Alan Scott Enterprises Limited

Consumer Cyclical — Apparel Manufacturing · BSE

₹311.00+₹5.00 (+1.63%)

DalalBaazaar Score

39 / 100

🔴 Weak

Verdict

CAUTION

Risk

Very High

Driven by high debt relative to equity, negative free cash flow, the company is currently loss-making.

In simple words: The company is currently losing money, but sales are shrinking. Debt is the main factor to watch.

Decision support, not a buy or sell call.

As of 18 Oct 2026, 8:27 pm

Understanding the Business

Company site ↗

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

What does this company do?

Alan Scott Enterprises Limited, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and distributes various health and hygiene products in India.

IndustryApparel Manufacturing

SectorConsumer Cyclical

Employees196

Annual revenue₹801 Cr

How does it make money?

Turns over ₹801 Cr a year. Of every ₹100 of sales, about ₹-0 reaches shareholders as profit, with ₹0 left at the operating level before interest, tax and depreciation. Each of its 196 employees supports ₹4.09 Cr of revenue a year, the signature of a capital- or asset-led business.

Revenue / employee₹4.09 Cr

Who are its competitors?

The closest listed comparisons in its industry are MARUTI SUZUKI INDIA LTD., TITAN COMPANY LIMITED, TRENT LTD, AVENUE SUPERMARTS LIMITED. These are the companies its valuation and returns are measured against elsewhere in this report.

Compared side by side in Peers ↓

What is its competitive advantage?Little sign of one

Returns on capital of -8.2% are at or below what the capital likely costs. That is the financial pattern of a business competing largely on price, where advantage has to come from execution rather than position.

Peer median ROE25.9%

What has been driving growth?

Growth has come mainly from selling more, rather than from keeping more of each sale. Over 3 years revenue moved +15249% while net margin moved -99% relative to itself. What this cannot tell you is which products, customers or geographies did the work — that lives in the segment disclosures of the annual report.

Revenue effect+15249%

Margin effect-99%

DalalBaazaar Score

39/ 100

Weak

Weighted across six categories. Every point is explained below.

✗ No meaningful P/E — the company is lossmaking
✗ P/B of 15.81x is a steep premium to book

Quality vs. Valuation

Company Quality

43/ 100

Weak

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

Valuation

20/ 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

No P/E — the company is lossmaking

EV/EBITDA

241.4x

PEG

—

What's Good / What's Bad

🟢 What's Going Well3

Margins are improving
EBITDA margin is up from -5.6% to 0.1% over 3 years.
Return on equity is rising
ROE has improved from -173.1% to -26.5%.
Return on capital is rising
ROCE has improved from -20.9% to -8.2%.

🔴 What Needs Attention0

Nothing stands out as clearly deteriorating on the years of data available.

Red Flags

7 items require attention · 5 high · 2 watch

🔴Debt has risen sharplyFinancial
Total debt is up 143% over 3 years, from ₹8 Cr to ₹20 Cr.
🔴High leverageFinancial
Debt/Equity of 1.59x — earnings must service borrowings before shareholders see anything.
🔴Thin interest coverageFinancial
Operating profit covers interest only -1.1x — little room if earnings dip.
🔴Free cash flow negative for 4 yearsFinancial
The business has not covered its capital spending from operations for several years running, which has to be funded externally.
🔴The company is lossmakingFinancial
Net profit of -₹3 Cr in the latest reported year.
🟡Interest coverage is deterioratingFinancial
Cover has fallen from 0.2x to -1.1x.
🟡Shareholders have been dilutedOwnership
Shares outstanding are up 67% over 3 years — each existing share owns a smaller slice of the company.

Investment Thesis

🟢 Bull CaseWhat could make this work?

Margin expansion has further to run
EBITDA margin has risen from -5.6% to 0.1%. If that holds, profit compounds faster than sales and today's multiple looks cheaper in hindsight than it does now.

🔴 Bear CaseWhat could go wrong?

The debt load needs earnings to hold up
Debt is 21.4x EBITDA. At that level a downturn in earnings turns a manageable balance sheet into a refinancing problem, and lenders get paid before shareholders.
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
5 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

1Revenue growth stays above 327% a year✓ 435.4% CAGR
Latest reported year was -10.0%. The bar is set below the established compounding rate, so ordinary variation does not trip it.
2EBITDA margin holds above -2%✓ 0.1%
Two points below today's level — enough room for noise, tight enough to catch real compression.
3Debt / EBITDA falls below 3x✗ 21.4x
Already stretched, so this is a reduction target rather than a level to hold. Around 3x is where lenders typically start attaching conditions.
4Free cash flow remains positive✗ -₹8 Cr
Profit that never becomes cash eventually stops being profit.
5Interest cover stays above 3x✗ -1.1x
How much operating profit can fall before interest stops being comfortably covered.

