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Fine Organic Industries Ltd.FINEORG.NSCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

India · INR·Chemicals›Chemicals: Major Diversified

Makes oleochemical-based specialty additives (emulsifiers, plastic additives) for food, plastics and cosmetics, largely for export.

Momentum strong 62
Mkt cap
$1.64B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
25%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$1.09M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
33.4×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
+10.3 pp
WACC 13.8%
Hurdle
+11 pp
Req g minus delivered
Next earnings
100 days
14 Feb 2027
Close · INR₹5,076
1D-1.8%
1W+0.5%
1M-9.8%
3M+1.7%
6M+8.9%
YTD+23.3%
1Y+14.1%
ATR %3.5%
Beta0.84
52w lowhigh10.4% off high

What Fine Organic Industries does

Makes oleochemical-based specialty additives (emulsifiers, plastic additives) for food, plastics and cosmetics, largely for export.

Makes additives from vegetable oils and fats, and each grade is qualified against the customer's own formulation, so repeat orders follow once approved. Most sales are exports, and raw-material costs follow vegetable-oil prices.

Products and services

  • Food additives (emulsifiers)
  • Plastic additives
  • Cosmetic/personal-care additives
  • Bio-based lubricant additives

Customers

  • Global food, plastics and cosmetics manufacturers

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Specialty chemicals
  • Oleochemical-based additive…
  • Food, plastics & cosmetics additive…

What could go right

  • Growing demand for natural/bio-based additives
  • Export market expansion

What could go wrong

  • Vegetable oil feedstock price volatility
  • Customer/end-market concentration

Moat: narrow (process know-how, scale). Niche oleochemical-additive expertise and strong export base, but faces large global specialty-chemical rivals.

Headquarters: Mumbai, India · Founded: 1970 · Employees: 939

Named competitors

Fine Organic Industries at a glance

Size Fine Organic Industries (FINEORG.NS) is an India Materials company (Chemicals: Major Diversified) with a market value of $1.64B, the 426th largest of 1,058 India companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at ₹5,076 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 8.9%, against -18.4% for the median peer and 0.0% for the India market (cap-weighted) — highest of 19 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 12.9% over the last twelve months (peer median +5.7%); the operating margin is 20.4% (peer median 8.7%).

Valuation It trades at 33.4× forward earnings against a peer median of 25.0× (5th most expensive of 17).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 27% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +16%, so the hurdle is +11 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 10.3 points above its cost of capital (13.8% WACC).

Next results Next results expected around 14 Feb 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

8010012011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026FINEORG.NS 109Peer median 81
Six months, rebased to 100: Fine Organic Industries against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Fine Organic Industries financials

Reported figures in INR; fiscal year ends 2026-03-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue₹26.0B₹23.5B₹22.6B₹21.2B₹30.2B
Revenue growth—+4%+6%-30%—
Gross profit₹8.63B₹6.19B₹6.49B₹6.45B₹9.74B
EBITDA₹5.92B₹4.76B₹5.15B₹5.43B₹8.36B
Net income₹4.82B₹4.17B₹4.10B₹4.12B₹6.18B
Free cash flown/a₹3.54B₹1.42B₹5.93B₹4.11B
Capital expendituren/a₹1.42B₹1.28B₹864M₹811M
Total debt₹1.76B₹682M₹28.0M₹42.3M₹285M

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Fine Organic Industries 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

-40%-20%0%-20%0%HUN0026434272BRGAARTIIND4749000420IOSPPRIVISCL3005960025856032004571903010903007790023261717NGVTFINEORG.NS6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Fine Organic Industries is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

0%+20%+40%0×100×200×300×HUN0026434272BRGAARTIIND4749000420300596002585300779NGVTFINEORG.NSRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Fine Organic Industries is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

0%+10%+20%+30%0%20%0026434272BRGIOSPPRIVISCL0025853010901717NGVTFINEORG.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. Fine Organic Industries is the large dot.

