1. At a Glance – Blink and You’ll Miss the Margins
PAN HR Solutions Ltd is coming to the BSE SME with a ₹17.04 crore book-built IPO at a ₹74–₹78 price band.
Pre-IPO market cap? ₹56.25 crore.
Business? Classic B2B manpower + payroll + compliance grind.
Latest income (FY25): ₹283.69 crore
PAT: ₹5.02 crore
So yes — revenue is jumbo, profits are espresso-shot sized ☕.
But margins are improving fast, debt is negligible, and ROE is still flexing above 24%.
This is not a flashy SaaS IPO — this is a boots-on-ground, EPF-filling, attendance-tracking business.
Curious already? Good. Because the real story hides in execution, not hype.
2. Introduction – Another HR Company? Or a Payroll Mafia?
Let’s be honest.
“HR Solutions” is one of those phrases that usually translates to:
Excel sheets, compliance headaches, and late salary complaints.
But PAN HR Solutions isn’t selling HR software dreams. It sells people, process, and paperwork — three things Indian corporates love outsourcing.
Founded in 2015, PAN HR has quietly scaled to deploying 10,374 personnel across client locations as of Nov 30, 2025.
That’s not a startup anymore. That’s a mini-army.
The IPO is mainly about working capital — because staffing companies don’t die from losses; they die from delayed client payments.
So the key question:
👉 Can PAN HR scale profitably, or will revenue growth keep eating margins?
3. Business Model – WTF Do They Even Do?
Imagine you’re a logistics company.
You
need delivery boys, compliance filings, payroll, PF, ESIC, audits — but zero headache.
PAN HR says:
“Bhai, We’ll handle it”
Their services include:
- Manpower Recruitment – Unskilled to skilled blue-collar
- Payroll Management – EPF, ESIC, PT, compliance
- Facility Management – Housekeeping, pantry, office staff
- Staffing Solutions – Especially logistics & delivery
- Compliance Audits – Independent audits so clients don’t get slapped by regulators
It’s a one-stop B2B HR backend shop.
No glamour. No brand pull. Just execution.
Would you rather build this in-house? Or outsource it cheaply?
Exactly.
4. Financials Overview – Revenue Ka Rocket, Margin Ka Scooter
Key Financial Comparison Table (₹ Crore)
| Metric | Latest Period (Nov 30, 2025) | FY24 | FY23 | YoY Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 154.23 | 281.92 | 256.36 | Soft YoY (partial year) |
| EBITDA | 6.34 | 5.19 | 5.37 | Improving |
| PAT | 5.13 | 4.20 | 3.88 | Upward |
| PAT Margin | 3.33% | 1.49% | 1.51% | Big jump |
Margins are thin, yes.
But the trend is your friend.
Question:
👉 Can they sustain 3%+ PAT margin in a low-margin industry?
5. Valuation Discussion – Cheap or Cheap-Looking?
At upper band ₹78:
- Post-IPO EPS: ₹10.67
- P/E: ~7.3x
- P/B: ~2.1x
Compared
