Archies Ltd

₹ 23.5 -0.68%

02 Jul - close price

archiesonline.com BSE: 532212 NSE: ARCHIES

About

Incorporated in 1990, Archies Ltd is a retailer of greeting cards, gifts and stationery items^[1]

Key Points

Business Overview:^[1]
Company deals in Greeting Cards, Gifts and Stationery Products under the brand Archies. It has 20 branches and performs its operations through a network comprising company owned Stores, Franchisee, Distributors and Retailers. It also exports its products.

Website BSE NSE - BE

Market Cap ₹ 79.4 Cr.
Current Price ₹ 23.5
High / Low ₹ 36.7 / 14.7
Stock P/E
Book Value ₹ 38.6
Dividend Yield 0.00 %
ROCE 1.28 %
ROE -1.27 %
Face Value ₹ 2.00

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Pros

Stock is trading at 0.61 times its book value

Cons

Company has low interest coverage ratio.
The company has delivered a poor sales growth of -12.9% over past five years.
Company has a low return on equity of -2.60% over last 3 years.
Earnings include an other income of Rs.6.87 Cr.

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Quarterly Results

Standalone Figures in Rs. Crores / View Consolidated

	Mar 2022	Jun 2022	Sep 2022	Dec 2022	Mar 2023	Jun 2023	Sep 2023	Dec 2023	Mar 2024	Jun 2024	Sep 2024	Dec 2024	Mar 2025
	23.28	19.14	22.80	23.43	20.67	15.01	22.19	21.06	21.80	13.38	20.12	17.82	18.38
	21.17	19.07	18.13	20.41	23.95	14.16	19.13	17.24	27.63	12.68	18.06	17.46	18.90
Operating Profit	2.11	0.07	4.67	3.02	-3.28	0.85	3.06	3.82	-5.83	0.70	2.06	0.36	-0.52
OPM %	9.06%	0.37%	20.48%	12.89%	-15.87%	5.66%	13.79%	18.14%	-26.74%	5.23%	10.24%	2.02%	-2.83%
	1.54	2.25	0.54	0.99	8.31	0.79	1.62	0.77	0.56	0.95	1.05	2.98	1.90
Interest	1.43	1.32	1.58	1.04	1.26	1.18	1.33	1.29	1.22	1.23	1.28	1.24	1.11
Depreciation	2.89	2.75	2.63	2.50	2.38	2.18	2.41	2.32	2.32	2.03	1.78	1.93	1.60
Profit before tax	-0.67	-1.75	1.00	0.47	1.39	-1.72	0.94	0.98	-8.81	-1.61	0.05	0.17	-1.33
Tax %	-37.31%	-38.29%	30.00%	25.53%	-75.54%	-20.35%	-19.15%	33.67%	-2.16%	-37.27%	-1,160.00%	82.35%	-17.29%
	-0.42	-1.08	0.70	0.35	2.44	-1.37	1.12	0.65	-8.62	-1.02	0.63	0.03	-1.10
EPS in Rs	-0.12	-0.32	0.21	0.10	0.72	-0.41	0.33	0.19	-2.55	-0.30	0.19	0.01	-0.33
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Profit & Loss

Standalone Figures in Rs. Crores / View Consolidated

	Mar 2014	Mar 2015	Mar 2016	Mar 2017	Mar 2018	Mar 2019	Mar 2020	Mar 2021	Mar 2022	Mar 2023	Mar 2024	Mar 2025
	194.95	194.51	194.13	183.56	156.87	160.96	139.10	55.07	77.04	85.86	80.02	69.70
	178.79	180.26	183.29	183.69	154.18	155.32	122.77	51.93	69.08	78.37	75.26	67.10
Operating Profit	16.16	14.25	10.84	-0.13	2.69	5.64	16.33	3.14	7.96	7.49	4.76	2.60
OPM %	8.29%	7.33%	5.58%	-0.07%	1.71%	3.50%	11.74%	5.70%	10.33%	8.72%	5.95%	3.73%
	-0.58	1.44	0.68	1.33	1.28	1.36	1.45	17.46	6.38	9.07	0.86	6.87
Interest	2.78	2.97	2.73	3.02	2.82	2.70	9.58	7.47	5.72	5.19	5.01	4.85
Depreciation	5.10	6.40	4.61	3.81	4.03	3.58	18.42	17.15	12.68	10.26	9.23	7.34
Profit before tax	7.70	6.32	4.18	-5.63	-2.88	0.72	-10.22	-4.02	-4.06	1.11	-8.62	-2.72
Tax %	31.95%	34.81%	30.86%	-34.28%	-17.71%	0.00%	-29.75%	-41.04%	-35.22%	-116.22%	-4.76%	-46.32%
	5.24	4.12	2.89	-3.70	-2.37	0.73	-7.18	-2.38	-2.63	2.41	-8.21	-1.46
EPS in Rs	1.55	1.22	0.86	-1.10	-0.70	0.22	-2.13	-0.70	-0.78	0.71	-2.43	-0.43
Dividend Payout %	25.80%	24.61%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%

