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SHANKAR LAL RAM DYE CHEM LTD (SRD)

Distribution Services · Wholesale Distributors · 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.68 / 100
Profitability 65Balance sheet 71

Share price

Closing priceAdjusted for splits and bonus issues.

₹43.68 latest close · +9.1% over the last 90 sessions

₹38₹40₹43Jul 3Jul 29Aug 24Sep 17Oct 14Nov 9 ₹38₹40₹43Jul 3Sep 4Nov 9

₹43.68 month-end · −34.6% over 12 months

₹40₹50₹60Nov '25Jan '26Apr '26Jun '26Sep '26Nov '26 ₹40₹50₹60Nov '25May '26Nov '26

₹43.68 month-end · −32.6% since Oct '24

₹40₹60₹80Oct '24Mar '25Aug '25Jan '26Jun '26Nov '26 ₹40₹60₹80Oct '24Nov '25Nov '26

52-week range ₹35.92 to ₹74.90 · 1-year volatility 45.1%

Was the rally earned?

-35%share price, 1 yearLower P/E held it back

Earnings helped, the multiple did not.

  • Per-share earnings added 34 points, but investors now pay less per rupee of profit (P/E 35.2x to 15.1x), which took 69 points back.
  • The share count barely moved.
Net profit growth: +34 pts. Points of the price return explained by net profit growing (or shrinking).+34 ptsNet profit growthP/E change: −69 pts. Points of the price return explained by the market paying a higher or lower P/E multiple.−69 ptsP/E changeShare count change: 0 pts. Points of the price return explained by the share count changing. More shares count against the price.0 ptsShare count changeShare price: −35%−35%Share priceNet profit growth: +34 pts. Points of the price return explained by net profit growing (or shrinking).+34ProfitP/E change: −69 pts. Points of the price return explained by the market paying a higher or lower P/E multiple.−69P/EShare count change: 0 pts. Points of the price return explained by the share count changing. More shares count against the price.0SharesShare price: −35%−35%Share price
Net profit growth+34 ptsNet profit rose about 52%, which lifts the price.
P/E change-69 ptsThe P/E fell from 35.2x to 15.1x, which lowers the price.
Share count change0 ptsShare count was little changed. More shares would count against 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.

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How rough has the ride been?

Maximum drawdown-67.3%not yet recovered
1-year volatility45.1%annualised

Drawdown from peak

0%−20%−40%−60%20252026−67.3% 0%−20%−40%−60%20252026−67.3%
Largest drawdowns

-67.3% (2024-10 peak to 2026-08 low, not yet recovered)

Is it expensive against its own past and its peers?

15.1xP/E todayNear its historic low
Against its own history12th percentile
CheapestMedian 33.9xDearest

Usual range 16.4x to 45.6x since 2024-10.

Against Distribution Services15.1x vs 16.7x
This company
15.1x
Sector median
16.7x

10% below the Distribution Services median.

13.3x27.0x40.6x54.3xOct '24Mar '25Aug '25Jan '26Jun '26Nov '2613.3x27.0x40.6x54.3xOct '24Jul '25Apr '26Nov '26
P/E (this company)10th to 90th percentile of its own historyIts medianDistribution Services median

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

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P/S (this company)10th to 90th percentile of its own historyIts medianDistribution Services 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 Distribution Services is valued

Where does it rank among Distribution Services peers?

Each cell is the company's percentile rank among its Distribution 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

  • ROCE66th▼ 3 pts vs a year ago
  • Op. margin64th▲ 7 pts vs a year ago
  • Revenue growth51st▼ 27 pts vs a year ago
  • EPS growth78th▲ 24 pts vs a year ago
  • Debt/equity ↓59th▼ 5 pts vs a year ago
  • Cash cycle ↓51st▼ 3 pts vs a year ago
  • P/E ↓53rd▲ 10 pts vs a year ago
  • 12M momentum30th▼ 48 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 Distribution Services sector page Watch it move against Distribution Services in the Observatory

What is the price implying?

~15%annual earnings growth implied by the price

At a P/E of 19.1x, the price would imply about 14.6%/yr earnings growth for 10 years under the same assumptions, but it is not ranked.

Below the ₹1,000 cr market-cap floor used for the lists.

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

What prices imply across Distribution Services The market-wide Expectations lists

Key figures

Share Priceclose 9 Nov
₹43.68
P/E
15.1x
ROCE
14.0%
Market Cap
₹280 cr
Revenue (TTM)
₹478 cr
P/S
0.6x
P/B
2.3x
ROE
15.0%
Operating Margin
9.4%
Debt / Equity
0.2x
Promoter Holding
73.6%
12M Momentum
-34.6%

52-week range

₹35.92₹74.90
20% of the way from its 52-week low to its high

Price risk

1Y volatility
45.1%
Beta vs sector
1-year daily
0.29

Balance sheet & cash

Interest cover
operating profit ÷ interest
24.6x
Cash from profit, 3Y
operating cash flow ÷ net profit
-0.47x
low
Share count, 1Y
unchanged

Are profits backed by cash?

