolume reached 5.0x its 50-day median on 2026-04-13; price +8.3% that day.

Show 14 earlier events

2026
MarInstitutionsFII + DII holding rose 3.2 pts over 2 quarters to 11.7%.
FebPriceRegained the 2025-02 peak, 1 month after the low.
FebPriceVolume reached 95.1x its 50-day median on 2026-02-20; price +11.5% that day.
JanPriceFell 38% from the Feb 2025 peak to the Jan 2026 low.
2025
DecResultsYear-on-year EPS growth turned positive.
DecPeer rankMoved into the top quartile of Producer Manufacturing on operating margin (from the 2nd quartile).
NovPriceVolume reached 12.1x its 50-day median on 2025-11-19; price +6.7% that day.
OctDebtDebt / equity halved over 12 months to 0.07x.
OctSharesShare count is up 34.8% over 12 months.
JulPriceVolume reached 18.4x its 50-day median on 2025-07-07; price +14.3% that day.
JunInstitutionsFII + DII holding fell 4.0 pts over 2 quarters to 7.5%.
MarPeer rankSlipped to the 2nd quartile of Producer Manufacturing on operating margin (from the top quartile).
FebPriceVolume reached 6.1x its 50-day median on 2025-02-25; price +4.6% that day.
2024
NovPriceVolume reached 13.8x its 50-day median on 2024-11-07; price +10.3% that day.

Events are generated from the data by fixed rules.
The month shown is when the change became visible in the reported figures, assuming a 60-day lag after each quarter end; it is not an announcement date.

Where price and fundamentals disagree, market-wide Rewind the whole market to any month

Monthly history26 months · 2024-10 to 2026-11

Month	P/E	Revenue (TTM)	ROE	ROCE	Debt / Equity
2026-11	63.1x	₹736 cr	17.5%	16.0%	0.3x
2026-10	74.8x	₹736 cr	16.9%	16.0%	0.3x
2026-09	93.6x	₹736 cr	16.9%	16.0%	0.3x
2026-08	126.2x	₹599 cr	13.2%	16.0%	0.3x
2026-07	95.4x	₹599 cr	13.2%	16.0%	0.3x
2026-06	101.8x	₹599 cr	13.2%	16.0%	0.3x
2026-05	101.2x	₹552 cr	13.7%	21.0%	0.1x
2026-04	118.4x	₹552 cr	13.7%	21.0%	0.1x
2026-03	77.9x	₹552 cr	13.7%	21.0%	0.1x
2026-02	105.1x	₹510 cr	11.8%	21.0%	0.1x
2026-01	67.2x	₹510 cr	11.8%	21.0%	0.1x
2025-12	76.6x	₹510 cr	11.8%	21.0%	0.1x
2025-11	94.9x	₹449 cr	10.6%	21.0%	0.1x
2025-10	91.7x	₹449 cr	10.6%	21.0%	0.1x
2025-09	98.0x	₹449 cr	10.6%	21.0%	0.1x
2025-08	94.0x	₹430 cr	10.6%	21.0%	0.1x
2025-07	92.7x	₹430 cr	10.6%	21.0%	0.1x
2025-06	92.6x	₹430 cr	10.6%	21.0%	0.1x
2025-05	81.5x	₹380 cr	38.5%	—	0.7x
2025-04	77.4x	₹380 cr	38.5%	—	0.7x
2025-03	92.8x	₹380 cr	38.5%	—	0.7x
2025-02	98.2x	₹335 cr	33.8%	—	0.7x
2025-01	89.3x	₹335 cr	33.8%	—	0.7x
2024-12	78.8x	₹335 cr	33.8%	—	0.7x
2024-11	88.2x	₹315 cr	31.5%	—	0.7x
2024-10	50.9x	₹315 cr	31.5%	—	0.7x

Methodology and data notes