CSLFINANCE
CSL Finance financials
- Market cap
- ₹503 Cr
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Calls analysed
- 3
CSL Finance Q4 FY26
What went well
- AUM grew 21% YoY to Rs. 1,448 crore in Q4 FY26 from Rs. 1,195 crore.
- Loan book grew 21% YoY to Rs. 1,395 crore in FY26.
- Full year PAT grew 19% over previous financial year to Rs. 86 crore.
What to watch
- SME retail performance was "underwhelming" and "fell short of growth ambitions" in FY26.
- Total disbursements during Q4 declined 16% sequentially to Rs. 301 crores.
What CSL Finance does
CSL Finance is a Non-Banking Finance Company registered with the RBI and listed on the NSE and BSE, providing secured loan products to small and medium-sized enterprises and to real-estate and non-real-estate corporates. Its SME Retail vertical lends against property to self-employed individuals, schools and salaried borrowers (LAP-SENP, LAP-SCHOOL, LAP-SALARIED) and offers mid-sized loans against property for business expansion or working capital. Its Wholesale vertical is a niche, NCR-centric real-estate lending book comprising structured loans for mid-income/affordable group housing projects, construction loans against single plotted projects, and loans against SORP/SOCP properties and securities/deposits. The entire loan book is fully secured, with in-house sourcing and collections and a digital, low-touch onboarding process.
Segments
- SME Retail
- SME Mid-Sized LAP
- Wholesale - Large
- Wholesale - Small
- Wholesale - Other Term Loan
- Branch network
- 44 branches across 7 states/UTs
- Team strength
- 469
- Active lending partner relationships
- 36
- Active SME retail loan accounts
- 3,223
- Active wholesale loan accounts
- 113
- Active mid-sized LAP loan accounts
- 50
Guidance record · Q4 FY26
what the last two calls moved 11 tracked 1 delivered 4 missed 6 open- AUM Growth delivered said Q4 FY25 Promised: 20-25% bare minimum growth which we should be targeting Q4 FY26: AUM grew 21% YoY for FY26, meeting the lower end of the guided range.
- SME Retail Growth missed said Q4 FY25 Promised: 30-40% year on year growth Q4 FY26: Management stated SME has 'not grown in last 12-15 months' and performance 'fell short of growth ambitions', indicating the YoY growth target for FY26 was not met.
- SME Retail AUM Mix at risk said Q4 FY25 Promised: 50 to 60% in next 18 to 24 months Q4 FY26: SME retail mix declined to 31% of AUM. Management acknowledged 'underwhelming' performance and significant headwinds.
All 11 tracked — every revision, and every one management stopped mentioning.
Open the guidance ledgerQuarterly results
Q1 FY27: revenue up 18.6%, net profit up 4.8% 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 | 54 | 53 | 57 | 59 | 64 +19% | 64 +21% | 69 +21% | 70 +19% |
| Net profit | 18 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 24 +33% | 21 +24% | 19 +0% | 22 +5% |
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 −25.5% 1Y
1Y: ₹296.55 on 10 Sept 2025 → ₹220.98. High ₹321.7 (22 Dec 2025), low ₹211 (29 Jul 2026).
How the price took the results
close before → close after
- Q4 FY26
- −0.6%
- 2 Jun
- Q2 FY26
- +11.5%
- 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 29.8% a year over 3 years, FY23 to FY26.
| Year ending | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | ₹117 Cr | ₹165 Cr | ₹215 Cr | ₹256 Cr |
| Interest | ₹26 Cr | ₹42 Cr | ₹65 Cr | ₹84 Cr |
| Depreciation | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹3 Cr |
| Net profit | ₹46 Cr | ₹64 Cr | ₹72 Cr | ₹85 Cr |
| Net margin | 39.3% | 38.8% | 33.5% | 33.2% |
| Cash from operations | ₹-166 Cr | ₹-128 Cr | ₹-102 Cr | ₹-57 Cr |
| Free cash flow | ₹-169 Cr | ₹-129 Cr | ₹-104 Cr | ₹-58 Cr |
| ROE | 13.0% | 15.0% | 14.0% | 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 | ₹6 Cr | ₹20 Cr | ₹20 Cr | ₹22 Cr | ₹22 Cr | ₹22 Cr |
| Reserves | ₹253 Cr | ₹301 Cr | ₹342 Cr | ₹452 Cr | ₹558 Cr | ₹599 Cr |
| Borrowings | ₹84 Cr | ₹206 Cr | ₹410 Cr | ₹505 Cr | — | ₹856 Cr |
| Other liabilities | ₹4 Cr | ₹5 Cr | ₹6 Cr | ₹6 Cr | ₹13 Cr | ₹10 Cr |
| Total liabilities | ₹348 Cr | ₹532 Cr | ₹779 Cr | ₹985 Cr | ₹1.4k Cr | ₹1.5k Cr |
| Fixed assets | ₹3 Cr | ₹6 Cr | ₹8 Cr | ₹8 Cr | ₹9 Cr | ₹8 Cr |
| Capital work in progress | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr |
| Investments | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr |
| Other assets | ₹345 Cr | ₹526 Cr | ₹771 Cr | ₹978 Cr | ₹1.4k Cr | ₹1.5k Cr |
| Total assets | ₹348 Cr | ₹532 Cr | ₹779 Cr | ₹985 Cr | ₹1.4k Cr | ₹1.5k 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 +2.63 pp while the public trimmed −2.56 pp. The shareholder count shrank 6% to 8,342.
