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Ashwini Container Movers Limited Prepared by Mansukhbhai

Ashwini Container Movers: reading margin, cash, debt and customer spread together.

Track cash from operations against EBITDA every quarter; a rising margin is read alongside the cash it produced.

Platform
NSE Emerge
Status
Listed 19 December 2025
fresh issue, no offer for sale
Rs 71 crore

The business in brief

Ashwini Container Movers is a road transport company based in Thane, Maharashtra, incorporated on 12 April 2012. It moves goods in containerised trucks, mostly between factories and ports, for business customers. It offers full container load (one customer's goods fill the container) in dry and reefer (refrigerated) containers, part loads, and over-dimension cargo (loads larger than a standard container). As of 30 September 2025 it had a fleet of over 300 trucks of 20 feet and 40 feet, 154 permanent employees and over 200 on-demand drivers. It became a public limited company in 2024.

In FY25 it reported revenue from operations of Rs 94.12 crore and profit after tax of Rs 11.45 crore. The promoters, Bhaskar Kisan Pawar, Govind Janabhau Sable and Sainath Bhaskar Pawar, together with the promoter group, held 100% before the issue and 66.67% after it.

The IPO was a fresh issue of Rs 71 crore, with no offer for sale (no existing shareholder sold shares). Of the net proceeds of Rs 60.89 crore, the objects of the issue (the stated uses of the money) were Rs 42.50 crore to repay or prepay certain borrowings, Rs 9.03 crore to buy trucks, and Rs 9.35 crore for general corporate purposes (money not tied to a named use). The issue was open from 12 to 16 December 2025 on NSE Emerge, NSE's platform for small and medium companies, and the shares were admitted to trading on 19 December 2025.

Three years and a stub period, read for cash and funding

Rs crore unless statedFY23FY24FY25H1 FY26 (Apr to Sep 2025)
Revenue from operations (Rs crore)76.8778.7794.1254.91
EBITDA (Rs crore)12.1713.6424.8919.01
EBITDA margin (operating profit as a share of revenue)15.84%17.32%26.44%34.62%
Profit after tax (Rs crore)2.101.3811.459.91
Cash flow from operations (Rs crore)10.298.0819.927.71
Cash flow from operations as a share of EBITDA84.6%59.2%80.0%40.6%
Total borrowings incl. current maturities, period end (Rs crore)47.3858.7062.5774.90
Top 10 customers' share of revenue69.9%54.3%45.5%35.3%

Revenue, EBITDA, margin, profit, operating cash flow and top 10 customer revenue as stated in the KPI and customer tables of the abridged prospectus; total borrowings as stated in the prospectus dated 17 December 2025. Cash flow as a share of EBITDA and the top 10 share are our arithmetic on those figures. Restated financial statements. H1 FY26 is a six-month stub period and is not annualised. Rupee figures converted from Rs lakh.

The deeper read

What most readers miss.

  1. 01

    Margin and operating cash, read together

    On our arithmetic from the abridged prospectus KPI table, cash flow from operations was 84.6% of EBITDA in FY23 (10.29 divided by 12.17), 59.2% in FY24 and 80.0% in FY25, or 75.5% over the three years together (Rs 38.29 crore of Rs 50.70 crore). In H1 FY26, when the EBITDA margin was 34.62%, cash from operations was Rs 7.71 crore against EBITDA of Rs 19.01 crore, which is 40.6%.

    How an investor reads it. An investor reads a margin next to the cash it produced, and where the two differ asks whether the gap sits in receivables, advances or other working capital.

    In your company: put cash from operations and EBITDA side by side in your quarterly MIS, and write one line each quarter on what explains the gap (customers paying later, advances, inventory).

  2. 02

    Repayment object equals over half the debt

    Total borrowings, including current maturities, grew from Rs 34.90 crore at 31 March 2022 (DRHP) to Rs 74.90 crore at 30 September 2025, with Rs 12.33 crore added in H1 FY26 alone. Borrowings to net worth were 5.91 times in FY23, 6.25 in FY24, 3.06 in FY25 and 2.51 at September 2025. On our arithmetic, the repayment object of Rs 42.50 crore equals 56.7% of the September 2025 borrowings and 69.8% of the Rs 60.89 crore net proceeds.

