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MALU PAPER MILLS LIMITED (MALUPAPER)

Process Industries · Pulp & Paper · figures to Nov '26

Quality scoreHow the business itself ranks against its sector peers on profitability, 3-year growth and leverage. 50 is the middle of the sector.47 / 100
Profitability 11Growth 83

Share price

Closing priceAdjusted for splits and bonus issues.

₹31 latest close · −0.3% over the last 90 sessions

₹30₹33₹35Jul 3Jul 29Aug 24Sep 17Oct 14Nov 9 ₹30₹33₹35Jul 3Sep 4Nov 9

₹31 month-end · −17.1% over 12 months

₹30₹35Nov '25Jan '26Apr '26Jun '26Sep '26Nov '26 ₹30₹35Nov '25May '26Nov '26

₹31 month-end · −20.8% over 3 years

₹40₹60Nov '23Jun '24Jan '25Sep '25Apr '26Nov '26 ₹40₹60Nov '23May '25Nov '26

₹31 month-end · +4.9% since Jan '19

₹20₹40₹60Jan '19Aug '20Mar '22Sep '23Apr '25Nov '26 ₹20₹40₹60Jan '19Dec '22Nov '26

52-week range ₹27.00 to ₹44.11 · 1-year volatility 41.8%

How rough has the ride been?

Maximum drawdown-59.4%not yet recovered
1-year volatility41.8%annualised

Drawdown from peak

0%−20%−40%−60%2020202120222023202420252026−55.6% 0%−20%−40%−60%2020202220242026−55.6%
Largest drawdowns

-59.4% (2024-01 peak to 2026-03 low, not yet recovered)

-53.5% (2019-01 peak to 2019-08 low, recovered 2019-09)

-49.3% (2019-09 peak to 2020-03 low, recovered 2021-07)

Where does it rank among Process Industries peers?

Each cell is the company's percentile rank among its Process Industries 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

  • ROCE2nd▼ 3 pts vs a year ago
  • Op. margin20th▲ 14 pts vs a year ago
  • Revenue growth67th▼ 10 pts vs a year ago
  • EPS growth1st
  • Debt/equity ↓0thflat vs a year ago
  • Cash cycle ↓84th▲ 19 pts vs a year ago
  • P/E ↓14th
  • 12M momentum37th▼ 22 pts 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 Process Industries sector page Watch it move against Process Industries in the Observatory

What is the price implying?

Trailing earnings per share are negative, so a P/E-based figure does not exist. See the loss-makers list on the Expectations Gap page for a revenue-based version.

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

What prices imply across Process Industries The market-wide Expectations lists

Key figures

Share Priceclose 9 Nov
₹31.00
ROCE
-9.0%
Market Cap
₹53 cr
Revenue (TTM)
₹364 cr
P/S
0.1x
Operating Margin
4.7%
Promoter Holding
69.8%
12M Momentum
-17.1%

52-week range

₹27.00₹44.11
23% of the way from its 52-week low to its high

Price risk

1Y volatility
41.8%
Beta vs sector
1-year daily
1.08

Balance sheet & cash

Interest cover
operating profit ÷ interest
-0.1x
Cash from profit, 3Y
operating cash flow ÷ net profit
5.00x
Share count, 1Y
unchanged

Are profits backed by cash?

3 of 4checks within range1 near a threshold
Other income reliance—Not enough data

Not enough reported data to compute this.

Tax rate—Not enough data

Not enough reported data to compute this.

Cash conversion—Not enough data

Not enough reported data to compute this.

Free cash flow3 of 5 yrsNear threshold

Fiscal years with positive free cash flow in the last 5: 3. Bands: at least 80% of years, 40% to 80%, below 40%.

Receivable days vs history+2 daysWithin range

Debtor days are above the median of the previous three fiscal years by 2 days (43 vs 41). Bands: under 15 days, 15 to 45, over 45.

