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AEGEUS · Not specified · INE0WR901013
Analyst mean 0.00 · 0 analysts · 0% bullishThis company listed within the last twelve months, so its prospectus is still the primary source. The figures below were extracted from the DRHP and RHP before listing and scored then, and they are shown here as they stand in the IPO record rather than restated.
Each flag is a fact read in the filing, shown with the context that makes it meaningful.
Stated objects, as worded in the offer document. Deployment against them is tracked separately.
Claims made in the offer document, to be read against what the company has reported since.
Aegeus Technologies Limited designs and develops advanced robotic and intelligent automation solutions for the solar energy industry, with a focus on waterless robotic cleaning and O&M automation. Headquartered in Bengaluru, the company operates two integrated manufacturing facilities in Bengaluru for the design, assembly, and testing of autonomous systems. Utilizing robotics, AI, ML, and IoT, it offers a suite of solutions for automating solar plant operations and maintenance. Its flagship cleaning robots, Unicorn and Shreem, serve ground-mounted and rooftop solar power plants. The company maintains technological leadership through patented technologies across multiple countries to deliver solutions to solar developers and O&M providers. Manufacturing operations are conducted across two leased facilities located at Harapanahalli Village, Anekal Taluk, Bengaluru, alongside a corporate office at JP Nagar, Bengaluru. Products and services are delivered to customers both within India and in international markets outside India.
Patented technologies across multiple countries, proprietary waterless robotic cleaning solutions (Unicorn and Shreem), and in-house R&D and manufacturing capabilities in solar panel cleaning and O&M automation.
Aegeus Technologies Limited designs and develops advanced robotic and intelligent automation solutions for the solar energy industry, focusing on waterless robotic cleaning and O&M automation.
Source: p. 187, 215, 259
As presented in the offer document. Post-listing figures are in the statements above.
| Basis | Period | Related party revenue cr | Pat cr | Ebitda cr | Pat margin | Revenue cr | Pat margin derived |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| consolidated | FY26 | 4.0177 | 6.4765 | 9.81% | 40.9369 | yes | |
| standalone | FY25 | 1.3918 | 3.1274 | 6.36% | 21.8901 | yes | |
| standalone | FY24 | 0.9287 | 1.657 | 6.08% | 15.2739 | yes |
Written before listing, answered from the document itself.
How are the fresh issue proceeds being allocated?
The fresh issue proceeds are allocated towards meeting working capital requirements (Rs 8.00 Cr), capital expenditure for setting up a manufacturing facility through land purchase and civil works (Rs 5.74 Cr), investment in product development (Rs 2.86 Cr), and general corporate purposes.
p. 96, 110
Who are the promoters and what is their acquisition cost?
The promoters are Suraj Vernekar'D, Roopa Vernekar, and Nishith Rameshchandra Shah, who collectively hold 64.75% pre-issue. Due to a 350:1 bonus issue in September 2024, their average acquisition costs are Rs 3.54, Rs 0.03, and Rs 4.93 per share, respectively.
p. 45, 78, 84, 92, 124
Are there material related party transactions or director loan movements?
Yes. In FY26, managing director Suraj Vernekar'D provided unsecured loans of Rs 1.72 Cr to the company, and director Nishith Shah provided loans of Rs 0.58 Cr. Director remuneration to Suraj Vernekar'D stood at Rs 0.56 Cr.
p. 39, 62, 306, 307, 308
Does operating cash flow align with reported net profit?
No. In FY26, despite reported net profit expanding to Rs 4.02 Cr, Cash Flow from Operations was negative at Rs -1.51 Cr. This disconnect was driven by working capital lockup, as trade receivables expanded to Rs 15.77 Cr.
p. 62, 63, 64, 65, 118, 121
What structural market parameters apply to this offer?
