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Steel Strips Wheels share price & financials

Price
₹229.09
Market cap
₹4.1k Cr
Calls analysed
6
Latest concall · Q1 FY27 · call held 16 Jul 2026

Steel Strips Wheels Limited Q1 FY27

Revenue from Operations ₹1,509.8 cr +27%EBITDA ₹162.3 cr +33%EBITDA Margin 10.7% Profit After Tax ₹71.5 cr +43%

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.
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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
Founded 1991Headquarters Chandigarh, India Company website

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.

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Quarterly results

Q1 FY27: revenue up 27.2%, net profit up 44.0% against the same quarter last year.

₹ Cr · quarterly
Line itemQ2 FY25Q3 FY25Q4 FY25Q1 FY26Q2 FY26Q3 FY26Q4 FY26Q1 FY27
Revenue1,095 1,075 1,234 1,187 1,201 +10%1,321 +23%1,475 +20%1,510 +27%
EBITDA120 118 135 122 112 −7%128 +8%149 +10%162 +33%
Net profit50 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

₹200₹250₹300₹350Sept 25Oct 25Dec 25Jan 26Mar 26Apr 26Jun 26Jul 26Sept 26Q3 FY26 — 23 Jan 2026Q3 FY26 — 30 Jan 2026Q4 FY26 — 2 Jun 2026Q1 FY27 — 16 Jul 2026

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 endingFY23FY24FY25FY26
Revenue₹4.0k Cr₹4.4k Cr₹4.4k Cr₹5.2k Cr
Operating profit₹442 Cr₹465 Cr₹487 Cr₹511 Cr
Operating margin10.9%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 margin4.8%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
ROCE21.0%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 endingFY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26
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 trap

To 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
Price today ₹370.65 Value at the reference growth ₹152.75

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All earnings calls (5)

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