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PINE LABS LTD (PINELABS)

Technology Services · Data Processing Services · 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.66 / 100
Profitability 32Balance sheet 100
Momentum scoreHow strong the recent trend is: 3-month price change, 12-month improvement in earnings and the rise in FII + DII holding, among companies above ₹500 cr.76 / 100
Price 66Earnings 87

Passes these screensBusiness ahead of price

Share price

Closing priceAdjusted for splits and bonus issues.

₹161.79 latest close · +3.6% over the last 90 sessions

₹140₹160₹180₹200Jul 3Jul 29Aug 24Sep 17Oct 14Nov 9 ₹140₹160₹180₹200Jul 3Sep 4Nov 9

₹161.79 month-end · −35.2% over 12 months

₹150₹200₹250Nov '25Jan '26Apr '26Jun '26Sep '26Nov '26 ₹150₹200₹250Nov '25May '26Nov '26

52-week range ₹134.73 to ₹284.00 · 1-year volatility 49.2%

How rough has the ride been?

Maximum drawdown-45.0%not yet recovered
1-year volatility49.2%annualised
Volume spikes2last 90 sessions, 5x the 50-day median

Drawdown from peak

0%−20%−40%2026−44.6% 0%−20%−40%2026−44.6%
Largest drawdowns

-45.0% (2025-11 peak to 2026-05 low, not yet recovered)

Most recent volume spikes

2026-09-16: 7.4x the 50-day median, price -4.2% that day

2026-09-11: 20.3x the 50-day median, price +16.7% that day

Where does it rank among Technology Services peers?

Each cell is the company's percentile rank among its Technology Services 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

  • ROCE19th▲ 5 pts vs a year ago
  • Op. margin45th▲ 19 pts vs a year ago
  • Revenue growth62nd
  • Debt/equity ↓54th▲ 35 pts vs a year ago
  • Cash cycle ↓99thflat vs a year ago
  • P/E ↓6th
  • 12M momentum29th

Rank history

ROCE
Op. margin
Revenue 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 Technology Services sector page Watch it move against Technology Services in the Observatory

What is the price implying?

~40%annual earnings growth implied by the price

At a P/E of 136.0x, the price would imply about 39.6%/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 Technology Services The market-wide Expectations lists

Key figures

Share Priceclose 9 Nov
₹161.79
P/E
136.0x
ROCE
4.0%
Market Cap
₹18714 cr
Revenue (TTM)
₹2832 cr
P/S
6.6x
P/B
3.2x
ROE
2.3%
Operating Margin
13.0%
Debt / Equity
0.1x
12M Momentum
-35.2%

52-week range

₹134.73₹284.00
18% of the way from its 52-week low to its high

Price risk

1Y volatility
49.2%
Beta vs sector
1-year daily
0.40

Balance sheet & cash

Interest cover
operating profit ÷ interest
3.4x
Share count, 1Y
+200.0%

Are profits backed by cash?

2 of 4checks within range2 beyond a threshold
Other income reliance69%Beyond threshold

Other income as a share of pre-tax profit (trailing twelve months): 69.4%. Bands: below 15%, 15% to 35%, above 35%.

Tax rate32%Within range

Median quarterly effective tax rate over about 2.5 years: 32.0%. Bands: 15% to 35%, 5% to 15% or 35% to 50%, outside 5% to 50%.

Cash conversion—Not enough data

Not enough reported data to compute this.

Free cash flow1 of 5 yrsBeyond threshold

Fiscal years with positive free cash flow in the last 5: 1. Bands: at least 80% of years, 40% to 80%, below 40%.

Receivable days vs history—Not enough data

Not enough reported data to compute this.

Capital work in progress8% of fixed assetsWithin range

Capital work-in-progress is 8% of fixed assets. Bands: not rising or up to 30%; rising for three years and above 30%; rising and above 60%.

Payable days—Not enough data

Not enough reported data to compute this.

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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 →

What happened next to similar setups

+4.9%typical 12-month return vs the marketNot meaningfully different from the base rate
  • We found 50 past situations where a non-financial company looked like PINE LABS 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 −14% to +44% vs the market, against −2% for all non-financial companies in the same months.
  • The gap against the base rate (+7.0%, 80% range −0.8% to +13.6%) is within what chance and overlapping periods produce.