Compounded Sales Growth
10 Years:	-10%
5 Years:	-13%
3 Years:	-3%
TTM:	-13%

Compounded Profit Growth
10 Years:	%
5 Years:	12%
3 Years:	%
TTM:	73%

Stock Price CAGR
10 Years:	0%
5 Years:	12%
3 Years:	16%
1 Year:	-6%

Return on Equity
10 Years:	-1%
5 Years:	-1%
3 Years:	-3%
Last Year:	-1%

Balance Sheet

Standalone Figures in Rs. Crores / View Consolidated

	Mar 2014	Mar 2015	Mar 2016	Mar 2017	Mar 2018	Mar 2019	Mar 2020	Mar 2021	Mar 2022	Mar 2023	Mar 2024	Mar 2025
Equity Capital	6.76	6.76	6.76	6.76	6.76	6.76	6.76	6.76	6.76	6.76	6.76	6.76
Reserves	107.45	101.30	103.96	99.95	110.79	111.25	103.34	100.82	98.02	100.54	92.50	123.45
	8.68	6.59	15.19	15.32	16.56	16.02	90.37	60.52	59.94	50.33	56.25	48.16
	32.25	29.42	28.36	32.64	31.69	34.45	27.95	21.84	21.02	18.33	15.96	18.41
Total Liabilities	155.14	144.07	154.27	154.67	165.80	168.48	228.42	189.94	185.74	175.96	171.47	196.78
	71.94	55.91	57.82	61.45	75.54	75.22	132.83	105.75	95.41	86.75	83.34	114.54
CWIP	0.30	0.19	0.12	0.38	0.10	0.33	0.17	0.48	0.09	0.04	0.00	0.00
Investments	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
	82.90	87.97	96.33	92.84	90.16	92.93	95.42	83.71	90.24	89.17	88.13	82.24
Total Assets	155.14	144.07	154.27	154.67	165.80	168.48	228.42	189.94	185.74	175.96	171.47	196.78

Cash Flows

Standalone Figures in Rs. Crores / View Consolidated

	Mar 2014	Mar 2015	Mar 2016	Mar 2017	Mar 2018	Mar 2019	Mar 2020	Mar 2021	Mar 2022	Mar 2023	Mar 2024	Mar 2025
	11.94	6.57	3.69	7.33	4.19	7.21	10.24	12.71	3.08	6.78	3.99	7.67
	-11.68	-3.40	-6.90	-6.96	-3.59	-3.87	-3.36	5.76	-0.78	9.75	-0.21	0.19
	0.78	-4.93	4.52	-2.08	-0.59	-2.48	-7.84	-18.70	-2.41	-16.60	-3.92	-7.54
Net Cash Flow	1.04	-1.76	1.31	-1.71	0.01	0.86	-0.96	-0.23	-0.11	-0.06	-0.14	0.31

Ratios

Standalone Figures in Rs. Crores / View Consolidated

	Mar 2014	Mar 2015	Mar 2016	Mar 2017	Mar 2018	Mar 2019	Mar 2020	Mar 2021	Mar 2022	Mar 2023	Mar 2024	Mar 2025
Debtor Days	39.54	40.89	41.35	39.69	51.17	43.31	41.96	69.06	43.54	37.62	36.40	41.37
Inventory Days	202.89	248.25	283.10	296.45	329.15	316.52	414.65	1,089.17	814.54	696.76	696.62	923.01
Days Payable	24.53	29.83	29.56	51.40	72.02	79.91	81.85	119.91	110.00	76.65	63.49	76.39
Cash Conversion Cycle	217.89	259.30	294.88	284.74	308.29	279.92	374.76	1,038.32	748.08	657.73	669.52	887.99
Working Capital Days	90.34	104.28	116.85	98.71	117.39	110.30	148.05	338.49	274.51	261.23	288.37	337.93
ROCE %	10.02%	7.97%	6.05%	-1.47%	0.53%	2.91%	-0.19%	4.66%	2.52%	1.40%	-0.47%	1.28%

Shareholding Pattern

Numbers in percentages

	Jun 2022	Sep 2022	Dec 2022	Mar 2023	Jun 2023	Sep 2023	Dec 2023	Mar 2024	Jun 2024	Sep 2024	Dec 2024	Mar 2025
	62.35%	62.25%	62.25%	62.25%	62.25%	62.25%	62.25%	62.25%	62.25%	62.25%	62.25%	62.29%
	0.00%	0.00%	0.09%	0.00%	0.03%	0.00%	0.10%	0.30%	0.30%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
	0.22%	0.22%	0.22%	0.22%	0.22%	0.22%	0.22%	0.22%	0.22%	0.22%	0.22%	0.22%
	37.43%	37.53%	37.44%	37.52%	37.50%	37.54%	37.43%	37.22%	37.24%	37.52%	37.54%	37.48%
No. of Shareholders	19,351	19,186	18,035	17,600	16,858	16,111	16,957	17,454	17,261	18,442	18,781	18,581

	Mar 2017	Mar 2018	Mar 2019	Mar 2020	Mar 2021	Mar 2022	Mar 2023	Mar 2024	Mar 2025
	60.55%	60.70%	61.34%	61.99%	62.35%	62.35%	62.25%	62.25%	62.29%
	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.30%	0.00%
	0.47%	0.40%	0.34%	0.23%	0.22%	0.22%	0.22%	0.22%	0.22%
	0.00%	0.20%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
	38.98%	38.70%	38.32%	37.78%	37.43%	37.43%	37.52%	37.22%	37.48%
No. of Shareholders	16,160	16,251	16,085	15,412	15,164	20,116	17,600	17,454	18,581

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