Capital work in progress0% of fixed assetsWithin range

Capital work-in-progress is 0% of fixed assets. Bands: not rising or up to 30%; rising for three years and above 30%; rising and above 60%.

Payable days+22 days / 2 yrsWithin range

Days payable changed by +22 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 3 years, institutional and promoter holdings were broadly unchanged.
  • The number of shareholders rose from 8,021 to 9,253 (+15%) between Sep 2023 and Jun 2026.

Holdings, Jun '26

How each group changed

GroupSep '23Jun '26Change
Promoters70.0%69.8%-0.2 pts
FIIs———
DIIs———
Public and others30.1%30.2%+0.1 pts

Number of shareholders

9,253shareholders+15% since Sep '23
8k9k9k10k Sep '23Mar '24Sep '24Mar '25Dec '25Jun '26
Sep '23: 8,021
Dec '23: 8,184
Mar '24: 9,519
Jun '24: 9,330
Sep '24: 9,946
Dec '24: 10,214
Mar '25: 9,893
Sep '25: 9,796
Dec '25: 9,765
Mar '26: 9,454
Jun '26: 9,253
8k9k9k10k Sep '23Sep '24Dec '25Jun '26
Sep '23: 8,021
Dec '23: 8,184
Mar '24: 9,519
Jun '24: 9,330
Sep '24: 9,946
Dec '24: 10,214
Mar '25: 9,893
Sep '25: 9,796
Dec '25: 9,765
Mar '26: 9,454
Jun '26: 9,253

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

+3.8%typical 12-month return vs the marketAbove the base rate
  • We found 50 past situations where a non-financial company looked like MALU PAPER MILLS LIMITED 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 −14% to +60% vs the market, against −5% for all non-financial companies in the same months.
  • The analogs' median sat above that base rate (gap +9.2%, 80% range +0.1% to +20.9%), but the matches cluster in only 6 distinct 12-month windows.

Where the 50 outcomes landed

−100%−50%0%+50%+100%
BASML · Oct 2024: −46.4% vs market
PRAKASHSTL · Feb 2025: −44.9% vs market
SELMC · Oct 2025: −35.8% vs market
DTIL · Mar 2025: −33.7% vs market
JISLDVREQS · Jan 2022: −26.4% vs market
DCMNVL · Aug 2024: −24.9% vs market
SHIVAMILLS · Jul 2025: −23.7% vs market
TVVISION · Jul 2020: −23.4% vs market
SHAHALLOYS · Aug 2024: −22.5% vs market
UCAL · Jun 2025: −21.0% vs market
VGL · May 2022: −20.7% vs market
SPENCERS · Nov 2023: −14.9% vs market
FLEXITUFF · Apr 2023: −14.4% vs market
BAJAJHIND · Jan 2020: −13.4% vs market
JAYSREETEA · Apr 2024: −12.3% vs market
MARALOVER · Aug 2025: −10.2% vs market
BANG · Aug 2024: −8.1% vs market
TEXMOPIPES · Jun 2023: −7.7% vs market
VISACHROME · Oct 2022: −7.7% vs market
INFOMEDIA · Apr 2022: −4.6% vs market
RANEHOLDIN · Jun 2021: −2.3% vs market
RSWM · May 2025: −1.9% vs market
ARCHIDPLY · Aug 2025: −1.4% vs market
LIBAS · Oct 2025: +2.0% vs market
INDORAMA · Apr 2025: +2.9% vs market
PEARLPOLY · Mar 2022: +4.7% vs market
NAHARSPING · Apr 2025: +6.0% vs market
OMAXAUTO · Feb 2025: +6.0% vs market
BLBLIMITED · Apr 2025: +6.5% vs market
HTMEDIA · May 2025: +14.6% vs market
ANIKINDS · Mar 2020: +21.4% vs market
ORIENTLTD · Aug 2022: +30.2% vs market
JAYAGROGN · Dec 2020: +31.7% vs market
ELGIRUBCO · Jan 2020: +43.8% vs market
SUNDRMBRAK · Jun 2023: +45.9% vs market
MADHUCON · Aug 2023: +53.8% vs market
MOHITIND · May 2024: +55.0% vs market
NAHARINDUS · May 2020: +61.1% vs market
KANPRPLA · Nov 2024: +63.8% vs market
JAIBALAJI · May 2020: +72.3% vs market
SUPERSPIN · Nov 2020: +73.7% vs market
SETCO · May 2024: +75.1% vs market
RML · May 2022: +77.9% vs market
MSPL · Jul 2023: +81.5% vs market
NITCO · Mar 2023: +97.1% vs market
DELTAMAGNT · May 2021: +123.7% vs market
DGCONTENT · Jan 2024: +130.3% vs market
KECL · Sep 2021: +137.8% vs market
GLOBALVECT · Sep 2023: +198.5% vs market
MAWANASUG · Mar 2021: +200.9% vs market
Similar setups +3.8%All companies −5.4%← worse than the marketbetter than the market →

