Simplex Papers Limited

Basic Materials — Paper & Paper Products · BSE

₹1,225.00₹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, negative free cash flow.

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, 6:52 pm

Understanding the Business

Company site ↗

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

What does this company do?

Simplex Papers Limited engages in the trading of various paper products in India. It offers writing, bond, copier, ledger, news print, and printing papers, as well as paper boards, craft papers, etc. The company was incorporated in 1994 and is based in Mumbai, India.

IndustryPaper & Paper Products

SectorBasic Materials

Employees2

Who are its competitors?

The closest listed comparisons in its industry are TATA STEEL LIMITED, JSW STEEL LIMITED, ULTRATECH CEMENT LIMITED, ASIAN PAINTS LIMITED. 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

4 items require attention · 3 high · 1 watch

🔴Negative shareholders' equityFinancial
Liabilities exceed assets — accumulated losses have wiped out the company's net worth.
🔴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.
🔴The company is lossmakingFinancial
Net profit of -₹0 Cr in the latest reported year.
🟡Short-term liquidity is tightFinancial
Current ratio of 0.11 — 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.
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

1Free cash flow remains positive✗ -₹0 Cr
Profit that never becomes cash eventually stops being profit.

Investment Checklist

3 / 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)
✓ 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 · 5 neutral · 5 weak

Market Cap

₹4 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)

₹-37.91

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)

Not available

No data

Source didn't return this field

Profit Growth (YoY)

28.8%

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

-₹0 Cr

Cash burning

Spending more cash than the operations bring in

More Metrics

Operating Margin

14218.5%

Good

Healthy core-business profitability

Net Margin

0.0%

Weak

Very little revenue reaches the bottom line

Current Ratio

0.11

Tight

Tight short-term liquidity

Beta (vs Nifty)

-0.28

Defensive

Steadier than the market

52W Range Position

13%

Near low

Near its 52-week low

Technical Snapshot

SMA 20 / SMA 50

1233.4 / 1294.9

Bearish alignment (short < long)

Price vs SMA 200

Below

Long-term downtrend

RSI (14)

100.0

Overbought zone

Financial Trend (4-Year)

Metric	FY23	FY24	FY25	FY26	3Y CAGR
EBITDA	-₹0 Cr	-₹1 Cr	-₹0 Cr	-₹0 Cr	—
PAT (Net Profit)	-₹0 Cr	₹0 Cr	-₹0 Cr	-₹0 Cr	—
EPS	₹-73.86	₹38.11	₹-53.23	₹-37.92	—
Total Debt	₹13 Cr	₹13 Cr	₹13 Cr	₹13 Cr	+0.4%
Free Cash Flow	-₹0 Cr	-₹0 Cr	-₹0 Cr	-₹0 Cr	—

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

Balance Sheet & Cash Flow — FY2026

Total Assets

₹1 Cr

Total Liabilities

₹14 Cr

Cash & Equivalents

₹0 Cr

Operating Cash Flow

-₹0 Cr

Capex

—

Shareholding (proxy)

Institutional Holding

13.8%

Insider Holding

57.9%

Peer Comparison

Company	P/E	ROE
TATA STEEL LIMITED	19.8x	10.8%
JSW STEEL LIMITED	12.0x	24.7%
ULTRATECH CEMENT LIMITED	37.6x	11.1%
ASIAN PAINTS LIMITED	46.9x	22.3%

Recent News

1 mixed5 general

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Simplex Papers Limited Schedules Board Meeting for February 10, 2026 to Review Q3FY26 Financial Results

scanx.trade, 19 JanResults

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

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Watch Items

Cross-check against the company's latest quarterly filing / investor presentation before acting.
3 metrics couldn't be retrieved for this stock — this is more common for smaller or thinly-covered listings.
RSI is in overbought territory — momentum entries here carry more short-term pullback risk.

DalalBaazaar Thesis

MiddlingGrowth

WeakBusiness Quality · Financial Health · Profitability · Valuation · Risk

Points for each in the Score ↑

Avoid until solvency is resolved

Simplex Papers 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.

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