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Anand Rathi Share and Stock Brokers Limited is a financial services company offering broking, margin trading, and distribution services. It operates through a pan-India network of own branches and authorized persons, serving a mature client base across various cities.
SMA20 +1.8% / mo · MACD −
Latest mapped FPI equity flow was not positive. View sector evidence
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Mixed fundamentals, management evidence is still limited to a financial-only Trust Lite signal, price trend argues for patience, and recent execution is mixed.
Fundamental lens: valuation, quality, growth, balance sheet, and cash flow.
Revenue +20.4% · PAT +49.8% YoY
Price trend and sector-relative-strength timing.
Legacy margin-of-safety estimate; the revised evidence label remains in shadow validation.
Financial-only signal; management claim evidence is not sufficient yet.
Fundamentals, quarterly history, margins, returns and balance-sheet evidence
Rev +20% YoY · PAT +50% YoY · +11% QoQ · operating leverage · margin compression
| Metric | This quarter | YoY | QoQ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | ₹273.2 Cr | +20.4% | +11.1% |
| EBITDA | ₹99.9 Cr | +7.4% | +2.9% |
| Operating margin | 36.5% | -445 bps | -345 bps |
| PAT | ₹41.9 Cr | +49.8% | +82.3% |
| PAT margin | 15.3% | +302 bps | +600 bps |
NDF means not disclosed in the current structured filing feed. It is intentionally not treated as zero.
Updated 19/10/2026
Trend interpretation, Stage 2, relative strength, volume and indicator evidence
Trend is weak — long-term trend down. RSI 38.
Mechanical read from the price + indicator series above. Not a recommendation — technical setups can reverse without warning, especially around earnings and macro events.
U-Score 46 · legacy U-Score band FAIR VALUE · valuation evidence and comparable companies
Top U-Score contributors and drags from the latest stored fundamentals.
For this sector, IndiaPulse uses a blended lens rather than relying on a single valuation ratio.
This shows the stored score trend when snapshots exist, and also compares the latest stored nightly score with a live recompute from current fundamentals and price.
12 stored score snapshots. Latest stored move: +0 points.
Business-comparable peers in Financial Services — ranked by industry, sub-sector, theme-tag overlap, market cap, and U-Score similarity. Green cells mark the best available peer metric in this table.
Growth engines, risks, management commitments and evidence-backed delivery
ARSSBL reported strong Q1 FY27 YoY growth in revenue (+22.4%), EBITDA (+30.2%), and PAT before exceptional items (+71.2%), driven by broking and non-broking segments. However, PAT after exceptional items grew only 2.3% YoY and declined 44% QoQ due to a significant exceptional item.
The company demonstrated robust operational growth across key metrics like AUM, AUC, and MTF book. Revenue and EBITDA growth were strong YoY. The significant exceptional item in Q1 FY27, which reduced reported PAT growth, warrants further scrutiny, but core business performance remains solid.
Latest issuer-disclosed distribution across 4 reported categories.
MTF Book grew 55% YoY to ₹13,318 Mn, with MTF clients increasing 52% YoY to 8,868, indicating strong traction.
Total AUM increased 26% YoY to ₹94,791 Mn, leading to a 31% YoY rise in distribution income to ₹275 Mn.
Active clients in the broking segment increased 15% YoY to 88,424, contributing to a 21% YoY rise in Assets under Custody.
Management highlights a steady increase in the share of the Non-Broking segment, aiming to diversify and derisk the business model.
The company operates a network of 98 branches and 1,071 Authorized Persons spread across 319 cities as of June 30, 2026.
~85% of the clientele is over 30 years of age, which typically translates into higher investible corpuses requiring multiple product offerings.
~57% of the clientele has remained with the company for more than 3 years, indicating enduring relationships and retention.
Over 70% of total active clients hail from Tier 2/3 cities, suggesting potential for growth in these markets.
A significant exceptional item of ₹210 Mn in Q1 FY27 led to a 44% QoQ and 184 bps YoY decline in PAT margin (after exceptional items).
Annualized ROCE and ROE declined YoY (ROCE 15.9% vs 18.5%; ROE 11.6% vs 17.7%) despite strong operational growth.
Issuer guidance and extracted claims are tracked against later reported outcomes. Treat these as management statements, not IndiaPulse forecasts.
Both YoY and QoQ comparisons are relevant. YoY shows underlying business growth trends, while QoQ highlights sequential momentum and the impact of the exceptional item on PAT.
Total Assets under Management stood at ₹94,791 Mn, representing a 25.8% increase YoY.
Assets under Custody reached ₹11,30,909 Mn, marking a 21.4% increase YoY.
The outstanding MTF Book grew to ₹13,318.46 Mn, a 54.6% increase YoY.
Interest on MTF Book was ₹428 Mn in Q1 FY27, up 52% YoY from ₹281 Mn in Q1 FY26.
Management states that growth is driven by strong expansion in both broking and non-broking segments.
Management aims for a steady increase in the share of the Non-Broking segment to diversify and derisk the business model.
| Checkpoint | Current evidence | What to verify next |
|---|---|---|
| PAT (after exceptional items) | ₹233.51 Mn (Q1 FY27) | Reversal of QoQ decline and sustained YoY growth, indicating the exceptional item was truly one-off. |
| Exceptional Items | ₹210 Mn (Q1 FY27) | Recurrence or magnitude of future exceptional items, as they significantly impact reported PAT. |
| Debt Equity Ratio | 0.81 (Q1 FY27) | Continued prudent leverage management, maintaining the improved ratio. |
| Non-Broking Segment Share | 29% of revenue (MTF + Distribution) | Continued increase in the share of non-broking segments as part of the diversification strategy. |
Verification checkpoints are IndiaPulse research interpretation, not investment advice.
Trust asks: does management behaviour match later outcomes? Higher is better, but confidence and evidence depth matter as much as the number.
Limited evidence: Claim history is still being built. It ranks around the 32nd percentile of the scored universe and 49th percentile within Financial Services. Main check: cash conversion is weak at 43/100.
This is a financial-behaviour screen, not a claim-tested management reliability verdict.
Financial behaviour is scored, but management claims do not yet have enough outcome checks.
overall median 67 · Financial Services: 49th pctile, median 62 · Small: 36th pctile, median 66
29 documents have extracted text, but claim history is not strong enough yet.
0 claims extracted · No contradicted claim yet
Read Trust alongside U-Score, result consistency, and technical trend. A cheap stock with weak Trust needs a larger margin of safety; a high Trust score does not make an expensive stock attractive by itself.
Read low sub-scores as due-diligence warnings, not automatic sell signals.
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