Raw Materials

Archean Chemical Industries

ARCHEANNSESmall Cap

Live₹700syncing…

Bromine, industrial chemicals and salts producer with niche semicon material optionality.

Market Cap

₹8.5k cr

Price

700

1Y -8%

Direct exposure

30/100

0–100 directness

Hold

Fundamental

59/ 100

Quality of growth, returns, cash conversion and balance sheet

Technical (TQ-100)

29/ 100

Trend, momentum, volume and relative strength composite

Valuation

70/ 100

Higher = cheaper vs peers and own history

Final composite

53/ 100

Blended decision input

Data transparency

What's real, what's pending, on this page

Real financials loaded

✓ Real / verified

· Live price, day change, market cap — NSE direct
· 1Y OHLCV, RSI(14), 50/200 DMA, 1M/3M/1Y returns, RS vs Nifty — computed from real NSE OHLCV
· Sector P/E — NSE direct
· Promoter %, pledge %, MF/FII/public split, 9-quarter history — Trendlyne
· Earnings call AI summaries — Trendlyne (where available)
· Technical (TQ-100) score — computed from real OHLCV
· Annual revenue / EBITDA / PAT / OCF / FCF / equity / assets — Trendlyne (audited annuals)

⚠ Analyst-set (qualitative)

· Segment classification + semicon directness score — analyst seed
· Bull/bear case + monitorables (curated thesis) — analyst seed
· Governance risk score (seed) — being replaced by AI-agent assessment
· Synthesized 5Y forecast removed entirely (was inaccurate)

Real financials extracted for 42 of 45 companies. See /data-sources for full provenance.

Archean Chemical Industries · ARCHEAN

₹700-24.73% over 6M

Price50 DMA200 DMA

RSI (14)

Momentum oscillator · 6M view

Volume (60D)

Fundamental score (SageOne 100)

59/ 100B

Growth 20 / Margin 15 / ROC 20 / Cash 15 / Leverage 10 / Reinvestment 8 / Accounting 7 / Governance 5 minus red flags (capped -20).

Base 63

Red flags -4

Growth quality/ 20

0.0

Rev 1Y -22.7% · 3Y CAGR -2.4%

Margin & profitability/ 15

15.0

EBITDA 48.0% · PAT 17.4%

Return on capital/ 20

11.5

ROCE 25% · ROE 11%

Cash flow quality/ 15

10.3

OCF/EBITDA 76% · FCF yield 1.5%

Leverage discipline/ 10

10.0

Net Debt/EBITDA -0.60x

Reinvestment runway/ 8

5.8

ROCE × retention proxy

Accounting quality/ 7

6.7

OCF conversion proxy

Governance/ 5

3.8

Pledge 0.0% · Risk 24/100

Red flags (1)

− Declining revenueRev 1Y -22.7%-4

✓ Computed from real Trendlyne annuals (revenue, EBITDA, PAT, OCF, equity).

Technical score (TQ-100)

29/ 100D

Computed from real 1Y OHLCV pulled from NSE direct: trend, momentum, volume, RS vs Nifty, MA cluster, mean reversion, volatility, patterns minus red flags.

Base 39

Red flags -10

Trend structure/ 20

6.2

Below 200DMA · -22% from 52W high

Momentum velocity/ 15

9.8

RSI(14) 46 · 1M 0.0%

Volume dynamics/ 15

8.3

Bucket: Small Cap

Relative strength/ 15

3.0

RS vs Nifty -18%

MA cluster/ 10

0.0

200DMA + 1Y trend confirmation

Mean-reversion runway/ 10

7.0

RSI(14) 46; ideal 50-60

Volatility profile/ 8

4.8

Bucket: Small Cap

Pattern integrity/ 7

0.0

Trend continuation proxy

Red flags (1)

− Below 200 DMALong-term trend broken-10

AI research agents

Re-classify segment exposure and re-assess governance risk by running fresh AI agents on the latest data. Results cache to data/agents.json.

Segment classifier

Maps to value-chain segments + computes 0-100 directness

Seed: Raw Materials · 30/100

Governance assessor

Forensic-accounting flags + 0-100 risk score

Seed: 24/100 risk

AI thesis

Generates a fresh thesis grounded in this company's data. Wires to Anthropic when ANTHROPIC_API_KEY is set, otherwise returns a deterministic mock.

Curated thesis

Analyst-set bull, bear and monitorables · use AI thesis above for a fresh take

Cheap, high-margin niche commodity chemicals; semicon angle is incremental but real.

