Farm Peace Limited

Consumer Defensive — Farm Products · BSE

₹42.51−₹0.50 (−1.16%)

DalalBaazaar Score

70 / 100

🟢 Good

Verdict

REASONABLE

Risk

Moderate

Driven by negative free cash flow, micro-cap size, which brings thin liquidity.

In simple words: Strong business and financial position, with both sales and profits growing well. Cash generation is currently the main factor to watch.

Decision support, not a buy or sell call.

As of 18 Oct 2026, 7:45 pm

Understanding the Business

Company site ↗

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

What does this company do?

Farm Peace Limited engages in the contract farming in India. The company offers raw potatoes, seed supply services, technical field support, logistical support, and payment security services. It serves to farmers and processors.

IndustryFarm Products

SectorConsumer Defensive

Employees14

Annual revenue₹91 Cr

How does it make money?

Turns over ₹91 Cr a year. Of every ₹100 of sales, about ₹8 reaches shareholders as profit, with ₹13 left at the operating level before interest, tax and depreciation. Each of its 14 employees supports ₹6.49 Cr of revenue a year, the signature of a capital- or asset-led business.

Revenue / employee₹6.49 Cr

Who are its competitors?

The closest listed comparisons in its industry are HINDUSTAN UNILEVER LTD., ITC LTD, NESTLE INDIA LIMITED, BRITANNIA INDUSTRIES LTD. 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?The numbers suggest a real one

ROCE has stayed above 15% in every year available and stands at 26.0%. Returns that high normally get competed away; when they persist, something is protecting them, and its ROE of 19.0% against a peer median of 51.0% is consistent with that. What that something is — brand, scale, switching costs, regulation — the accounts cannot tell you.

Peer median ROE51.0%

What has been driving growth?

Profit has moved mainly because margins changed, not because the business sold much more. Over 3 years revenue moved +246% while net margin moved +598% 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+246%

Margin effect+598%

DalalBaazaar Score

70/ 100

Good

Weighted across six categories. Every point is explained below.

✗ Micro Cap: thinner liquidity and sharper drawdowns are normal
✗ Profits have swung sharply from year to year — earnings are hard to forecast
✗ Negative free cash flow means dependence on external funding

Quality vs. Valuation

Company Quality

72/ 100

Good

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

Valuation

82/ 100

Cheap

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

A good business currently available at an undemanding price — the combination this framework is built to look for.

Historical Valuation

Current P/E

11.6x

Sector Median

43.3x

median of 4 sector peers

🟢Against its sector it trades 73% below the peer median of 43.3x.

vs. its own history

Not enough price and earnings history

vs. sector peers

Cheap

43.3x median of 4 peers · -73%

vs. generic bands

Cheap

Below 15x

EV/EBITDA

8.1x

PEG

0.06

What's Good / What's Bad

🟢 What's Going Well6

Margins are improving
EBITDA margin is up from 1.9% to 13.4% over 3 years.
Return on equity is rising
ROE has improved from 10.8% to 17.3%.
Return on capital is rising
ROCE has improved from 17.4% to 26.0%.
High return on capital employed
ROCE of 26.0% is the mark of a business that converts capital into profit efficiently.
Very low debt
Debt/Equity of 0.26x leaves the balance sheet with plenty of headroom.
Consistently profitable
Profitable in every one of the last 4 reported years.

🔴 What Needs Attention0

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

Red Flags

4 items require attention · 4 high

🔴Debt has risen sharplyFinancial
Total debt is up 463% over 3 years, from ₹2 Cr to ₹11 Cr.
🔴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.
🔴Receivables growing faster than salesFinancial
Receivables up 519% against revenue up 246% — sales are being booked faster than they are collected.
🔴Inventory building faster than salesFinancial
Inventory up 470% against revenue up 246% — stock may not be moving.

Investment Thesis

🟢 Bull CaseWhat could make this work?

Capital compounds at a high rate
ROCE of 26.0% means each rupee reinvested earns well above what capital costs. If the company can keep deploying at this rate, growth creates value rather than just consuming cash.
Margin expansion has further to run
EBITDA margin has risen from 1.9% to 13.4%. If that holds, profit compounds faster than sales and today's multiple looks cheaper in hindsight than it does now.
Cheaper than its peers
It trades 73% below the sector median. Either the market sees a problem the numbers do not show, or the discount closes.
Earnings have proved durable
Profitable in every one of the last 4 reported years. Consistency lowers the risk that any single bad year is structural rather than cyclical.

🔴 Bear CaseWhat could go wrong?

