Sanwaria Consumer Limited

Consumer Defensive — Farm Products · BSE

₹0.49₹0.00 (0.00%)

DalalBaazaar Score

24 / 100

🔴 Weak

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, with modest growth. 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, 7:47 pm

Understanding the Business

Company site ↗

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

What does this company do?

Sanwaria Consumer Limited engages in the manufacturing and selling of rice, edible oil, and staple food products, such as pulses, sugar, soya chunks, wheat flour, rice flour, Paddy, salt, suji, maida, besan, daliya, soya meal, etc.

IndustryFarm Products

SectorConsumer Defensive

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 ↓

DalalBaazaar Score

24/ 100

Weak

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

25/ 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

—

Red Flags

3 items require attention · 2 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 -₹4 Cr in the latest reported year.
🟡Short-term liquidity is tightFinancial
Current ratio of 0.28 — 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.
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
2 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

1Free cash flow remains positive✓ ₹1 Cr
Profit that never becomes cash eventually stops being profit.

Investment Checklist

4 / 8 checks passed

✗ Shareholders' equity is positive (assets exceed liabilities)
✗ 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

Price history

Quick Metrics

1 good · 6 neutral · 4 weak

Market Cap

₹36 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)

₹-0.03

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

Not available

No data

Source didn't return this field

Debt/Equity

Not meaningful

Negative equity

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

Revenue Growth (YoY)

0.5%

Modest

Modest growth

Profit Growth (YoY)

2.4%

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

₹2 Cr

Cash generative

Generates cash even after funding its capex

More Metrics

ROA

-0.9%

Weak

Assets generate little profit

Operating Margin

-354.3%

Weak

Thin margins leave little room for error

Net Margin

0.0%

Weak

Very little revenue reaches the bottom line

Current Ratio

0.28

Tight

Tight short-term liquidity

Beta (vs Nifty)

-0.17

Defensive

Steadier than the market

52W Range Position

NaN%

Mid-range

Financial Trend (4-Year)

Metric	FY23	FY24	FY25	FY26	3Y CAGR
EBITDA	₹0 Cr	-₹1 Cr	₹0 Cr	-₹0 Cr	—
PAT (Net Profit)	-₹6 Cr	-₹6 Cr	-₹4 Cr	-₹4 Cr	—
Total Debt	₹899 Cr	₹899 Cr	₹899 Cr	₹899 Cr	-0.0%
Free Cash Flow	₹1 Cr	-₹1 Cr	₹1 Cr	₹1 Cr	-15.2%

🔴 EBITDA has turned negative, from ₹0 Cr to -₹0 Cr.

🟡 Total Debt has been broadly flat over 3 years (-0.0% a year).

🔴 Free Cash Flow has shrunk at 15.2% a year over 3 years.

Balance Sheet & Cash Flow — FY2026

Total Assets

₹330 Cr

Total Liabilities

₹930 Cr

Cash & Equivalents

₹0 Cr

Operating Cash Flow

₹1 Cr

Capex

—

Shareholding (proxy)

Institutional Holding

0.0%

Insider Holding

12.4%

Corporate Actions

Ex-Dividend Date

25 Sept 2017

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

1 mixed5 general

Sanwaria Consumer Ltd Locks at Upper Circuit With 2% Gain — Buyers Queue, Sellers Absent

MarketsMojo, 15 Oct

Price Band Hitters Today: Sanwaria Consumer Leads Movers

HDFC Sky, 19 Jun

Sanwaria Consumer Share Price Target 2026: Rs 0.25 Analyst Forecast

Univest, 26 JunAnalyst view

🟡Mixed / dependsBroker commentary — an opinion about the price rather than new information about the business.

Sanwaria Consumer reports FY26 net loss of ₹281.53 lakh

scanx.trade, 25 May

Sanwaria Consumer Ltd

Equitypandit, 12 Nov

Sanwaria Consumer Share Price Forecast to 2030

Univest, 28 Jul

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

MiddlingGrowth

WeakBusiness Quality · Financial Health · Profitability · Valuation · Risk

Points for each in the Score ↑

Avoid until solvency is resolved

Sanwaria Consumer 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. 2 high-severity red flags sit above this conclusion and should be read first.

All 1 tripwires holding · see Key things to watch ↑