Bull case

+Cheapest in cohort
+Highest margins
+Strong cash generation

Bear case

−Bromine cycle
−Customer concentration
−Technical structure

Key monitorables

Bromine pricingNew product launchesWorking capital

Semiconductor exposure

How direct, how visible

Primary segment

Raw Materials

All segments

Raw Materials, Specialty Chemicals & Gases

Exposure type

Ancillary

Policy beneficiary

Possible

Import substitution

Medium / Low

Governance risk score

24/100 (lower = better)

Financial snapshot

Latest reported metrics · mock data, ready for live financials

Rev growth (1Y)

-22.7%

Rev CAGR (3Y)

-2.4%

EBITDA margin

48.0%

PAT margin

17.4%

ROCE

25%

ROE

11%

OCF / EBITDA

76%

Net Debt / EBITDA

-0.6x

Promoter holding

54.0%

Promoter pledge

0.0%

Valuation

P/E (TTM)

22.0

Forward P/E

18.0

EV/EBITDA

16.6

EV/Sales

8.0

P/B

5.0

FCF Yield

1.5%

Dividend Yield

0.50%

Hist. percentile

35%

Peer percentile

30%

Technicals

RSI(14)

1M return

0.0%

1Y return

-8%

From 52W high

-22%

RS vs Nifty

-18%

>200 DMA

Annual financials — real data

Extracted from Trendlyne · audited annuals · TTM + last 6 fiscal years

✓ Real

Line	TTM	FY25	FY24	FY23	FY22	FY21	FY20
Revenue	₹1.1k cr	₹1.1k cr	₹1.4k cr	₹1.5k cr	₹1.1k cr	₹755 cr	₹617 cr
↳ YoY growth	+5.1%	-22.7%	-7.3%	+29.9%	+51.4%	+22.4%	—
EBITDA	₹372 cr	₹511 cr	₹679 cr	₹480 cr	₹276 cr	₹156 cr	₹76 cr
↳ EBITDA margin	33.3%	48.0%	49.3%	32.3%	24.2%	20.7%	12.3%
PAT	₹183 cr	₹185 cr	₹322 cr	₹384 cr	₹189 cr	₹67 cr	₹-36 cr
↳ PAT margin	16.4%	17.4%	23.4%	25.8%	16.5%	8.8%	-5.8%
OCF	₹169 cr	₹390 cr	₹498 cr	₹327 cr	₹119 cr	₹148 cr	₹312 cr
↳ OCF / EBITDA	45.5%	76.2%	73.4%	68.1%	43.1%	94.4%	411.5%
FCF (= OCF − capex)	₹-27 cr	₹130 cr	₹210 cr	₹200 cr	₹117 cr	₹-49 cr	₹287 cr
Total Equity	₹1.9k cr	₹1.7k cr	₹1.4k cr	₹258 cr	₹69 cr	₹3 cr	₹39 cr
Total Assets	₹2.2k cr	₹2.0k cr	₹1.8k cr	₹1.5k cr	₹1.4k cr	₹1.4k cr	₹1.2k cr
↳ ROE	9.7%	10.8%	22.5%	148.7%	271.8%	2148.4%	-91.8%
↳ ROA	8.1%	9.3%	18.4%	25.1%	13.2%	4.7%	-2.9%

Source: Trendlyne (Standalone where Consolidated unavailable). Last refresh on real-data ingest.

Promoter pledge & shareholding history

From Trendlyne · 9 quarters · synced Invalid Date

Pledge: 17.3%

Promoter

53.4%

Mutual Funds

17.1%

FII

11.1%

Public

9.7%

Promoter holding trend

53.5

Mar

53.5

Jun

53.5

Sep

53.4

Dec

53.4

Mar

53.4

Jun

53.4

Sep

53.4

Dec

53.4

Mar

Δ:-0.1% over 9 quarters

Commentary

·Pledge has ESCALATED from 4.6% to 17.3% over 9 quarters — major governance flag
·Promoter holding stable at 53.4%
·Avoid until pledge resolves

Management quality

Capital allocation, debt discipline, alignment, governance composite. Computed from disclosed metrics.

Capital allocation

Sustained high return on capital indicates disciplined reinvestment.

ROCE 25%, div yield 0.5%

Promoter holding

Promoter has strong skin in the game.

54.0%

Promoter pledge

No pledging — cleanest signal.

0.0%

Debt discipline

Net cash balance sheet.

Net Debt/EBITDA -0.60x

Cash conversion

Reported EBITDA reliably translates into cash.

OCF/EBITDA 76%

Governance composite

Some watchpoints; nothing disqualifying.

24/100 risk

Variant perception

What the market is pricing in versus our read, and what would invalidate the thesis.

What the market is pricing in

Slowing growth and execution risk. The market is treating Archean Chemical Industries as broken until quarterly numbers prove otherwise.

What we think it's missing

Consensus appears reasonable. Look for thesis-changing catalysts (margin inflection, new customer wins, segment mix shift) rather than narrative re-rating alone.

Thesis killers

×Demand cycle softens enough to derail margin expansion

References

Wire to live data sources in production

NSE filings Screener BSE corporate filings Annual report (latest)Concall transcript (latest)Investor presentation