Energy-Mission Machineries (India) Limited

Sector n/a · NSE

₹345.50+₹3.75 (+1.10%)

DalalBaazaar Score

59 / 100

🟡 Moderate

Verdict

NEUTRAL

Risk

High

Driven by negative free cash flow, micro-cap size, which brings thin liquidity.

In simple words: Strong business and financial position, with modest growth. Cash generation is currently the main factor to watch.

Decision support, not a buy or sell call.

As of 18 Oct 2026, 6:57 pm

Understanding the Business

The 60-second version of Energy-Mission Machineries (India) Limited — what it does, how it earns, and who it competes with, before any of the numbers below.

How does it make money?

Turns over ₹161 Cr a year. Of every ₹100 of sales, about ₹7 reaches shareholders as profit, with ₹14 left at the operating level before interest, tax and depreciation.

What is its competitive advantage?Some evidence

ROCE of 17.8% is above what capital typically costs, which suggests some pricing power, though not yet the sustained, wide gap that marks a durable advantage.

What has been driving growth?

Growth has come mainly from selling more, rather than from keeping more of each sale. Over 3 years revenue moved +62% while net margin moved -0% relative to itself. What this cannot tell you is which products, customers or geographies did the work — that lives in the segment disclosures of the annual report.

Revenue effect+62%

Margin effect-0%

DalalBaazaar Score

59/ 100

Moderate

Weighted across six categories. Every point is explained below.

✗ Micro Cap: thinner liquidity and sharper drawdowns are normal
✓ Profits have been consistent from year to year
✗ Negative free cash flow means dependence on external funding

Quality vs. Valuation

Company Quality

62/ 100

Average

How good the business is, ignoring the share price entirely.

Valuation

35/ 100

Expensive

What you are being asked to pay, ignoring how good the business is.

A reasonable business at a reasonable price — neither the quality nor the valuation stands out in either direction.

vs. its own history

Not enough price and earnings history

vs. sector peers

Not enough peers with a usable P/E

vs. generic bands

No P/E available

EV/EBITDA

18.4x

PEG

—

What's Good / What's Bad

🟢 What's Going Well1

Consistently profitable
Profitable in every one of the last 4 reported years.

🔴 What Needs Attention2

Return on equity is falling
ROE has dropped from 31.3% to 12.4% — each rupee of shareholder capital earns less than it did.
Return on capital is falling
ROCE has declined from 35.8% to 17.8% — often a sign of competition or overexpansion.

Red Flags

3 items require attention · 2 high · 1 watch

🔴Free cash flow negative for 3 yearsFinancial
The business has not covered its capital spending from operations for several years running, which has to be funded externally.
🔴Receivables growing faster than salesFinancial
Receivables up 273% against revenue up 62% — sales are being booked faster than they are collected.
🟡Debt is increasingFinancial
Total debt is up 36% over 3 years.

Investment Thesis

🟢 Bull CaseWhat could make this work?

Earnings have proved durable
Profitable in every one of the last 4 reported years. Consistency lowers the risk that any single bad year is structural rather than cyclical.

🔴 Bear CaseWhat could go wrong?

Sales are being booked faster than collected
Receivables are up 273% against revenue up 62%. If customers keep taking longer to pay, reported profit will not turn into cash — and write-offs follow if some never do.
Returns on shareholder capital are falling
ROE has dropped from 31.3% to 12.4%. Each rupee of equity earns less than it did, so profit growth increasingly depends on raising more capital rather than on the existing base working harder.
Size brings its own risk
Micro Cap businesses are thinly traded, so exits are harder in a falling market and single events move the price more than they would for a larger company.
Several serious flags at once
2 high-severity checks triggered. Individually each has an explanation; together they raise the chance that something structural is wrong rather than a one-off.

🟡 Key Things to WatchMeasurable tripwires, set against where this company stands today

1Revenue growth stays above 13% a year✓ 17.6% CAGR
Latest reported year was 6.4%. The bar is set below the established compounding rate, so ordinary variation does not trip it.
2EBITDA margin holds above 12%✓ 14.1%
Two points below today's level — enough room for noise, tight enough to catch real compression.
3Free cash flow remains positive✗ -₹3 Cr
Profit that never becomes cash eventually stops being profit.
4Debt / EBITDA stays below 2x✓ 1.3x
The ratio lenders write covenants against; it survives a small or negative equity base, unlike Debt/Equity.
5ROCE stays above 15%✓ 17.8%
Falling returns on capital are usually competition arriving, and show up here before they reach the margin.

