1. At a Glance – Blink and You’ll Miss the Turnaround
Trishakti Industries Ltd is that quiet kid in class who suddenly tops the exam and everyone asks, “Bhai tu kab padhne laga?” Market cap sits around ₹244 crore, current price ₹148, and in the latest quarter (Q3 FY26), the company casually dropped ₹8 crore revenue and ₹2.45 crore PAT, with an operating margin north of 70%. Yes, 70% — even SaaS founders are coughing.
Three-month return? Slightly negative. Six-month return? Also meh. But profits? Up 1,785% YoY. Debt? Rising. Capex? Exploding. Promoters? Sitting comfortably at ~69% with zero pledge.
This is not a clean fairy tale. This is a messy, capex-heavy, crane-renting, infra-adjacent story where numbers suddenly woke up after years of sleeping like a government file. And that makes it interesting.
Curious why margins went from “meh” to “whoa”? Read on.
2. Introduction – From Oil Rigs to Crane Rigs
Once upon a time, Trishakti Industries flirted with oil & gas. Drilling equipment, ONGC tenders, global OEM representation — fancy stuff, slow money. Then reality hit. Oil & gas cycles are brutal, tender-heavy, and patience-testing. So Trishakti did what many Indian businesses do best: pivot hard.
Enter infrastructure equipment hiring — cranes, piling rigs, manlifters. Basically, “You build the bridge, I’ll lift the heavy stuff.” And India, as you may have noticed, is busy digging, lifting, boring, tunneling, metro-ing, and over-promising infrastructure everywhere.
The result? A company that spent years doing peanuts in revenue suddenly finds itself deploying machines worth ₹20–45 million per contract, winning orders from L&T, Tata Steel, Reliance, Afcons, ITD Cementation, and friends.
Is this a structural turnaround or a cyclical sugar rush? Hold that thought.
3. Business Model – WTF Do They Even Do?
Imagine owning very expensive cranes and renting them to companies that don’t want to own very expensive cranes.
That’s Trishakti.
What they offer:
Crawler Cranes: 45 MT to 750 MT
Truck Mounted Cranes: 45 MT to 750 MT
All Terrain Cranes: 250 MT to 750 MT
Piling Rigs: 185–285 kNm
Manlifters: 60–220 feet
How money comes in:
Buy machine (big capex 😰)
Deploy on project (steady billing 😌)
High utilization = money printer
Low utilization = EMI nightmare
They currently serve 100+ clients, 20+ industries, with 20+ ongoing projects. Also yes, they’ve started dealing in stocks and shares — because why not add spice to the thali?
Question for you: infra rentals = annuity-like or stress-on-steroids?
4. Financials Overview – Numbers Doing Bhangra
Result Type Detected:Quarterly Results (locked 🔒)
Quarterly Comparison (₹ crore)
Metric
Latest Qtr (Dec FY26)
YoY Qtr
Prev Qtr
YoY %
QoQ %
Revenue
8.00
1.75
6.65
357%
20.3%
EBITDA
5.61
1.20
3.92
368%
43.1%
PAT
2.45
0.13
1.61
1,785%
52.6%
EPS (₹)
1.49
0.08
0.99
1,762%
50.5%
Annualised EPS (Q3 rule): Average of Q1–Q3 EPS × 4 ≈ ₹4.1 (matches trailing data nicely)
Margins didn’t just improve — they teleported. But remember: rental businesses look godly at peak utilization and ugly when cranes sit idle.
Are these margins sustainable or just infra season