Astec Lifesciences Ltd.

Financial

	Astec Lifesciences	Excel Industries	India Pesticides
Operational Metrics
Pharmaceutical Sector
R&D as a % of Total Sales	10.88 %	n/a	n/a
Financials
5 yr Average ROE	11.27 %	8.74 %	21.28 %
5yr average Equity Multiplier	2.36	1.28	1.31
5yr Average Asset Turnover Ratio	0.71	0.68	0.9
5yr Avg Net Profit Margin	5.58 %	9.25 %	16.95 %
Price to Book	4.76	0.83	1.85
P/E	0.0	16.65	25.52
5yr Avg Cash Conversion Cycle	171.39 Days	18.04 Days	141.22 Days
Inventory Days	112.3 Days	42.35 Days	68.5 Days
Days Receivable	128.71 Days	75.08 Days	127.13 Days
Days Payable	157.77 Days	105.09 Days	90.95 Days
5yr Average Interest Coverage Ratio	8.25	35.33	33.22
5yr Avg ROCE	18.3 %	10.49 %	28.39 %
5yr Avg Operating Profit Margin	14.0 %	13.78 %	23.26 %
5 yr average Debt to Equity	0.77	0.01	0.03
5yr CAGR Net Profit	n/a	-29.27 %	-14.86 %
5yr Average Return on Assets	5.08 %	6.76 %	15.85 %
Shareholdings
Promoter Holding	66.75 %	52.57 %	63.61 %
Share Pledged by Promoters	0.0	0.03 %	0.0
Change in Promoter Holding (3 Yrs)	1.56 %	0.08 %	-2.95 %
Change in Mutual Fund Holding (3 Yrs)	-5.03 %	0.0	-1.06 %

Business

	Astec Lifesciences	Excel Industries	India Pesticides
Product Wise Break-Up	Product Wise Break-Up Agro Chemicals 100.0 Diethyl Thio Phosphoryl Chloride 0 Technical & API 0 Formulations 0	Product Wise Break-Up Technical & API 0 Agro Chemicals 0 Diethyl Thio Phosphoryl Chloride 36.0 Formulations 0 Others 64.0	Product Wise Break-Up Technical & API 73.0 Agro Chemicals 0 Diethyl Thio Phosphoryl Chloride 0 Formulations 27.0
Segment Break-Up	Segment Break-Up Environment and Biotech 0 Chemicals 0 Agro Chemicals 0 Others 100	Segment Break-Up Environment and Biotech 0.93 Chemicals 99.07 Agro Chemicals 0	Segment Break-Up Environment and Biotech 0 Chemicals 0 Agro Chemicals 100.0
Location Wise Break-Up	Location Wise Break-Up Rest of the World 74.12 India 25.88	Location Wise Break-Up Rest of the World 17.47 India 82.53	Location Wise Break-Up Rest of the World 0 India 56.0 Others 44.0