1. At a Glance – Blink and You’ll Miss the Value
₹632 crore market cap.
₹920 crore trailing sales.
₹64.8 crore PAT.
ROCE at 19.2%.
Stock P/E at 9.7, while industry is chilling at 19.4.
Yet the stock is down 25% in 6 months and 11% YoY, as if it stole someone’s lunch money.
20 Microns is one of those companies that quietly prints profits, files boring PDFs, builds mines across continents, and still gets ignored because it doesn’t shout “AI”, “EV”, or “Green Hydrogen” on Twitter.
Latest quarter (Q3 FY26):
Sales ₹215 Cr (flat YoY)
PAT ₹15.1 Cr (+11.4% YoY)
EPS ₹4.24
No drama. No collapse. Just steady, mineral-rich consistency.
This is not a momentum stock.
This is a “why is the market pretending this doesn’t exist?” stock.
2. Introduction – CSI: Industrial Minerals
Founded in 1987, 20 Microns Ltd operates in a niche so boring that most investors scroll past it—industrial micronised minerals and specialty chemicals.
But boring is beautiful when:
- Your products go into paints, plastics, ceramics, rubber
- You control your own mines
- Your customers include Asian Paints, Berger, JK Tyres, Supreme
- And your margins don’t evaporate every time crude oil sneezes
This is not a startup story.
This is not a turnaround story.
This is a quiet compounder story, disguised as a commodity player.
And the market? It’s treating it like a dusty mining stock from 2009.
3. Business Model – WTF Do They Even Do?
Imagine taking rocks.
Grinding them so fine they become nano-sized powders.
Then selling those powders to industries that cannot function
without them.
That’s 20 Microns.
Three Vertical Hustle:
1) Industrial Minerals
Calcium Carbonate, Talc, Baryte, Silica, Mica, Kaolin.
These are fillers, reinforcers, opacity enhancers.
Unsexy but unavoidable.
2) Functional Additives & Specialty Chemicals
White pigment opacifiers, aluminium silicates, matting agents.
This is where margins quietly improve.
3) Retail
Agrochemicals (Minfert) + Construction chemicals (20 MCC).
Small today, optionality for tomorrow.
They control mines → processing → micronisation → distribution.
This is vertical integration without PowerPoint hype.
4. Financials Overview – Numbers Don’t Lie, Markets Do
Quarterly Comparison (₹ Crore)
| Metric | Latest Q3 FY26 | Q3 FY25 | Q2 FY26 | YoY % | QoQ % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 215 | 214.8 | 231 | 0.1% | -6.9% |
| EBITDA | 28 | 26 | 32 | 7.7% | -12.5% |
| PAT | 15 | 13.4 | 17 | 11.4% | -11.8% |
| EPS (₹) | 4.24 | 3.65 | 4.93 | 16.2% | -14.0% |
EPS Logic Locked: Quarterly Results
Annualised EPS = Q3 average rule not applied here, we use TTM EPS ₹18.26.
Commentary:
Margins stable.
Growth muted.
No collapse.
No fraud.
Yet valuation behaving like apocalypse is scheduled.
5. Valuation Discussion – Fair Value Range Only
Method 1: P/E Based
TTM EPS: ₹18.26
Industry PE: 19.4
Conservative PE applied: 12–15
Fair Value Range: ₹220 – ₹275
Method 2: EV/EBITDA
EV: ₹737 Cr
