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Nikhil Adhesives financials
- Market cap
- ₹381 Cr
- Sector
- Chemicals
What Nikhil Adhesives does
Nikhil Adhesives manufactures water-based adhesives, emulsions, construction chemicals and re-dispersible polymer (RDP) powder used in paints, textiles, packaging, woodworking and construction. It supplies B2B customers such as paint and textile manufacturers under brands like Emdilith, Emdicryl, Emditex and Emdibind, and also sells its own consumer brands Mahacol (wood/consumer adhesives) and Mahafix (construction chemicals) directly to contractors and distributors. It additionally undertakes contract manufacturing for corporates such as Asian Paints and runs a specialty-chemical trading/indenting business alongside its manufacturing operations.
Segments
- Speciality Emulsions (Paint & Textile)
- Consumer & Contract Manufacturing Adhesives (Mahacol)
- Industrial Adhesives
- Construction Chemicals (Mahafix)
- Mahacol RDP
- Specialized Chemical Trading
- Export
- Manufacturing plants
- 5 plants — Dahanu (Maharashtra), Silvassa (Dadra & Nagar Haveli), Dahej (Gujarat), 2 plants at Bangalore (Karnataka), Mehatpur (Himachal Pradesh)
- Installed manufacturing capacity
- 135,000 tonnes/year (MTPA)
- RDP plant capacity
- 12,000 MTPA — India's largest RDP producer
- Product portfolio
- 168+ SKUs: Emulsions (71+), Industrial Adhesives (42+), Mahafix Construction Chemicals (36+), Mahacol Wood Adhesives (13+), Construction Chemicals B2B (6+), RDP (4+)
- Distributor network
- 2,000+
- Depots/warehouses
- 21-22 across India
Quarterly results
Q1 FY27: revenue up 50.6%, net profit up 37.1% 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 | 148 | 134 | 149 | 125 | 131 −11% | 133 −1% | 166 +11% | 189 +51% |
| EBITDA | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 8 −12% | 8 −10% | 11 +19% | 13 +27% |
| Net profit | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 −13% | 4 +1% | 6 +50% | 7 +37% |
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 −21.1% 1Y
1Y: ₹105.15 on 10 Sept 2025 → ₹82.98. High ₹118.35 (23 Oct 2025), low ₹57.74 (23 Feb 2026).
Financials, as filed
Revenue fell 9.3% a year over 3 years, FY23 to FY26. Operating margin widened to 6.7%.
| Year ending | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | ₹743 Cr | ₹564 Cr | ₹592 Cr | ₹555 Cr |
| Operating profit | ₹35 Cr | ₹31 Cr | ₹37 Cr | ₹37 Cr |
| Operating margin | 4.7% | 5.5% | 6.3% | 6.7% |
| Interest | ₹6 Cr | ₹7 Cr | ₹8 Cr | ₹6 Cr |
| Depreciation | ₹5 Cr | ₹6 Cr | ₹7 Cr | ₹8 Cr |
| Net profit | ₹17 Cr | ₹13 Cr | ₹17 Cr | ₹19 Cr |
| Net margin | 2.3% | 2.3% | 2.9% | 3.4% |
| Cash from operations | ₹21 Cr | ₹14 Cr | ₹7 Cr | ₹0 Cr |
| Free cash flow | ₹2 Cr | ₹-3 Cr | ₹-4 Cr | ₹-4 Cr |
| ROCE | 24.0% | 16.0% | 17.0% | 15.0% |
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 | ₹5 Cr | ₹5 Cr | ₹5 Cr | ₹5 Cr | ₹5 Cr | ₹5 Cr |
| Reserves | ₹56 Cr | ₹81 Cr | ₹97 Cr | ₹109 Cr | ₹131 Cr | ₹141 Cr |
| Borrowings | ₹28 Cr | ₹28 Cr | ₹35 Cr | ₹54 Cr | ₹45 Cr | ₹68 Cr |
| Other liabilities | ₹202 Cr | ₹203 Cr | ₹159 Cr | ₹128 Cr | ₹110 Cr | ₹121 Cr |
| Total liabilities | ₹291 Cr | ₹316 Cr | ₹295 Cr | ₹295 Cr | ₹291 Cr | ₹334 Cr |
| Fixed assets | ₹54 Cr | ₹64 Cr | ₹76 Cr | ₹94 Cr | ₹94 Cr | ₹92 Cr |
| Capital work in progress | ₹0 Cr | ₹1 Cr | ₹4 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹1 Cr |
| Investments | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr |
| Other assets | ₹236 Cr | ₹250 Cr | ₹215 Cr | ₹202 Cr | ₹197 Cr | ₹242 Cr |
| Total assets | ₹291 Cr | ₹316 Cr | ₹295 Cr | ₹295 Cr | ₹291 Cr | ₹334 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 +0.18 pp while the public trimmed −0.15 pp. The shareholder count shrank 6% to 12,375.
- Promoters
- 54.5%
- DIIs
- 0.4%
- Public
- 45.2%
Since Jun 2025
- DIIs +0.18 pp
- Public −0.15 pp
- FIIs −0.04 pp
How it drifted, 12 quarters
Ownership split by quarter, oldest first. Sep '23: Promoters 54.4%, Public 45.6%.Dec '23: Promoters 54.4%, Public 45.6%.Mar '24: Promoters 54.4%, Public 45.6%.Jun '24: Promoters 54.4%, Public 45.6%.Sep '24: Promoters 54.4%, Public 45.6%.Dec '24: Promoters 54.4%, Public 45.6%.Mar '25: Promoters 54.4%, FIIs 0.0%, Public 45.5%.Jun '25: Promoters 54.4%, FIIs 0.0%, DIIs 0.2%, Public 45.3%.Sep '25: Promoters 54.4%, FIIs 0.0%, DIIs 0.3%, Public 45.2%.Dec '25: Promoters 54.4%, DIIs 0.3%, Public 45.2%.Mar '26: Promoters 54.5%, DIIs 0.4%, Public 45.2%.Jun '26: Promoters 54.5%, DIIs 0.4%, Public 45.2%.
Who is on the register
Named in the Jun 2026 filing
Every holder of Nikhil Adhesives above SEBI's 1% disclosure line, and what changed since Mar 2026.
| Holder | Stake | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Vasant Polymers & Chemicals Pvt. Ltd. | 10.96% | unchanged |
| Rekha Tarak Sanghavi | 10.55% | unchanged |
| Mrunalini Rajendra Sanghavi | 10.36% | unchanged |
| Anita Umesh Sanghavi | 8.54% | unchanged |
| Ajay Dilkush Sarupria | 4.31% | unchanged |
| Nikhil Umesh Sanghavi | 2.99% | unchanged |
| Hemal Umesh Sanghavi | 2.99% | unchanged |
| Rajendra Jayantilal Sanghavi | 2.61% | unchanged |
| Tarak Jayantilal Sanghavi | 2.45% | unchanged |
| Umesh Jayantilal Shanghavi | 2.08% | unchanged |
| Divyam Ventures Llp | 1.81% | unchanged |
| Tulsi Rajendra Sanghavi | 1.80% | 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
ExpensiveTo justify its price of ₹83, this stock must grow earnings at 13% every year for 7 years. Our analysis caps realistic growth at ~2%. At that growth it is worth ₹44 — downside of 46%.
- Growth the price implies
- 13.2% a year
- for 7 years, fading to 4%
- It has actually compounded at
- 1.6% a year
- net profit, FY23–FY26 · EPS 1.6%
- The gap
- 0.1 pp
- -46% downside if it only repeats history
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