- Promoters
- 48.2%
- FIIs
- 0.1%
- DIIs
- 3.5%
- Public
- 46.9%
- Others
- 1.3%
Since Jun 2025
- DIIs +2.63 pp
- Public −2.56 pp
- FIIs −0.69 pp
How it drifted, 12 quarters
Over this window the public fell from 49.4% to 46.9% — −2.5 pp.
Ownership split by quarter, oldest first. Sep '23: Promoters 47.7%, FIIs 0.0%, DIIs 1.2%, Public 49.4%, Others 1.6%.Dec '23: Promoters 47.7%, FIIs 1.5%, DIIs 1.2%, Public 48.0%, Others 1.5%.Mar '24: Promoters 47.7%, FIIs 2.2%, DIIs 1.2%, Public 47.3%, Others 1.5%.Jun '24: Promoters 47.4%, FIIs 2.5%, DIIs 1.2%, Public 47.4%, Others 1.4%.Sep '24: Promoters 47.4%, FIIs 2.5%, DIIs 1.2%, Public 47.4%, Others 1.4%.Dec '24: Promoters 47.5%, FIIs 2.5%, DIIs 0.1%, Public 48.5%, Others 1.4%.Mar '25: Promoters 47.6%, FIIs 0.8%, DIIs 0.6%, Public 49.6%, Others 1.4%.Jun '25: Promoters 47.6%, FIIs 0.8%, DIIs 0.9%, Public 49.5%, Others 1.3%.Sep '25: Promoters 47.6%, FIIs 0.8%, DIIs 1.0%, Public 49.4%, Others 1.3%.Dec '25: Promoters 47.6%, FIIs 0.6%, DIIs 1.3%, Public 49.2%, Others 1.3%.Mar '26: Promoters 47.7%, FIIs 0.2%, DIIs 2.9%, Public 48.0%, Others 1.3%.Jun '26: Promoters 48.2%, FIIs 0.1%, DIIs 3.5%, Public 46.9%, Others 1.3%.
Who bought this quarter
since Mar 2026
Disclosed holders that added to a position or appeared on the register for the first time, biggest addition first.
- Csl Capital Private Limited +0.50 pp 29.78% held
- Rajasthan Global Securities Private Limited NBFC / DFI +0.50 pp 1.82% held
The same filing shows 0 holders trimming and 0 off the list — both are in the register beside this.
Who is on the register
Named in the Jun 2026 filing
Every holder of CSL Finance above SEBI's 1% disclosure line, and what changed since Mar 2026.
| Holder | Stake | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Csl Capital Private Limited | 29.78% | +0.50 pp |
| Rohit Gupta | 16.57% | unchanged |
| Aadi Financial Advisors Llp | 3.38% | unchanged |
| Geecee Holdings Llp | 3.18% | unchanged |
| Urudavan Investment And Trading Pvt Ltd | 2.02% | unchanged |
| Singularity Holdings Limited | 1.91% | unchanged |
| Investor Education And Protection Fund Authority Ministry Of Corporate Affairs | 1.85% | unchanged |
| Rajasthan Global Securities Private Limited NBFC / DFI | 1.82% | +0.50 pp |
| Dhiraj O Sachdev | 1.46% | unchanged |
| Sachet Singh | 1.40% | unchanged |
| Rohit Gupta Huf | 1.24% | unchanged |
| Ridhima Gupta | 0.32% | 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.
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