5 of 7checks within range1 beyond a threshold
Other income reliance0%Within range

Other income as a share of pre-tax profit (trailing twelve months): 0.1%. Bands: below 15%, 15% to 35%, above 35%.

Tax rate25%Within range

Median quarterly effective tax rate over about 2.5 years: 25.4%. Bands: 15% to 35%, 5% to 15% or 35% to 50%, outside 5% to 50%.

Cash conversion-0.47xBeyond threshold

Operating cash flow divided by net profit over the last three fiscal years: -0.47x (cash from operations ₹-14 cr, net profit ₹30 cr). Bands: 0.8x and above, 0.5x to 0.8x, below 0.5x.

Free cash flow2 of 5 yrsNear threshold

Fiscal years with positive free cash flow in the last 5: 2. Bands: at least 80% of years, 40% to 80%, below 40%.

Receivable days vs history+4 daysWithin range

Debtor days are above the median of the previous three fiscal years by 4 days (73 vs 69). 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+4 days / 2 yrsWithin range

Days payable changed by +4 over two years. Bands: rise of up to 30 days; more than 30 days.

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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 →

Who has been buying and selling?

  • Over 2 years, institutional and promoter holdings were broadly unchanged.
  • The number of shareholders fell from 14,717 to 13,797 (-6%) between Jun 2024 and Jun 2026.

Holdings, Jun '26

How each group changed

GroupJun '24Jun '26Change
Promoters73.8%73.6%-0.2 pts
FIIs0.0%0.0%0.0 pts
DIIs———
Public and others26.1%26.4%+0.2 pts

Number of shareholders

13,797shareholders-6% since Jun '24
14k15k15k16k Jun '24Dec '24Jun '25Dec '25Jun '26
Jun '24: 14,717
Sep '24: 15,214
Dec '24: 16,200
Mar '25: 15,684
Jun '25: 15,135
Sep '25: 14,848
Dec '25: 14,286
Mar '26: 13,944
Jun '26: 13,797
14k15k15k16k Jun '24Mar '25Dec '25Jun '26
Jun '24: 14,717
Sep '24: 15,214
Dec '24: 16,200
Mar '25: 15,684
Jun '25: 15,135
Sep '25: 14,848
Dec '25: 14,286
Mar '26: 13,944
Jun '26: 13,797

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

+4.8%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 SHANKAR LAL RAM DYE CHEM 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 −16% to +40% vs the market, against −2% for all non-financial companies in the same months.
  • The gap against the base rate (+6.7%, 80% range −1.3% to +12.1%) is within what chance and overlapping periods produce.

Where the 50 outcomes landed

−50%0%+50%+100%
NOVAAGRI · Jun 2025: −51.8% vs market
ADSL · Oct 2025: −38.1% vs market
KOPRAN · Feb 2025: −33.6% vs market
STERTOOLS · Aug 2025: −33.5% vs market
ASAHISONG · Feb 2022: −30.8% vs market
PIONEEREMB · Jul 2022: −24.5% vs market
IFBAGRO · Oct 2022: −22.8% vs market
RANEHOLDIN · Feb 2020: −21.3% vs market
APTECHT · Oct 2025: −20.8% vs market
PARAGMILK · Aug 2020: −20.6% vs market
SHREEPUSHK · Sep 2023: −19.4% vs market
UDS · Sep 2025: −16.5% vs market
ZIMLAB · May 2024: −16.3% vs market
ASTRON · Mar 2021: −15.5% vs market
GTPL · Jul 2023: −15.1% vs market
EVERESTIND · Jan 2020: −14.3% vs market
VETO · Sep 2024: −13.1% vs market
LINC · Apr 2025: −11.6% vs market
RUCHIRA · Jun 2020: −5.9% vs market
KAKATCEM · Aug 2022: −3.7% vs market
RICOAUTO · Feb 2020: −3.7% vs market
VAIBHAVGBL · Aug 2025: −0.4% vs market
PYRAMID · Aug 2024: +1.2% vs market
APEX · Sep 2021: +2.0% vs market
BODALCHEM · Jun 2020: +3.9% vs market
MODISONLTD · Jun 2022: +5.7% vs market
DEVIT · Mar 2024: +6.3% vs market
CLEDUCATE · Jul 2024: +7.0% vs market
BANCOINDIA · Jan 2020: +11.6% vs market
INSECTICID · Feb 2024: +11.7% vs market
FAZE3Q · Oct 2024: +15.5% vs market
DICIND · Apr 2022: +16.4% vs market
PPAP · Jan 2020: +19.6% vs market
IFGLEXPOR · Jul 2022: +24.6% vs market
DLINKINDIA · Aug 2021: +30.3% vs market
PLASTIBLEN · Jan 2023: +34.3% vs market
NELCAST · Feb 2020: +36.4% vs market
ASPINWALL · Sep 2021: +40.9% vs market
SPAL · Dec 2022: +46.8% vs market
MMP · Jun 2021: +55.8% vs market
WEIZMANIND · Dec 2021: +70.4% vs market
LUMAXTECH · Oct 2021: +82.3% vs market
ARTEMISMED · Apr 2021: +88.5% vs market
ADOR · Dec 2020: +94.0% vs market
SHAKTIPUMP · Dec 2022: +97.3% vs market
GNA · Dec 2020: +97.9% vs market
APOLSINHOT · Jun 2022: +100.5% vs market
MOREPENLAB · Aug 2025: +113.4% vs market
MINDTECK · Jul 2023: +132.1% vs market
KOTHARIPET · Nov 2020: +134.2% vs market
Similar setups +4.8%All companies −1.9%← 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
+4.8%
All companies' median
−1.9%
Beat the market
56% vs 48%