The offer consists of a Fresh Issue of 22,58,400 equity shares on the BSE SME platform. Prabhat Financial Services Limited acts as the market maker with 3,25,200 shares reserved. Application lot size is 1,200 shares (above Rs 2 Lakhs minimum investment), with 20% circuit filters applying post-listing.
p. 8, 18, 48, 60, 67, 72, 302, 345
What the issue priced at, on the figures in the document.
| Date | Name | Shares | Price per share | Category | Issue type | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-04-20 | Subscribers to MOA (Suraj Vernekar’D, Roopa Vernekar, Praful Bhimsen Roogi) | 10000 | 10 | promoter | initial | p. 78, 79, 123 |
| 2020-12-15 | Existing Shareholders | 353 | 11329 | other | rights | p. 78, 123 |
| 2020-12-16 | Existing Shareholders | 260 | 11329 | other | rights | p. 78, 123 |
| 2020-12-17 | Existing Shareholders | 353 | 11329 | other | rights | p. 78, 123 |
| 2020-12-18 | Existing Shareholders | 353 | 11329 | other | rights | p. 78, 123 |
| 2020-12-19 | Existing Shareholders | 353 | 11329 | other | rights | p. 78, 123 |
| 2020-12-21 | Existing Shareholders | 244 | 11329 | other | rights | p. 78, 123 |
| 2021-03-18 | Allottee under Private placement | 1 | 11329 | other | preferential | p. 78, 123 |
| 2023-06-30 | Allottee under Private Placement | 39 | 26084 | other | preferential | p. 78, 123 |
| 2023-07-03 | Allottee under Private Placement | 291 | 26084 | other | preferential | p. 78, 123 |
| 2023-07-06 | Allottee under Private Placement | 39 | 26084 | other | preferential | p. 78, 123 |
| 2023-07-25 | Allottee under Private Placement | 39 | 26084 | other | preferential | p. 78, 123 |
| 2024-05-22 | CCPS Holders (Conversion of CCPS into Equity Shares) | 3418 | 10 | financial investor | preferential | p. 78, 79, 123 |
| 2024-09-23 | Existing Shareholders (Suraj Vernekar, Roopa Vernekar, Nishith Ramesh Chandra Shah, and others) | 5510050 | other | bonus | p. 78, 81, 92 |
Ceo: Suraj Vernekar'D
Direct Tax against Company: 0.4946 Crore (Order u/s 119(2)(b) of the Income Tax Act rejecting condonation of delay for A.Y. 2020-21 to claim carry forward of business loss amounting to Rs 49.46 Lakhs). Promoters/Directors/KMPs/Subsidiaries: Nil.
Auditor name: M/s A G R A and Co., Chartered Accountants
Skin in game: 64.75%
Emphasis of Matter in FY25 auditor's report noting that the company needs to strengthen its documentation of Loans and Borrowings and Term Deposits, and non-operational feature of audit trail in accounting software throughout FY25.
Auditor changed last 3y: Yes
Source: p. 2, 26, 39, 40, 73, 86, 201, 277, 293, 296
Numbered markers are corporate actions and, once the filings are read, capital and governance events. Prices are split-adjusted so the series is continuous.
What the numbers mean when read together — computed from the filings, not a score.
The business reported a profit, yet its operations drained cash rather than generating it. Profit that comes with negative operating cash is the single most important thing to understand here.
Why this reading: Flagged on a single year deliberately: negative operating cash alongside a reported profit is plain, material, and hard to explain benignly — exactly the kind of obvious signal that should never be smoothed over.
Operating cash flow ₹-2 cr against trailing net profit ₹4 cr. When operations consume cash while the P&L shows profit, ask whether receivables are ballooning, revenue is booked ahead of collection, or costs are being capitalised.
Free cash flow is negative — the business consumes more than it generates once capex is paid. Fine if it is deliberate growth investment; a problem if it is structural.
Why this reading: Noted with caution — worth watching, but not yet conclusive on its own. Business has ups and downs; one soft reading is not a verdict.
Latest free cash flow ₹-8 cr, negative in 3 of 3 years. Check whether the burn funds expansion (dark stores, plants, ports) or merely sustains operations.
Capital work-in-progress has stayed high (1065% of fixed assets) without converting to productive assets — worth checking whether projects are genuinely progressing.
Why this reading: Noted with caution — worth watching, but not yet conclusive on its own. Business has ups and downs; one soft reading is not a verdict.
CWIP ₹12 cr vs ₹4 cr two years earlier, against fixed assets ₹1 cr. Perennial CWIP that never becomes a fixed asset can hide stalled projects or capitalised costs that should have been expensed.