    How an investor reads it. In a fleet business, trucks are usually bought on loans, so an investor reads the repayment object together with the fleet plan to see how future trucks will be funded.

    In your company: map each loan to the asset it financed, so the offer document can show which assets the repayment frees from debt and how much debt remains.

  3. 03

    Customer share fell; state share did not

    On our arithmetic from the abridged prospectus customer table, the top 10 customers gave 69.9% of revenue in FY23, 54.3% in FY24, 45.5% in FY25 and 35.3% in H1 FY26; the top 5 fell from 52.4% to 23.9%. Over the same periods Maharashtra stayed between 78.11% and 87.36% of revenue.

    How an investor reads it. An investor separates customer concentration from geographic concentration: here the first fell sharply while the second stayed high, and the risk factors in the document address both.

    In your company: report top 1, top 5 and top 10 customer shares and your top state's share every year in the same table, so the two kinds of concentration are seen separately.

  4. 04

    Other income: a sixth of FY24 pre-tax profit

    Total income less revenue from operations gives other income of Rs 0.29 crore in FY23, Rs 0.49 crore in FY24, Rs 1.94 crore in FY25 and Rs 0.96 crore in H1 FY26. On our arithmetic, that is 7.0%, 16.7%, 14.4% and 7.4% of profit before tax.

    How an investor reads it. An investor takes other income out before comparing profit growth across years, because it comes from outside the main business and may not repeat at the same level.

    In your company: book interest, rent, asset sale gains and one-off receipts under separate other income heads every month, so you can show profit growth with and without them.

Use it in your company

Three things to do before your own filing.

  1. Choose KPIs a lender would also chooseThe KPI table included current ratio (current assets divided by current liabilities) and operating cash flow, not only growth and margins; the current ratio was 0.90, 0.78 and 0.95 in FY23 to FY25 and 1.65 at September 2025. In your company: track the ratios your bank tracks (current ratio, debt to net worth, cash from operations) monthly, with fixed definitions.
  2. Refresh object costs between DRHP and prospectusThe DRHP of 22 January 2025 showed Rs 8.07 crore for trucks and left the repayment amount blank; the prospectus showed Rs 9.03 crore for trucks and Rs 42.50 crore for repayment. In your company: get fresh, dated quotations and lender balance letters close to the RHP date, and keep the older versions on file.
  3. Show fixed and flexible staff separatelyThe document gave 154 permanent employees and over 200 on-demand drivers alongside the fleet of over 300 trucks. In your company: keep a monthly register of permanent and contract or on-demand staff, with cost per head, so you can show how your cost base moves with volume.

How the document presented it

  • Fleet size as the anchorThe document gave a fleet count of over 300 trucks as of 30 September 2025, alongside the number of permanent staff and on-demand drivers.
  • Revenue split by container typeIt broke revenue into dry container, reefer container and over-dimension cargo for every period.
  • Geography shown state by stateIt gave each state's share of revenue for every period, with Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa named separately.

The offer document described the company's own fleet of containerised trucks, its focus on movements between ports and factories, and a KPI table that included operating cash flow and the current ratio alongside margins. It set the largest share of the money raised against existing borrowings, with a smaller, specific amount for new trucks.

Sources: Prospectus dated 17 December 2025 (summary, objects, shareholding and summary financial information), filed with NSE (nsearchives.nseindia.com). Draft red herring prospectus dated 22 January 2025, filed with NSE Emerge (nsearchives.nseindia.com), for FY22 borrowings and the DRHP objects. Abridged prospectus issued with the red herring prospectus, from the lead manager's website (corporateprofessionals.com), for the KPI table, customer and revenue tables and risk factors. NSE press release dated 18 December 2025 for the date of admission to dealings (19 December 2025). Chittorgarh.com and Business Standard (19 December 2025) were used only to locate the documents and dates.

Disclosure: Mansukhbhai Management Services worked on this company's IPO preparation. This review is general commentary for promoters on how a company's offer document presented its business. It is not a research report, not investment advice and not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any security. Mansukhbhai (Manshukhbhai Management Services Pvt. Ltd.) is not registered with SEBI as a research analyst or investment adviser. Company names are used only to identify the issuer; no connection with, or endorsement by, the company is implied.

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