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Prince Pipes And Fittings Limited

NSE: PRINCEPIPEPlastic Products - Industrial

Share price

₹249.25

-2.88% close of 8 Oct 2026

Market cap ₹2,767 CrP/E 26.9

Business score

How strong the business is, in one number. The parts behind it are in Pro.

57

out of 100 · worked out 8 Oct 2026

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Market cap

₹2,767 Cr

P/E ratio

26.9

P/B ratio

1.7

ROCE

6.0%

ROE

4.7%

Dividend yield

0.4%

Price & valuation chart

How the share price and its valuation have moved. Hover over the chart to see any day. Prices as of the last close.

Prices as of 8 Oct 2026 close52-week high ₹332.3052-week low ₹206.05

Answers

Simple answers to the questions investors ask most, from the company's own numbers.

How fast it has been growing

Sales grew 5.1% over the past year, and 5.5% a year over its longer record. Meanwhile what it keeps of every 100 rupees of sales slipped from 13.9% to 9.9% over the last four years.

Whether it grew faster than its sector

It grew 5.5% a year against a sector median of 10.6% — 5.1 percentage points slower.

Room to re-rate, or risk of de-rating

At 26.9× earnings against a market that pays 23.9× across 2199 companies we can price. Its own industry sits at 41.9×, across 5 companies. It is against its own five-year median of 36.5×, the 9th percentile of its own range.

Whether growth justifies the valuation

Its earnings are falling, so growth cannot justify the price.

Profit growthPrice per ₹1 profitPer 1% growth
Prince Pipes And Fittings Limited — this one-15%/yr26.9×—
Supreme Industries Limited3%/yr41.9×₹14.0
Astral Limited6%/yr64.2×₹10.7
Garware Hi-Tech Films Limited27%/yr41.1×₹1.5
Finolex Industries Limited33%/yr15.1×₹0.46
Kingfa Science & Technology (India) Limited32%/yr42.3×₹1.3

Compared with companies filed under the same label. That grouping comes from the exchange's filing category, so some of them may not be real rivals.

How it compares with its peers

Against companies the exchange files under the same label (Plastic Products - Industrial), it ranks 20 of 24 on returns, 15 of 22 on growth, 18 of 24 on margin. That grouping comes from the exchange's filing category, so some of them may not be real rivals.

What makes it hard to beat — and is that still true?

No durable advantage shows in the numbers: it earns 6.0% on capital, ahead of 17% of companies filed under the same label. That grouping comes from the exchange's filing category, so some of them may not be real rivals.

Whether its growth pays for itself

Yes — Over the last five years it made ₹1018 crore of cash from the business, spent ₹922 crore on plant and equipment, and returned ₹91 crore to lenders and shareholders. And the profit is real: of every 100 rupees it reported over 12 years, about 164 arrived as cash — well above the profit; depreciation and interest are the reason, not a windfall. Its cash comes back faster than it used to: it went from being waiting 70 days for its cash to waiting 51 days for its cash.

Profit reality check

Is the profit real cash? Simple checks on the accounts. Facts only, not advice.

9 of 9 checks clear · 100%

Latest result · Q1 FY27

What the last results showed. Whether management kept its word is in Pro.

Profit margin hit 13% even as volumes fell 7%

Announced 4 Aug 2026 · Standalone · Unaudited

Revenue

₹609 Cr

Revenue vs last year

+5.1%

Revenue vs last quarter

-28.3%

Net profit

₹34 Cr

Profit vs last year

+575.0%

Profit vs last quarter

-39.7%

Net margin

5.5%

EPS

₹3.05

Earnings call transcript · 4 Aug 2026

Checklist before you investPRO

Points for and against, in one list.

Key numbers & peers

The main numbers grouped by topic, and how the company compares with similar ones.

Price

Market cap
₹2,767 Cr
Prev close
₹249.25
52w High
₹336
52w Low
₹205
Enterprise value
₹2,635 Cr
Beta
1.2
Price CAGR 1y
-23.0%
Price CAGR 3y
-27.0%
Price CAGR 5y
-19.0%
Price CAGR 10y
—

Ratios

Return on assets
3.1%
PEG ratio
-1.8
P/E ratio
26.9
P/B ratio
1.7
EV / EBITDA
9.8
Industry P/E
23.1
ROCE
6.0%
ROCE 5y average
13.0%
ROE
4.7%
Debt / Equity
0.1
Interest coverage
11.2
Dividend yield
0.4%
ROE 3y average
6.0%
ROE last year
5.0%