Debt rose over 2 years, and most of it (107%) has turned into fixed assets and projects under construction — the borrowing is building the business.
Why this reading: A positive signal: leverage taken on is visibly becoming productive capacity, not disappearing.
New borrowing ₹8 cr largely matched by an asset build of ₹8 cr. Debt that funds capacity is a different thing from debt that funds nothing.
Every score below is calculated here from the reported numbers — none of it is asserted. Open the notebook at the foot of the section to see each formula with this company's figures in it.
Needs current assets and current liabilities.
Piotroski F-Score — fundamental momentum — Joseph Piotroski, University of Chicago, 2000, in a study of whether accounting signals could improve returns among cheap stocks.
Nine yes-or-no tests across profitability, leverage and operating efficiency. Each pass scores one. It asks a narrow question: is this business getting better or worse on its own terms, year over year?
How to read it7 or more suggests improving fundamentals; 3 or fewer suggests deterioration. It measures direction, not quality — a weak company improving can score higher than a strong one holding steady.
Where it failsA single year of comparison, so one unusual year distorts it. Says nothing about valuation, competitive position or management. Piotroski designed it to rank already-cheap stocks, not to judge a company in isolation.
Needs trade receivables, current assets, other expenses.
Accruals are 18.0% of assets. Free cash flow negative in 3 of 3 years.
DuPont decomposition — Devised inside the DuPont Corporation in the 1920s and still the standard way to read a return on equity.
Splits return on equity into its three sources, so the same headline number can be traced to very different businesses.
How to read itA 20% ROE built on margin and turnover is a different proposition from a 20% ROE built on 3× leverage. The first survives a downturn; the second amplifies it.
Where it failsA single year. Negative equity makes it meaningless. Leverage is structural for lenders, so the third term carries no signal there.
Revenue grew faster than the capital behind it, which is what operating leverage looks like: the existing asset base is working harder.
cumulative operating cash flow ÷ cumulative net profit
₹-1 cr ÷ ₹6 cr, over 3 years
-0.18×
Below 1.0 and persistent means profit is being recognised before the cash arrives.(net profit − operating cash flow) ÷ average total assets
(₹4 − ₹-2) cr ÷ average assets
18.0%
The share of profit that is accounting entries rather than cash. Above ~10% is where accruals start to dominate.net margin × asset turnover × leverage
9.8% × 1.04 × 2.56
26.1%
Splits ROE into whether returns come from operations or from borrowing.EBIT ÷ finance cost
₹7 cr ÷ ₹1 cr
5.01×
How many times operating profit covers the interest bill.borrowings ÷ net worth
₹12 cr ÷ ₹15 cr
0.77×
Read against the sector — infrastructure carries more than software.growth in fixed assets + CWIP, against growth in revenue
capital +167% vs revenue +168%, FY2024 to FY2026
-1pp gap
Money going in far faster than revenue coming out. For an incubator this is expected — the test is whether it eventually converts.Needs more balance-sheet detail (only 3 of 6 flags testable).
NOPAT over equity plus debt less cash, at a notional 25% tax. Incremental ROIC is the return on money put in since then — the number that decides whether growth creates value or consumes it.
Return on invested capital, and incremental ROIC — Standard in corporate finance; the incremental form was popularised by Michael Mauboussin as the test of whether growth creates value.
ROIC measures what the business earns on all the capital it employs — equity plus debt, less cash. Incremental ROIC asks a sharper question: what has it earned on the money put in since a chosen year?
How to read itROIC comfortably above the cost of capital — call it 11–13% in India — means growth compounds. Below it, growth consumes. Incremental below headline means recent investment is earning less than the legacy business.
Where it failsDistorted in the year of a large acquisition. Understated for companies mid-build, where capital is deployed but capacity has not yet been commissioned — an incubator will look poor until it does not.
Read downward. Cash can cover EBITDA and still not survive capex — the third rung is where a capital-hungry business shows itself.
The earnings quality ladder — Not a named model — the standard sequence an analyst walks when testing whether reported profit is real.
Three ratios read in order, each stricter than the last.
How to read itRead downward. Each rung failing where the one above passed tells you exactly where the cash is going.
Where it failsA single year of heavy capex depresses the third rung legitimately. Judge it across a cycle.
