Sonu Infratech Limited

Sector n/a · NSE

₹76.00₹0.00 (0.00%)

DalalBaazaar Score

65 / 100

🟢 Good

Verdict

REASONABLE

Risk

Moderate

Driven by micro-cap size, which brings thin liquidity.

In simple words: Strong business and financial position, with both sales and profits growing well. Nothing on this snapshot stands out as an immediate concern — the usual checks on business quality and management still apply.

Decision support, not a buy or sell call.

As of 18 Oct 2026, 7:49 pm

Understanding the Business

The 60-second version of Sonu Infratech 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 ₹194 Cr a year. Of every ₹100 of sales, about ₹7 reaches shareholders as profit, with ₹15 left at the operating level before interest, tax and depreciation.

What is its competitive advantage?The numbers suggest a real one

ROCE has stayed above 15% in every year available and stands at 24.1%. Returns that high normally get competed away; when they persist, something is protecting them. What that something is — brand, scale, switching costs, regulation — the accounts cannot tell you.

What has been driving growth?

Growth has come mainly from selling more, rather than from keeping more of each sale. Over 3 years revenue moved +203% while net margin moved +57% 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+203%

Margin effect+57%

DalalBaazaar Score

65/ 100

Good

Weighted across six categories. Every point is explained below.

✗ Micro Cap: thinner liquidity and sharper drawdowns are normal
✗ Profits have swung sharply from year to year — earnings are hard to forecast

Quality vs. Valuation

Company Quality

73/ 100

Good

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

Valuation

88/ 100

Cheap

What you are being asked to pay, ignoring how good the business is.

A good business currently available at an undemanding price — the combination this framework is built to look for.

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

4.6x

PEG

—

What's Good / What's Bad

🟢 What's Going Well5

Cash flow has turned positive
Free cash flow moved from negative to positive over 3 years.
Return on equity is rising
ROE has improved from 12.2% to 16.1%.
Return on capital is rising
ROCE has improved from 17.7% to 24.1%.
High return on capital employed
ROCE of 24.1% is the mark of a business that converts capital into profit efficiently.
Consistently profitable
Profitable in every one of the last 4 reported years.

🔴 What Needs Attention0

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

Red Flags

3 items require attention · 3 watch

🟡Debt is increasingFinancial
Total debt is up 42% over 3 years.
🟡Margins are compressingFinancial
EBITDA margin is down 2.0 points over 3 years.
🟡Shareholders have been dilutedOwnership
Shares outstanding are up 50% over 3 years — each existing share owns a smaller slice of the company.

Investment Thesis

🟢 Bull CaseWhat could make this work?

Capital compounds at a high rate
ROCE of 24.1% means each rupee reinvested earns well above what capital costs. If the company can keep deploying at this rate, growth creates value rather than just consuming cash.
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 17.1% to 15.1%. 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.

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

1Revenue growth stays above 33% a year✓ 44.7% CAGR
Latest reported year was 13.8%. The bar is set below the established compounding rate, so ordinary variation does not trip it.
2EBITDA margin holds above 13%✓ 15.1%
Two points below today's level — enough room for noise, tight enough to catch real compression.
3Interest cover stays above 3x✓ 3.9x
How much operating profit can fall before interest stops being comfortably covered.
4Free cash flow remains positive✓ ₹7 Cr
Profit that never becomes cash eventually stops being profit.
5Debt / EBITDA stays below 2x✓ 1.6x
The ratio lenders write covenants against; it survives a small or negative equity base, unlike Debt/Equity.

Investment Checklist

8 / 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

6 good · 5 neutral · 0 weak

Market Cap

₹89 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

16.1%

Strong

Strong capital efficiency

ROCE

24.1%

Strong

Earns comfortably above its likely cost of capital

Debt/Equity

0.56x

Low

Conservative leverage

Revenue Growth (YoY)

13.8%

Healthy

Healthy top-line growth

Profit Growth (YoY)

18.0%

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

₹7 Cr

Cash generative

Generates cash even after funding its capex

More Metrics

Gross Margin

61.7%

Proxy

Operating margin unavailable — showing gross margin instead

Net Margin

6.7%

Average

Average bottom-line conversion

Current Ratio

1.93

Comfortable

Healthy short-term liquidity

Technical Snapshot

SMA 20 / SMA 50

42.6 / 41.6

Bullish alignment (short > long)

Price vs SMA 200

Below

Long-term downtrend

RSI (14)

38.8

Neutral momentum

Financial Trend (4-Year)

Metric	FY23	FY24	FY25	FY26	3Y CAGR
Revenue	₹64 Cr	₹90 Cr	₹170 Cr	₹194 Cr	+44.7%
EBITDA	₹11 Cr	₹10 Cr	₹24 Cr	₹29 Cr	+38.7%
EBITDA Margin	17.1%	11.5%	13.8%	15.1%	—
PAT (Net Profit)	₹3 Cr	₹3 Cr	₹11 Cr	₹13 Cr	+68.3%
EPS	₹3.65	₹3.67	₹13.7	—	—
ROE	12.2%	11.4%	18.5%	16.1%	—
ROCE	17.7%	17.3%	22.8%	24.1%	—
Total Debt	₹32 Cr	₹32 Cr	₹66 Cr	₹46 Cr	+12.4%
Free Cash Flow	-₹8 Cr	₹3 Cr	-₹35 Cr	₹7 Cr	—

🟢 Revenue has grown at 44.7% a year over 3 years.

🟢 EBITDA has grown at 38.7% a year over 3 years.

🔴 EBITDA Margin has fallen from 17.1% to 15.1% over 3 years (-2.0 pts).

🟢 PAT (Net Profit) has grown at 68.3% a year over 3 years.

🟢 ROE has risen from 12.2% to 16.1% over 3 years (+3.9 pts).

🟢 ROCE has risen from 17.7% to 24.1% over 3 years (+6.4 pts).

🔴 Total Debt has grown at 12.4% a year over 3 years.

🟢 Free Cash Flow has turned positive, from -₹8 Cr to ₹7 Cr.

Balance Sheet & Cash Flow — FY2026

Total Assets

₹167 Cr

Total Liabilities

₹86 Cr

Cash & Equivalents

₹0 Cr

Operating Cash Flow

₹13 Cr

Capex

-₹6 Cr

Recent News

6 general

Sonu Infratech Ltd. Key Financial Ratios – Valuation, Profitability & More

Value Research, 31 Aug

SONU INFRATECH LIMITED Share Price

Upstox, 20 Mar

Sonu Infratech Limited (SONUINFRA) Company Information

Simply Wall Street, 09 Aug

Sonu Infratech wins Rs 0.8 crore work order from Reliance Industries for civil maintenance

scanx.trade, 28 Sept

Sonu Infratech IPO Date, GMP, Review, Price, Allotment, Analysis Details

IPO Watch, 12 May

Stock under ₹80 hits 5% upper circuit after receiving order worth ₹16 Cr from Nayara Energy By Trade Brains

Investing.com India, 12 Dec

Watch Items

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DalalBaazaar Thesis

StrongBusiness Quality · Financial Health · Growth · Profitability

MiddlingValuation

WeakRisk

Points for each in the Score ↑

Attractive on both counts

A good business currently available at an undemanding price — the combination this framework exists to look for. The work left is qualitative: whether the advantage the numbers imply is one you can identify and expect to last.

All 5 tripwires holding · see Key things to watch ↑