Indian home-textiles maker (Welspun Group) exporting bed linens, towels and flooring products, mainly to US retailers.
Indian home-textiles maker (Welspun Group) exporting bed linens, towels and flooring products, mainly to US retailers.
Makes towels and sheets under long-term programs for big retailers, plus its own brands such as Spaces in India, from vertically integrated factories in Gujarat that spin yarn through to finished goods. Cotton is the main raw material, so cotton prices and US import rules matter.
Moat: narrow (scale, customer qualification, distribution). Deep, long-standing supplier relationships with major US retailers, but faces competition from other large Indian and global textile exporters.
Headquarters: Mumbai, India · Founded: 1985 · Employees: 16,232
Size Welspun Living (WELSPUNLIV.NS) is an India Consumer Staples company (Consumer Sundries) with a market value of $2.41B, the 334th largest of 1,058 India companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at ₹241.30 on 6 Nov 2026.
Performance Over six months the shares gained 82.5%, against -1.3% for the median peer and 0.0% for the India market (cap-weighted) — highest of 7 in its peer set.
Growth Revenue grew 5.0% over the last twelve months (peer median -0.1%); the operating margin is 7.8% (peer median 10.8%).
Valuation It trades at 35.5× forward earnings against a peer median of 15.6× (most expensive of 6).
Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 32% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +5%, so the hurdle is +27 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 4.1 points below its cost of capital (14.8% WACC).
Next results Next results expected around 4 Feb 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).
| TTM | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | ₹103B | ₹88.2B | ₹98.8B | ₹90.6B | ₹75.7B |
| Revenue growth | — | -11% | +9% | +20% | — |
| Gross profit | ₹31.9B | ₹9.33B | ₹13.6B | ₹12.8B | ₹7.69B |
| EBITDA | ₹12.1B | ₹8.15B | ₹13.3B | ₹13.9B | ₹8.17B |
| Net income | ₹4.34B | ₹2.04B | ₹6.39B | ₹6.81B | ₹1.99B |
| Free cash flow | n/a | ₹5.98B | -₹1.84B | ₹1.52B | ₹3.70B |
| Capital expenditure | n/a | ₹4.51B | ₹7.13B | ₹2.75B | ₹2.75B |
| Total debt | ₹24.0B | ₹23.1B | ₹27.6B | ₹26.3B | ₹24.6B |
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| Company | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | Forward P/E | Req g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Welspun Living WELSPUNLIV.NS | $2.41B | +82% | +5% | 8% | 35.5× | 32.4% |
| Trident TRIDENT.NS | $1.29B | -11% | -4% | 11% | 17.1× | 18.5% |
| Vardhman Textiles VTL.NS | $1.56B | -15% | +3% | 9% | 12.0× | n/a |
| Indo Count Industries ICIL.NS | $1.03B | +68% | +19% | 8% | 29.7× | 31.4% |
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.
| Measure | WELSPUNLIV.NS | Peer median | Rank in peer set |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-month return | +2.3% | +6.5% | 2nd lowest of 7 |
| 6-month return | +82.5% | -1.3% | highest of 7 |
| Distance from 52-week high | -9.8% | -23.6% | 2nd highest of 7 |
| Revenue growth (TTM) | +5.0% | -0.1% | 3rd highest of 7 |
| Operating margin | 7.8% | 10.8% | 2nd lowest of 7 |
| Forward P/E | 35.5× | 15.6× | most expensive of 6 |
| Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) | 32.4% | -3.4% | most demanding of 7 |
| Growth delivered (Del g) | +5.0% | +13.2% | 3rd lowest of 7 |
| Hurdle (Req g minus delivered) | +27.3 pp | -14.7 pp | most demanding of 7 |
| ROIC minus cost of capital | -4.1 pp | +4.7 pp | 2nd lowest of 7 |
| EV / EBITDA | 19.2× | 7.9× | most expensive of 5 |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 0.4× | 1.5× | least indebted of 5 |
| Company | Market | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | Forward P/E | Req g | Delivered g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Welspun Living WELSPUNLIV.NS | India | $2.41B | +82% | +5% | 8% | 35.5× | 32.4% | +5.0% |
| Central Garden & Pet CENT | United States | $2.64B | +25% | -1% | 9% | 16.0× | -4.0% | +3.0% |
| Shanghai M&G Stationery 603899.SS | China | $3.21B | -4% | +5% | 6% | 15.6× | -2.8% | +13.8% |
| Anhui Korrun 300577.SZ | China | $678M | -11% | +1% | 10% | 12.1× | -4.3% | +20.3% |
| Prada 1913.HK | Hong Kong | $13.1B | +1% | +15% | 20% | 15.6× | -6.4% | +18.6% |
| Kering KER.PA | France | $25.7B | -23% | -9% | 11% | 30.9× | 12.2% | +2.3% |
| Christian Dior CDI.PA | France | $89.3B | +2% | -4% | 22% | n/a | -0.3% | +12.6% |