Ace Engitech Limited

Technology — Information Technology Services · BSE

₹88.00−₹4.00 (−4.35%)

DalalBaazaar Score

24 / 100

🔴 Weak

Verdict

HIGH RISK

Risk

Very High

Driven by negative shareholders' equity — the company owes more than it owns, short-term liabilities exceed short-term assets, the company is currently loss-making.

In simple words: The company owes more than it owns — years of losses have wiped out its net worth. Solvency — whether it can keep funding itself at all — is the main factor to watch.

Decision support, not a buy or sell call.

As of 18 Oct 2026, 6:03 pm

Caution warranted. Multiple fundamental metrics — flagged in red below — point to either valuation stretch, leverage risk, or weakening profitability. This doesn't mean avoid the stock outright, but it does mean the burden of proof is on the growth story to justify the current price.

Understanding the Business

The 60-second version of Ace Engitech Limited — what it does, how it earns, and who it competes with, before any of the numbers below.

What does this company do?

Ace Engitech Limited provides information technology (IT) services. The company was formerly known as Prem Somani Financial Services Limited and changed its name to Ace Engitech Limited in April 2022. Ace Engitech Limited was incorporated in 1991 and is based in Jaipur, India.

IndustryInformation Technology Services

SectorTechnology

Employees2

Who are its competitors?

The closest listed comparisons in its industry are TATA CONSULTANCY SERV LT, INFOSYS LIMITED, HCL TECHNOLOGIES LTD, WIPRO LTD. These are the companies its valuation and returns are measured against elsewhere in this report.

TATA CONSULTANCY SERV LTP/E 17.3x · ROE 45.6%

INFOSYS LIMITEDP/E 15.8x · ROE 32.0%

HCL TECHNOLOGIES LTDP/E 20.4x · ROE 24.6%

WIPRO LTDP/E 14.5x · ROE 15.9%

DalalBaazaar Score

24/ 100

Weak

Weighted across six categories. Every point is explained below.

✗ Shareholders' equity is negative — accumulated losses exceed the capital in the business

Quality vs. Valuation

Company Quality

25/ 100

Weak

How good the business is, ignoring the share price entirely.

Valuation

30/ 100

Expensive

What you are being asked to pay, ignoring how good the business is.

Weak on business quality and not cheap enough to compensate.

vs. its own history

Not enough price and earnings history

vs. sector peers

Not enough peers with a usable P/E

vs. generic bands

N/A

Multiples unreliable — equity base is negative

P/E (Trailing)

Not meaningful

P/B

—

EV/EBITDA

—

PEG

—

Dividend Yield

None

What's Good / What's Bad

🟢 What's Going Well1

Cash flow has turned positive
Free cash flow moved from negative to positive over 3 years.

🔴 What Needs Attention2

Negative shareholders' equity
Liabilities exceed assets — this is a solvency question that sits above every other consideration here.
Short-term liquidity is tight
Current ratio of 0.39 — near-term obligations exceed near-term assets.

Red Flags

5 items require attention · 3 high · 2 watch

🔴Negative shareholders' equityFinancial
Liabilities exceed assets — accumulated losses have wiped out the company's net worth.
🔴Thin interest coverageFinancial
Operating profit covers interest only -410.4x — little room if earnings dip.
🔴The company is lossmakingFinancial
Net profit of -₹0 Cr in the latest reported year.
🟡Interest coverage is deterioratingFinancial
Cover has fallen from -42.3x to -410.4x.
🟡Short-term liquidity is tightFinancial
Current ratio of 0.39 — near-term obligations exceed near-term assets.

Investment Thesis

🟢 Bull CaseWhat could make this work?

No clear supporting case emerges from the available numbers.

🔴 Bear CaseWhat could go wrong?

Solvency comes before everything else
Liabilities exceed assets. Until net worth is rebuilt, the equity is a claim on a business that owes more than it owns, and further losses or a funding squeeze can leave shareholders with nothing.
Earnings are hard to forecast
Profit has swung sharply from year to year, so any single year — good or bad — is a weak guide to the next. Cyclical earnings deserve lower multiples for that reason.
Size brings its own risk
Micro Cap businesses are thinly traded, so exits are harder in a falling market and single events move the price more than they would for a larger company.
Several serious flags at once
3 high-severity checks triggered. Individually each has an explanation; together they raise the chance that something structural is wrong rather than a one-off.

🟡 Key Things to WatchMeasurable tripwires, set against where this company stands today

1Interest cover stays above 3x✗ -410.4x
How much operating profit can fall before interest stops being comfortably covered.
2Free cash flow remains positive✓ ₹0 Cr
Profit that never becomes cash eventually stops being profit.

