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BASF India Limited

BASF.BO
32
Chemicals - Specialty · Basic Materials
Price
₹3673.95
-26.75 (-0.72%)
Market Cap
₹158.91B
Exchange
Bombay Stock Exchange
Winston Score
32
Winston is serious
Below-average fundamentals — multiple weak pillars.

BASF India Limited, a subsidiary of BASF SE, was founded in 1943 and operates from its Navi Mumbai headquarters, supplying a wide array of chemical, material, and specialized solutions across India. Its Agricultural Solutions division delivers crop protection products, including insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, and plant growth regulators, along with seed treatment innovations. The Chemicals segment manufactures petrochemicals like oxo-alcohols, acrylic acid, acrylic monomers, superabsorbents, and specialty plasticizers, as well as intermediate chemicals vital for sectors such as pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, coatings, food and feed, flavors, fragrances, surfactants, rubber, textiles, personal care, adhesives, and dyes. Within the Materials segment, the company provides high-performance materials such as polyurethane and engineering/specialty plastics, alongside monomers that serve as foundational raw elements for polyurethanes, inorganic substances, and polyamides. The Industrial Solutions group offers dispersions, resins, additives, and performance chemicals, serving industries like paints and coatings, construction, paper, adhesives, automotive, printing, and packaging. Catalysts and various coating technologies are developed under its Surface Technologies segment. Moreover, the Nutrition & Care division supports personal care, home care, institutional cleaning, and industrial formulation clients with products for human nutrition, animal nutrition, pharmaceutical solutions, and aroma ingredients. The company also exports its offerings.

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+4.9% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow revenue growth

EPS Growth

+155.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

R&D Spend

$0/ year

0.0% of revenue

Below sector average (3%)

Research and development spending

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$9.0B cash & investments

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Growth context

BASF India Limited is growing revenue at 5% year-over-year. The Winston Score measures business quality today — these growth metrics show what could matter tomorrow.

The Winston Score above measures business quality today. Growth stocks often score lower because they invest in the future rather than maximising current profits. These metrics show what matters most for evaluating that future.

Share count broadly stable

+0.0% over 4y

The share count has stayed roughly flat over this period — little dilution or buyback activity.

Diluted shares outstanding: 43.3M (2022) → 43.3M (2026)

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Quality

Gross Margin
12.4%
Thin — 12.4% gross margin
Operating Margin
2.2%
Thin — 2.2% operating margin
ROCE
1.9%
Weak — 1.9% return on capital

ROIC between 0% and 5%. They earn a few cents back per dollar invested in the business.

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Growth

Sales YoY
+0.6%
Nearly flat sales (0.6% YoY)
EPS YoY
-12.3%
Earnings shrinking (-12.3% YoY)

Earnings per share down more than 10%. Either a bad year, or a real decline.

EPS Consistency
4/8 quarters
Earnings inconsistent quarter-to-quarter

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
-222%
Weak — only -222% of profit becomes cash
FCF Margin
-6.7%
Burning cash (-6.7%)

Free cash flow is negative. They are burning cash, not generating it.

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Stability

Debt / Equity
N/A
Data not available
Interest Cover
25.61x
Comfortably covers interest (25.6x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
37.8x
Pricey — P/E 37.8

P/E over 35. The market is pricing in heavy, sustained growth.

P/E vs Forward
+6.9
GROWING
Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (37.8 → 31.0)

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Dividends

Dividend Yield
0.55%
Small dividend — 0.55% yield

Modest yield. The bulk of any return needs to come from price appreciation.

Dividend Growth
+183.3%
Dividend growing fast (183.3% YoY)

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