01 — At a Glance
The Dealer Banker Nobody Talks About But Every Maruti Dealership Knows
- 52-Week High / Low₹461 / ₹323
- Q3 FY26 Revenue₹86.3 Cr
- Q3 FY26 PAT₹32.5 Cr
- TTM PAT₹109 Cr
- TTM EPS₹19.54
- Book Value / Share₹192
- Price to Book2.0x
- Gross NPA0.00%
- Net NPA0.00%
- AUM (Dec 2025)₹3,210 Cr
Flash Summary: SG Finserve delivered Q3 FY26 PAT of ₹32.5 crore — up 37% YoY from ₹23.8 crore. Zero gross NPAs. Zero net NPAs. AUM touched an all-time high of ₹3,210 crore (up 12% QoQ). The company grew sales by 103% YoY. But here’s the twist: the management deliberately chose conservative guidance because they’re too busy not letting it fail to chase growth targets. At 21.1x P/E with 8.89% ROE, the market is saying “show me more stability.” The company is saying “show me the exit door to anyone who doesn’t get it.”
02 — Introduction
Moongipa Securities → A Zombie → SG Finserve. The Phoenix That Nearly Didn’t Rise.
Picture this: 1994. Moongipa Securities gets incorporated. Life happens. Decades pass. By 2021, it’s a shell company with memories. Then, in 2021, Rahul and Rohan Gupta — the brothers who run the APL Apollo Group (₹3,000+ crore revenue company manufacturing steel tubes and HVAC systems) — acquire 56.25% stake. Open offer follows. And boom — on September 1, 2022, the company restarts from literal death and pivots to financing the supply chain of manufacturing companies.
The business model is surgical: we lend to dealers and distributors of companies like APL Apollo, Balco, Bajaj Electricals, JSPL, Vedanta, Kajaria, and others. Think of it as a credit line that moves inventory through the dealer channel without tying up the manufacturer’s working capital. The lender (SG Finserve) gets secured positions over receivables and inventory. Everyone wins. Except the company makes very few mistakes.
By FY25, the loan book had hit ₹1,673 crore. By Q3 FY26, it’s ₹3,210 crore. That’s a doubling in under a year. Gross disbursal is ₹17,705 crore annually. The company has 44 anchor partners (corporate partners whose supply chains they’re financing) and serves 500+ borrowers. Zero gross NPAs. Zero net NPAs. The margins are fat (50% financing margin). The defaults are non-existent. The management talks about risk like a politician talks about taxes — with audible fear.
ICRA Rating Note (Mar 2026): Assigned [ICRA]AA(CE) (Stable) on bank facilities. [ICRA]A1+ on commercial paper. The ratings are backed by explicit corporate guarantee from parent company S Gupta Holding (SGHPL), which is also rated AA. Translation: the lender is protected. The credit cost is near-zero. And the company is betting its existence on zero defaults, forever.
03 — Business Model: WTF Do They Even Do?
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