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Company Atlas/Info Tech/Kaynes Technology India
NSE: KAYNES· Info TechTurnaround · Aug 26Small cap

Kaynes Technology India

EMS + semiconductor (OSAT/PCB)

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₹3,511.50
29 Sept 2026 · reference
1D · 1M
−4.0% · −10.9%
price-only
Weight
2.4%
31 Jul 2026 · Aug rank 12
Thesis review
8 Sep 2026
Why We Own, p46
Coverage owner: Research (per book); latest results Q Jun-26Buoyant AIF I Top 30 Holdings - Aug 2026.pdf · p1Buoyant_Why_We_Own_What_We_Own_Sep2026.pdf (portfolio as of 31 July 2026) · p46Screener ↗Tijori ↗NSE ↗
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What the company does

Kaynes Technology India · Electronic Components

Kaynes Technology India Limited specializes in end-to-end integrated electronics manufacturing, with expertise in electronics system design and IoT solutions for various industries including automotive, aerospace, and IoT.

Full profile (Yahoo)

Kaynes Technology India Limited designs, manufactures, and sells electronic modules and solutions in India and internationally. It provides conceptual design, process engineering, integrated manufacturing, and life cycle support for various industries including automotive, industrial, aerospace and defence, outer-space, medical, railways, internet of things, information technology, and other industries. Kaynes Technology India Limited was founded in 1988 and is based in Mysore, India.

Sector (Yahoo)
Technology
Industry (Yahoo)
Electronic Components
Employees
—
Website
kaynestechnology.co.in

Key people: Ms. Savitha Ramesh (Chairperson) · Mr. Jairam Paravastu Sampath (CFO & Whole-time Director) · Dr. Narayanaswamy Muthukumar (MD & Director) · Colonel Dilip Nambiar (Senior Vice President of Operations) · Ms. Sudhasri Addepalli (Company Secretary & Compliance Officer) · Ms. Premita Govind (Head of Human Resources)

Who are the competitors of Kaynes Technology?

Kaynes Technology major competitors are Avalon Technologies, Syrma SGS Technology, Cyient DLM. Market Cap of Kaynes Technology is ₹23,824 Crs. While the median market cap of its peers are ₹16,487 Crs.

Is Kaynes Technology financially stable compared to its competitors?

Kaynes Technology seems to be less financially stable compared to its competitors.Altman Z score of Kaynes Technology is 7.91 and is ranked 4 out of its 4 competitors.

Snapshot and what to watch · Tijori · 23 Sep 2026
  • Kaynes Technology is a business-to-business electronics manufacturer for automotive, industrial, aerospace and defence, rail, medical and IT customers.
  • It focuses on high-mix, high-value work. About 99% of revenue is recognised on shipment.
  • The mix has moved from basic board assembly toward complete system builds and design-led work.
  • Earnings still come from core electronics manufacturing. Growth vectors are chip packaging, circuit-board manufacturing and the rail safety program Kavach.
  • About 70% of orders have 4-6 year lives. Per management, design-led work and in-house chip packaging and circuit boards set it apart.
  • It is commissioning additional chip-packaging and circuit-board capacity. Management targets about 30% of revenue from new and design-led products.
  • Revenue rose 40% to Rs.946Cr in Q1FY27. Profit fell 24% to Rs.56.4Cr. EBITDA margin eased to 15.6%.
  • Growth has not turned into cash. Metering was Rs.971Cr of Rs.3,626Cr FY26 revenue. It left Rs.1,365Cr in receivables.
  • Near-term profit depends on the ramp of chip packaging and circuit boards. Management guides 2x market growth overall and Rs.450-500Cr from them in FY27.
  • Revenue guidance has been cut and missed twice. Billing slips on customer approvals and project readiness.

