JNK India Ltd Q2FY26 | Order Book Explodes 41% YoY to ₹18,499 Mn — Green Hydrogen JV & Ultra-Mega Order Light Up This Heater Maker’s Future

1. At a Glance

If heat could be traded on Dalal Street, JNK India Ltd would be the Ambani of furnaces. The ₹1,500 crore smallcap EPC player has turned up the flame again in Q2FY26, reporting revenue of ₹1,842 Mn (+71.6% YoY) and PAT of ₹136 Mn (+82.3% YoY). But despite all that thermal energy, the stock has been chilling at ₹268 — down 55% in the last year and 10% in the last 3 months.

Still, you can’t ignore a company with an order book of ₹18,499 Mn, fresh ultra-mega project from its Korean promoter JNK Global, and a newly minted joint venture in green hydrogen tech. Add to that a P/E of 48.5, ROCE of 14.9%, ROE of 8.6%, and debt-to-equity of just 0.05, and you get the sense that JNK isn’t burning its cash — it’s just warming up for the long haul.

But will this heater specialist stay red-hot or melt under its own valuation? Grab your asbestos gloves — we’re diving in.

2. Introduction

Welcome to JNK India Ltd, where metal meets megawatts and every pipe dreams of becoming a furnace. Founded in 2010, this Ahmedabad-headquartered EPC company has gone from quietly designing process heaters to competing with the likes of Thermax and Larsen & Toubro in the heavy engineering space.

JNK’s job is literally to make other industries “hot” — building process-fired heaters, reformers, and cracking furnaces for oil refineries, petrochemical complexes, and energy plants. The company is now flirting with green tech through flaring systems, waste gas incinerators, and hydrogen production setups — basically the Tinder of renewable EPCs.

But behind the big flames lie some financial fire drills — working capital days ballooned from 98 to 211, and debtors are at a scorching 261 days. In simple terms, JNK delivers heat faster than it collects money.

Still, their FY25 and FY26 trajectory screams ambition: a green hydrogen JV, a Malaysia biorefinery project, and a Reliance mega order all within 18 months. Not bad for a company that started out making refinery heaters and now wants to warm up the entire renewable sector.

Question is — can it keep the flame steady when the oil-and-gas furnace cools?

3. Business Model – WTF Do They Even Do?

JNK India Ltd is in the business of Heating Technology EPC — think of them as the engineers who build the massive industrial “ovens” where crude oil, gas, or chemicals get processed.

Their core offering revolves around:

• Process-Fired Heaters – used in oil refineries to heat hydrocarbons.
• Reformers & Cracking Furnaces – convert feedstock gases into useful industrial chemicals.
• Flares & Incinerators – manage waste gases safely (and with drama).
• Renewable Systems – Hydrogen production & distribution systems, Solar EPC, and energy storage units.

In FY24, Heating Equipment contributed ~96% of revenue, while Flares & Incinerators added 4% — small, but sizzling potential in the age of ESG.

They manufacture through a blend of in-house fabrication and third-party vendors, anchored by their Mundra facility inside the Multi-Product SEZ with 5,000 MTPA capacity across 20,243 sq. meters. Mundra handles exports (11% of revenue) while domestic operations keep the rest 89% busy.

The real kicker? JNK Global Co. Ltd (South Korea) — one of the world’s top heater manufacturers — is a promoter and technology partner, giving JNK India access to global projects, design expertise, and credibility.

So yes, JNK is basically India’s “heating department for the world’s energy industry” — or as their engineers would call it, “furnace diplomacy.”

4. Financials Overview

Let’s turn on the heat map — Q2FY26 (Sep 2025) numbers compared with Q2FY25 and the last quarter (Jun 2025):

Annualised EPS = 2.43 × 4 = ₹9.72
So, at CMP ₹268, the P/E works out to ~27.5x (forward) — not cheap, but not in fantasyland either.

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