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Steel Strips Wheels share price & financials
- Price
- ₹229.09
- Market cap
- ₹4.1k Cr
- Calls analysed
- 6
Steel Strips Wheels Limited Q1 FY27
What went well
- Revenue from Operations grew 27.2% YoY to ₹1,509.8 crores, driven largely by strong domestic demand.
- EBITDA rose 33.0% YoY to ₹162.3 crores, with margin expanding by 40 bps to 10.7% due to favorable product mix, cost optimization, and a rising share of premium products.
- Profit After Tax grew 43.3% YoY to ₹71.5 crores, reflecting the combined benefit of revenue growth, margin expansion, and operating leverage.
What Steel Strips Wheels Limited does
Steel Strips Wheels Limited designs and manufactures automotive wheels - steel wheels, alloy wheels and, more recently, aluminium knuckles - supplying original equipment manufacturers across the passenger vehicle, medium & heavy commercial vehicle, tractor/off-the-road, and two/three-wheeler segments. It runs five wheel-manufacturing plants across Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand and Gujarat, backed by a captive hot-rolling steel mill at Saraikela, Jharkhand, that feeds its steel-wheel plants. Beyond India, it exports wheels to OEMs across North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia, and holds long-standing strategic alliances with Tata Steel Limited and Nippon Steel Corporation (Japan), both of which hold minority equity stakes in the company.
Segments
- Steel Wheels
- Alloy Wheels
- Aluminium Knuckles
- Wheel manufacturing plants
- 5 plants - Dappar (Punjab), Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Jamshedpur (Jharkhand), Mehsana (Gujarat) and Bhuj (Gujarat) - plus a backward-integrated hot-rolling steel mill at Saraikela, Jharkhand
- Installed capacity
- ~25 million wheels/knuckles per annum (Steel Wheels 20 Mn + Alloy Wheels 5 Mn + Aluminium Knuckles 0.5 Mn)
- Employee strength
- 7,500+
- Product portfolio
- 3 product lines - Steel Wheels, Alloy Wheels, Aluminium Knuckles - serving PV, MHCV, tractor/OTR and 2/3-wheeler vehicle segments
- Key OEM customers
- Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai, Kia, MG Motors, Mahindra, Tata Motors, Honda, Ashok Leyland, Sonalika, Escorts, JCB, New Holland, HMSI and Suzuki Scooters, among others
- Export footprint
- OEM customers across roughly 24 countries spanning North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia, including the US, Canada, UK, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Brazil and Australia
Guidance record · Q1 FY27
what the last two calls moved 15 tracked 3 delivered 3 missed 9 open- FY26 Revenue Growth delivered said Q4 FY25 Promised: at least 15% Q1 FY27: Promise deadline passed and was achieved in FY26.
- FY26 Export Revenue missed said Q4 FY25 Promised: INR 1,000 crores Q1 FY27: Promise deadline passed and was missed in FY26.
- FY27 Export Revenue at risk said Q4 FY26 Promised: in the range of INR 600 crores Q1 FY27: Q1 FY27 exports were Rs. 127 crores. The annualized run-rate (Rs. 508 cr) is below the target. While management noted a recovery in June, the current performance puts the target at risk.
All 15 tracked — every revision, and every one management stopped mentioning.
Open the guidance ledgerQuarterly results
Q1 FY27: revenue up 27.2%, net profit up 44.0% against the same quarter last year.
| Line item | Q2 FY25 | Q3 FY25 | Q4 FY25 | Q1 FY26 | Q2 FY26 | Q3 FY26 | Q4 FY26 | Q1 FY27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 1,095 | 1,075 | 1,234 | 1,187 | 1,201 +10% | 1,321 +23% | 1,475 +20% | 1,510 +27% |
| EBITDA | 120 | 118 | 135 | 122 | 112 −7% | 128 +8% | 149 +10% | 162 +33% |
| Net profit | 50 | 52 | 62 | 50 | 39 −22% | 49 −6% | 64 +3% | 72 +44% |
How to read this
₹ crore, as filed. The percentage beside a figure is the change against the same quarter a year earlier — never the quarter before, which would make every seasonal business look like it collapses and booms each year.
