Lakshmi Precision Screws Limited

Industrials — Tools & Accessories · BSE

₹5.00₹0.00 (0.00%)

DalalBaazaar Score

29 / 100

🔴 Weak

Verdict

HIGH RISK

Risk

Very High

Driven by short-term liabilities exceed short-term assets, negative free cash flow, the company is currently loss-making.

In simple words: The company is currently losing money, though profits are falling even as sales grow. Cash generation is currently the main factor to watch.

Decision support, not a buy or sell call.

As of 18 Oct 2026, 7:03 pm

Understanding the Business

Company site ↗

The 60-second version of Lakshmi Precision Screws Limited — what it does, how it earns, and who it competes with, before any of the numbers below.

What does this company do?

Lakshmi Precision Screws Limited manufactures and sells in high tensile fasteners primarily in India. The company serves wind energy, oil and gas, locomotives, automobiles, agriculture equipment, machine building, and various other sectors.

IndustryTools & Accessories

SectorIndustrials

Who are its competitors?

The closest listed comparisons in its industry are LARSEN & TOUBRO LTD., SIEMENS LTD, ABB INDIA LIMITED. These are the companies its valuation and returns are measured against elsewhere in this report.

Compared side by side in Peers ↓

What is its competitive advantage?Little sign of one

Returns on capital of the level reported are at or below what the capital likely costs. That is the financial pattern of a business competing largely on price, where advantage has to come from execution rather than position.

Peer median ROE15.2%

DalalBaazaar Score

29/ 100

Weak

Weighted across six categories. Every point is explained below.

✗ Return on equity is negative

Quality vs. Valuation

Company Quality

24/ 100

Weak

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

Valuation

36/ 100

Expensive

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

Weak on business quality and not cheap enough to compensate.

vs. its own history

Not enough price and earnings history

vs. sector peers

Not enough peers with a usable P/E

vs. generic bands

N/A

No P/E — the company is lossmaking

EV/EBITDA

—

PEG

—

Red Flags

1 item require attention · 1 watch

🟡Short-term liquidity is tightFinancial
Current ratio of 0.84 — near-term obligations exceed near-term assets.

Investment Thesis

🟢 Bull CaseWhat could make this work?

No clear supporting case emerges from the available numbers.

🔴 Bear CaseWhat could go wrong?

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.

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

1Free cash flow remains positive✗ not reported
Profit that never becomes cash eventually stops being profit.

Investment Checklist

4 / 9 checks passed

✗ Strong return on equity (ROE ≥ 15%)
✗ Healthy net margin (≥ 10%)
✗ Generates positive free cash flow
✗ Adequate short-term liquidity (Current Ratio ≥ 1.0)
✓ Revenue growing year-over-year
✗ Profit growing year-over-year
✓ Not trading at an extreme valuation (P/E < 40x)
✓ Not buying right at the 52-week high
✓ Short-term technical trend isn't bearish

Price history

Quick Metrics

2 good · 4 neutral · 5 weak

Market Cap

₹5 Cr

Micro Cap

Smaller company — thin liquidity and deep drawdowns are normal here

P/E (Trailing)

Not meaningful

Loss-making

Earnings are negative, so a P/E multiple can't be read here

P/B Ratio

0.21x

Reasonable

Reasonable against the company's book value

EPS (TTM)

₹-13.84

Loss-making

Negative earnings per share — the business is losing money

ROE

-86.2%

Weak

Weak capital efficiency

ROCE

Not available

No data

Source didn't return this field

Debt/Equity

Not available

No data

Source didn't return this field

Revenue Growth (YoY)

20.9%

Healthy

Healthy top-line growth

Profit Growth (YoY)

-9.9%

Falling

Profits are shrinking

Dividend Yield

None

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

Free Cash Flow

-₹2 Cr

Cash burning

Spending more cash than the operations bring in

More Metrics

ROA

-0.0%

Weak

Assets generate little profit

Operating Margin

8.8%

Average

Average margins

Net Margin

-15.5%

Weak

Very little revenue reaches the bottom line

Current Ratio

0.84

Adequate

Adequate, but no real cushion

Beta (vs Nifty)

-0.43

Defensive

Steadier than the market

52W Range Position

31%

Mid-range

Technical Snapshot

SMA 20 / SMA 50

5.2 / 5.0

Bullish alignment (short > long)

Price vs SMA 200

Below

Long-term downtrend

RSI (14)

20.0

Oversold zone

Shareholding (proxy)

Institutional Holding

0.0%

Insider Holding

71.9%

Corporate Actions

Ex-Dividend Date

18 Sept 2013

Peer Comparison

Company	P/E	ROE
LARSEN & TOUBRO LTD.	30.1x	15.2%
SIEMENS LTD	88.8x	10.5%
ABB INDIA LIMITED	92.6x	19.1%

Recent News

1 mixed5 general

Lakshmi Precision Screws vs Nifty 50: Returns Compared

Univest, 01 Oct

Lakshmi Precision Screws slips 2.85% to ₹4.78; stock tests key support zone - Linear Regression

https://www.siam.in/, 03 Sept

Lakshmi Precision Screws Ltd. Shareholding Pattern – Promoters, FIIs & DIIs

Value Research, 03 Sept

Lakshmi Precision Screws Share Price Target 2026: Rs 6.00 Analyst Forecast

Univest, 15 JunAnalyst view

🟡Mixed / dependsBroker commentary — an opinion about the price rather than new information about the business.

E2E Networks, Sadhana Nitro Lead Price Band Hitters on June 23

HDFC Sky, 23 Jun

Lakshmi Precision Screws Ltd. Financials – Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss, Cash Flow

Value Research, 30 Aug

Watch Items

Cross-check against the company's latest quarterly filing / investor presentation before acting.
2 metrics couldn't be retrieved for this stock — this is more common for smaller or thinly-covered listings.
RSI is in oversold territory — could mean either a bargain or a stock still falling for good reason. Check the 'why' before assuming reversal.

DalalBaazaar Thesis

MiddlingGrowth · Valuation

WeakBusiness Quality · Financial Health · Profitability · Risk

Points for each in the Score ↑

Weak on the fundamentals

Poor scores on business quality without a price low enough to compensate. There is no obvious argument for owning this over a stronger company at a similar valuation.

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