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 · 5 beyond the range shown, drawn at the edge

Similar setups' median
+3.8%
All companies' median
−5.4%
Beat the market
54% vs 44%

50 past situations · 50 companies · 37 months · 2020–2025

The closest matches

CompanyWhenP/EROCE12M mom.DrawdownNext 12 months
PRAKASHSTL
Non-Energy Minerals
Feb 2025 —-11% −21%−40% −45%
SHIVAMILLS
Process Industries
Jul 2025 —-3% −20%−31% −24%
MADHUCON
Industrial Services
Aug 2023 —-8% −2%−8% +54%
SUPERSPIN
Process Industries
Nov 2020 —-2% +6%−17% +74%
JISLDVREQS
Producer Manufacturing
Jan 2022 —— +87%−15% −26%
Show the other 3 matches
CompanyWhenP/EROCE12M mom.DrawdownNext 12 months
GLOBALVECT
Industrial Services
Sep 2023 —-1% +28%−16% +199%
INFOMEDIA
Consumer Services
Apr 2022 —-38% +34%−20% −5%
BLBLIMITED
Finance
Apr 2025 —0% −27%−34% +7%
How reliable is this?

Matched on P/S, ROCE, operating margin, interest cover, revenue growth, 12-month momentum, drawdown from 12-month high, size and volatility. Closest on: 12-month momentum, drawdown from 12-month high and interest cover. Not used (unavailable for this company): P/E and debt/equity. This company is loss-making, so it was only compared with loss-making companies. One match per company and at most 7 from any one month.

Independent periods: the matches fall in 6 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 MALU PAPER MILLS LIMITED. 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

FeatureWeightNon-financialFinancial
P/E1yesyes
P/S1yes—
P/B1—yes
ROCE1yes—
operating margin1yes—
ROE1—yes
debt/equity0.75yes—
interest cover0.5yes—
revenue growth0.75yesyes
12-month momentum1yesyes
drawdown from 12-month high0.75yesyes
size0.75yesyes
volatility0.5yesyes

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 changed?

