Shardul Securities 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). Today Shardul Securities Ltd is in stage 2. The phase helps read everything below.

Shardul Securities Ltd's share price was ₹59.0 at the close on 16 October 2026. It has been rising for 11 weeks. That is 36.0% above its average price over the last 200 trading days. In the last 52 weeks it traded between ₹52 and ₹59, and today it sits 100% of the way up from that low.

There is not enough history yet to compare it with the NIFTY 500.

Over the last 2 months the share price moved +12% while the NIFTY 500 moved −5%, so it is ahead of the index over that whole period. 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.

Shardul Securities Ltd's P/E is 22.0×, in the middle of its own history: higher than 59% of past readings. Its usual P/E (the middle reading) is 17.4×, over 10.0 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.

Shardul Securities 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 7 quarters of 1 measure, with some gaps.

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

One or more growth lines have an extreme jump caused by comparing with a near-zero or loss-making quarter. Those jumps are capped before reading and drawn at the edge of the chart, so one odd quarter does not decide the result.

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.

Shardul Securities Ltd reported ₹189 Cr of revenue in the Jun 26 quarter, +101.1% on the same quarter a year earlier. Over 10 years it has grown 10.3% a year on average. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹16.0 Cr. The last four reported quarters add to ₹142 Cr.

FY26 revenue was ₹16.0 Cr, −74.6% on the year before.

Recent pace: the last four quarters grew −48.2% on average, against 10.3% a year over the longer run, so this year is growing slower than its own long-run rate.

Is growth speeding up? Revenue over the last 12 months grew +787.5%, against −29.2% a year over the last 8 quarters (accelerating).

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.

Shardul Securities Ltd's operating margin was 98.0% in the Jun 26 quarter, 3.0 percentage points higher than the same quarter a year ago. Across 12 years it has been between −297.0% and 94.0%. The latest quarter is above every full year in that period.

Why the margin moved: operating margin changed +0.2 percentage points on the year while gross margin changed +0.0 points. So the gain came mostly from costs below the gross margin, such as staff and overheads, measured against sales.

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.

Shardul Securities Ltd earned ₹143 Cr of net profit in the Jun 26 quarter, +104.3% on the same quarter a year earlier. The full FY26 year was a loss of ₹49.0 Cr. That is 75.7% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned ₹70.0 Cr. 5 of the last 12 reported quarters were loss-making.

For the full year, FY26 profit was ₹−49.0 Cr (−248.5% on the year before).

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 Shardul Securities Ltd's operations used more cash than they brought in, so cash conversion was −28%, a gap worth watching. In FY26 its operations used ₹23.0 Cr of cash, against ₹−49.0 Cr of profit. After ₹4.0 Cr of spending on assets, free cash was ₹−27.0 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 −28% of profit came in as cash: the cash cycle stayed about the same between FY21 and FY26, so the cash follows profit, not the cycle. When less than 70% of profit comes in as cash, it is the thing to watch on this page.

What to look at next: the bigger use of cash is spending on new assets, at 4.0× depreciation over three years. The next section checks what that spending is building.

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.

Shardul Securities Ltd's cash cycle, the days between paying suppliers and getting paid by customers, was 1 days in FY26, up from 0 days in FY21. It spent ₹4.0 Cr on assets over the last 3 years.

At FY26 sales of ₹16.0 Cr, each day of that cycle ties up about ₹0.0 Cr, so roughly ₹0.0 Cr is tied up in the business at any time.

Spending on assets: ₹4.0 Cr over the last 3 years, against ₹1.0 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 ₹2.0 Cr (FY26): assets paid for that are not earning yet.

In short: the cash is going into new capacity, not getting stuck in the daily cycle. The question is whether the new capacity earns.

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.

Shardul Securities Ltd earned a ROCE of −6% in FY26. We cannot compare its return on capital used with its cost of capital from the data we have. It comes from a −306.3% net margin and 0.02× asset turnover (sales divided by assets).

Why the return is what it is (FY26): a −306.3% net margin × 0.02× asset turnover × 1.42× leverage (assets divided by equity) ≈ −8.7% on equity. The margin does its share; borrowing plays a small part, so this return is earned, not borrowed.

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.

Shardul Securities Ltd had ₹274 Cr of borrowings against ₹658 Cr of equity in FY26, so its debt is 0.42× its equity. Its operating profit is −3 times its interest bill. Over 5 years borrowings went from ₹0.0 Cr to ₹274 Cr. Over the last 3 of those years it spent ₹4.0 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 Shardul Securities Ltd's owners changed its stake by a full percentage point over the last two years. Promoters moved +0.0 points over the same period, to 74.8%. This uses the four owner groups that companies report every quarter; nothing is guessed between filings.

Over the last two years: Foreign institutions: +0.3 points over 8 quarters, to 0.3%; Promoters: +0.0 points over 8 quarters, to 74.8%.

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 Shardul Securities 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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