DENTALKART
DEN Networks financials
- Market cap
- ₹692 Cr
- Sector
- Healthcare
- Calls analysed
- 4
DEN Networks Limited Q1 FY27
What went well
- Gross margins improved for the first time in three quarters, indicating operational repair efforts are showing results.
- Cost base is meaningfully lighter than a year ago while shipping more, demonstrating improved efficiency.
- Stockout percentage reduced significantly from a peak of 33% to 13% last quarter, with a target to bring it below 5% by December.
What to watch
- Marketing spend was held very tight this quarter, which has a cost at the top of the funnel.
- Delivery times need improvement, especially for tier 2 and tier 3 cities.
What DEN Networks Limited does
Dentalkart (operated by Vasa Denticity Limited) runs an e-commerce marketplace for dental professionals, selling consumables, equipment and instruments sourced through a vetted direct-procurement network of manufacturers and importers, supported by its own warehouses and last-mile delivery. It also owns Smileworks Labs, a dental-prosthetics lab, and offers the VASA Dental Cloud Platform for digital case management, order processing and lab integration. Revenue is earned primarily from product sales (consumables, equipment, instruments) on the platform, supplemented by lab/prosthetics services.
Segments
- Consumables
- Equipment
- Instruments
- Dental lab services (Smileworks Labs)
- Digital platform / clinical software
- Product catalogue (SKUs)
- 23,000+
- Dental professionals on platform
- 2.7 lakh+ (H1 FY26)
- Brands on platform
- 470+ (H1 FY26)
- Warehouses
- 8, totalling ~57,775 sq ft (FY25)
- Monthly active users
- 4.54 lakh+ (H1 FY26)
- Average delivery time
- ~4.2 days (Q2 FY26)
Guidance record · Q1 FY27
what the last two calls moved 14 tracked 0 delivered 3 missed 11 open- Late Deliveries (SLA breach) went quiet said Q4 FY25 Promised: Reduce from 13% to 6-7% within FY26 Q1 FY27: No update was provided on the specific SLA breach percentage metric. The target deadline has passed.
- Gross Margin revised up said Q4 FY25 Promised: 26% to 30% going forward Q1 FY27: After missing the target, management issued new, slightly higher long-term guidance of 27-30% gross margin, citing operational repairs and a lighter cost base.
- EBITDA Margins on track said Q2 FY26 Promised: Move back towards the mid-teens over time Q1 FY27: Management reported improving gross margins and a lighter cost base, with expectations of decreasing opex per order, supporting the path to margin recovery.
All 14 tracked — every revision, and every one management stopped mentioning.
Open the guidance ledgerQuarterly results
Q1 FY27: revenue up 36.9%, net profit up 46.0% 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 | 59 | 63 | 73 | 60 | 73 +22% | 71 +14% | 72 −1% | 82 +37% |
| EBITDA | 6 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 6 −5% | 2 −67% | 0 −97% | 5 +61% |
| Net profit | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 −7% | 2 −61% | 1 −69% | 4 +46% |
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 −34.6% 1Y
1Y: ₹596.65 on 10 Sept 2025 → ₹390. High ₹632.45 (19 Sept 2025), low ₹336.7 (30 Mar 2026).
How the price took the results
close before → close after
- Q1 FY27
- −3.0%
- 12 Aug
- Q4 FY26
- −1.1%
- 5 Jun
- Q2 FY26
- +0.7%
- 17 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 27.5% a year over 2 years, FY24 to FY26. Operating margin narrowed to 4.1%.