22 events since Jun '19

  1. MarResultsRevenue (TTM) reached a new high of ₹321 cr.
  2. MarPriceFell 59% from the Jan 2024 peak to the Mar 2026 low.
  3. SepResultsRevenue (TTM) reached a new high of ₹315 cr.
  4. JunPeer rankSlipped to the bottom quartile of Process Industries on ROCE (from the 3rd quartile).
  5. SepResultsEPS (TTM) turned negative.
  6. JulValuationP/E crossed above the 90th percentile of its own history to date (99.4x).
  7. JunResultsEPS (TTM) turned positive.
  8. JunPeer rankMoved into the 3rd quartile of Process Industries on ROCE (from the bottom quartile).
Show 14 earlier events
  1. SepPriceRegained the 2022-12 peak, 6 months after the low.
  2. MarPriceFell 39% from the Dec 2022 peak to the Mar 2023 low.
  3. DecPriceRegained the 2021-10 peak, 10 months after the low.
  4. FebPriceFell 37% from the Oct 2021 peak to the Feb 2022 low.
  5. JulPriceRegained the 2019-09 peak, 16 months after the low.
  6. JunResultsEPS (TTM) turned negative.
  7. JunPeer rankSlipped to the bottom quartile of Process Industries on ROCE (from the 3rd quartile).
  8. MayValuationP/E crossed above the 90th percentile of its own history to date (79.1x).
  9. JunResultsYear-on-year EPS growth turned negative.
  10. JunPeer rankSlipped to the 3rd quartile of Process Industries on ROCE (from the 2nd quartile).
  11. MarPriceFell 49% from the Sep 2019 peak to the Mar 2020 low.
  12. SepPriceRegained the 2019-01 peak, 1 month after the low.
  13. AugPriceFell 54% from the Jan 2019 peak to the Aug 2019 low.
  14. JunPeer rankMoved into the 2nd quartile of Process Industries on ROCE (from the 3rd quartile).

