🔥 JNK India Ltd – From Heaters to Hydrogen: Still Lukewarm?

🔥 JNK India Ltd – From Heaters to Hydrogen: Still Lukewarm?

📌 At a Glance

JNK India Ltd is in the business of process-fired heaters, cracking furnaces, and other heat-transfer equipment, and now wants a piece of the hydrogen + solar EPC pie too. The company has shown strong growth since FY20, but FY25 was… mid. With slowing margins, a 261-day debtor cycle, and a 62x P/E, the stock needs more than just heat — it needs a spark.


1. 🧪 WTF Do They Even Do?

JNK India is your industrial boiler room boss:

  • Builds process-fired heaters, reformers, furnaces for oil & gas, chemical, and power industries.
  • Expanding into:
    • Flare Systems & Incinerators
    • Hydrogen Production & Distribution Systems
    • Solar EPC

So yes, they’re kind of like the Shaadi.com of industrial heating — trying to match gas with fire, now trying solar with subsidies.


2. 📊 Financials Overview

FY25 Snapshot:

MetricFY24FY25
Revenue₹477 Cr₹473 Cr
EBITDA₹101 Cr₹46 Cr
Net Profit₹62 Cr₹30 Cr
EPS₹12.76₹5.40
OPM21%10%
ROCE46%15%
ROE13%8.6%

💥 Key Issues:

  • PAT down 51% YoY 📉
  • OPM got halved.
  • CFO: -₹66 Cr (vs already negative in FY24)
  • Profit CAGR 5Y: 28% – good, but regressing.

3. 💸 Valuation – Cheap, Meh or Crack?

MetricValue
CMP₹339
Market Cap₹1,895 Cr
P/E (TTM)62.9x
Book Value₹90.2
P/B3.75x
EV/EBITDA~36x

🤓 For context:

  • Average P/E for EPC Industrial peers: 25–35x
  • JNK is pricing in a hydrogen dream that hasn’t even been lit yet 🔋

🧮 FV Range:

Using 25–30x on normalized EPS (₹6–₹7 range):
➡️ ₹150 – ₹210

Current price = LOL. 🚀


4. 🛠️ What’s Cooking – Orders, News, Triggers

  • 🗞️ Q4FY25 Revenue: ₹200 Cr, PAT ₹13 Cr
  • 📞 Concall notes:
    • 2.5% FY25 revenue growth
    • FY26 guidance: 40–50% revenue growth ⚠️ (ambitious)
    • EBITDA margin guidance: 14–16%
  • 📦 Order book: ~₹600 Cr+
  • 💡 Hydrogen & Renewable EPC to contribute more from FY26

5. 🧾 Balance Sheet – How Much Debt, How Many Dreams?

MetricFY25
Debt₹19 Cr
Reserves₹492 Cr
Net Worth₹503 Cr
Total Liabilities₹788 Cr
Fixed Assets + CWIP₹35 Cr
Net Cash PositionPositive (post IPO 💸)

📉 Working capital: 215 days
🧻 Debtors: 261 days — clients forgetting to pay?


6. 💰 Cash Flow – Sab Number Game Hai

YearCFOFCFComment
FY24-₹10 Cr-₹25 Crbad start
FY25-₹66 Cr-₹80 Cr+ultra worse

🔋 Raised ₹218 Cr from financing (read: IPO).
But if this burn rate continues, they’ll need another one soon.


7. 📉 Ratios – Sexy or Stressy?

MetricFY25
ROCE15%
ROE8.6%
Asset Turnover0.6x
Cash Conv.188 days
OPM10%

All pointing south. But guided to bounce back in FY26.


8. 📊 P&L Breakdown – Show Me the Money

  • Other Income: ₹18 Cr 😶‍🌫️ (inflating profit?)
  • Finance cost up: ₹14 Cr
  • Operating leverage missing in FY25
  • EPS collapsed from ₹12.8 to ₹5.4

9. 🧻 Peer Comparison

CompanyP/EROCEOPMMCap
JNK India63x15%10%₹1.9K Cr
Kaynes Tech141x14%15%₹41K Cr
Tega Industries53x17%21%₹10.6K Cr
Jyoti CNC72x24%27%₹23K Cr
Syrma SGS63x12%8.6%₹10.8K Cr

⚖️ JNK isn’t the worst on paper, but at ₹339 and 63x PE with decelerating growth — it isn’t the bargain it pretends to be.


10. 🧠 Misc – Promoters, Shareholding, Other Stuff

CategoryHolding (Mar 2025)
Promoter67.79%
DII17.87%
FII3.06%
Public11.29%
  • 📉 Slight drop in DII + FII holding
  • Shareholders: 55,433 — active retail base
  • No major insider buying in last 2 quarters

🧠 EduInvesting Verdict™

✅ Strong niche + margin expansion potential
✅ Low debt, positive cash on books
🤖 EPC + Green Energy = SEXY NARRATIVE

BUT…

❌ EPS halved
❌ Cash flows garbage
❌ P/E unjustified
❌ Working capital choking

This feels like a classic “PE rerating on green energy hope” story. But if FY26 doesn’t deliver 40–50% topline + 15% EBITDA… the stock could go from furnace to freezer.

🎯 FV Range: ₹150 – ₹210
CMP: ₹339 = Hot air.


Tags: JNK India Ltd, hydrogen EPC, process-fired heaters, smallcap stocks, renewable energy India, IPO analysis, FY25 results, BSE Smallcap, engineering services, capital goods

✍️ Written by Prashant | 📅 3 July 2025

Prashant Marathe

https://eduinvesting.in

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