CIE Automotive India Limited Valuation
CIEINDIA · Automobile and Auto Components · Current price ₹378.1
Is CIE Automotive India Limited undervalued?
We estimate the fair value of CIE Automotive India Limited at ₹800 per share, against a market price of ₹380. That puts the share price about +110.7% below our estimate, at medium confidence. This is our view of what the business is worth, not a target price or a forecast of where the share price will go.
How this fair value is calculated
This estimate comes from 1 method: Fair multiple (P/E) (₹800). Each is weighted by how well its inputs held up for this company. The full working, including the assumptions and what data was missing, is set out below.
The range around this estimate
Our estimate for CIE Automotive India Limited spans ₹720 to ₹880. A margin of safety means buying meaningfully below the estimate: the wider the range, the more room the assumptions leave for error.
Valuation multiples
CIE Automotive India Limited trades at a P/E of 17.3x and a P/B of 2.0x, with a dividend yield of 1.8%. Multiples are most useful compared against the company's own history and its sector peers — see the peer comparison for context.
How we got this fair value
Every number below is part of the same estimate for CIE Automotive India Limited. Nothing here is a target price or a forecast of where the share price will go.
Workable, with real gaps. Weigh it alongside your own view rather than on its own.
Estimate range ₹720 – ₹880
Why this method for this business
Normalized earnings and EV/EBITDA are appropriate for an auto-components business with cyclical earnings and capital intensity. Relative PE captures sector positioning and market sentiment.
The models behind the number
Each method is weighted by how well its inputs held up for this company.
required inputs missing
required inputs missing
- DCF is not suitable for a cyclical business with erratic earnings
- Book value is not relevant for an asset-heavy business
- Revenue multiples are not reliable for a cyclical business
What was missing
- Lack of forward EPS estimates
- Limited historical data on capital allocation
- Insufficient data on sector re-rating
What drives it
15 inputs, grouped by how strong each claim is
- Sector-median P/E
- 30.46×
- Peers used
- 30
- EPS (TTM)
- 23.81 ₹/share
- Own-history median P/E
- 20.14×
peer-median
peer-median
computed
reconstructed (one feature, dampened — not a cap)
- Term: quality
- -3.9%
- Term: growth
- +0.0%
- Term: capital_allocation
- +15.0%
- Term: financial_strength
- +9.8%
- Term: history
- -10.2%
- Term: sector_rerating
- +0.0%
- Term: rate_regime
- +1.2%
- Term: risk
- +0.0%
quality 47/100 (weak/erratic returns) → discount
growth: no CAGR history → neutral
capital allocation: rising ROCE funded by strong FCF → premium
financial strength: effectively debt-free → premium
history: market paid -34% vs sector, dampened ×0.3 (one feature, not the anchor)
sector re-rating: no sector-norm history → not used
rates: risk-free 6.9% below ~7.1% normal → higher multiple
risk: no analyst-dispersion signal available → neutral (lowers confidence, not PE)
- Premium vs sector
- +10.3%
- Fair-multiple confidence
- 75%
- Fair P/E
- 33.6×
fundamentals + macro (not capped at own history)
data completeness + term agreement
sector median × ∏(1+term) — Dynamic Fair Multiple
Who computed this
A language model (qwen3:8b) selects the valuation method and the judgement inputs for CIE Automotive India Limited: which models suit the business, the moat, the growth and margin assumptions. It does not produce the number. The fair value itself is computed in Python by a deterministic engine (version 2026.08.1) from those inputs, so the same inputs always give the same result and every figure above can be traced to a source.
Estimated 14 Sept 2026. Re-run as new financials and news arrive.
How we value stocks
We estimate what a business is worth from its own economics: cash flows, returns on capital, and a multiple justified by its quality, rather than from where the share price has been. A fair value estimate is a view, not a verdict, and it is only as good as the inputs listed above.
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