Annual P&L

Annual revenue
₹2,598 Cr
Annual profit
₹75 Cr
Operating margin
9.0%
Net profit margin
2.9%
EBITDA margin
8.9%
Sales growth 3y
-1.4%
Sales growth 5y
4.6%
Profit growth 3y
-15.0%
Profit growth 5y
-20.0%
EPS
₹6.8
Sales growth TTM
5.0%
Profit growth TTM
347.0%
Dividend payout
15.0%

Quarter P&L

Sales latest quarter
₹609 Cr
Profit latest quarter
₹34 Cr
YoY quarterly sales growth
5.0%
YoY quarterly profit growth
580.0%
OPM latest quarter
12.7%

Balance Sheet

Book Value
₹148
Face Value
₹10.0
Total debt
₹145 Cr
Total cash
₹129 Cr
Borrowings
₹145 Cr
Reserves / Equity
13.8

Cash Flow

Operating cash flow
₹526 Cr
Free cash flow
₹313 Cr
FCF yield
11.0%
Net cash flow
₹48 Cr

Shareholding

Promoter holding
61.0%
FII holding
3.1%
DII holding
15.3%
Public holding
20.7%

Peer comparison

CompanyPrice ₹P/EMkt cap ₹ CrDiv yield %Profit qtr ₹ CrProfit var %Sales qtr ₹ CrSales var %ROCE %
Supreme Inds.3,497.5043.044,4281.00280.738.82,717.74.220.7
Astral1,428.0064.838,3630.28120.248.21,578.015.919.2
Garware Hi Tech6,900.0041.316,0300.17132.759.8633.127.918.1
Finolex Inds.151.6515.39,4101.31114.516.7883.6-15.311.8
Kingfa Science6,762.0040.69,1630.2980.2101.6688.649.123.2
Time Technoplast180.8018.28,9250.82117.922.21,692.725.116.5
Prince Pipes251.5026.72,7810.3933.8600.2609.45.06.0
Median180.8022.33040.005.322.2101.116.314.9

Competes with: Apollo Pipes Limited, Astral Limited, Bright Brothers Limited, Captain Polyplast Limited, Dhabriya Polywood Limited, Finolex Industries Limited, Garware Hi-Tech Films Limited, Hindustan Adhesives Limited, Jai Corp Limited, Jain Irrigation Systems Limited, Jain Irrigation Systems Limited, Kingfa Science & Technology (India) Limited, Kriti Industries (India) Limited, Manika Plastech Limited, Prakash Pipes Limited, Premier Polyfilm Limited, R M Drip and Sprinklers Systems Limited, Shaily Engineering Plastics Limited, Sri KPR Industries Limited, Supreme Industries Limited, Tainwala Chemical and Plastic (I) Limited, Texmo Pipes and Products Limited, Tijaria Polypipes Limited, Time Technoplast Limited

Quarterly results

Sales and profit for each of the last 13 quarters. Newest on the right. ₹ crore.

Standalone · to 30 Jun 2026
Line itemJun 2023Sep 2023Dec 2023Mar 2024Jun 2024Sep 2024Dec 2024Mar 2025Jun 2025Sep 2025Dec 2025Mar 2026Jun 2026
Sales554656619740604622578720580595573850609
Expenses508562543648546576573665541540545740532
Material Cost477433438379554488
Change in Inventories40-18-243927-101
Purchases of Stock-in-Trade231713112516
Employee Cost464145475151
Other Expenses786768688479
Operating Profit45947692584655540552811077
OPM %8.191412129.647.340.817.626.869.234.871313
Other Income42235342632-054
Exceptional items (within Other Income)000-2.0500
Interest2131125354-443
Depreciation22232324262826273132343435
Profit before tax269353723420-2530620-27643
Tax %232429242728-19192426182621
Net Profit207138552515-2024515-25634
EPS in Rs1.776.393.404.942.231.33-1.852.190.441.32-0.225.083.05
Diluted EPS in Rs2.190.441.32-0.215.073.05

Profit & loss

Yearly sales, costs and profit for 12 years, plus the last 12 months (TTM). ₹ crore.