50 past situations · 50 companies · 36 months · 2020–2025

The closest matches

CompanyWhenP/EROCE12M mom.DrawdownNext 12 months
SHREEPUSHK
Process Industries
Sep 2023 18x12% −10%−16% −19%
LUMAXTECH
Producer Manufacturing
Oct 2021 19x13% +36%−28% +82%
EVERESTIND
Distribution Services
Jan 2020 7x18% −42%−43% −14%
MODISONLTD
Producer Manufacturing
Jun 2022 12x14% −30%−44% +6%
MMP
Non-Energy Minerals
Jun 2021 15x11% +23%−14% +56%
Show the other 3 matches
CompanyWhenP/EROCE12M mom.DrawdownNext 12 months
LINC
Consumer Non-Durables
Apr 2025 17x— −31%−45% −12%
PYRAMID
Producer Manufacturing
Aug 2024 21x21% +4%−24% +1%
ASAHISONG
Process Industries
Feb 2022 11x15% +1%−35% −31%
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, revenue growth and ROCE. 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 SHANKAR LAL RAM DYE CHEM 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 changed?

7 events since Dec '25

  1. OctValuationP/E fell below the 10th percentile of its own history to date (13.7x).
  2. SepPeer rankMoved into the top quartile of Distribution Services on EPS growth (from the 2nd quartile).
  3. AugPriceFell 67% from the Oct 2024 peak to the Aug 2026 low.
  4. JunResultsRevenue (TTM) reached a new high of ₹465 cr.
  5. JunPeer rankMoved into the 2nd quartile of Distribution Services on operating margin (from the 3rd quartile).
  6. JunDividendDividend payout cut from 3% to 0% of profit.
  7. DecPeer rankSlipped to the 3rd quartile of Distribution Services on operating margin (from the 2nd 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 history26 months · 2024-10 to 2026-11
MonthP/ERevenue (TTM)ROEROCEDebt / Equity
2026-1115.1x₹478 cr15.0%14.0%0.2x
2026-1013.7x₹478 cr15.0%14.0%0.2x
2026-0913.3x₹478 cr15.0%14.0%0.2x
2026-0818.9x₹465 cr11.0%14.0%0.2x
2026-0717.7x₹465 cr11.0%14.0%0.2x
2026-0618.9x₹465 cr11.0%14.0%0.2x
2026-0523.5x₹432 cr10.2%14.0%0.2x
2026-0425.5x₹432 cr10.2%14.0%0.2x
2026-0322.2x₹432 cr10.2%14.0%0.2x
2026-0222.9x₹444 cr10.9%14.0%0.2x
2026-0129.0x₹444 cr10.9%14.0%0.2x
2025-1234.4x₹444 cr10.9%14.0%0.2x
2025-1135.2x₹425 cr11.0%14.0%0.2x
2025-1035.9x₹425 cr11.0%14.0%0.2x
2025-0933.1x₹425 cr11.0%14.0%0.2x
2025-0843.7x₹402 cr10.4%14.0%0.2x
2025-0745.7x₹402 cr10.4%14.0%0.2x
2025-0645.6x₹402 cr10.4%14.0%0.2x
2025-0536.0x₹372 cr10.7%9.0%0.1x
2025-0438.6x₹372 cr10.7%9.0%0.1x
2025-0333.3x₹372 cr10.7%9.0%0.1x
2025-0239.8x₹356 cr10.2%9.0%0.1x
2025-0140.6x₹356 cr10.2%9.0%0.1x
2024-1254.3x₹356 cr10.2%9.0%0.1x
2024-1149.0x₹332 cr9.6%9.0%0.1x
2024-1044.1x₹332 cr9.6%9.0%0.1x

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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