Yahoo profile 23 Sept 2026 · Tijori 23 Sept 2026

Segments

Revenue mix and market share

Product Wise Break-Up
  • OEM - Printed Circuit Board Assemblies51.0%
  • OEM - Box Build25.0%
  • ODM23.0%
  • Others1.0%
Location Wise Break-Up
  • India90.3%
  • North America5.0%
  • Europe4.0%
  • South East Asia1.0%
Customer Segment
  • Industrial55.0%
  • Automotive26.0%
  • Railways9.0%
  • IoT / IT, Cons and Others6.0%
  • Aerospace2.0%
  • Medical2.0%

Latest reported mix as compiled by Tijori from company disclosures; percentages of revenue.

Operating metrics

Company-reported KPIs (Tijori) · latest quarter

As the company reports them. They can differ from the ratio table on the Financials tab, which uses Tijori's own definitions (for example NIM on average total assets rather than on interest-earning assets); the Cross-check panel there lines both up.

Capacity Utilization - Printed Circuit Boards89.1 % 2023-03
Order Book as a % of Sales230.71 % 2026-03
Business model

How the company earns

Mysuru-based end-to-end electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company doing design-led box-build and PCB assembly for automotive, industrial, aerospace/defence, railways, medical and IoT customers - a high-mix, higher-margin niche (16% EBITDA margin vs Dixon's ~3%). It is building India's first commercial OSAT (semiconductor packaging) plant at Sanand, Gujarat (commercialised Mar-2026, multi-chip module shipped) and a bare-PCB/HDI plant in Chennai (Kaynes Circuits), to move up from assembly into components. FY26 revenue Rs 3,626 cr; order book ~Rs 8,900 cr (+20% YoY) at Jun-26.

Economics and valuation note (book)

TTM P/E 71x; stock is -49% over 1 year (52-wk range Rs 2,995-7,705) so the multiple has compressed sharply from >100x at the 2025 peak, though 5-yr average P/E not sourced. EV/EBITDA computed on Rs 25,466 cr EV (mcap + ~Rs 800 cr net debt) / TTM EBITDA Rs 609 cr. EV/EBITDA 41.8x; dividend yield 0.0%.

Competitive position · why this and not peers
Dixon TechnologiesDixon (P/E 46x, mcap Rs 86,679 cr) is 92% mobile/EMS at 2.6-3.0% EBITDA margin with ROCE falling to 34% from 45% after Mobile PLI 1.0 expiry; Kaynes has 5x the margin, a 2.3x order-book cover and component (OSAT/PCB) optionality Dixon lacks.
Syrma SGSSyrma (P/E 85x, ROE 14%, FY26 PAT Rs 346 cr) is priced higher than Kaynes on trailing earnings with a more consumer/auto-commodity mix and no semiconductor/PCB backward-integration programme.
Amber EnterprisesAmber (P/E 127x, ROE 6%) is a seasonal RAC-component business (Q1FY27 PAT just Rs 3 cr on Rs 3,888 cr sales) with lower margins and heavier capex intensity; Kaynes' industrial/defence mix is less seasonal and higher margin.
Segment economics

Reported revenue mix

Product Wise Break-Up

share of revenue, %
  • OEM - Printed Circuit Board Assemblies
    51.0%
  • OEM - Box Build
    25.0%
  • ODM
    23.0%
  • Others
    1.0%
  • Product Engineering & IoT Solutions
    0.0%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Location Wise Break-Up

share of revenue, %
  • India
    90.3%
  • North America
    5.0%
  • Europe
    4.0%
  • South East Asia
    1.0%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Customer Segment

share of revenue, %
  • Industrial
    55.0%
  • Automotive
    26.0%
  • Railways
    9.0%
  • IoT / IT, Cons and Others
    6.0%
  • Aerospace
    2.0%
  • Medical
    2.0%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Industry cycle

