Gaja Alternative Asset Management Ltd

Price story A share price tends to move through four phases: moving sideways (stage 1), rising (stage 2), stalling near a high (stage 3) and falling (stage 4). The phase helps read everything below.

Gaja Alternative Asset Management Ltd's share price was ₹140 at the close on 16 October 2026. That is 13.9% below its average price over the last 200 trading days. In the last 52 weeks it traded between ₹135 and ₹169, and today it sits 14% of the way up from that low.

Over the past 13 weeks it has done worse than the NIFTY 500, and it has been behind for 1 week running.

Over the last 1 months the share price moved −17% while the NIFTY 500 moved −5%, so it is behind the index over that whole period. It was last ahead over 13 weeks in the week of 15 October 2026. The chart below shows the 13-week comparison for every week.

This page treats a rise as over when the price closes below its 200-day average on two Fridays in a row.

Valuation P/E is the share price divided by a year's profit per share: how many rupees the market pays for each rupee of yearly profit.

Gaja Alternative Asset Management Ltd's P/E is 22.9×, with too little history to compare. Its usual P/E (the middle reading) is 26.0×, over 0.1 years of weekly prices. This compares the share price with the company’s own past. It does not say what the business is worth.

In short: the multiple is about average against its own past, so the earnings trend underneath matters more than the multiple.

Business trend Every business is somewhere on a path of getting better or worse, and this section names where. The last 12 quarters of growth in revenue, profit and earnings per share, plus the return the business earns on its capital, are read as lines. Getting worse: the lines are falling. Turning around: a low point has just formed and the last few quarters are rising from it. Getting better: the rise from the low has lasted. Growing steadily: steady growth with healthy returns. Slowing from a peak: still high, but slowing. When the lines disagree the result is mixed; too little history means no reading. CAGR (compound annual growth rate) is the steady yearly rate that would turn the starting value into the latest one. It is the fairest way to compare growth over different periods. If the 1-year figure is much bigger than the 10-year one, recent growth is running faster than the long-run trend. A dash means there is no figure for that period, or the starting year was a loss, where a growth rate means nothing.

Gaja Alternative Asset Management Ltd's business trend cannot be read yet. There are fewer than eight usable quarters of growth figures, so there is not enough history to read the trend. This is based on 4 quarters of 1 measure, with some gaps.

Why it matters: with too little history, we say so rather than guess a direction.

The latest quarter’s profit includes a one-off item bigger than the normal business, so the profit line is shown but does not count in this reading.

The return figures here are yearly, not quarterly. They show level and direction only; they can support the growth lines but never decide the reading alone.

There are fewer than eight usable quarters, so this page does not guess a direction from so little history.

Revenue Revenue is everything the company billed its customers in the period.

Gaja Alternative Asset Management Ltd reported ₹16.0 Cr of revenue in the Jun 26 quarter, −48.4% on the same quarter a year earlier. Over 4 years it has grown 37.5% a year on average. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹136 Cr.

FY26 revenue was ₹136 Cr, +11.5% on the year before.

Recent pace: the last four quarters grew −48.4% on average, against 37.5% a year over the longer run, so this year is growing slower than its own long-run rate.

Operating margin Operating margin is what is left from every ₹100 of sales after the costs of running the business, before interest and tax. It shows pricing power and cost control.

Gaja Alternative Asset Management Ltd's operating margin was −13.0% in the Jun 26 quarter, 59.0 percentage points lower than the same quarter a year ago. Its latest full-year margin is the highest it has ever reported. Across 5 years it has been between −47.0% and 53.0%. The latest quarter is within that range.

Why: the operating margin move is clear, but the cost details behind it are not in our data, so we show the move without guessing the reason.

As noted under valuation: when margins are at a record, every ratio built on profit looks better than usual, so a low multiple can mislead.

Net profit Net profit is what is left after every cost, interest and tax. Earnings per share, dividends and book value all grow from it.

Gaja Alternative Asset Management Ltd earned ₹27.0 Cr of net profit in the Jun 26 quarter. That quarter includes a one-off gain bigger than its revenue, so the comparison with last year does not reflect normal business. Full-year FY26 profit was ₹82.0 Cr. Over 4 years profit has grown 69.2% a year on average.

That is 168.8% of the quarter's revenue.

Jun 26 profit was ₹27.0 Cr, +35.0% on a year earlier. For the full year, FY26 profit was ₹82.0 Cr (+32.3% on the year before).

