Ceylon Cold Stores Plc

  • Market Cap: Large Cap
  • Industry: Beverages
  • ISIN: LK0027N00009
LKR
111.00
2 (1.83%)
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  • Mojo Parameters
  • Total Return
  • News and Corporate Actions
  • Key factors
  • Shareholding
  • Financials
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Comparison

Company
Score
Quality
Valuation
Financial
Technical
Ceylon Cold Stores Plc

Why is Ceylon Cold Stores Plc ?

1
High Debt Company with a Debt to Equity ratio (avg) at times
  • Poor long term growth as Operating profit has grown by an annual rate 36.20% of over the last 5 years
  • High Debt Company with a Debt to Equity ratio (avg) at times
  • The company has been able to generate a Return on Capital Employed (avg) of 15.67% signifying low profitability per unit of total capital (equity and debt)
2
The company has declared Positive results for the last 6 consecutive quarters
  • NET SALES(Q) Highest at LKR 46,125.07 MM
3
With ROE of 25.87%, it has a very attractive valuation with a 4.95 Price to Book Value
  • The stock is trading at a premium compared to its peers' average historical valuations
  • Over the past year, while the stock has generated a return of 28.32%, its profits have risen by 37.4% ; the PEG ratio of the company is 0.5
  • At the current price, the company has a high dividend yield of 0.3
4
Underperformed the market in the last 1 year
  • The stock has generated a return of 28.32% in the last 1 year, much lower than market (Sri Lanka CSE All Share) returns of 41.16%
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Verdict Report

How much should you hold?

  1. Overall Portfolio exposure to Ceylon Cold Stores Plc should be less than 10%
  2. Overall Portfolio exposure to Beverages should be less than 30%

(If sector exposure > 30%, please use optimiser tool to see which are the best stocks to hold in Beverages)

When to exit? - We will constantly monitor the company and suggest at the appropriate time to exit from the stock

Is Ceylon Cold Stores Plc for you?

Low Risk, High Return

Absolute
Risk Adjusted
Volatility
Ceylon Cold Stores Plc
-100.0%
3.18
24.74%
Sri Lanka CSE All Share
41.16%
2.63
15.67%
stock-recommendationQuality
stock-summaryManagement Risk
stock-summaryGrowth
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Quality grade scale :

Below Average, Average, Good, Excellent

Quality key factors

Factor
Value
Sales Growth (5y)
21.02%
EBIT Growth (5y)
36.20%
EBIT to Interest (avg)
2.18
Debt to EBITDA (avg)
1.99
Net Debt to Equity (avg)
0.63
Sales to Capital Employed (avg)
3.92
Tax Ratio
33.82%
Dividend Payout Ratio
86.14%
Pledged Shares
0
Institutional Holding
0
ROCE (avg)
15.67%
ROE (avg)
15.96%
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Valuation Scorecard stock-summary

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Valuation grade scale :

Very Risky, Risky, Very Expensive, Expensive, Fair, Attractive, Very Attractive

Valuation Key Factors stock-summary

Factor
Value
P/E Ratio
19
Industry P/E
Price to Book Value
4.95
EV to EBIT
12.14
EV to EBITDA
8.32
EV to Capital Employed
3.36
EV to Sales
0.78
PEG Ratio
0.51
Dividend Yield
0.27%
ROCE (Latest)
27.72%
ROE (Latest)
25.87%
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Technical key factors

Indicator
Weekly
Monthly
MACD
Mildly Bearish
Bullish
RSI
No Signal
No Signal
Bollinger Bands
Sideways
Mildly Bullish
Moving Averages
Mildly Bullish (Daily)
KST
Mildly Bullish
Bullish
Dow Theory
No Trend
No Trend
OBV
No Trend
Mildly Bearish
stock-recommendation Technical Indicator Scale: Bearish, Mildly Bearish, Sideways, Mildly Bullish, Bullish  Turned 
Technical Movement
stock-recommendationFinancial Trend

Financial Trend Scorecard stock-summary

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Financial Trend scale:

Very Negative, Negative, Flat, Positive, Very Positive, Outstanding

2What is working for the Company
NET SALES(Q)

Highest at LKR 46,125.07 MM

-1What is not working for the Company
CASH AND EQV(HY)

Lowest at LKR 1,971.08 MM

Here's what is working for Ceylon Cold Stores Plc

Net Sales
Highest at LKR 46,125.07 MM and Grown
In each period in the last five periods
MOJO Watch
Near term sales trend is very positive

Net Sales (LKR MM)

Depreciation
Highest at LKR 1,350.55 MM
in the last five periods
MOJO Watch
The expenditure on assets done by the company may have gone into operation

Depreciation (LKR MM)

Here's what is not working for Ceylon Cold Stores Plc

Cash and Eqv
Lowest at LKR 1,971.08 MM
in the last six Semi-Annual periods
MOJO Watch
Short Term liquidity is deteriorating

Cash and Cash Equivalents