Standalone · to 31 Mar 2026
Line itemMar 2015Mar 2016Mar 2017Mar 2018Mar 2019Mar 2020Mar 2021Mar 2022Mar 2023Mar 2024Mar 2025Mar 2026TTM
Sales9571,0071,2461,3151,5721,6362,0722,6572,7112,5692,5242,5982,627
Expenses8759081,0831,1511,3881,4061,7082,2412,4612,2612,3602,3672,358
Material Cost1,8751,780
Change in Inventories-9123
Purchases of Stock-in-Trade10091
Employee Cost174184
Other Expenses304288
Operating Profit82100163164184230364416250307163232270
OPM %9101312121418169126910
Other Income202576155934131110
Exceptional items (within Other Income)0-2.71
Interest3734363636332114116119.628
Depreciation29303338445259708391107131135
Profit before tax1837969511115129933716524459102136
Tax %122023242625262626252726
Net Profit16307473821132222491211824375102
EPS in Rs3.276.15168.089.1210202311173.906.809.23
Diluted EPS in Rs3.906.62
Dividend Payout %00000101716061315

Compounded growth

Average yearly growth over different spans, as stored. A span can cross a demerger or an acquisition.

Compounded sales growth

10 years
10%
5 years
5%
3 years
-1%
TTM
5%

Compounded profit growth

10 years
10%
5 years
-20%
3 years
-15%
TTM
347%

Stock price CAGR

10 years
—
5 years
-19%
3 years
-27%
1 year
-23%

Return on equity

10 years
13%
5 years
9%
3 years
6%
Last year
5%

Balance sheet

What the company owns and what it owes, at the end of each year. ₹ crore.

Standalone
Line itemMar 2015Mar 2016Mar 2017Mar 2018Mar 2019Mar 2020Mar 2021Mar 2022Mar 2023Mar 2024Mar 2025Mar 2026
Equity Capital4848459090110110111111111111111
Reserves1061361982273097289331,1551,2531,4341,4661,534
Borrowings3002993233722972648815263130277145
Other Liabilities142170195291338308451522502449466634
Total Liabilities5966537609801,0341,4101,5831,9391,9292,1232,3192,424
Fixed Assets2242382693453634895036466817989611,066
CWIP4141815628772324352026
Investments021111112923827148
Other Assets3674004736206089131,0021,2591,1331,2521,3121,183
Total Assets5966537609801,0341,4101,5831,9391,9292,1232,3192,424

Cash flows

Real money coming in and going out each year — from the business, from investments and from loans. ₹ crore.

Standalone
Line itemMar 2015Mar 2016Mar 2017Mar 2018Mar 2019Mar 2020Mar 2021Mar 2022Mar 2023Mar 2024Mar 2025Mar 2026
Cash from Operating Activity1238694162219102292-2036033119526
Cash from Investing Activity-30-51-67-170-105-368-7020-142-126-235-325
Cash from Financing Activity-93-35-246-105257-21422-12848120-153
Net Cash Flow-003-29-982390-45448
Free Cash Flow923626-8114-16171-188266-158-136312

Ratios

How fast customers pay, how long stock sits, and how well capital earns — year by year.

Standalone
Line itemMar 2015Mar 2016Mar 2017Mar 2018Mar 2019Mar 2020Mar 2021Mar 2022Mar 2023Mar 2024Mar 2025Mar 2026
Debtor Days818769665840586056836151
Inventory Days574972966511260119748811895
Days Payable384842787059837756505176
Cash Conversion Cycle998799845493351027412112971
Working Capital Days9162216522397060888251
ROCE %15252121212928121546

Shareholding pattern

Who owns the company — founders (promoters), foreign funds, Indian funds and the public. In %.

Standalone · to 30 Jun 2026
Line itemSep 2023Dec 2023Mar 2024Jun 2024Sep 2024Dec 2024Mar 2025Jun 2025Sep 2025Dec 2025Mar 2026Jun 2026
Promoters616161616161616161616161
FIIs5.015.745.156.447.276.076.193.753.723.543.553.06
DIIs191819181816151616161615
Public151515141417182019202021
No. of Shareholders2,05,8962,00,0952,05,4601,83,9791,87,9811,97,5761,99,6822,00,2491,97,7421,93,4221,87,4931,85,165

Price trend

The price as a Renko brick chart: small moves drop out so the bigger path stands out.

Change over 1 year -25.0% (₹332.15 → ₹249.25)Brick size ₹8.88 (fixed)Bricks 43
₹300₹249Nov '25Jan '26Mar '26May '26Jul '26Sep '26
Price moved up one brickPrice moved down one brickLast close ₹249.25 on 8 Oct 2026

Every brick is the same size, about one typical day's move. A new brick needs a full brick's move; turning the other way needs two. Bricks show where the price went, not where it will go.

Open interestPRO

Where option traders are positioned on this stock.