Against a policy rate near 6%, most sound Indian corporates borrow between 7% and 10%.
Cost of debt — Interest expense over average borrowings — the effective rate the company actually pays.
What the lenders charge, which is a market verdict on credit quality that no rating agency delay affects.
How to read itAgainst a policy rate near 6%, most sound Indian corporates borrow between 7% and 10%. Read the direction over years as much as the level.
Where it failsUnderstated where a large share of interest is capitalised into projects under construction. Not meaningful for lenders, where interest is cost of goods.
Models that need these lines are withheld rather than estimated: net worth, current assets, current liabilities, trade receivables, inventory, net block. Nothing on this page is back-solved from a figure the company did not publish.
Each framework below is a set of stated, mechanical criteria from published work, run against this company's own filed numbers. Passing or failing a screen is not a verdict — different frameworks disagree by design, and that disagreement is itself informative.
Benjamin Graham's stated criteria for a defensive stock, applied to the filed numbers. A company failing several is not disqualified — Graham designed these to be deliberately strict.
Two ratios only: what the business earns on its capital, and what you pay for those earnings. Designed to be ranked across a universe rather than read in isolation.
The fundamental half of William O'Neil's framework. The market and leadership components are judgement calls and are not scored here.
The characteristics long-term holders commonly look for: cash-backed earnings, high returns on capital, and debt that never forces a decision.
Median of the companies we hold in the same sector (Not specified). Every figure on both sides is the live feed's trailing twelve months, so the two are measured the same way whatever depth of extraction this company has had. A number only means something next to something else — expensive against the market and cheap against peers are different facts.
Bars are revenue; the line is net margin. Revenue rising while the line falls is the shape worth noticing.
Operating cash first, then what the business spent and raised.
One year is a snapshot. These are the two lines that matter across a cycle.
Rising debtor or inventory days against flat sales is the earliest visible sign of stress.
Set your own assumptions and watch the numbers move. A scenario calculator — the outputs are the arithmetic of your inputs.
One canonical set of figures — the same numbers used everywhere else on this page and on the screener.
How the register has moved over recent quarters — the direction matters more than the level.
Promoter held steady from 46.09% to 46.09% across these quarters.
FII held steady from 4.36% to 4.36% across these quarters.
Other held steady from 49.55% to 49.55% across these quarters.
Where cash gets stuck. A rising inventory or debtor line against flat sales is the earliest sign of trouble in the numbers.
| Measure | FY2024 | FY2025 | FY2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debtor days
How long customers take to pay | 116 | 135 | 141 |
| Inventory days
How long stock sits before it sells | 109 | 130 | 144 |
| Payable days
How long the company takes to pay suppliers | 105 | 123 | 137 |
| Cash conversion cycle
Debtor + inventory − payable days | 120 | 141 | 148 |
| Working capital days | 41 | 80 | 42 |
| ROCE %
Return on capital employed | — | 22.8% | 31.6% |
The shape of the business over time (annual) — read the direction, not the single print.
| Line | FY2024 | FY2025 | FY2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue from operations | 15 | 22 | 41 |
| Other income | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Depreciation | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Finance cost | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Profit before tax | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Net profit (owners) | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| EPS (₹) | 756.10 | 2.27 | 6.57 |
Exceptional items, total income and EBITDA are read from the filed statements.
| Item | FY2024 | FY2025 | FY2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity Capital | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Reserves | 6 | 5 | 9 |
| Borrowings | 4 | 4 | 12 |
| Net block | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| CWIP | 4 | 6 | 12 |
| Investments | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total Assets | 14 | 22 | 39 |
| Line | FY2024 | FY2025 | FY2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash from operations | -1 | 1 | -2 |
| Cash from investing | -2 | -3 | -6 |
| Cash from financing | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Free cash flow | -3 | -2 | -8 |
| Net change in cash | 0 | 1 | -1 |
Cash from operations is the number profit has to answer to. Free cash flow is what remains after the business pays for its own growth.
These are coverage counts, not ratings. Each one asks a fixed set of questions of the filings and reports how many the company answered. A company that discloses nothing counts nothing here — that is a statement about the disclosure, not about the business.
The same read, applied to the companies this one competes with.