Investment Checklist

6 / 9 checks passed

✗ Strong return on equity (ROE ≥ 15%)
✓ Strong return on capital employed (ROCE ≥ 15%)
✗ Healthy net margin (≥ 10%)
✗ Generates positive free cash flow
✓ Manageable leverage (Debt/Equity < 1.0)
✓ Adequate short-term liquidity (Current Ratio ≥ 1.0)
✓ Revenue growing year-over-year
✓ Profit growing year-over-year
✓ Short-term technical trend isn't bearish

Price history

Quick Metrics

2 good · 8 neutral · 1 weak

Market Cap

₹391 Cr

Micro Cap

Smaller company — thin liquidity and deep drawdowns are normal here

P/E (Trailing)

Not available

No data

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P/B Ratio

Not available

No data

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EPS (TTM)

Not available

No data

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ROE

12.4%

Moderate

Moderate capital efficiency

ROCE

17.8%

Strong

Earns comfortably above its likely cost of capital

Debt/Equity

0.31x

Low

Conservative leverage

Revenue Growth (YoY)

6.4%

Modest

Modest growth

Profit Growth (YoY)

0.6%

Modest

Slow profit growth

Dividend Yield

None

No dividend yield reported — usually means no payout, but verify if one was recently initiated

Free Cash Flow

-₹3 Cr

Cash burning

Spending more cash than the operations bring in

More Metrics

Gross Margin

37.8%

Proxy

Operating margin unavailable — showing gross margin instead

Net Margin

7.4%

Average

Average bottom-line conversion

Current Ratio

2.00

Comfortable

Healthy short-term liquidity

Technical Snapshot

SMA 20 / SMA 50

124.1 / 122.9

Bullish alignment (short > long)

Price vs SMA 200

Below

Long-term downtrend

RSI (14)

41.7

Neutral momentum

Financial Trend (4-Year)

Metric	FY23	FY24	FY25	FY26	3Y CAGR
Revenue	₹99 Cr	₹125 Cr	₹151 Cr	₹161 Cr	+17.6%
EBITDA	₹15 Cr	₹20 Cr	₹21 Cr	₹23 Cr	+15.4%
EBITDA Margin	14.9%	15.7%	13.8%	14.1%	—
PAT (Net Profit)	₹7 Cr	₹11 Cr	₹12 Cr	₹12 Cr	+17.4%
EPS	₹6.51	₹9.68	₹10.47	—	—
ROE	31.3%	31.8%	14.1%	12.4%	—
ROCE	35.8%	43.7%	19.3%	17.8%	—
Total Debt	₹22 Cr	₹33 Cr	₹25 Cr	₹30 Cr	+10.7%
Free Cash Flow	₹4 Cr	-₹8 Cr	-₹24 Cr	-₹3 Cr	—

🟢 Revenue has grown at 17.6% a year over 3 years.

🟢 EBITDA has grown at 15.4% a year over 3 years.

🟡 EBITDA Margin has held roughly flat at 14.1% over 3 years.

🟢 PAT (Net Profit) has grown at 17.4% a year over 3 years.

🔴 ROE has fallen from 31.3% to 12.4% over 3 years (-18.9 pts).

🔴 ROCE has fallen from 35.8% to 17.8% over 3 years (-18.0 pts).

🔴 Total Debt has grown at 10.7% a year over 3 years.

🔴 Free Cash Flow has turned negative, from ₹4 Cr to -₹3 Cr.

Balance Sheet & Cash Flow — FY2026

Total Assets

₹155 Cr

Total Liabilities

₹59 Cr

Cash & Equivalents

₹3 Cr

Operating Cash Flow

₹15 Cr

Capex

-₹18 Cr

Recent News

1 mixed5 general

Energy-Mission Machineries Share Price rises 9.64% today

Univest, 28 SeptPrice move

🟡Mixed / dependsA price move, which is not by itself a change in the business. Worth finding the cause before reading it as either good or bad.

Energy-Mission Machineries (India) Ltd Peer Comparison – Compare with Others

Value Research, 01 Sept

We Think Energy-Mission Machineries (India) (NSE:EMMIL) Can Stay On Top Of Its Debt

Simply Wall Street, 27 Nov

Energy-Mission Machineries (India) Ltd Financials – Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss, Cash Flow

Value Research, 11 Sept

SJP ULTRASONICS LTD. Stock/Share price , NSE/BSE Forecast News and Live Quotes

Equitymaster, 08 Oct

Energy Mission Machineries makes stellar debut with 165% premium on NSE SME

Moneycontrol.com, 16 May

Watch Items

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DalalBaazaar Thesis

StrongFinancial Health · Growth

MiddlingBusiness Quality · Profitability · Valuation

WeakRisk

Points for each in the Score ↑

Unremarkable in both directions

A reasonable business at a reasonable price. Nothing here is alarming and nothing is compelling, which usually means the decision rests on things this data cannot see — the industry's direction, management's intent, and what else is available to you. 2 high-severity red flags sit above this conclusion and should be read first.

1 of 5 tripwires tripped — Free cash flow remains positive · see Key things to watch ↑