Atul Share Price

Atul Limited is one of India’s largest integrated speciality chemicals companies. The company founded in 1947 was one of the first speciality chemicals manufacturers in India. The company was the first private sector entity in independent India to be inaugurated by its first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. By 1951, the company established a joint venture (JV) named Cyanamid India Ltd, with American Cyanamid Company, to produce crop protection chemicals and pharmaceuticals.

Currently, Atul Limited manufactures over 900 products and 400 formulations. Atul Limited owns over 140 brands and caters to 30 industries across the globe. The registered office of Atul Limited is located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

The company got listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange in April 1978 and on the National Stock Exchange in May 1998.

The market capitalisation of Atul Limited stood at over ₹18,300 crore as of February 8, 2024. Atul share price has dropped nearly 2.5% in the last 3 years.

Business operations

The company has spread its footprint across several states in India and more than 20 locations globally. Atul Limited’s manufacturing facilities are located in Ankleshwar and Valsad in Gujarat, and Tarapur in Maharashtra. Atul Limited serves a client base of over 4,000 customers in over 83 countries.

Atul Limited caters to various industries like agriculture, automobile, composites, construction, cosmetics, defence, dyestuff, electricals and electronics, food, fragrance, glass, home care, horticulture, paint and coating, personal care, paper, pharmaceuticals, rubber, soap and detergent, textile, tyre and wind energy.

The company offers its products mainly in six segments: agrochemicals, aromatics, bulk chemicals and intermediates, colours, pharmaceuticals and intermediates, and polymers.

The products offered by Atul Limited in the agrochemicals segmentare used by agriculture and animal feed industry for feed additives, fertilisers, micronutrients, premixes and plantation. The company’s products are also used for bonding glass to glass, bonding marble to marble, bonding wood to glass, bonding wood to wood, bonding interiors of vehicles, filling gaps in PVC doors, instant bonding of glass, instant bonding of plastic, sealing leakages, bonding seats and lining of roofs.

Atul Limited manufactures chemical intermediary, para cresol, which is used in aroma ingredients, dye intermediates, high-end antioxidants, resins, sunscreens, trimethoprim (tmp) and UV absorbers across industries.

Atul Limited offers various products for the construction industry that are applied in the casting of decorative parts, casting of table tops, anti-corrosive coating, core-cut grouting, epoxy flooring, injection grouting, waterproofing, fixing granite, fixing marble, fitting irrigation pipes, fitting sewer pipes, fitting water pipes, joining pvc pipes, fixing marble on bison board, fixing marble on ply, underwater tiling, vertical marble cladding, vertical stone cladding and filling gaps in pvc doors,

Atul Limited caters to the packaging industry by supplying products applied in coating, manufacturing of cello tapes, manufacturing of fabric tapes, edge or side flap bonding for cartons, edge or side flap bonding for labels and edge or side flap bonding for shippers.

Financial highlights

• The company’s consolidated total income increased to ₹5,242.39 crore in FY23 as against ₹5,156.89 crore in FY22.
• Consolidated profit after tax (PAT) dropped 16.63% year-on-year to ₹506.63 crore in FY23, compared to ₹604.74 crore in FY22.
• The company’s EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation) stood at ₹895 crore in FY23 compared to ₹953 crore in FY22, down 6.08% year-on-year.
• The company’s EBITDA margin stood at 17.9% in FY23 as against 19.3% in FY22.
• Its earnings per share stood at ₹174.15 in FY23 as against ₹204.23 in FY22.