Sales are being booked faster than collected
Receivables are up 519% against revenue up 246%. If customers keep taking longer to pay, reported profit will not turn into cash — and write-offs follow if some never do.
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
4 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 38% a year✓ 51.2% CAGR
Latest reported year was 14.6%. The bar is set below the established compounding rate, so ordinary variation does not trip it.
2EBITDA margin holds above 11%✓ 13.4%
Two points below today's level — enough room for noise, tight enough to catch real compression.
3Free cash flow remains positive✗ -₹7 Cr
Profit that never becomes cash eventually stops being profit.
4Debt / EBITDA stays below 2x✓ 0.9x
The ratio lenders write covenants against; it survives a small or negative equity base, unlike Debt/Equity.
5ROCE stays above 23%✓ 26.0%
Falling returns on capital are usually competition arriving, and show up here before they reach the margin.

Investment Checklist

8 / 10 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

Price history

Quick Metrics

8 good · 2 neutral · 1 weak

Market Cap

₹87 Cr

Micro Cap

Smaller company — thin liquidity and deep drawdowns are normal here

P/E (Trailing)

11.6x

Cheap

Cheap against the generic band

P/B Ratio

1.48x

Reasonable

Reasonable against the company's book value

EPS (TTM)

₹3.66

Profitable

Profitable on a per-share basis

ROE

19.0%

Strong

Strong capital efficiency

ROCE

26.0%

Strong

Earns comfortably above its likely cost of capital

Debt/Equity

0.26x

Low

Conservative leverage

Revenue Growth (YoY)

14.6%

Healthy

Healthy top-line growth

Profit Growth (YoY)

13.0%

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

-₹9 Cr

Cash burning

Spending more cash than the operations bring in

More Metrics

ROA

9.2%

Good

Assets are working hard

Operating Margin

13.7%

Average

Average margins

Net Margin

8.3%

Average

Average bottom-line conversion

Current Ratio

1.85

Comfortable

Healthy short-term liquidity

52W Range Position

Near low

Near its 52-week low

Financial Trend (4-Year)

Metric	FY23	FY24	FY25	FY26	3Y CAGR
Revenue	₹26 Cr	₹63 Cr	₹79 Cr	₹91 Cr	+51.2%
EBITDA	₹0 Cr	₹9 Cr	₹10 Cr	₹12 Cr	+191.4%
EBITDA Margin	1.9%	14.9%	12.6%	13.4%	—
PAT (Net Profit)	₹0 Cr	₹6 Cr	₹7 Cr	₹8 Cr	+188.9%
EPS	₹0.15	₹2.99	₹3.24	—	—
ROE	10.8%	68.2%	18.5%	17.3%	—
ROCE	17.4%	98.6%	27.5%	26.0%	—
Total Debt	₹2 Cr	₹7 Cr	₹2 Cr	₹11 Cr	+77.9%
Free Cash Flow	-₹3 Cr	-₹2 Cr	-₹18 Cr	-₹7 Cr	—

🟢 Revenue has grown at 51.2% a year over 3 years.

🟢 EBITDA has grown at 191.4% a year over 3 years.

🟢 EBITDA Margin has risen from 1.9% to 13.4% over 3 years (+11.6 pts).

🟢 PAT (Net Profit) has grown at 188.9% a year over 3 years.

🟢 ROE has risen from 10.8% to 17.3% over 3 years (+6.5 pts).

🟢 ROCE has risen from 17.4% to 26.0% over 3 years (+8.6 pts).

🔴 Total Debt has grown at 77.9% a year over 3 years.

Balance Sheet & Cash Flow — FY2026

Total Assets

₹100 Cr

Total Liabilities

₹56 Cr

Cash & Equivalents

₹0 Cr

Operating Cash Flow

-₹7 Cr

Capex

-₹0 Cr

Shareholding (proxy)

Institutional Holding

0.0%

Insider Holding

77.3%

Peer Comparison

Company	P/E	ROE
HINDUSTAN UNILEVER LTD.	42.5x	21.5%
ITC LTD	16.6x	27.4%
NESTLE INDIA LIMITED	59.8x	79.9%
BRITANNIA INDUSTRIES LTD	44.1x	51.0%

Recent News

6 general

FARMPEACE Share price NSE | Farm Peace Limited Stock price BSE Today

Samco, 12 Oct

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Equitymaster, 16 Oct

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IndiaIPO, 27 Aug

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NDTV Profit, 08 Sept

Farm Peace takes its potato business to public market with Rs 32 Cr IPO

AgroSpectrum India, 01 Sept

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.

DalalBaazaar Thesis

StrongBusiness Quality · Financial Health · Growth · Profitability · Valuation

WeakRisk

Points for each in the Score ↑

Attractive on both counts

A good business currently available at an undemanding price — the combination this framework exists to look for. The work left is qualitative: whether the advantage the numbers imply is one you can identify and expect to last. 4 high-severity red flags sit above this conclusion and should be read first.

1 of 5 tripwires tripped — Free cash flow remains positive · see Key things to watch ↑