Investment Checklist

4 / 8 checks passed

✗ Shareholders' equity is positive (assets exceed liabilities)
✗ Healthy net margin (≥ 10%)
✓ Generates positive free cash flow
✗ Adequate short-term liquidity (Current Ratio ≥ 1.0)
✓ Profit growing year-over-year
✓ Not trading at an extreme valuation (P/E < 40x)
✓ Not buying right at the 52-week high
✗ Short-term technical trend isn't bearish

Price history

Quick Metrics

2 good · 5 neutral · 4 weak

Market Cap

₹8 Cr

Micro Cap

Smaller company — thin liquidity and deep drawdowns are normal here

P/E (Trailing)

Not meaningful

Loss-making

Earnings are negative, so a P/E multiple can't be read here

P/B Ratio

Not available

No data

Source didn't return this field

EPS (TTM)

₹-3.36

Loss-making

Negative earnings per share — the business is losing money

ROE

Not meaningful

Negative equity

Return on equity can't be read when equity itself is negative

ROCE

Not available

No data

Source didn't return this field

Debt/Equity

Not meaningful

Negative equity

Shareholders' equity is negative, so this ratio can't be read

Revenue Growth (YoY)

Not available

No data

Source didn't return this field

Profit Growth (YoY)

40.1%

Healthy

Profits growing at a healthy clip

Dividend Yield

None

No dividend yield reported — usually means no payout, but verify if one was recently initiated

Free Cash Flow

₹0 Cr

Cash generative

Generates cash even after funding its capex

More Metrics

CMP

₹88

Operating Margin

0.0%

Weak

Thin margins leave little room for error

Net Margin

0.0%

Weak

Very little revenue reaches the bottom line

Current Ratio

0.39

Tight

Tight short-term liquidity

Beta (vs Nifty)

-0.28

Defensive

Steadier than the market

52W Range Position

Near low

Near its 52-week low

Technical Snapshot

SMA 20 / SMA 50

93.3 / 96.1

Bearish alignment (short < long)

Price vs SMA 200

Below

Long-term downtrend

RSI (14)

34.5

Neutral momentum

Financial Trend (4-Year)

Metric	FY23	FY24	FY25	FY26	3Y CAGR
EBITDA	-₹0 Cr	-₹0 Cr	-₹0 Cr	-₹0 Cr	—
PAT (Net Profit)	-₹0 Cr	-₹0 Cr	-₹0 Cr	-₹0 Cr	—
EPS	₹-1.35	₹-0.47	₹-5.6	₹-3.35	—
ROE	-15.9%	-27.6%	-589.3%	—	—
ROCE	-15.3%	-27.6%	-576.4%	—	—
Total Debt	—	—	₹0 Cr	₹0 Cr	—
Free Cash Flow	-₹1 Cr	-₹0 Cr	-₹0 Cr	₹0 Cr	—

🟢 Free Cash Flow has turned positive, from -₹1 Cr to ₹0 Cr.

Balance Sheet & Cash Flow — FY2026

Total Assets

₹1 Cr

Total Liabilities

₹1 Cr

Total Debt

₹0 Cr

Cash & Equivalents

₹0 Cr

Operating Cash Flow

₹0 Cr

Capex

—

Shareholding (proxy)

Institutional Holding

0.0%

Insider Holding

88.4%

Peer Comparison

Company	P/E	ROE
TATA CONSULTANCY SERV LT	17.3x	45.6%
INFOSYS LIMITED	15.8x	32.0%
HCL TECHNOLOGIES LTD	20.4x	24.6%
WIPRO LTD	14.5x	15.9%

Recent News

6 general

Ace Engitech 35th AGM resolutions pass with strong majority votes

scanx.trade, 01 Oct

ACE Engitech Ltd. Key Financial Ratios – Valuation, Profitability & More

Value Research, 02 Sept

IT Sector Stocks Today: Live Share Prices

Alice Blue, 21 Sept

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Business Standard, 12 Aug

65,000% in a year! How long before the penny stock bubble bursts?

The Economic Times, 25 Dec

ACE Engitech Ltd. Financials – Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss, Cash Flow

Value Research, 30 Aug

Watch Items

Trading very close to its 52-week low — worth checking whether this reflects a temporary setback or a structural problem.
Cross-check against the company's latest quarterly filing / investor presentation before acting.
3 metrics couldn't be retrieved for this stock — this is more common for smaller or thinly-covered listings.

DalalBaazaar Thesis

🔴Business QualityWeak6/20

🔴Financial HealthStretched1/20

🟡GrowthModest10/20

🔴ProfitabilityWeak1.5/15

🔴ValuationDemanding4.5/15

🔴RiskHigh0.5/10

Avoid until solvency is resolved

Ace Engitech Limited owes more than it owns. Whatever the operating numbers show, the equity is a residual claim on a business with negative net worth, and that question has to be settled before any of the rest is worth weighing. 3 high-severity red flags sit above this conclusion and should be read first.

This thesis breaks if

✗Interest cover stays above 3x-410.4x
✓Free cash flow remains positive₹0 Cr