Where the 50 outcomes landed

−100%−50%0%+50%+100%
VAKRANGEE · Jan 2025: −72.7% vs market
MEDICAMEQ · Jul 2023: −63.4% vs market
DEN · Aug 2020: −61.4% vs market
DELTACORP · Oct 2022: −47.8% vs market
ORCHPHARMA · Feb 2025: −45.4% vs market
EIHOTEL · Jan 2020: −44.2% vs market
SHILPAMED · Jun 2022: −39.2% vs market
BORORENEW · Jun 2023: −32.0% vs market
JUBLINGREA · May 2022: −29.0% vs market
NOVARTIND · Nov 2021: −21.9% vs market
IKIO · Oct 2025: −18.4% vs market
JTEKTINDIA · Aug 2021: −18.3% vs market
DPSCLTD · Aug 2021: −14.8% vs market
PROZONER · Feb 2020: −12.7% vs market
MAHLIFE · Jun 2023: −12.5% vs market
HINDOILEXP · Feb 2023: −7.7% vs market
SOBHA · Jun 2025: −6.1% vs market
NYKAA · Jan 2024: −4.3% vs market
DREDGECORP · Jun 2020: −3.3% vs market
SHALBY · Feb 2020: −3.3% vs market
PARAS · Oct 2022: −1.3% vs market
BHAGCHEM · Aug 2025: −0.3% vs market
MIDHANI · Sep 2024: +0.8% vs market
CONCOR · Jul 2021: +2.9% vs market
CARTRADE · Aug 2023: +4.7% vs market
JUSTDIAL · Dec 2022: +5.1% vs market
INDHOTEL · May 2020: +5.8% vs market
SEAMECLTD · Nov 2023: +9.8% vs market
INDOCO · Feb 2021: +12.3% vs market
5PAISA · Sep 2022: +12.4% vs market
TATACHEM · Feb 2022: +17.0% vs market
ITI · Jan 2020: +19.0% vs market
JAICORPLTD · Jun 2022: +19.9% vs market
ASHIANA · Apr 2025: +20.3% vs market
FMGOETZE · Mar 2022: +21.1% vs market
BHEL · Feb 2025: +25.3% vs market
KIOCL · Nov 2020: +40.4% vs market
ITDC · Apr 2023: +45.0% vs market
NAZARA · Jun 2024: +46.3% vs market
HONASA · Sep 2025: +52.7% vs market
NEOGEN · Oct 2025: +59.1% vs market
ASTERDM · Aug 2024: +60.3% vs market
SUNTECK · Jun 2021: +68.8% vs market
GENESYS · Nov 2023: +70.0% vs market
DALBHARAT · Jun 2020: +71.9% vs market
RATEGAIN · Dec 2022: +100.8% vs market
ANANTRAJ · May 2022: +159.6% vs market
OLECTRA · Feb 2023: +164.3% vs market
MTARTECH · Mar 2025: +178.2% vs market
INTELLECT · Jul 2020: +198.5% vs market
Similar setups +4.9%All companies −2.1%← 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
+4.9%
All companies' median
−2.1%
Beat the market
56% vs 48%

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

The closest matches

CompanyWhenP/EROCE12M mom.DrawdownNext 12 months
DELTACORP
Consumer Services
Oct 2022 89x5% −14%−33% −48%
KIOCL
Non-Energy Minerals
Nov 2020 165x3% −1%−29% +40%
RATEGAIN
Technology Services
Dec 2022 366x3% −23%−45% +101%
DEN
Consumer Services
Aug 2020 52x4% −14%−31% −61%
HONASA
Consumer Non-Durables
Sep 2025 124x8% −39%−41% +53%
Show the other 3 matches
CompanyWhenP/EROCE12M mom.DrawdownNext 12 months
ASTERDM
Health Services
Aug 2024 157x4% +23%−22% +60%
MIDHANI
Non-Energy Minerals
Sep 2024 97x9% −1%−24% +1%
CARTRADE
Technology Services
Aug 2023 76x3% −15%−23% +5%
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: drawdown from 12-month high, 12-month momentum and P/S. 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 PINE LABS 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

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 else looks like this?

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

Process Industries
68%similar
revenueROCE
Distribution Services
66%similar
ROCEP/E
Health Technology
53%similar
volatilityP/E
RAYMONDRAYMOND
Process Industries
52%similar
operating marginP/E
CYIENT DLMCYIENTDLM
Electronic Technology
50%similar
volatilityP/E
PB FINTECHPOLICYBZR
Technology Services
45%similar
debt/equitymarket cap
Technology Services
41%similar
ROCEP/E
Technology Services
40%similar
P/EROCE

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

What changed?

10 events since Feb '26

  1. NovDebtDebt / equity halved over 12 months to 0.07x.
  2. NovSharesShare count is up 200.0% over 12 months.
  3. SepInstitutionsFII + DII holding rose 17.8 pts over 2 quarters to 34.3%.
  4. SepPriceVolume reached 20.3x its 50-day median on 2026-09-11; price +16.7% that day.
  5. JunPeer rankSlipped to the 3rd quartile of Technology Services on operating margin (from the 2nd quartile).
  6. MayPriceFell 45% from the Nov 2025 peak to the May 2026 low.
  7. MayPriceVolume reached 54.6x its 50-day median on 2026-05-27; price +5.7% that day.
  8. MarResultsEPS (TTM) turned positive.
Show 2 earlier events
  1. MarPeer rankMoved into the 2nd quartile of Technology Services on operating margin (from the 3rd quartile).
  2. FebPriceVolume reached 5.4x its 50-day median on 2026-02-12; price -2.6% 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 history13 months · 2025-11 to 2026-11
MonthP/ERevenue (TTM)ROEROCEDebt / Equity
2026-11136.0x₹2832 cr2.3%4.0%0.1x
2026-10128.8x₹2832 cr2.2%4.0%0.1x
2026-09144.4x₹2832 cr2.2%4.0%0.1x
2026-08145.2x₹2711 cr1.9%4.0%0.1x
2026-07123.0x₹2711 cr1.9%4.0%0.1x
2026-06138.7x₹2711 cr1.9%4.0%0.1x
2026-05535.2x₹2609 cr0.7%0.0%0.3x
2026-04717.4x₹2609 cr0.7%0.0%0.3x
2026-03578.4x₹2609 cr0.7%0.0%0.3x
2026-02—₹2467 cr-2.2%0.0%0.3x
2026-01—₹2467 cr-2.2%0.0%0.3x
2025-12—₹2467 cr-2.2%0.0%0.3x
2025-11—₹2369 cr-3.3%0.0%0.3x

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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