Performance +51.9% 1Y
1Y: ₹244.01 on 10 Sept 2025 → ₹370.65. High ₹373.6 (10 Sept 2026), low ₹170.43 (30 Mar 2026).
How the price took the results
close before → close after
- Q1 FY27
- +1.1%
- 16 Jul
- Q4 FY26
- +6.7%
- 2 Jun
- Q3 FY26
- −3.9%
- 23 Jan
The move from the last close before each results date to the first close after it — the market's first read on the quarter, not the quarter itself.
Financials, as filed
Revenue grew 8.7% a year over 3 years, FY23 to FY26. Operating margin narrowed to 9.9%.
| Year ending | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | ₹4.0k Cr | ₹4.4k Cr | ₹4.4k Cr | ₹5.2k Cr |
| Operating profit | ₹442 Cr | ₹465 Cr | ₹487 Cr | ₹511 Cr |
| Operating margin | 10.9% | 10.7% | 11.0% | 9.9% |
| Interest | ₹84 Cr | ₹103 Cr | ₹116 Cr | ₹124 Cr |
| Depreciation | ₹80 Cr | ₹89 Cr | ₹101 Cr | ₹129 Cr |
| Net profit | ₹194 Cr | ₹220 Cr | ₹210 Cr | ₹202 Cr |
| Net margin | 4.8% | 5.0% | 4.7% | 3.9% |
| Cash from operations | ₹348 Cr | ₹65 Cr | ₹518 Cr | ₹331 Cr |
| Free cash flow | ₹212 Cr | ₹-316 Cr | ₹320 Cr | ₹136 Cr |
| ROCE | 21.0% | 19.0% | 17.0% | 16.0% |
How to read this
From the company's own filings. Margins are computed from the filed sums; a year with an incomplete quarter is left blank rather than estimated.
Balance sheet
| Year ending | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Equity capital | ₹16 Cr | ₹16 Cr | ₹16 Cr | ₹16 Cr | ₹16 Cr | ₹16 Cr |
| Reserves | ₹734 Cr | ₹936 Cr | ₹1.1k Cr | ₹1.3k Cr | ₹1.6k Cr | ₹1.7k Cr |
| Borrowings | ₹937 Cr | ₹778 Cr | ₹639 Cr | ₹1.0k Cr | ₹903 Cr | ₹828 Cr |
| Other liabilities | ₹690 Cr | ₹972 Cr | ₹1.0k Cr | ₹840 Cr | ₹858 Cr | ₹1.3k Cr |
| Total liabilities | ₹2.4k Cr | ₹2.7k Cr | ₹2.8k Cr | ₹3.2k Cr | ₹3.4k Cr | ₹3.8k Cr |
| Fixed assets | ₹1.3k Cr | ₹1.4k Cr | ₹1.3k Cr | ₹1.5k Cr | ₹1.6k Cr | ₹1.8k Cr |
| Capital work in progress | ₹109 Cr | ₹97 Cr | ₹163 Cr | ₹346 Cr | ₹389 Cr | ₹142 Cr |
| Investments | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹4 Cr | ₹9 Cr | ₹16 Cr | ₹16 Cr |
| Other assets | ₹1.0k Cr | ₹1.2k Cr | ₹1.3k Cr | ₹1.4k Cr | ₹1.4k Cr | ₹1.8k Cr |
| Total assets | ₹2.4k Cr | ₹2.7k Cr | ₹2.8k Cr | ₹3.2k Cr | ₹3.4k Cr | ₹3.8k Cr |
How to read this
As filed each year. A line the company does not report — deposits for a non-lender, for instance — is left out rather than shown as a row of dashes.
What the price assumes
Growth trapTo justify its price of ₹371, this stock must grow earnings at 18% every year for 7 years. Our analysis caps realistic growth at ~1%. At that growth it is worth ₹153 — downside of 59%.
- Growth the price implies
- 17.8% a year
- for 7 years, fading to 4%
- It has actually compounded at
- 1.4% a year
- net profit, FY23–FY26 · EPS 1.2%
- The gap
- 0.2 pp
- -59% downside if it only repeats history
All earnings calls (5)
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