The ER&D Inflection That Must Convert Into Cash
Onward Technologies has posted stronger engineering revenue and margins, but receivable days are climbing. Can operating momentum turn into sustained cash returns?
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The Kavach Peak and the Tonbo Mirage
HBL Engineering’s Kavach surge has transformed profits, but management warns of possible post-FY28 decline. Its Tonbo investment is a separate valuation question.
Read analysisThe Incremental-ROE Trap
Bajaj Finance is growing its loan book rapidly while planning ₹17,500 crore of new capital. The key question is whether fresh equity delivers sustainable per-share value.
Read analysisThe Axle Integration Bet
Revenue climbed nearly 80% and PAT more than doubled. But the real wealth-creation test is whether integrated axle manufacturing turns the earnings burst into cash.
Read analysisThe Price Of Battlefield Intelligence
A ₹135.15 crore control transaction for a business with just ₹48 lakh in FY26 sales. The real question is not the headline multiple but what military procurement can actually pay.
Read analysisThe Optical Infrastructure Inflection
Quarterly revenue more than doubled and profitability surged. But the earnings breakthrough collides with a historical negative free-cash-flow profile.
Read analysisThe Great Banking Divide
Private banks posted rapid loan growth while PSU lenders led the market. The divergence is not about ownership labels; it is about funding economics, credit costs and sustainable returns.
Read analysisTech Mahindra: The easy part of the turnaround may be over.
Twelve quarters of better margins have repaired Tech Mahindra’s operating engine. The next test is whether genuine demand and AI pricing can keep it running.
Read analysisPersistent Systems: Twenty-six quarters. One enormous acquisition.
Persistent’s long growth streak is meeting a fundamentally different business in Nagarro—and investors must value the financing, cash restrictions and slower acquired growth.
Read analysisCyient DLM: The backlog is full. Where is the cash?
₹2,814 crore of orders, a 12.9% selloff, and the industrial working-capital problem hidden beneath a growing aerospace electronics franchise.
Read analysisThe ₹8,415 crore question no one can price yet.
A Supreme Court ruling revived claims erased in the 2020 rescue. The stock lost 14.43% in a rising market. The bond principal is known; the loss to common shareholders is not.
Read analysisProfit doubled. Gross margins went the other way.
Orient Electric reported a 124% PAT jump while losing 251 basis points of gross margin. Its cost savings are working. Whether this is a durable franchise turnaround is still unanswered.
Read analysisProfit rose 36%. The share price fell 7.5%.
The profit-and-loss statement looks excellent. The less comfortable detail is hidden in the half-year cash-flow statement—and the multiple investors still have to pay.
Read analysisThe ₹81 buyer. The ₹90 minority.
The government approved a 60.72% control transfer to a Fairfax-backed buyer. What can a public shareholder rationally pay for the bank that emerges?
Read analysis₹2.4 lakh crore of orders. How much becomes cash?
A historic power-equipment ordering cycle has arrived. But a backlog is a promise of work — not an estimate of residual cash to shareholders.
Read analysisThe $809m cheque. The $1.5bn enterprise.
Tristar could double the scale of the story. But the seller’s headline valuation and parent-attributable cash economics are not interchangeable.
Read analysisSugar stocks surged again. Where will the profits land?
Sugar stocks surged on 13 October even as mill profit lags. A MoneyMeister investigative look at crops, policy, recovery and valuation.
Read analysisIndian IT's reversal: who captures the AI dividend?
HCLTech's earnings rally highlights rising AI revenue and bookings, while modest organic growth leaves the industry's productivity dividend unproved.
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