Container Corporation of India Limited Valuation
CONCOR · Services · Current price ₹447.95
Is Container Corporation of India Limited undervalued?
We estimate the fair value of Container Corporation of India Limited at ₹149 per share, against a market price of ₹499. That puts the share price about -70.2% above 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 2 methods: Discounted cash flow (2-stage) (₹139), Residual income (excess return on book) (₹170). 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 Container Corporation of India Limited spans ₹134 to ₹170. A margin of safety means buying meaningfully below the estimate: the wider the range, the more room the assumptions leave for error.
Valuation multiples
Container Corporation of India Limited trades at a P/E of 27.4x and a P/B of 3.0x, with a dividend yield of 0.3%. 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 Container Corporation of 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 ₹134 – ₹170
Why this method for this business
DCF and residual income models are most appropriate for a logistics provider with stable cash flows and a durable moat. These models capture the intrinsic value of a business with predictable earnings and a long-term growth trajectory.
The models behind the number
Each method is weighted by how well its inputs held up for this company.
Intrinsic value from 2-stage discounted cash flows (primary for asset-light / normal businesses); FCFE path
Book value plus the present value of returns earned above the 10.6% cost of equity
- relative_pe is not suitable for a capital-intensive logistics business where earnings are volatile and not reflective of intrinsic value.
What was missing
- Lack of detailed information on capital expenditures and debt financing strategies
- Limited forward-looking analyst estimates for key metrics
What drives it
17 inputs, grouped by how strong each claim is
- FCF_0 (normalized)
- 744 ₹cr
- Net debt
- 965 ₹cr
- ROE (normalized)
- 10.7%
- Book value / share
- 170 ₹
fcf_norm (median ≤5y positive)
gross debt (cash n/a)
computed
reported
- Discount rate (r)
- 14.4%
- Beta
- 1
- Cost of equity
- 10.6%
COE (building-block)
bottom-up industry
building-block
- Stage-1 start growth
- 10%
- Fade shape
- gentle
- Terminal growth (g)
- 5.38%
- Stage-1 years
- 9 y
pat_cagr_5y
lifecycle Cash-Cow
macro terminal × quality premium
lifecycle Cash-Cow horizon
- Lifecycle stage
- Cash-Cow
- Quality premium
- 1.077×
- Moat
- None
- Excess-return horizon
- 3 yrs
forecast engine (L20)
moat Narrow + capital allocation
computed
computed
- Path
- FCFE
- Terminal-value fraction
- 0.499
computed (D/E vs 0.8)
PV_TV / (PV_1+PV_TV)
Who computed this
A language model (qwen3:8b) selects the valuation method and the judgement inputs for Container Corporation of 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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