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<a href="https://smartkarma.com/entities/jindal-steel-limited">Jindal Steel</a> is strategically positioned to capitalize on India's robust infrastructure-led steel demand, driven by significant government spending on railways, construction, and other projects.</li>
 <li>The company's business model is centered on vertical integration, with captive power and mining operations providing a cost advantage and partial insulation from raw material price volatility.</li>
 <li>Despite a strong top-line growth trajectory, the company faces challenges from the cyclical nature of the steel industry, volatile profitability, and consistently negative free cash flow, which could pose risks to its ambitious expansion plans.</li>
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Jindal Steel is strategically positioned to capitalize on India's robust infrastructure-led steel demand, driven by significant government spending on railways, construction, and other projects.
  The company's business model is centered on vertical integration, with captive power and mining operations providing a cost advantage and partial insulation from raw material price volatility.
  Despite a strong top-line growth trajectory, the company faces challenges from the cyclical nature of the steel industry, volatile profitability, and consistently negative free cash flow, which could pose risks to its ambitious expansion plans.
This content is AI-generated and displayed for general informational purposes only. Please verify independently before use.

Primer: Jindal Steel (JINDALST IN) - Aug 2026

India Equity Analyst - Fundamental & Thematic, Beat the Street

Sudarshan Bhandari

India Equity Analyst - Fundamental & Thematic

Beat the Street

Beat The Street was founded by Nimish Maheshwari and Sudarshan Bhandari, both of whom are Chartered Accountants by Profession, known for their expert analysis in the fields of Business, Sectoral analysis, and Corporate governance.

With a strong social media presence of 45,000+ Subscribers across various platforms, they are considered trusted voices in the industry. Their insights and analysis have been featured in some of India’s most prominent publications, including the Economic Times, Dalal Street Investment Journal, The Morning Context, and The Ken.

Their analysis on Bankrupt & Insolvent companies has been instrumental in saving investors from significant losses. They have a keen eye for identifying red flags and has identified exclusive redflags earlier in Vedanta, Nykaa, Dhani Services, Adani and many more.

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<li>Inox Air, India's largest integrated gases company with a 22.4% share in FY26. Company has 31.0% market share in merchant Gases, 17.8% in on site Gas Supply.</li>
<li>It turns free air into a 51.3% EBITDA margin and also out earns Linde India.</li>
<li>The company has the highest margins and leadership among the peer group. Full IPO is OFS, nothing is added as new capex.</li>
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Inox Air, India's largest integrated gases company with a 22.4% share in FY26. Company has 31.0% market share in merchant Gases, 17.8% in on site Gas Supply.
It turns free air into a 51.3% EBITDA margin and also out earns Linde India.
The company has the highest margins and leadership among the peer group. Full IPO is OFS, nothing is added as new capex.


Selling Air: INOX Air Products Limited IPO

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

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<li>We will stay near-term bullish as long as crucial support levels of 6780-6824 on SPX and $141.50 on ACWI-US continue to hold.</li>
<li>We are not fighting the bullish trend with all the MSCI global indexes (MSCI ACWI, EAFE, ACWI ex-US, and EM) hitting multi-year highs, but we are monitoring potential concerns</li>
<li>The bulk of new buy ideas that we see continue to be within commodity Sectors (Energy, Materials, with Materials highlighted today) and defensives (Health Care, Telecomm, and Services highlighted today)</li>
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We will stay near-term bullish as long as crucial support levels of 6780-6824 on SPX and $141.50 on ACWI-US continue to hold.
We are not fighting the bullish trend with all the MSCI global indexes (MSCI ACWI, EAFE, ACWI ex-US, and EM) hitting multi-year highs, but we are monitoring potential concerns
The bulk of new buy ideas that we see continue to be within commodity Sectors (Energy, Materials, with Materials highlighted today) and defensives (Health Care, Telecomm, and Services highlighted today)


Can Strength Continue for Korea, Taiwan, and EM?; Remain Overweight But Be Prepared for Volatility

Market & Forensics Analyst, Beat the Street

Nimish Maheshwari

Market & Forensics Analyst

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>Premium hard-coking-coal averaged about USD 236/ton FOB Australia in Jan–July 2026, up 25% year on year, as Australian disruptions, Chinese supply losses and Middle East freight risks tightened the market.</li>
<li>India imports the overwhelming majority of metallurgical coking coal used by blast-furnace mills. Every USD 10/ton rise in coal can add roughly USD 7–9/ton to steelmaking costs.</li>
<li>The near-term earnings risk is concentrated in blast-furnace producers with weaker pricing power. Longer term, India’s capacity expansion deepens coking-coal exposure unless domestic washing and blending improve materially.</li>
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Premium hard-coking-coal averaged about USD 236/ton FOB Australia in Jan–July 2026, up 25% year on year, as Australian disruptions, Chinese supply losses and Middle East freight risks tightened the market.
India imports the overwhelming majority of metallurgical coking coal used by blast-furnace mills. Every USD 10/ton rise in coal can add roughly USD 7–9/ton to steelmaking costs.
The near-term earnings risk is concentrated in blast-furnace producers with weaker pricing power. Longer term, India’s capacity expansion deepens coking-coal exposure unless domestic washing and blending improve materially.


How Rising Coking Coal Prices Impacting Indian Steel Producers?

External broker reports(aggregated public sources), Axis Direct

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<ul><li>Capacity expansion to drive growth: Jindal steel is on the cusp of expansion at its Angul facility.</li><li>It has recently (on 26th Sep’25) raised its iron making capacity to 15.02 MT from 10.42 MT by commissioning one of India’s largest blast furnaces of 4.6 MT (BF-II), almost doubling hot metal capacity at Angul from 6 MTPA to 10.65 MTPA.</li><li>Synchronizing with the iron making expansion it has commissioned a 3 MTPA of Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF-II) under phase I, raising crude steelmaking capacity from 6 MTPA to 9 MTPA at Angul, taking total steel making capacity to 12.6 MT from 9.6 MTPA. </li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Capacity expansion to drive growth: Jindal steel is on the cusp of expansion at its Angul facility.It has recently (on 26th Sep’25) raised its iron making capacity to 15.02 MT from 10.42 MT by commissioning one of India’s largest blast furnaces of 4.6 MT (BF-II), almost doubling hot metal capacity at Angul from 6 MTPA to 10.65 MTPA.Synchronizing with the iron making expansion it has commissioned a 3 MTPA of Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF-II) under phase I, raising crude steelmaking capacity from 6 MTPA to 9 MTPA at Angul, taking total steel making capacity to 12.6 MT from 9.6 MTPA. Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Axis Punch:Jindal Steel - 31st December, 2025

India

Jindal Steel Limited manufactures steel products. The Company offers steel rails, parallel flange beams and columns, angles and channels, plates, and coils, as well as engages in the power, mining, manufacturing, and infrastructure construction businesses. Jindal Steel serves customers worldwide.

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Jindal Steel (JINDALST IN)

Primer: Jindal Steel (JINDALST IN) - Aug 2026

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Sudarshan Bhandari

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Vermilion Research

How Rising Coking Coal Prices Impacting Indian Steel Producers?

The headline is a 25% YoY rise in premium hard coking-coal prices during the first seven months of 2026. How this will impact the Indian steel...

Nimish Maheshwari

Axis Punch:Jindal Steel - 31st December, 2025

It has recently (on 26th Sep’25) raised its iron making capacity to 15.02 MT from 10.42 MT by commissioning one of India’s largest blast furnaces...

Axis Direct

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