The India Cements Limited Valuation
INDIACEM · Construction Materials · Current price ₹298
Is The India Cements Limited undervalued?
We estimate the fair value of The India Cements Limited at ₹69 per share, against a market price of ₹347. That puts the share price about -80.1% 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 1 method: Fair multiple (P/E) (₹69). 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 The India Cements Limited spans ₹63 to ₹76. A margin of safety means buying meaningfully below the estimate: the wider the range, the more room the assumptions leave for error.
Valuation multiples
The India Cements Limited trades at a P/E of 116.5x and a P/B of 2.2x, 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 The India Cements 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 ₹63 – ₹76
Why this method for this business
Normalized earnings and relative PE are the most appropriate models for a cyclical business like cement, where mid-cycle earnings and sector multiples are key valuation drivers.
The models behind the number
Each method is weighted by how well its inputs held up for this company.
value is not a positive, finite number
- ev_ebitda is not used due to insufficient data quality and lack of clear EBITDA normalization basis
- DCF is not used for a cyclical commodity business with erratic earnings
What was missing
- Lack of forward EBITDA normalization basis
- Insufficient analyst coverage for precise multiple calibration
What drives it
15 inputs, grouped by how strong each claim is
- Sector-median P/E
- 24.44×
- Peers used
- 10
- EPS (TTM)
- 2.98 ₹/share
- Own-history median P/E
- 65.34×
peer-median
peer-median
computed
reconstructed (one feature, dampened — not a cap)
- Term: quality
- -15.8%
- Term: growth
- -11.8%
- Term: capital_allocation
- -5.7%
- Term: financial_strength
- +7.8%
- Term: history
- +25.0%
- Term: sector_rerating
- +0.0%
- Term: rate_regime
- +1.2%
- Term: risk
- +0.0%
quality 23/100 (weak/erratic returns) → discount
weak ~-11% CAGR (ROCE 4% < 12% hurdle (growth not value-accretive)) → discount
capital allocation: falling ROCE / weak cash generation → discount
financial strength: low leverage (D/E 0.1) → mild premium
history: market paid +167% 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
- -4.6%
- Fair-multiple confidence
- 70%
- Fair P/E
- 23.32×
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 The India Cements 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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