Investment Checklist

3 / 11 checks passed

✗ Strong return on equity (ROE ≥ 15%)
✗ Strong return on capital employed (ROCE ≥ 15%)
✗ Healthy net margin (≥ 10%)
✗ Generates positive free cash flow
✗ Manageable leverage (Debt/Equity < 1.0)
✓ Adequate short-term liquidity (Current Ratio ≥ 1.0)
✗ Revenue growing year-over-year
✗ 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

0 good · 2 neutral · 9 weak

Market Cap

₹207 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

15.81x

Rich

Steep premium to book — needs high, durable returns to justify

EPS (TTM)

₹-4.65

Loss-making

Negative earnings per share — the business is losing money

ROE

-26.5%

Weak

Weak capital efficiency

ROCE

-8.2%

Weak

Low return on total capital employed

Debt/Equity

1.59x

High

High leverage

Revenue Growth (YoY)

-10.0%

Shrinking

Sales are contracting

Profit Growth (YoY)

-79.7%

Falling

Profits are shrinking

Dividend Yield

None

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

Free Cash Flow

-₹8 Cr

Cash burning

Spending more cash than the operations bring in

More Metrics

Operating Margin

-5.1%

Weak

Thin margins leave little room for error

Net Margin

-9.4%

Weak

Very little revenue reaches the bottom line

Current Ratio

1.92

Comfortable

Healthy short-term liquidity

Beta (vs Nifty)

0.68

Defensive

Steadier than the market

52W Range Position

49%

Mid-range

Technical Snapshot

SMA 20 / SMA 50

293.0 / 296.2

Bearish alignment (short < long)

Price vs SMA 200

Above

Long-term uptrend

RSI (14)

70.4

Overbought zone

Financial Trend (4-Year)

Metric	FY23	FY24	FY25	FY26	3Y CAGR
Revenue	₹5 Cr	₹12 Cr	₹29 Cr	₹801 Cr	+435.4%
EBITDA	-₹0 Cr	₹0 Cr	₹3 Cr	₹1 Cr	—
EBITDA Margin	-5.6%	2.0%	8.7%	0.1%	—
PAT (Net Profit)	-₹2 Cr	-₹3 Cr	-₹2 Cr	-₹3 Cr	—
EPS	₹-5.32	₹-6.77	₹-2.96	₹-5.07	—
ROE	-173.1%	-95.3%	-93.8%	-26.5%	—
ROCE	-20.9%	-11.8%	1.8%	-8.2%	—
Total Debt	₹8 Cr	₹22 Cr	₹19 Cr	₹20 Cr	+34.4%
Free Cash Flow	-₹3 Cr	-₹5 Cr	-₹1 Cr	-₹8 Cr	—

🟢 Revenue has grown at 435.4% a year over 3 years.

🟢 EBITDA has turned positive, from -₹0 Cr to ₹1 Cr.

🟢 EBITDA Margin has risen from -5.6% to 0.1% over 3 years (+5.7 pts).

🟢 ROE has risen from -173.1% to -26.5% over 3 years (+146.6 pts).

🟢 ROCE has risen from -20.9% to -8.2% over 3 years (+12.8 pts).

🔴 Total Debt has grown at 34.4% a year over 3 years.

Balance Sheet & Cash Flow — FY2026

Total Assets

₹36 Cr

Total Liabilities

₹23 Cr

Cash & Equivalents

₹2 Cr

Operating Cash Flow

-₹6 Cr

Capex

-₹2 Cr

Shareholding (proxy)

Institutional Holding

0.0%

Insider Holding

86.1%

Peer Comparison

Company	P/E	ROE
MARUTI SUZUKI INDIA LTD.	25.2x	13.4%
TITAN COMPANY LIMITED	68.5x	36.7%
TRENT LTD	87.2x	25.9%
AVENUE SUPERMARTS LIMITED	69.9x	12.7%

Recent News

6 general

Alan Scott Enterprises Upper Circuit Today: Price, Data and Peers

Univest, 12 Oct

Alan Scott Enterprises Limited (ASCOTTPP.BO) latest stock news and headlines

Yahoo Finance UK, 16 Oct

Alan Scott Enterprises Ltd. - PP Share Price Live Today

CNBC TV18, 08 Oct

Alan Scott Enterprises fixes ₹35 first and final call on rights shares

scanx.trade, 05 Oct

Alan Scott Enterprises Rights Issue 2026 Date, Price, Allotment, Ratio

IPO Watch, 29 Aug

Alan Scott Enterprises Ltd. Shareholding Pattern – Promoters, FIIs & DIIs

Value Research, 31 Aug

Watch Items

Revenue growth is negative (-10.0%) on the latest reported period — check if this is one-off or a trend.
Cross-check against the company's latest quarterly filing / investor presentation before acting.
RSI is in overbought territory — momentum entries here carry more short-term pullback risk.

DalalBaazaar Thesis

StrongGrowth

WeakBusiness Quality · Financial Health · Profitability · Valuation · Risk

Points for each in the Score ↑

Weak on the fundamentals

Poor scores on business quality without a price low enough to compensate. There is no obvious argument for owning this over a stronger company at a similar valuation. 5 high-severity red flags sit above this conclusion and should be read first.

3 of 5 tripwires tripped — Debt / EBITDA falls below 3x; Free cash flow remains positive; Interest cover stays above 3x · see Key things to watch ↑