Radiowalla Network Limited

Sector n/a · NSE

₹123.10+₹5.45 (+4.63%)

DalalBaazaar Score

35 / 100

🔴 Weak

Verdict

CAUTION

Risk

Very High

Driven by high debt relative to equity, negative free cash flow, micro-cap size, which brings thin liquidity.

In simple words: The business is earning a fairly low return on the money invested in it, but sales are shrinking. Debt is the main factor to watch.

Decision support, not a buy or sell call.

As of 18 Oct 2026, 7:49 pm

Understanding the Business

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

How does it make money?

Turns over ₹20 Cr a year. Of every ₹100 of sales, about ₹1 reaches shareholders as profit, with ₹8 left at the operating level before interest, tax and depreciation.

What is its competitive advantage?Little sign of one

Returns on capital of 1.8% 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.

What has been driving growth?

Profit has moved mainly because margins changed, not because the business sold much more. Over 3 years revenue moved +46% while net margin moved -91% 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+46%

Margin effect-91%

DalalBaazaar Score

35/ 100

Weak

Weighted across six categories. Every point is explained below.

✗ Micro Cap: thinner liquidity and sharper drawdowns are normal
✗ High leverage magnifies any downturn in earnings
✗ 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

34/ 100

Weak

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

Valuation

18/ 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

No P/E available

EV/EBITDA

52.6x

PEG

—

What's Good / What's Bad

🟢 What's Going Well1

Consistently profitable
Profitable in every one of the last 4 reported years.

🔴 What Needs Attention2

Return on equity is falling
ROE has dropped from 30.5% to 0.7% — each rupee of shareholder capital earns less than it did.
Return on capital is falling
ROCE has declined from 27.8% to 1.8% — often a sign of competition or overexpansion.

Red Flags

5 items require attention · 2 high · 3 watch

🔴High leverageFinancial
Debt/Equity of 6.40x — earnings must service borrowings before shareholders see anything.
🔴Free cash flow negative for 3 yearsFinancial
The business has not covered its capital spending from operations for several years running, which has to be funded externally.
🟡Interest coverage is deterioratingFinancial
Cover has fallen from 11.8x to 2.4x.
🟡Profit is decliningFinancial
Net profit is down 87% over 3 years.
🟡Margins are compressingFinancial
EBITDA margin is down 4.2 points over 3 years.

Investment Thesis

🟢 Bull CaseWhat could make this work?

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?

Margins are being competed away
EBITDA margin has fallen from 11.7% to 7.5%. If the trend continues, profit falls even on flat sales — and margin decline rarely reverses quickly.
Leverage amplifies any setback
Debt/Equity of 6.40x. Interest is payable whether or not the business has a good year.
Returns on shareholder capital are falling
ROE has dropped from 30.5% to 0.7%. Each rupee of equity earns less than it did, so profit growth increasingly depends on raising more capital rather than on the existing base working harder.
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.

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

1Revenue growth stays above 10% a year✓ 13.3% CAGR
Latest reported year was -0.6%. The bar is set below the established compounding rate, so ordinary variation does not trip it.
2EBITDA margin holds above 6%✓ 7.5%
Two points below today's level — enough room for noise, tight enough to catch real compression.
3Free cash flow remains positive✗ -₹2 Cr
Profit that never becomes cash eventually stops being profit.
4Interest cover stays above 3x✗ 2.4x
How much operating profit can fall before interest stops being comfortably covered.
5Debt / EBITDA stays below 2x✓ 0.8x
The ratio lenders write covenants against; it survives a small or negative equity base, unlike Debt/Equity.

Investment Checklist

2 / 9 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
✓ Short-term technical trend isn't bearish

Price history

Quick Metrics

0 good · 5 neutral · 6 weak

Market Cap

₹87 Cr

Micro Cap

Smaller company — thin liquidity and deep drawdowns are normal here

P/E (Trailing)

Not available

No data

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P/B Ratio

Not available

No data

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EPS (TTM)

Not available

No data

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ROE

0.7%

Weak

Weak capital efficiency

ROCE

1.8%

Weak

Low return on total capital employed

Debt/Equity

6.40x

High

High leverage

Revenue Growth (YoY)

-0.6%

Shrinking

Sales are contracting

Profit Growth (YoY)

-81.0%

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

-₹2 Cr

Cash burning

Spending more cash than the operations bring in

More Metrics

Gross Margin

49.2%

Proxy

Operating margin unavailable — showing gross margin instead

Net Margin

0.6%

Weak

Very little revenue reaches the bottom line

Current Ratio

6.17

Comfortable

Healthy short-term liquidity

Technical Snapshot

SMA 20 / SMA 50

27.8 / 27.0

Bullish alignment (short > long)

Price vs SMA 200

Below

Long-term downtrend

RSI (14)

27.7

Oversold zone

Financial Trend (4-Year)

Metric	FY23	FY24	FY25	FY26	3Y CAGR
Revenue	₹14 Cr	₹15 Cr	₹20 Cr	₹20 Cr	+13.3%
EBITDA	₹2 Cr	₹2 Cr	₹2 Cr	₹2 Cr	-2.2%
EBITDA Margin	11.7%	13.2%	11.4%	7.5%	—
PAT (Net Profit)	₹1 Cr	₹2 Cr	₹1 Cr	₹0 Cr	-49.4%
EPS	₹1.45	₹2.19	₹0.96	—	—
ROE	30.5%	25.9%	3.7%	0.7%	—
ROCE	27.8%	23.3%	8.3%	1.8%	—
Total Debt	₹1 Cr	₹1 Cr	₹1 Cr	₹1 Cr	+4.7%
Free Cash Flow	₹0 Cr	-₹0 Cr	-₹3 Cr	-₹2 Cr	—

🟢 Revenue has grown at 13.3% a year over 3 years.

🔴 EBITDA has shrunk at 2.2% a year over 3 years.

🔴 EBITDA Margin has fallen from 11.7% to 7.5% over 3 years (-4.2 pts).

🔴 PAT (Net Profit) has shrunk at 49.4% a year over 3 years.

🔴 ROE has fallen from 30.5% to 0.7% over 3 years (-29.8 pts).

🔴 ROCE has fallen from 27.8% to 1.8% over 3 years (-26.0 pts).

🔴 Total Debt has grown at 4.7% a year over 3 years.

🔴 Free Cash Flow has turned negative, from ₹0 Cr to -₹2 Cr.

Balance Sheet & Cash Flow — FY2026

Total Assets

₹23 Cr

Total Liabilities

₹4 Cr

Cash & Equivalents

₹7 Cr

Operating Cash Flow

-₹1 Cr

Capex

-₹1 Cr

Recent News

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Watch Items

Revenue growth is negative (-0.6%) 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.
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3 metrics couldn't be retrieved for this stock — this is more common for smaller or thinly-covered listings.
RSI is in oversold territory — could mean either a bargain or a stock still falling for good reason. Check the 'why' before assuming reversal.

DalalBaazaar Thesis

MiddlingValuation

WeakBusiness Quality · Financial Health · Growth · Profitability · 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. 2 high-severity red flags sit above this conclusion and should be read first.

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