Coal India (COALINDIA.NS)
Energy · NSE · India
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Coal India trades at ₹427.35, which is 121% below the ₹944.46 our discounted cash flow model puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a DCF is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 91 out of 100, which is a wide moat. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 8.5 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
About Coal India
Coal India Limited, together with its subsidiaries, produces and sells coal and coal products in India. The company offers coking coal for steel making and metallurgical industries, as well as for hard coke manufacturing; semi coking coal for blend-able coal in steel making, merchant coke manufacturing, and other metallurgical industries; and non-coking coal for thermal grade coal for cement, fertilizer, glass, ceramic, paper, chemical, and brick manufacturing, as well as power generation and other heating purposes. It also provides washed and beneficiated coal for manufacturing of hard coke for steel making and power generation, as well as for cement, sponge iron, and other industrial plants; middling products for power generation, domestic fuel plants, brick manufacturing units, cement plants, and industrial plants, etc.; and rejects products for fluidized bed combustion boilers for power generation, road repairs, briquette making, and land filling, etc. In addition, the company offers CIL/LTC coke for use in furnaces and kilns of industrial units, as well as domestic fuel by halwais, and hotels, etc.; coal/coke fines for use in industrial furnaces and domestic purposes; and tar, heavy and light oil, and soft pitch for use in furnaces and boilers of industrial plants, power houses, oil, dye, and pharmaceutical industries, etc. Further, it engages in coal mining and gasification; consultancy support in coal and mineral exploration; and renewable and solar energy. The company was formerly known as Coal Mines Authority Limited and changed its name to Coal India Limited in January 1975. Coal India Limited was incorporated in 1973 and is headquartered in Kolkata, India.
COALINDIA.NS passes 6 of our 30 screens today
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Common questions
Is Coal India (COALINDIA.NS) undervalued?
Against our discounted cash flow estimate of ₹944.46, COALINDIA.NS at ₹427.35 is 121% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation, and most of a DCF's output sits in a terminal value nobody can forecast.
What is COALINDIA.NS's P/E ratio?
COALINDIA.NS trades at 8.5 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
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