The well known metal stock, the Steel Authority of India, or SAIL, has not been performing too well in the past year. Due to a lull in the overall steel markets last year, this stock has seen quite a few dips rather than highs. However, as the international steel market has peaked, analysts expect the share price to rise. Additionally, the growing infrastructure demand should take the price up.
SAIL does pay dividends to its shareholders regularly. Dividends have been paid since 2005, both final and interim with fairly good consistency.
The dividend yield of SAIL is 10.8% (March 2022).
The competitors of SAIL are JSW Steel, Tata Steel, Hindalco, Jindal Steel and others. The share price of SAIL is low relative to that of its competitors, with price in the two-digit category, and competitors’ prices in the three-digit category.
The future outlook for SAIL looks considerably bright as the company aims to increase its profitability with strategies for higher output and streamlining of production. The stock of SAIL may be bearish now, but hopes that it will turn to the bullish side are positive. The company has seen some profit, but it may not be substantial enough to take its forecast up a notch yet. Still, with a lot of government initiatives backing the company, SAIL may just about sail through a rough patch.
The company’s debt-to-equity ratio is 0.26 (March 2022).
The company’s revenue is at Rs. 104,515 crores and net income is at Rs. 463.54 crore.
The share price of SAIL has been going through small ups and downs in the last five years. Since 2018, when the stock was somewhere around Rs. 75, to 2021, when it rose to 141 or thereabouts, the stock has declined in the last few years. This is not a sharp decline, but a gradual one, but analysts hope to see the stock at higher levels in the course of this year (2023).