Innovative Ideals and Services (India) Limited

Industrials — Security & Protection Services · BSE

₹17.36₹0.00 (0.00%)

DalalBaazaar Score

19 / 100

🔴 Poor

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, but sales are shrinking. 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, 7:01 pm

Understanding the Business

Company site ↗

The 60-second version of Innovative Ideals and Services (India) Limited — what it does, how it earns, and who it competes with, before any of the numbers below.

What does this company do?

Innovative Ideals and Services (India) Limited provides electronic and technology solutions in India.

IndustrySecurity & Protection Services

SectorIndustrials

Employees13

Annual revenue₹1 Cr

How does it make money?

Turns over ₹1 Cr a year. Of every ₹100 of sales, about ₹-1722 reaches shareholders as profit, with ₹-801 left at the operating level before interest, tax and depreciation. Each of its 13 employees supports ₹4.2 lakh of revenue a year, the signature of a people-led business.

Revenue / employee₹4.2 lakh

Who are its competitors?

The closest listed comparisons in its industry are LARSEN & TOUBRO LTD., SIEMENS LTD, ABB INDIA 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 -93.6% 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 ROE15.2%

What has been driving growth?

Profit has moved mainly because margins changed, not because the business sold much more. Over 3 years revenue moved -85% while net margin moved +751% 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-85%

Margin effect+751%

DalalBaazaar Score

19/ 100

Poor

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

18/ 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

EV/EBITDA

—

PEG

—

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 Attention0

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

Red Flags

4 items require attention · 3 high · 1 watch

🔴Negative shareholders' equityFinancial
Liabilities exceed assets — accumulated losses have wiped out the company's net worth.
🔴The company is lossmakingFinancial
Net profit of -₹9 Cr in the latest reported year.
🔴Significant margin compressionFinancial
EBITDA margin has fallen 722.9 points, from -78.1% to -801.0%.
🟡Short-term liquidity is tightFinancial
Current ratio of 0.06 — 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.
Margins are being competed away
EBITDA margin has fallen from -78.1% to -801.0%. If the trend continues, profit falls even on flat sales — and margin decline rarely reverses quickly.
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

1EBITDA margin holds above -803%✓ -801.0%
Two points below today's level — enough room for noise, tight enough to catch real compression.
2Free cash flow remains positive✓ ₹0 Cr
Profit that never becomes cash eventually stops being profit.

Investment Checklist

3 / 10 checks passed

✗ Shareholders' equity is positive (assets exceed liabilities)
✗ Strong return on capital employed (ROCE ≥ 15%)
✗ Healthy net margin (≥ 10%)
✓ Generates positive free cash flow
✗ 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

1 good · 4 neutral · 6 weak

Market Cap

₹20 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)

₹-8.22

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

-93.6%

Distorted

Distorted by the negative net worth — read this alongside the solvency flag, not on its own

Debt/Equity

Not meaningful

Negative equity

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

Revenue Growth (YoY)

-99.8%

Shrinking

Sales are contracting

Profit Growth (YoY)

-1031.3%

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

₹1 Cr

Cash generative

Generates cash even after funding its capex

More Metrics

ROA

-21.6%

Weak

Assets generate little profit

Operating Margin

-47684.9%

Weak

Thin margins leave little room for error

Net Margin

0.0%

Weak

Very little revenue reaches the bottom line

Current Ratio

0.06

Tight

Tight short-term liquidity

Beta (vs Nifty)

-0.62

Defensive

Steadier than the market

52W Range Position

34%

Mid-range

Technical Snapshot

SMA 20 / SMA 50

18.5 / 20.0

Bearish alignment (short < long)

Price vs SMA 200

Below

Long-term downtrend

RSI (14)

37.1

Neutral momentum

Financial Trend (4-Year)

Metric	FY23	FY24	FY25	FY26	3Y CAGR
Revenue	₹4 Cr	₹0 Cr	₹3 Cr	₹1 Cr	-46.7%
EBITDA	-₹3 Cr	-₹3 Cr	₹1 Cr	-₹4 Cr	—
EBITDA Margin	-78.1%	-1252.0%	43.0%	-801.0%	—
PAT (Net Profit)	-₹7 Cr	-₹2 Cr	₹1 Cr	-₹9 Cr	—
EPS	₹-6.36	₹-2.16	₹0.88	—	—
ROE	-127.1%	-75.8%	23.6%	—	—
ROCE	-59.6%	-20.5%	7.4%	-93.6%	—
Total Debt	₹18 Cr	₹20 Cr	₹20 Cr	₹20 Cr	+3.1%
Free Cash Flow	-₹2 Cr	-₹2 Cr	₹0 Cr	₹0 Cr	—

🔴 Revenue has shrunk at 46.7% a year over 3 years.

🔴 EBITDA Margin has fallen from -78.1% to -801.0% over 3 years (-722.9 pts).

🔴 ROCE has fallen from -59.6% to -93.6% over 3 years (-33.9 pts).

🔴 Total Debt has grown at 3.1% a year over 3 years.

🟢 Free Cash Flow has turned positive, from -₹2 Cr to ₹0 Cr.

Balance Sheet & Cash Flow — FY2026

Total Assets

₹20 Cr

Total Liabilities

₹25 Cr

Cash & Equivalents

₹0 Cr

Operating Cash Flow

₹0 Cr

Capex

—

Shareholding (proxy)

Institutional Holding

0.0%

Insider Holding

47.9%

Peer Comparison

Company	P/E	ROE
LARSEN & TOUBRO LTD.	30.1x	15.2%
SIEMENS LTD	88.8x	10.5%
ABB INDIA LIMITED	92.6x	19.1%

Recent News

6 general

Innovative Ideals And Services (India) Ltd. Financials – Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss, Cash Flow

Value Research, 30 Aug

Innovative Ideals schedules 26th AGM on September 30, 2026

scanx.trade, 08 Sept

Innovative Ideals And Services (India) Ltd. Key Financial Ratios – Valuation, Profitability & More

Value Research, 31 Aug

WARDINMOBI Stock Price and Chart — NSE:WARDINMOBI

TradingView, 17 Aug

Innovative Ideals appoints Nishant Bajaj & Associates as secretarial auditor

scanx.trade, 05 Sept

Pithoragarh student turns tourism challenge into startup with Uttarakhand’s entrepreneurship scheme

Livemint, 24 Aug

Watch Items

Revenue growth is negative (-99.8%) 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.
1 metric couldn't be retrieved for this stock — this is more common for smaller or thinly-covered listings.

DalalBaazaar Thesis

WeakBusiness Quality · Financial Health · Growth · Profitability · Valuation · Risk

Points for each in the Score ↑

Avoid until solvency is resolved

Innovative Ideals and Services (India) 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.

All 2 tripwires holding · see Key things to watch ↑