Marine Electric. (MARINE)

FairStock Score: 33/100 — RISKY

Score breakdown: P/E: 0/3 · ROCE: 1/2 · Growth: 2/2 · Dividend: 0/1

Key Financials

AI Analysis

AI-generated, general educational analysis — not personal investment advice.

Let's start with the balance sheet, because that's where a business can hide. Marine Electric has a debt-equity ratio of only 0.13 and promoters own 68.2% of the company. That is good. Low debt and high insider ownership are exactly what I look for. But a good balance sheet is not the same as a good business at a good price. The latest quarter has ₹210 Cr of sales and ₹12 Cr of profit — a net margin below 6%. That's thin, and it doesn't signal a wide moat. The full-year profit jump of 126.97% looks wonderful, yet sales grew only 8.48%. You cannot compound wealth from a margin recovery unless revenues keep growing. The Piotroski score of 7 suggests improvement, but the FairStock Score of 35/100 calls it mixed. Now the price: ₹236.47, a P/E of 49.87 and a P/B of 7.56 against book value of just ₹31.28. I'm paying about 50 times earnings for a 16% ROCE industrial-products company. That leaves no margin of safety. The PEG of 0.74 assumes the profit growth is durable, but 127% growth on 8% revenue growth is not a sustainable expectation. The dividend yield is a negligible 0.16%, so I depend entirely on capital appreciation. If margins revert to normal, the multiple will contract. Graham would not pay up for hope. This may be a genuine turnaround, and the low debt improves the odds, but the valuation is already celebrating the recovery. I'd keep it on the watchlist, not in the portfolio.

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