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Arvind LimitedARVIND.NSCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

India · INR·Chemicals›Textiles

Textile manufacturer known for denim and apparel fabrics, part of the Lalbhai Group, also runs branded retail.

≈ India's denim mill, like a smaller Levi Strauss supplierMomentum neutral 53
Mkt cap
$1.43B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
58%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$4.29M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
26.6×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
-3.1 pp
WACC 11.1%
Hurdle
+8 pp
Req g minus delivered
Next earnings
88 days
2 Feb 2027
Close · INR₹494.75
1D-0.6%
1W+0.8%
1M-6.5%
3M-9.4%
6M+10.5%
YTD+56.0%
1Y+53.4%
ATR %4.0%
Beta0.64
52w lowhigh18.5% off high

What Arvind does

Textile manufacturer known for denim and apparel fabrics, part of the Lalbhai Group, also runs branded retail.

Spins and weaves cotton into fabric, mainly denim, sold to apparel brands and garment makers, with garment-making as a further line, so earnings follow brand orders and cotton prices. The Lalbhai family group controls it.

In one line: India's denim mill, like a smaller Levi Strauss supplier.

Products and services

  • Denim fabric
  • Woven/knit fabrics
  • Branded apparel retail

Customers

  • Global apparel brands (denim buyers)
  • Domestic retail consumers

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Cotton/fiber sourcing
  • Fabric manufacturing (denim/wovens)
  • Apparel/brand retail

What could go right

  • Global denim demand growth
  • Branded retail expansion

What could go wrong

  • Cotton price volatility
  • Global apparel demand cyclicality

Moat: narrow (scale, brand). Large-scale denim manufacturing plus a branded retail arm differentiate it from pure commodity mills.

Headquarters: Ahmedabad, India · Founded: 1931 · Employees: 38,872

Named competitors

Arvind at a glance

Size Arvind (ARVIND.NS) is an India Materials company (Textiles) with a market value of $1.43B, the 483rd largest of 1,058 India companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at ₹494.75 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 10.5%, against +5.0% for the median peer and 0.0% for the India market (cap-weighted) — 7th highest of 13 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 19.1% over the last twelve months (peer median +1.0%); the operating margin is 7.5% (peer median 5.9%).

Valuation It trades at 26.6× forward earnings against a peer median of 17.1× (4th most expensive of 10).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 21% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +13%, so the hurdle is +8 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.

Capital Return on invested capital runs 3.1 points below its cost of capital (11.1% WACC).

Next results Next results expected around 2 Feb 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

10012011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026ARVIND.NS 114Peer median 106
Six months, rebased to 100: Arvind against the median of its 13 peers (local-currency closes).

Arvind financials

Reported figures in INR; fiscal year ends 2026-03-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue₹103B₹90.7B₹81.1B₹75.7B₹82.3B
Revenue growth—+12%+7%-8%—
Gross profit₹35.3B₹12.4B₹11.0B₹9.53B₹9.18B
EBITDA₹11.3B₹8.39B₹6.98B₹7.17B₹6.36B
Net income₹4.59B₹4.14B₹3.53B₹3.37B₹4.05B
Free cash flown/a₹2.03B₹856M₹2.74B₹3.24B
Capital expendituren/a₹5.23B₹5.35B₹2.78B₹2.04B
Total debt₹29.4B₹16.6B₹15.6B₹14.5B₹15.2B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Arvind competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-50%0%+50%+100%-20%0%VTLTRIDENTABRELICIL120110RAYMONDSANATHANALOKINDSFILATEXGHCLJINDWORLDNITINSPINARVIND.NS6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Arvind is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

0%+20%+40%+60%+80%0×25×50×75×VTLTRIDENTICIL120110RAYMONDSANATHANGHCLARVIND.NSRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Arvind is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

-20%0%+20%+40%-20%0%20%40%TRIDENTABRELICIL120110FILATEXGHCLJINDWORLDNITINSPINARVIND.NSGrowth delivered (Del g) →Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) →
Above the diagonal = the price needs more growth than the company has been delivering; below = the price already allows for a slowdown. Arvind is the large dot.

Arvind competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (ARVIND.NS vs VTL.NS vs RAYMOND.NS vs TRIDENT.NS)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Arvind ARVIND.NS$1.43B+10%+19%8%26.6×21.1%
Vardhman Textiles VTL.NS$1.56B-15%+3%9%12.0×n/a
Raymond RAYMOND.NS$761M+111%-6%6%79.4×n/a
Trident TRIDENT.NS$1.29B-11%-4%11%17.1×18.5%

How Arvind compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Arvind against its 13 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureARVIND.NSPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return-6.5%+1.6%6th lowest of 14
6-month return+10.5%+5.0%7th highest of 13
Distance from 52-week high-18.5%-22.8%5th highest of 14
Revenue growth (TTM)+19.1%+1.0%3rd highest of 13
Operating margin7.5%5.9%6th highest of 13
Forward P/E26.6×17.1×4th most expensive of 10
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)21.1%19.7%4th most demanding of 9
Growth delivered (Del g)+12.8%+6.9%3rd highest of 9
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)+8.2 pp+9.1 pp5th least demanding of 9
ROIC minus cost of capital-3.1 pp-4.6 pp7th highest of 13
EV / EBITDA14.2×12.3×5th most expensive of 11
Net debt / EBITDA2.0×1.4×5th most indebted of 12

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Arvind ARVIND.NSIndia$1.43B+10%+19%8%26.6×21.1%+12.8%
Vardhman Textiles VTL.NSIndia$1.56B-15%+3%9%12.0×n/an/a
Trident TRIDENT.NSIndia$1.29B-11%-4%11%17.1×18.5%+7.9%
Aditya Birla Real Estate ABREL.NSIndia$1.26B-33%-26%-19%n/a39.6%-30.9%
Indo Count Industries ICIL.NSIndia$1.03B+68%+19%8%29.7×31.4%+10.5%
Kolon Ind 120110.KSSouth Korea$858M-61%+2%4%4.9×4.2%+4.2%
Raymond RAYMOND.NSIndia$761M+111%-6%6%79.4×n/an/a
Kusumgar KUSUMGAR.NSIndia$612Mn/an/an/a34.7×n/an/a
Sanathan Textiles SANATHAN.NSIndia$500M+21%+77%5%23.2×n/an/a
Alok Industries ALOKINDS.NSIndia$442M-41%+6%-4%n/an/an/a
Filatex India FILATEX.NSIndia$427M+100%0%6%n/a20.8%+13.3%
GHCL GHCL.NSIndia$406M-21%+2%20%7.7×-2.5%+4.2%
Jindal Worldwide JINDWORLD.NSIndia$399M+39%-2%5%n/a21.9%+6.0%
Nitin Spinners NITINSPIN.NSIndia$390M+33%0%11%12.8×6.8%+14.7%

Questions

Who are Arvind's main competitors?
Named competitors: Vardhman Textiles (VTL.NS), Raymond (RAYMOND.NS), Trident Limited (TRIDENT.NS). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Vardhman Textiles (VTL.NS), Trident (TRIDENT.NS), Aditya Birla Real Estate (ABREL.NS), Indo Count Industries (ICIL.NS), Kolon Ind (120110.KS), Raymond (RAYMOND.NS).
Is Arvind expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 26.6× against a peer median of 17.1×, 4th most expensive of 10 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 21% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +13%, so the hurdle is +8 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.
How has Arvind stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +10.5% against +5.0% for the median peer; over one year +53.4%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.