Prag Bosimi Synthetics Limited

Consumer Cyclical — Textile Manufacturing · BSE

₹1.63−₹0.03 (−1.81%)

DalalBaazaar Score

16 / 100

🔴 Poor

Verdict

HIGH RISK

Risk

Very High

Driven by negative shareholders' equity — the company owes more than it owns, negative free cash flow, 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, 8:29 pm

Understanding the Business

Company site ↗

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

What does this company do?

Prag Bosimi Synthetics Limited manufactures and sells polyester filament yarns in India. It operates through Packaging, Garment, Knitted Fabrics, and Others segments.

IndustryTextile Manufacturing

SectorConsumer Cyclical

Employees4

Annual revenue₹0 Cr

How does it make money?

Turns over ₹0 Cr a year. Of every ₹100 of sales, about ₹-3415 reaches shareholders as profit, with ₹-70 left at the operating level before interest, tax and depreciation. Each of its 4 employees supports ₹7.9 lakh of revenue a year, the signature of a people-led business.

Revenue / employee₹7.9 lakh

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 -2.4% 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?

Sales and margins have both contributed to where profit is now. Over 3 years revenue moved -44% while net margin moved +52% 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-44%

Margin effect+52%

DalalBaazaar Score

16/ 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

15/ 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

Margins are improving
EBITDA margin is up from -294.9% to -69.9% over 3 years.

🔴 What Needs Attention0

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

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 -0.9x — little room if earnings dip.
🔴The company is lossmakingFinancial
Net profit of -₹11 Cr in the latest reported year.
🟡Interest coverage is deterioratingFinancial
Cover has fallen from -1.0x to -0.9x.
🟡Free cash flow is negativeFinancial
Free cash flow was -₹0 Cr in the latest year.

Investment Thesis

🟢 Bull CaseWhat could make this work?

Margin expansion has further to run
EBITDA margin has risen from -294.9% to -69.9%. 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?

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.
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 -72%✓ -69.9%
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.
3Interest cover stays above 3x✗ -0.9x
How much operating profit can fall before interest stops being comfortably covered.

Investment Checklist

4 / 9 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)
✓ 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 · 6 neutral · 5 weak

Market Cap

₹12 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)

₹-1.27

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

-2.4%

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)

Not available

No data

Source didn't return this field

Profit Growth (YoY)

3.4%

Modest

Slow profit growth

Dividend Yield

None

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

Free Cash Flow

-₹0 Cr

Cash burning

Spending more cash than the operations bring in

More Metrics

Operating Margin

-262.4%

Weak

Thin margins leave little room for error

Net Margin

0.0%

Weak

Very little revenue reaches the bottom line

Current Ratio

6.55

Comfortable

Healthy short-term liquidity

Beta (vs Nifty)

0.03

Defensive

Steadier than the market

52W Range Position

22%

Mid-range

Technical Snapshot

SMA 20 / SMA 50

1.7 / 1.9

Bearish alignment (short < long)

Price vs SMA 200

Below

Long-term downtrend

RSI (14)

31.8

Neutral momentum

Financial Trend (4-Year)

Metric	FY23	FY24	FY25	FY26	3Y CAGR
Revenue	₹1 Cr	₹0 Cr	—	₹0 Cr	-17.3%
EBITDA	-₹2 Cr	-₹1 Cr	-₹2 Cr	-₹0 Cr	—
EBITDA Margin	-294.9%	-2326.7%	—	-69.9%	—
PAT (Net Profit)	-₹13 Cr	-₹12 Cr	-₹11 Cr	-₹11 Cr	—
EPS	₹-1.63	₹-1.5	₹-1.45	₹-1.4	—
ROE	-66.3%	-156.1%	—	—	—
ROCE	-2.5%	-2.6%	-2.5%	-2.4%	—
Total Debt	₹160 Cr	₹159 Cr	₹161 Cr	₹161 Cr	+0.4%
Free Cash Flow	-₹3 Cr	₹0 Cr	-₹2 Cr	-₹0 Cr	—

🔴 Revenue has shrunk at 17.3% a year over 3 years.

🟢 EBITDA Margin has risen from -294.9% to -69.9% over 3 years (+225.0 pts).

🟡 ROCE has held roughly flat at -2.4% over 3 years.

🟡 Total Debt has been broadly flat over 3 years (0.4% a year).

Balance Sheet & Cash Flow — FY2026

Total Assets

₹220 Cr

Total Liabilities

₹234 Cr

Cash & Equivalents

₹0 Cr

Operating Cash Flow

₹0 Cr

Capex

-₹1 Cr

Shareholding (proxy)

Institutional Holding

0.0%

Insider Holding

60.4%

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

1 mixed4 general

Prag Bosimi Synthetics (BSE: 500192) — Company Overview and Sector Insights

Kalkine India, 16 Sept

NCLT Guwahati directs Prag Bosimi to execute ₹30 crore share transfer order

scanx.trade, 18 Sept

Tilaknagar Industries reports consolidated net loss of Rs 105.41 crore in the December 2025 quarter

Business Standard, 13 FebResults

🟡Mixed / dependsA results event. The figures on this page update once the new statements reach the data feed, which usually lags the announcement.

PRAG BOSIMI SYNTHETICS LTD. Share Price

Upstox, 23 Mar

Newslaundry reveals 'RBI list of top 10 defaulters'

Business Standard, 27 Apr

Watch Items

Cross-check against the company's latest quarterly filing / investor presentation before acting.
2 metrics 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

Prag Bosimi Synthetics 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.

2 of 3 tripwires tripped — Free cash flow remains positive; Interest cover stays above 3x · see Key things to watch ↑