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Poor Management Efficiency with a low ROCE of 9.14%
- The company has been able to generate a Return on Capital Employed (avg) of 9.14% signifying low profitability per unit of total capital (equity and debt)
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Low ability to service debt as the company has a high Debt to EBITDA ratio of 1.88 times
3
Weak Long Term Fundamental Strength with an average Return on Capital Employed (ROCE) of 9.14%
4
With a fall in Net Profit of NAN%, the company declared Very Negative results in Oct 24
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With ROE of 8.1, it has a very expensive valuation with a 2.1 Price to Book Value
Total Returns (Price + Dividend) 
TimePeriod
Price Return
Dividend Return
Total Return
3 Months
6.78%
0%
6.78%
6 Months
28.08%
0%
28.08%
1 Year
106.12%
0%
106.12%
2 Years
64.78%
0%
64.78%
3 Years
54.92%
0%
54.92%
4 Years
60.03%
0%
60.03%
5 Years
70.97%
0%
70.97%
DS Smith Plc for the last several years.
Risk Adjusted Returns v/s 
News
No Recent News for the Company
Announcements 
No announcement available
Corporate Actions 
No corporate action available
Quality key factors 
Factor
Value
Sales Growth (5y)
1.22%
EBIT Growth (5y)
-2.65%
EBIT to Interest (avg)
6.10
Debt to EBITDA (avg)
1.88
Net Debt to Equity (avg)
0.62
Sales to Capital Employed (avg)
1.10
Tax Ratio
15.27%
Dividend Payout Ratio
64.24%
Pledged Shares
0
Institutional Holding
0.02%
ROCE (avg)
9.14%
ROE (avg)
8.65%
Valuation key factors
Factor
Value
P/E Ratio
26
Industry P/E
Price to Book Value
2.14
EV to EBIT
22.59
EV to EBITDA
11.63
EV to Capital Employed
1.70
EV to Sales
1.56
PEG Ratio
NA
Dividend Yield
311.76%
ROCE (Latest)
7.53%
ROE (Latest)
8.14%
Technicals key factors
Indicator
Weekly
Monthly
MACD
Mildly Bearish
Bullish
RSI
No Signal
No Signal
Bollinger Bands
Mildly Bullish
Bullish
Moving Averages
Bullish (Daily)
KST
Mildly Bearish
Bullish
Dow Theory
Bullish
Bullish
OBV
Mildly Bullish
Bullish
Shareholding Snapshot : Dec 2023
Shareholding Compare (%holding) 
Majority shareholders
Foreign Institutions
Domestic Funds
Held in 0 Schemes (0%)
Foreign Institutions
Held by 3 Foreign Institutions (0.02%)
Strategic Entities with highest holding
Highest Public shareholder
Annual Results Snapshot (Consolidated) - Apr'23
Apr'23
Apr'22
Change(%)
Net Sales
8,221.00
7,241.00
13.53%
Operating Profit (PBDIT) excl Other Income
1,204.00
869.00
38.55%
Interest
75.00
68.00
10.29%
Exceptional Items
-39.00
-3.00
-1,200.00%
Consolidate Net Profit
492.00
280.00
75.71%
Operating Profit Margin (Excl OI)
94.80%
60.90%
3.39%
USD in Million.
Net Sales
YoY Growth in year ended Apr 2023 is 13.53% vs 21.17% in Apr 2022
Consolidated Net Profit
YoY Growth in year ended Apr 2023 is 75.71% vs 53.85% in Apr 2022
About DS Smith Plc 
DS Smith Plc
Containers/Packaging
DS Smith Plc is a United Kingdom-based packaging company. The Company’s operating segments include UK, DCH and Northern Europe, Central Europe and Italy, Western Europe, and North America. The Company’s businesses include packaging, paper and recycling. Its packaging product portfolio includes packaging for consumer products, electronic commerce, promotion, transit and industrial packaging. Through its paper business, it manufactures corrugated case material (CCM), which is the paper used for conversion into corrugated board. Its paper business also manufactures paper grades such as plasterboard liner. Its recycling business provides integrated recycling and waste management services, ranging from recycling collections through to recycling and waste management solutions. It collects paper and cardboard for recycling from a range of sectors, including retailers, manufacturers, local authorities, and other recycling and waste management companies.
Company Coordinates 
Company Details
7th Fl, Regents Place, 350 Euston Road , LONDON None : NW1 3AX
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