Vedanta (VEDL.NS)
Materials · NSE · India
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Vedanta trades at ₹257.90, which is 132% below the ₹599.61 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 74 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 15.2 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 Vedanta
Vedanta Limited, a diversified natural resources company, explores, extracts, and processes minerals, and oil and gas in India, Europe, China, the United States, Mexico, and internationally. The company explores, produces, and sells oil and gas, zinc, lead, silver, copper, aluminum, iron ores, and metallurgical coke. It also operates a thermal coal-based commercial power facility of 600 megawatts (MW) at Jharsuguda in Odisha; a 1,200 MW thermal coal-based power plants in the Chhattisgarh; 1,980 MW thermal coal- based commercial power facilities in Punjab; wind power plants; and a 1,000 MW coal-based power plant at Nellore, Andhra Pradesh. In addition, it manufactures and supplies billets, TMT bars, wire rods, and ductile iron pipes; mechanizes coal handling facilities and upgrades general cargo berth for handling coal at the outer harbor of Visakhapatnam Port on the east coast of India; offers port/berth services; and manufactures glass substrates, semiconductor, displays, ferro alloys, and slag cements. The company was formerly known as Sesa Sterlite Limited and changed its name to Vedanta Limited in March 2015. The company was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Mumbai, India.
VEDL.NS passes 6 of our 30 screens today
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Common questions
Is Vedanta (VEDL.NS) undervalued?
Against our discounted cash flow estimate of ₹599.61, VEDL.NS at ₹257.90 is 132% 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 VEDL.NS's P/E ratio?
VEDL.NS trades at 15.2 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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