Additional Considerations Required While Assessing B.L. Kashyap and Sons' (NSE:BLKASHYAP) Strong Earnings

Despite announcing strong earnings, B.L. Kashyap and Sons Limited's (NSE:BLKASHYAP) stock was sluggish. We think that the market might be paying attention to some underlying factors that they find to be concerning.

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How Do Unusual Items Influence Profit?

For anyone who wants to understand B.L. Kashyap and Sons' profit beyond the statutory numbers, it's important to note that during the last twelve months statutory profit gained from ₹70m worth of unusual items. While we like to see profit increases, we tend to be a little more cautious when unusual items have made a big contribution. We ran the numbers on most publicly listed companies worldwide, and it's very common for unusual items to be once-off in nature. Which is hardly surprising, given the name. Assuming those unusual items don't show up again in the current year, we'd thus expect profit to be weaker next year (in the absence of business growth, that is).

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Our Take On B.L. Kashyap and Sons' Profit Performance

We'd posit that B.L. Kashyap and Sons' statutory earnings aren't a clean read on ongoing productivity, due to the large unusual item. Therefore, it seems possible to us that B.L. Kashyap and Sons' true underlying earnings power is actually less than its statutory profit. The silver lining is that its EPS growth over the last year has been really wonderful, even if it's not a perfect measure. The goal of this article has been to assess how well we can rely on the statutory earnings to reflect the company's potential, but there is plenty more to consider. So while earnings quality is important, it's equally important to consider the risks facing B.L. Kashyap and Sons at this point in time. At Simply Wall St, we found 1 warning sign for B.L. Kashyap and Sons and we think they deserve your attention.

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