Industry numbers

The numbers that matter most in this industry, from the company's own filings.

1 when an audit qualification is filed as repetitive

0.00flag

2026-03-31

the company's own unlisted debt securities in default at period end

0.00cr

2026-06-30

the company's own loans / revolving facilities in default at period end (standalone filing)

0.00cr

2026-06-30

net debt from the filed balance sheet at the newest year end: Borrowings − Cash Equivalents − Investments (Current); negative = net cash

-132inr_cr

2026-03-31

guarantees / comfort given for promoter, promoter group, directors and KMP

0.00cr

2026-03-31

loans outstanding to promoter, promoter group, directors and KMP (governance filing)

0.00cr

2026-03-31

security given for the borrowing of promoter, promoter group, directors and KMP

0.00cr

2026-03-31

FY revenue / permanent employees + workers, same basis (calc)

1,16,29,364inr

2026-03-31

News

News and filings about Prince Pipes And Fittings Limited. Open one to see why it matters.

Supply chain

Who it buys from, sells to and competes with — as recorded in our map of company links.

About

What the company is, from our own records: where it sits, where it makes things, and what it is made of.

Sector
Capital Goods
Industry
Plastic Products - Industrial
Classification
Capital Goods › Plastic Products - Industrial
ISIN
INE689W01016

Plants

  • Prince Pipes Athal plant
  • Prince Pipes Begusarai plant
  • Prince Pipes Chennai plant
  • Prince Pipes Dadra plant
  • Prince Pipes Haridwar plant
  • Prince Pipes Jobner plant
  • Prince Pipes Kolhapur plant
  • Prince Pipes Sangareddy plant

News impact

Big market events that reach Prince Pipes And Fittings Limited, and how the effect spreads.

Who it hits first

  • PVC-pipe makers (Supreme Industries, Astral, Finolex, Prince Pipes) get short-term inventory gains and pricing power as resin prices rise Rs 4/kg.

Who may gain

  • Well-run, low-debt pipe leaders (Supreme Industries, Astral) that hold low-cost inventory and can raise pipe prices.

Along the supply chain

Downstream

Pipe buyers — plumbing, agriculture irrigation and real-estate/construction contractors — face modestly higher pipe prices, a small cost pass-through.

Upstream

Higher PVC resin prices benefit backward-integrated resin makers (Finolex, and petrochem resin producers like Reliance/DCW) that sell resin.

Where demand moves

Business

A resin price hike prompts dealers to pre-buy pipes before further increases, pulling forward volumes to the pipe makers; makers holding cheaper resin/finished stock book inventory gains.

Capital

Sector-rotation is minor and stock-specific — money favours the higher-quality, lower-debt names (Supreme, Astral) over weak/loss-making pipe makers.

How it spreads across sectors

Capital Goods

Pipe makers see near-term margin and volume tailwind.

Construction

Marginally higher plumbing/irrigation pipe costs for builders.

Commodity angle

Commodity

PVC resin

Note

PVC/polymer Commodity nodes in the graph are fragmented with null prices (no live INR/kg or CNY/tonne feed), so margin_impact_bps cannot be computed and is left null. Note the converter dynamic: for pipe makers a resin PRICE RISE is a near-term TAILWIND (inventory gains + pricing power + dealer pre-buying), not a cost squeeze, so directions are positive despite PVC being an input.

Price source

Article-reported: +Rs 4/kg effective Monday (~7% on ~Rs 55-60/kg resin)

Shock type

price

When it plays out

Immediate

Pipe stocks in focus with a modest positive bias as dealers pre-buy.

Medium term

If resin keeps rising, pricing power persists; if it reverses, destocking and inventory losses can follow (the usual PVC cycle risk).

Short term

Inventory gains show up in the quarter if resin prices hold; watch whether the hike sticks.

Dividends, splits & big trades

Money paid out, share splits and buybacks, and big buys or sells by funds and insiders.

Dividends

9 Sep 2026unspecified₹1
4 Sep 2025unspecified₹0.5
4 Sep 2024unspecified₹1
13 Sep 2022unspecified₹2
12 Nov 2021interim₹1.5
7 Sep 2021unspecified₹2
13 Nov 2020interim₹1.5
23 Mar 2020interim₹1

Splits, bonuses & buybacks

  • daily-prices repair: 8 rows from NSE's archive (replace 1, delete 1, insert 6), 2020-02-01..2026-02-01 (docs/flat_day_repair.md)1× · 1 Feb 2020

Documents

Annual reports, results presentations and earnings calls, straight from the source.

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