Risk factor
Modest price volatility
Profitability factor
Strong margins and returns
About
KEI Industries Limited manufactures, markets, and sells wires and cables in India and internationally. It operates in three segments: Cable & Wires; Engineering, Procurement and Construction; and Stainless Steel Wire. The company offers extra-high voltage, high tension, and low-tension power cables; control and instrumentation cables; specialty, single-core, and multi-core flexible cables; elastomeric/rubber and solar cables; fire survival/resistant cables; flat, EV charging, ESP, and medium voltage covered conductor cables; conflame green + wires; communication and thermocouple cables; and submersible marine and offshore cables, as well as stainless steel, winding, and house wires. It also provides engineering, procurement, and construction solutions in the areas of gas-insulated GIS, and air-insulated substations AIS; overhead and underground power transmission and distribution systems; and railway electrification/substation on a turnkey basis, as well as project management services. The company exports its products to approximately 60 countries. It serves the power, refinery, railway, automobile, cement, steel, fertilizer, textile, real estate, infrastructure, oil and gas, defense, chemical, metal, IT, pharma, manufacturing, renewables energy, non-metal, data center, consumer durable, government, public, private, and other sectors through dealers and distributors. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in New Delhi, India.
Company Valuation
Based on key historical and expected multiples, the stock is overvalued relative to its peers. In particular, the stock is overpriced on P/E, 'expensive' on EV/EBITD.
Target Price
The average target price of KEI.NS is 5484 and suggests 22.3% upside potential. Usually, this means a BUY recommendation among investment firms, or a recommendation to in