Fine Organic Industries competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (FINEORG.NS vs CRDA.L vs BAS.DE vs 4452.T)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Fine Organic Industries FINEORG.NS$1.64B+9%+13%20%33.4×26.7%
Croda International CRDA.L$6.88B+31%+3%16%23.3×19.9%
Basf BAS.DE$52.6B+2%-4%7%16.8×5.7%
Kao 4452.T$21.8B+33%+6%10%24.4×1.5%

How Fine Organic Industries 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.

Fine Organic Industries against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureFINEORG.NSPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return-9.8%-13.0%9th highest of 21
6-month return+8.9%-18.4%highest of 19
Distance from 52-week high-10.4%-35.6%highest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+12.9%+5.7%8th highest of 21
Operating margin20.4%8.7%3rd highest of 21
Forward P/E33.4×25.0×5th most expensive of 17
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)26.7%10.9%2nd most demanding of 11
Growth delivered (Del g)+15.7%+5.9%highest of 11
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)+11.0 pp+6.2 pp6th least demanding of 11
ROIC minus cost of capital+10.3 pp-2.1 pp3rd highest of 21
EV / EBITDA24.0×13.5×3rd most expensive of 11
Net debt / EBITDA-2.3×2.0×2nd least indebted of 11

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
Fine Organic Industries FINEORG.NSIndia$1.64B+9%+13%20%33.4×26.7%+15.7%
Huntsman HUNUnited States$1.66B-37%+6%0%353.8×n/an/a
Valiant 002643.SZChina$1.66B-28%+3%10%25.6×17.4%+4.9%
Metis TechBio 7666.HKHong Kong$1.66Bn/a+6,987%-367%n/an/an/a
Nippon Kayaku 4272.TJapan$1.66B+3%+14%10%10.1×-4.8%+6.9%
Borregaard BRG.OLNorway$1.68B+7%+3%17%24.4×-1.0%+7.7%
AARTI Industries AARTIIND.NSIndia$1.71B-9%+40%9%29.1×n/an/a
Advanced Echem Materials 4749.TWOTaiwan$1.72B-39%+19%25%33.1×n/an/a
Alzchem ACT0.DEGermany$1.56Bn/a+5%16%20.9×-1.1%+8.2%
Jilin Chemical Fibre Stock 000420.SZChina$1.42B-25%+11%5%154.0×n/an/a
Innospec IOSPUnited States$1.93B-3%+5%8%13.4×4.4%+8.3%
Privi Speciality Chemicals PRIVISCL.NSIndia$1.40B-4%+18%20%30.4×30.1%+15.0%
Rianlon 300596.SZChina$1.39B-7%+11%11%14.7×n/an/a
Jiangsu Shuangxing Color Plastic New Materials 002585.SZChina$1.38B+5%-4%-4%62.8×22.5%+0.2%
Shanghai Emperor of Cleaning Hi-Tech 603200.SSChina$1.37B-16%+4%-8%n/an/an/a
Isuspecialtychemical 457190.KSSouth Korea$1.36B-49%+14%3%n/an/an/a
China Resources Chemical Innovative Materials 301090.SZChina$1.35B-33%+4%1%19.2×21.4%+1.1%
Qingdao Huicheng Environmental Technology 300779.SZChina$2.02B-9%-13%5%129.3×n/an/a
Zhejiang Yongtai Technology 002326.SZChina$2.04B-40%+38%11%n/an/an/a
Eternal Materials 1717.TWTaiwan$2.06B-27%-2%5%17.2×19.9%+1.2%
Ingevity NGVTUnited States$2.07B-21%-12%25%10.4×-0.9%-0.8%

Questions

Who are Fine Organic Industries's main competitors?
Named competitors: Croda International (CRDA.L), BASF (BAS.DE), Kao Corporation (4452.T). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Huntsman (HUN), Valiant (002643.SZ), Metis TechBio (7666.HK), Nippon Kayaku (4272.T), Borregaard (BRG.OL), AARTI Industries (AARTIIND.NS).
Is Fine Organic Industries expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 33.4× against a peer median of 25.0×, 5th most expensive of 17 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 27% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +16%, so the hurdle is +11 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 Fine Organic Industries stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +8.9% against -18.4% for the median peer; over one year +14.1%.

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.