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 history95 months · 2019-01 to 2026-11
MonthP/ERevenue (TTM)ROEROCEDebt / Equity
2026-11—₹364 cr—-9.0%—
2026-10—₹364 cr—-9.0%—
2026-09—₹364 cr—-9.0%—
2026-08—₹335 cr—-9.0%—
2026-07—₹335 cr—-9.0%—
2026-06—₹335 cr—-9.0%—
2026-05—₹321 cr—-4.0%—
2026-04—₹321 cr—-4.0%—
2026-03—₹321 cr—-4.0%—
2026-02—₹307 cr—-4.0%—
2026-01—₹307 cr—-4.0%—
2025-12—₹307 cr—-4.0%—
2025-11—₹315 cr—-4.0%—
2025-10—₹315 cr—-4.0%—
2025-09—₹315 cr—-4.0%—
2025-08—₹278 cr—-4.0%—
2025-07—₹278 cr—-4.0%—
2025-06—₹278 cr—-4.0%—
2025-05—₹261 cr-131.6%9.0%18.9x
2025-04—₹261 cr-131.6%9.0%18.9x
2025-03—₹261 cr-131.6%9.0%18.9x
2025-02—₹259 cr-74.0%9.0%18.9x
2025-01—₹259 cr-74.0%9.0%18.9x
2024-12—₹259 cr-74.0%9.0%18.9x
2024-11—₹263 cr-19.0%9.0%18.9x
2024-10—₹263 cr-19.0%9.0%18.9x
2024-09—₹263 cr-19.0%9.0%18.9x
2024-0889.3x₹274 cr12.9%9.0%18.9x
2024-0799.4x₹274 cr12.9%9.0%18.9x
2024-0667.7x₹274 cr12.9%9.0%18.9x
2024-05—₹234 cr-166.7%-4.0%20.5x
2024-04—₹234 cr-166.7%-4.0%20.5x
2024-03—₹234 cr-166.7%-4.0%20.5x
2024-02—₹234 cr-166.7%-4.0%20.5x
2024-01—₹234 cr-166.7%-4.0%20.5x
2023-12—₹234 cr-166.7%-4.0%20.5x
2023-11—₹234 cr-166.7%-4.0%20.5x
2023-10—₹234 cr-166.7%-4.0%20.5x
2023-09—₹234 cr-166.7%-4.0%20.5x
2023-08—₹234 cr-166.7%-4.0%20.5x
2023-07—₹234 cr-166.7%-4.0%20.5x
2023-06—₹234 cr-166.7%-4.0%20.5x
2023-05—₹212 cr-35.3%0.0%6.1x
2023-04—₹212 cr-35.3%0.0%6.1x
2023-03—₹212 cr-35.3%0.0%6.1x
2023-02—₹212 cr-35.3%0.0%6.1x
2023-01—₹212 cr-35.3%0.0%6.1x
2022-12—₹212 cr-35.3%0.0%6.1x
2022-11—₹212 cr-35.3%0.0%6.1x
2022-10—₹212 cr-35.3%0.0%6.1x
2022-09—₹212 cr-35.3%0.0%6.1x
2022-08—₹212 cr-35.3%0.0%6.1x
2022-07—₹212 cr-35.3%0.0%6.1x
2022-06—₹212 cr-35.3%0.0%6.1x
2022-05—₹170 cr-25.0%1.0%3.9x
2022-04—₹170 cr-25.0%1.0%3.9x
2022-03—₹170 cr-25.0%1.0%3.9x
2022-02—₹170 cr-25.0%1.0%3.9x
2022-01—₹170 cr-25.0%1.0%3.9x
2021-12—₹170 cr-25.0%1.0%3.9x
2021-11—₹170 cr-25.0%1.0%3.9x
2021-10—₹170 cr-25.0%1.0%3.9x
2021-09—₹170 cr-25.0%1.0%3.9x
2021-08—₹170 cr-25.0%1.0%3.9x
2021-07—₹170 cr-25.0%1.0%3.9x
2021-06—₹170 cr-25.0%1.0%3.9x
2021-0579.1x₹226 cr2.1%8.0%2.8x
2021-0464.0x₹226 cr2.1%8.0%2.8x
2021-0367.3x₹226 cr2.1%8.0%2.8x
2021-0269.6x₹226 cr2.1%8.0%2.8x
2021-0168.6x₹226 cr2.1%8.0%2.8x
2020-1277.6x₹226 cr2.1%8.0%2.8x
2020-1163.7x₹226 cr2.1%8.0%2.8x
2020-1060.5x₹226 cr2.1%8.0%2.8x
2020-0964.1x₹226 cr2.1%8.0%2.8x
2020-0870.9x₹226 cr2.1%8.0%2.8x
2020-0769.9x₹226 cr2.1%8.0%2.8x
2020-0681.5x₹226 cr2.1%8.0%2.8x
2020-056.4x₹274 cr22.6%16.0%2.9x
2020-046.7x₹274 cr22.6%16.0%2.9x
2020-035.1x₹274 cr22.6%16.0%2.9x
2020-026.5x₹274 cr22.6%16.0%2.9x
2020-018.0x₹274 cr22.6%16.0%2.9x
2019-126.6x₹274 cr22.6%16.0%2.9x
2019-115.1x₹274 cr22.6%16.0%2.9x
2019-105.6x₹274 cr22.6%16.0%2.9x
2019-099.0x₹274 cr22.6%16.0%2.9x
2019-084.6x₹274 cr22.6%16.0%2.9x
2019-074.3x₹274 cr22.6%16.0%2.9x
2019-065.0x₹274 cr22.6%16.0%2.9x
2019-0530.2x₹279 cr6.1%11.0%4.2x
2019-0429.7x₹279 cr6.1%11.0%4.2x
2019-0330.2x₹279 cr6.1%11.0%4.2x
2019-0228.4x₹279 cr6.1%11.0%4.2x
2019-0134.4x₹279 cr6.1%11.0%4.2x

Methodology and data notes

Methodology

Methodology and data notes

All figures come from public exchange prices and screener.in financial statements. Quarterly and annual results are shown from 60 days after the period end, so a month never uses a result before it would plausibly have been published. Statements are the latest versions, which may include later restatements.

Sector medians, percentiles and indices use today's listed companies in the sector (survivorship bias). Prices are adjusted for splits and bonus issues; around a corporate action the fundamentals may lag the price by up to a month, and affected sections are hidden.

The return decomposition uses price = P/E × net profit ÷ share count. The reverse DCF uses a fixed 12% cost of equity, a 10-year horizon and a 15x terminal P/E, and is an illustration only. Events, flags and twins follow fixed rules and thresholds described next to each section.

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