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Frontier Springs share price & financials
- Price
- ₹1,418.9
- Market cap
- ₹1.5k Cr
- Calls analysed
- 3
Frontier Springs Q4 FY26
What went well
- Revenue from operations for FY26 increased by 39.22% to ₹322.06 crores from ₹231.34 crores in FY25.
- EBITDA for FY26 grew by 73.80% to ₹86.31 crores, with EBITDA margin improving by 533 basis points to 26.80%.
- Profit after tax for FY26 increased by 76.88% to ₹61.31 crores from ₹34.66 crores in FY25.
What to watch
- Potential moderation in margins in the near term if steel prices remain firm in FY27.
- Revenue has been stuck in the ₹80-83 crore range for the last three quarters due to operational bottlenecks like inspection delays and raw material delays.
What Frontier Springs does
Frontier Springs manufactures hot-coiled compression springs, precision forgings, and air-spring suspension systems used in wagons, coaches and locomotives, supplying Indian Railways and its production units (such as Chittaranjan, Banaras and Patiala Locomotive Works) as its primary end customer. It also exports directly to overseas rail markets under International Rail Industry Standard (IRIS) certification. The company operates across three business verticals - Springs, Forgings, and Air Springs - and has partnered with Contitech Germany to supply Air Springs to Indian Railways.
Segments
- Springs Division
- Forging Division
- Air Spring Division
- Manufacturing facilities
- 2 (Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh and Poanta Sahib, Himachal Pradesh)
- Years of operating experience
- 40+
- Forging component weight range produced
- 100 grams to 20 kilograms (up to 80 kg per PPT)
- Forging hammer capacities installed
- 1-tonne, 3-tonne and 6-tonne hammers
- Coil spring size range
- 10mm to 65mm wire thickness, up to 1,000mm height
- Business verticals
- 3 (Springs, Forgings, Air Springs)
Guidance record · Q4 FY26
what the last two calls moved 13 tracked 2 delivered 3 missed 8 open- EBITDA Margin delivered said Q4 FY25 Promised: 21-22% (striving for 22-23%) Q4 FY26: Achieved full-year EBITDA margin of 26.80% for FY26, meeting the revised-up guidance.
- Gross Revenue missed said Q4 FY25 Promised: Rs. 375 crore Q4 FY26: Company reported FY26 revenue of Rs. 322.06 crore, missing the guided target of Rs. 375 crore.
- Gross Revenue revised down said Q4 FY25 Promised: Rs. 500 crore Q4 FY26: Guidance for FY27 has been revised down to 'very well positioned to achieve ₹500 crores', a retreat from the earlier upgrade to ₹560-575 crores.
All 13 tracked — every revision, and every one management stopped mentioning.
Open the guidance ledgerQuarterly results
Q1 FY27: revenue up 4.0%, net profit down 20.0% against the same quarter last year.
| Line item | Q2 FY25 | Q3 FY25 | Q4 FY25 | Q1 FY26 | Q2 FY26 | Q3 FY26 | Q4 FY26 | Q1 FY27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 52 | 58 | 70 | 75 | 83 +60% | 81 +40% | 83 +19% | 78 +4% |
| EBITDA | 11 | 12 | 17 | 20 | 22 +100% | 20 +67% | 24 +41% | 19 −5% |
| Net profit | 7 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 16 +129% | 14 +56% | 17 +42% | 12 −20% |
How to read this
₹ crore, as filed. The percentage beside a figure is the change against the same quarter a year earlier — never the quarter before, which would make every seasonal business look like it collapses and booms each year.
Performance −73.6% 1Y
1Y: ₹4,705.95 on 10 Sept 2025 → ₹1,240.95. High ₹4,971.8 (18 Sept 2025), low ₹1,227.15 (30 Mar 2026).
How the price took the results
close before → close after
- Q4 FY26
- −1.0%
- 3 Jun
- Q2 FY26
- −4.0%
- 14 Nov
The move from the last close before each results date to the first close after it — the market's first read on the quarter, not the quarter itself.
Financials, as filed
Revenue grew 43.9% a year over 3 years, FY23 to FY26. Operating margin widened to 26.7%.
| Year ending | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | ₹108 Cr | ₹135 Cr | ₹231 Cr | ₹322 Cr |
| Operating profit | ₹13 Cr | ₹20 Cr | ₹50 Cr | ₹86 Cr |
| Operating margin | 12.0% | 14.8% | 21.6% | 26.7% |
| Interest | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr |
| Depreciation | ₹4 Cr | ₹4 Cr | ₹4 Cr | ₹5 Cr |
| Net profit | ₹8 Cr | ₹13 Cr | ₹35 Cr | ₹62 Cr |
| Net margin | 7.4% | 9.6% | 15.2% | 19.3% |
| Cash from operations | ₹10 Cr | ₹12 Cr | ₹22 Cr | ₹31 Cr |
| Free cash flow | ₹1 Cr | ₹4 Cr | ₹8 Cr | ₹17 Cr |
How to read this
From the company's own filings. Margins are computed from the filed sums; a year with an incomplete quarter is left blank rather than estimated.