🚨 Read this profit with care: at ₹27.0 Cr it is bigger than the quarter's whole revenue of ₹16.0 Cr. No business earns more than it takes in from sales, so this is a one-off item (for example a debt settlement, a tax write-back or an asset sale), not money the business earned. The underlying business is running at a −13.0% operating margin. The jump on last year, and any P/E built on this profit, come from the one-off, not from a real turn in earnings.

Cash flow The profit and loss account shows what was earned. The cash-flow statement shows the cash that actually came in. Comparing operating cash flow with profit is one of the best checks that a profit is real.

Over the last 3 years Gaja Alternative Asset Management Ltd's operations used more cash than they brought in, so cash conversion was −2%, a gap worth watching. In FY26 its operations used ₹15.0 Cr of cash, against ₹82.0 Cr of profit.

After ₹14.0 Cr of spending on assets, free cash was ₹−29.0 Cr: it spent more than its operations brought in.

Cash-flow figures here are yearly, because quarterly cash statements are not published, so this section changes once a year.

🚨 Why −2% of profit came in as cash: the cash cycle got 36 days longer between FY22 and FY26, so more of each rupee of profit waits in the business before it arrives. When less than 70% of profit comes in as cash, it is the thing to watch on this page.

What to look at next: less of the profit turns into cash than it should, and the cash cycle is 36 days longer. The next section looks at where the cash is stuck.

Where the cash goes Working capital is the cash tied up between paying suppliers and getting paid. Debtor days: how long customers take to pay. Inventory days: how long stock sits. The cash cycle: the whole loop, in days of sales.

Gaja Alternative Asset Management Ltd's cash cycle, the days between paying suppliers and getting paid by customers, was 354 days in FY26, up from 318 days in FY22. It spent ₹16.0 Cr on assets over the last 3 years.

At FY26 sales of ₹136 Cr, each day of that cycle ties up about ₹0.4 Cr, so roughly ₹132 Cr is tied up in the business at any time.

Spending on assets: ₹16.0 Cr over the last 3 years, against ₹7.0 Cr of depreciation (the yearly wear and tear on existing assets). So it is building well beyond replacing what wears out. Work still in progress is ₹4.0 Cr (FY26): assets paid for that are not earning yet.

In short: cash is getting stuck in the daily cycle, so watch the cycle more than the profit.

Return on capital Return on capital employed (ROCE) is the profit the whole business earns on all the money in it, from shareholders and lenders together. It is the best single test of whether growth adds value or just size.

Gaja Alternative Asset Management Ltd earned a ROCE of 17% in FY26. That is up from a low of 16% in FY25. Its return on capital used (ROIC) is 5.8 percentage points above its cost of capital, so growth here adds value, not just size. It comes from a 60.3% net margin and 0.19× asset turnover (sales divided by assets).

Why the return is what it is (FY26): a 60.3% net margin × 0.19× asset turnover × 1.17× leverage (assets divided by equity) ≈ 13.4% on equity. The margin does most of the work; borrowing plays a small part, so this return is earned, not borrowed.

The key test, return on capital used minus the cost of capital: 17.8% − 12.0% = +5.8 percentage points. The 12.0% is a standard assumption for the cost of capital in India, not an estimate for this company. Read the sign and size of the gap, not the decimals. A gap this wide means each rupee put back into the business creates more than a rupee of value.

Debt Debt-to-equity shows how much of the business is paid for with borrowed money. Interest cover shows how many times operating profit pays the interest bill. Low debt and high cover are the safe combination.

Gaja Alternative Asset Management Ltd had ₹53.0 Cr of borrowings against ₹606 Cr of equity in FY26, so its debt is 0.09× its equity. Its operating profit is 18 times its interest bill. Over 4 years borrowings went from ₹1.0 Cr to ₹53.0 Cr. Over the last 3 of those years it spent ₹16.0 Cr on assets.

Part of the spending on assets is being paid for with borrowed money.

Ownership Who owns the company each quarter: promoters (the founders or controlling owners), foreign institutions, domestic institutions such as mutual funds, and the public. When people close to the business steadily raise their stake, that is worth noticing; a quiet list is also an answer.

No group of Gaja Alternative Asset Management Ltd's owners changed its stake by a full percentage point over the last two years. This uses the four owner groups that companies report every quarter; nothing is guessed between filings.

Balance-sheet safety The Z-score estimates how far a company is from balance-sheet trouble. Above about 3 is safe; below about 1.8 is the danger zone. It was built for manufacturers, so it is not used for banks and lenders.

For Gaja Alternative Asset Management Ltd, the Z-score is not available, so we say so rather than guess one. It estimates how far the balance sheet is from trouble; it is not a forecast of failure. The debt, cash-flow and return sections show the balance-sheet figures we do have, each with its own date.

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