| Year ending | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | ₹170 Cr | ₹249 Cr | ₹277 Cr |
| Operating profit | ₹18 Cr | ₹23 Cr | ₹11 Cr |
| Operating margin | 10.8% | 9.3% | 4.1% |
| Interest | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr |
| Depreciation | ₹1 Cr | ₹2 Cr | ₹2 Cr |
| Net profit | ₹15 Cr | ₹17 Cr | ₹11 Cr |
| Net margin | 8.9% | 6.9% | 3.9% |
| Cash from operations | ₹-11 Cr | ₹-5 Cr | ₹-27 Cr |
| Free cash flow | ₹-14 Cr | ₹-23 Cr | ₹-31 Cr |
| ROCE | 45.0% | 22.0% | 9.0% |
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 | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹13 Cr | ₹16 Cr | ₹17 Cr | ₹17 Cr |
| Reserves | ₹0 Cr | ₹6 Cr | ₹3 Cr | ₹52 Cr | ₹154 Cr | ₹157 Cr |
| Borrowings | ₹2 Cr | ₹3 Cr | ₹1 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr |
| Other liabilities | ₹4 Cr | ₹10 Cr | ₹11 Cr | ₹17 Cr | ₹19 Cr | ₹21 Cr |
| Total liabilities | ₹7 Cr | ₹19 Cr | ₹28 Cr | ₹86 Cr | ₹190 Cr | ₹196 Cr |
| Fixed assets | ₹0 Cr | ₹1 Cr | ₹2 Cr | ₹2 Cr | ₹22 Cr | ₹23 Cr |
| Capital work in progress | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹1 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr |
| Investments | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹12 Cr | ₹52 Cr | ₹45 Cr |
| Other assets | ₹6 Cr | ₹18 Cr | ₹26 Cr | ₹70 Cr | ₹116 Cr | ₹128 Cr |
| Total assets | ₹7 Cr | ₹19 Cr | ₹28 Cr | ₹86 Cr | ₹190 Cr | ₹196 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, promoters trimmed −5.78 pp while FIIs added +3.40 pp. The shareholder count shrank 17% to 2,597.
- Promoters
- 60.2%
- FIIs
- 6.9%
- DIIs
- 2.2%
- Public
- 30.7%
Since Jun 2025
- Promoters −5.78 pp
- FIIs +3.40 pp
- Public +1.97 pp
How it drifted, 12 quarters
Over this window promoters fell from 69.6% to 60.2% — −9.4 pp.
Ownership split by quarter, oldest first. Jun '23: Promoters 69.6%, FIIs 2.6%, DIIs 2.3%, Public 25.5%.Sep '23: Promoters 69.6%, DIIs 1.7%, Public 28.7%.Mar '24: Promoters 69.6%, DIIs 0.7%, Public 29.7%.Jun '24: Promoters 69.6%, DIIs 0.6%, Public 29.7%.Sep '24: Promoters 69.6%, FIIs 0.0%, DIIs 0.2%, Public 30.1%.Dec '24: Promoters 69.3%, FIIs 0.2%, DIIs 1.3%, Public 29.2%.Mar '25: Promoters 66.5%, FIIs 3.5%, DIIs 1.7%, Public 28.2%.Jun '25: Promoters 66.0%, FIIs 3.5%, DIIs 1.8%, Public 28.7%.Sep '25: Promoters 66.0%, FIIs 4.0%, DIIs 1.0%, Public 30.0%.Dec '25: Promoters 60.8%, FIIs 7.5%, DIIs 0.9%, Public 30.9%.Mar '26: Promoters 60.2%, FIIs 6.9%, DIIs 1.7%, Public 31.2%.Jun '26: Promoters 60.2%, FIIs 6.9%, DIIs 2.2%, Public 30.7%.
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.
- Solidarity Microcap Emerging Leader AIF AIF newly disclosed 1.34% held
- Anjali Aniruddha Malpani +0.35 pp 1.51% held
- Aniruddha Narayan Malpani +0.08 pp 1.19% held
The same filing shows 1 holder 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 DEN Networks Limited above SEBI's 1% disclosure line, and what changed since Mar 2026.
| Holder | Stake | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Vikas Agarwal | 36.34% | unchanged |
| Sandeep Aggarwal | 23.85% | unchanged |
| Malabar India Fund Limited FPI fund | 5.62% | unchanged |
| Mukul Mahavir Agrawal | 2.36% | unchanged |
| Jatinder Jagdishrai Agarwal | 1.57% | unchanged |
| Anjali Aniruddha Malpani | 1.51% | +0.35 pp |
| Solidarity Microcap Emerging Leader AIF AIF | 1.34% | newly disclosed |
| Ashoka India Equity Investment Trust Plc FPI fund | 1.31% | unchanged |
| Ashish Kacholia | 1.28% | −1.40 pp |
| Aniruddha Narayan Malpani | 1.19% | +0.08 pp |
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
Growth trapTo justify its price of ₹390, this stock must grow earnings at 38% every year for 7 years. Our analysis caps realistic growth at ~-24%. At that growth it is worth ₹15 — downside of 96%.
- Growth the price implies
- 37.8% a year
- for 7 years, fading to 4%
- It has actually compounded at
- -21.2% a year
- net profit, FY24–FY26 · EPS -23.7%
- The gap
- 0.6 pp
- -96% downside if it only repeats history
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