Balance sheet
| Year ending | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Equity capital | ₹4 Cr | ₹4 Cr | ₹4 Cr | ₹4 Cr | ₹4 Cr | ₹12 Cr |
| Reserves | ₹56 Cr | ₹63 Cr | ₹71 Cr | ₹85 Cr | ₹151 Cr | ₹172 Cr |
| Borrowings | ₹4 Cr | ₹3 Cr | ₹5 Cr | ₹4 Cr | ₹7 Cr | ₹11 Cr |
| Other liabilities | ₹20 Cr | ₹22 Cr | ₹31 Cr | ₹30 Cr | ₹20 Cr | ₹24 Cr |
| Total liabilities | ₹83 Cr | ₹92 Cr | ₹110 Cr | ₹123 Cr | ₹182 Cr | ₹218 Cr |
| Fixed assets | ₹34 Cr | ₹37 Cr | ₹42 Cr | ₹45 Cr | ₹63 Cr | ₹65 Cr |
| Capital work in progress | ₹0 Cr | ₹1 Cr | ₹1 Cr | ₹2 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹1 Cr |
| Investments | ₹8 Cr | ₹13 Cr | ₹15 Cr | ₹18 Cr | ₹30 Cr | ₹48 Cr |
| Other assets | ₹41 Cr | ₹42 Cr | ₹52 Cr | ₹59 Cr | ₹89 Cr | ₹103 Cr |
| Total assets | ₹83 Cr | ₹92 Cr | ₹110 Cr | ₹123 Cr | ₹182 Cr | ₹218 Cr |
How to read this
As filed each year. A line the company does not report — deposits for a non-lender, for instance — is left out rather than shown as a row of dashes.
Who owns it
As disclosed at Jun 2026
Since Jun 2025, DIIs added +0.24 pp while the public trimmed −0.23 pp. The shareholder count grew 66% to 17,968.
- Promoters
- 51.8%
- DIIs
- 0.4%
- Public
- 47.9%
Since Jun 2025
- DIIs +0.24 pp
- Public −0.23 pp
- Promoters 0.00 pp
How it drifted, 12 quarters
Ownership split by quarter, oldest first. Sep '23: Promoters 51.8%, Public 48.2%.Dec '23: Promoters 51.8%, Public 48.2%.Mar '24: Promoters 51.8%, Public 48.3%.Jun '24: Promoters 51.8%, Public 48.2%.Sep '24: Promoters 51.8%, Public 48.2%.Dec '24: Promoters 51.8%, Public 48.3%.Mar '25: Promoters 51.8%, Public 48.2%.Jun '25: Promoters 51.8%, DIIs 0.1%, Public 48.1%.Sep '25: Promoters 51.8%, DIIs 0.1%, Public 48.1%.Dec '25: Promoters 51.8%, DIIs 0.2%, Public 48.0%.Mar '26: Promoters 51.8%, DIIs 0.5%, Public 47.7%.Jun '26: Promoters 51.8%, DIIs 0.4%, Public 47.9%.
Who is on the register
Named in the Jun 2026 filing
Every holder of Frontier Springs above SEBI's 1% disclosure line, and what changed since Mar 2026.
| Holder | Stake | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Kamla Bhatia | 15.90% | unchanged |
| Kapil Bhatia | 15.57% | unchanged |
| Neeraj Bhatia | 14.15% | unchanged |
| Investor Education and Protection Fund | 6.27% | unchanged |
| Kundan Lal Bhatia | 3.39% | unchanged |
| Frontier Springs Ltd | 3.31% | unchanged |
| Darrshana Kothari | 1.60% | unchanged |
| Neeta Manoj Ruparel | 1.60% | unchanged |
| Vishpa Rail Equipments Private Limited | 1.27% | unchanged |
| Singhi Dinesh Kumar Huf | 1.08% | unchanged |
| Mamta Bhatia | 0.97% | unchanged |
| Puran Chand Bhatia Huf | 0.93% | unchanged |
A holder disappearing from this list has fallen below the 1% line — it is not necessarily a sale. Percentages are of total shares, as disclosed in the company's own filing. Who was buying across the market this quarter.
What the price assumes
AttractiveTo justify its price of ₹1241, this stock must grow earnings at 16% every year for 7 years. Our analysis caps realistic growth at ~98%. At that growth it is worth ₹40343 — upside of 3151%.
- Growth the price implies
- 16.4% a year
- for 7 years, fading to 4%
- It has actually compounded at
- 97.9% a year
- net profit, FY23–FY26
- The gap
- -0.8 pp
- 3151% downside if it only repeats history
All earnings calls (3)
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