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Clean Science and Technology Limited

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54
Chemicals - Specialty · Basic Materials
Exchange
National Stock Exchange of India
Winston Score
54
Winston is curious
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Jun 30, 2026
How the score breaks down
Quality
Strong
Growth
Mixed
Cash Flow
Good
Stability
Good
Valuation
Good
Dividends
Mixed

Winston Score History

The full picture

Clean Science and Technology is an Indian specialty chemicals company that makes high-performance chemical compounds used in everyday products like food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and plastics. Its core products include MEHQ (a chemical that stops materials from hardening too early), BHA (a food preservative), and anisole derivatives. The company sells to manufacturers across industries in India and internationally.

Clean Science earns money by selling these specialty chemicals directly to industrial customers, with no middlemen involved. It operates primarily from its manufacturing facilities in Pune, India, and exports a significant portion of its output to customers in Europe, the US, and Asia. The company's main competitive advantage is its proprietary, low-cost manufacturing process that uses catalytic chemistry instead of more expensive or polluting traditional methods, giving it unusually high profit margins for the industry. The key risk is customer concentration and potential competition from larger global chemical companies entering its niche product segments.

Score breakdown

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Quality

Profit per sale
Gross Margin
46.9%
Healthy — 46.9% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
28.1%
Excellent — 28.1% operating margin
Return on the money invested
ROCE
17.1%
Strong — 17.1% return on capital

ROIC between 15% and 25%. Every dollar invested in the business earns 15 to 25 cents back per year.

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Growth

Sales growth
Sales YoY
-0.4%
Shrinking sales (-0.4% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
-13.3%
Earnings shrinking (-13.3% YoY)

Earnings per share down more than 10%. Either a bad year, or a real decline.

How steady the profit is
EPS Consistency
5/8 quarters
Mixed — about half the quarters showed growth

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Cash Flow

Profit that turns into cash
Cash Conversion
66%
Modest — 66% of profit becomes cash
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
6.0%
Modest free cash flow (6.0%)

FCF margin between 0% and 10%. Some cash from sales, but not a lot.

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Stability

What it owes vs what it owns
Debt / Equity
N/A
Data not available
Covers its interest
Interest Cover
808.06x
Comfortably covers interest (808.1x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

Price vs profit
P/E Ratio (TTM)
38.3x
no trend
Pricey — P/E 38.3

P/E over 35. The market is pricing in heavy, sustained growth.

Cheaper or dearer next year
P/E vs Forward
+15.5
GROWING
Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (38.3 → 22.8)

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Dividends

Dividend
Dividend Yield
0.82%
no trend
Small dividend — 0.82% yield

Modest yield. The bulk of any return needs to come from price appreciation.

Dividend record
Dividend Growth
+7.3%
no trend
Dividend growing modestly (7.3% YoY)

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