Info Tech chapter

Info Tech — 6.5%: mostly not IT services

The internal "Info Tech" bucket holds four very different businesses and only one of them — Infosys, at 0.7% — is the tactical IT-services trade the house describes in its notes. That trade is deliberately small. Price a mature services company at zero terminal growth with 100% of profits paid out and an 8% required yield and the floor is about 12x earnings; the sector fell from roughly 30x toward that floor, which made a small dip worth buying. We see neither a case above 20x nor a collapse below 12x: a corridor of uncertainty held at 2–3% across the strategy, a position we expect to eventually exit. The reason the upside is capped is AI: the work does not go away (the back end of US banking still runs on 1970s books that must reconcile with new front ends) but far fewer people will be needed to do it. Infosys guides 1.5–3% constant-currency growth for FY27 with AI already 8% of revenue. The other three names are owned for entirely different reasons. Kaynes is electronics manufacturing — India's EMS market went from $10–12 bn in FY20 to $40–45 bn in FY25 and could exceed $150 bn by FY30 on the back of PLI, the ₹40,000 crore component scheme and import substitution. Paytm is a payments and lending platform in the world's largest real-time payment system (UPI: 24 bn transactions a month, +22%) whose regulator-inflicted crisis has passed. Indegene is a life-sciences commercialisation outsourcer riding the same $350 bn patent cliff as our pharma names — and its AI exposure is a tailwind, not a threat.

Datapoints the team can quote
  • Infosys FY27 guidance 1.5–3.0% CC growth (trimmed), margin 20–22%; Q1FY27 revenue $5,082 mn (+2.4% CC), large-deal TCV $3.6 bn, AI 8.2% of revenue — Company, Jul-2026
  • TCS AI revenue run-rate $2.6 bn with $9.5 bn AI order book; HCL annualised AI revenue $684 mn; Wipro guides −1.5% to +0.5% QoQ — Company releases, Q1FY27
  • India EMS market $40–45 bn (FY25) → >$150 bn by FY30; Electronics Component Manufacturing Scheme outlay raised to ₹40,000 cr in Budget FY27 — KPMG, Jun-2026; PIB
  • UPI: 24.51 bn transactions worth ₹29.82 lakh cr in Aug-2026 (+22%/+20% YoY); MDR on large merchants proposed in the 2026 tax amendment bill — NPCI; Business Standard
  • Pharma commercialisation services market $138 bn (2023) → $212 bn (2029); $350 bn of branded revenue faces patent expiry 2025–29 — IDBI Capital, Jul-2026
What we deliberately do not own

We do not own TCS, HCL Tech or Wipro because if we are going to hold a small tactical position in a sector with a capped upside we want the cheapest large franchise with the cleanest AI narrative — Infosys. Dixon (2.6–3% margins, PLI 1.0 expired, ROCE falling) is volume without value; Syrma and Amber are priced higher than Kaynes on trailing earnings with lower margins. PB Fintech is priced at 90x+ for an insurance-distribution model; Eternal is a quick-commerce cash-burn story we hold only in the AIFs. Persistent and Sagility lack Indegene's domain moat.

Market position

Market share (where tracked)

UnavailableNo market-share series in the fundamentals source.
Sector datapoints

From the one-pager

  • India EMS market grew from ~$10-12 bn (FY20) to $40-45 bn (FY25) and could exceed $150 bn by FY30 (KPMG India report, Jun-2026); ~$19.5 bn cumulative incentives; 80-95% import dependence on critical components.
  • MOFSL projects India EMS at Rs 6 lakh cr in FY27 from Rs 1.46 lakh cr in FY22, a 26% CAGR to $500 bn by 2030 (Dec-2024 report).
  • Kotak expected 21% YoY revenue and 18% EBITDA growth for its EMS coverage in Q1FY27 (10-Jul-2026), with margin pressure from raw materials/memory prices and PLI 1.0 expiry; Dixon Q1FY27 adj. margin fell 80 bps to 3.0%.
  • Policy: Mobile PLI 2.0 and ISM 2.0 proposed (2026); Kaynes received Rs 170 cr of subsidies against its Sanand OSAT.