LANCER

Lancer Container Lines financials

Market cap
₹474 Cr
Sector
Services

What Lancer Container Lines Limited does

Lancer Container Lines is an asset-light Non-Vessel Owning Common Carrier that leases and deploys a fleet of owned and leased shipping containers to move export-import cargo. It offers NVOCC/liner services, vessel and container-handling agency work, break-bulk and project-cargo handling, freight forwarding across sea, air and road, container trading (sale and lease), empty-container-yard management, LCL (Less-than-Container-Load) consolidation, and specialised ISO-tank/flexibag liquid logistics and CIS-region logistics through group subsidiaries. It runs the business through a head office in Navi Mumbai, a network of branch offices at major Indian ports and inland container depots, a leased container yard in Panvel, and an international subsidiary base led by Dubai-based Lancia Shipping LLC.

Segments

  • NVOCC / Liner Services
  • Vessel & Container Handling
  • Break Bulk & Project Cargo
  • Freight Forwarding
  • Container Trading
  • Empty Container Yard Services
  • CIS Logistics
  • ISO Tank / Liquid Logistics
Container fleet (owned & leased TEUs)
20,000+ TEUs
Countries served
30+
Overseas ports covered
95+
ICD locations covered
36+
Total shipments (FY24-25)
56,700
India branch offices
16 (FY24)
Founded 2011Headquarters CBD Belapur, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Company website

Quarterly results

Q1 FY27: revenue up 23.1%, net profit up 213.4% against the same quarter last year.

₹ Cr · quarterly
Line itemQ2 FY25Q3 FY25Q4 FY25Q1 FY26Q2 FY26Q3 FY26Q4 FY26Q1 FY27
Revenue202 204 118 107 94 −54%54 −73%139 +18%132 +23%
EBITDA19 10 -32 6 6 −71%-2 −118%-9 +71%6 +2%
Net profit16 4 -32 -5 7 −57%-7 −282%11 +134%5 +213%
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 −91.5% 1Y

₹0₹50₹100₹150Apr 23Aug 26

1Y: ₹149.7 on 28 Apr 2023 → ₹12.74. High ₹149.7 (28 Apr 2023), low ₹10.38 (20 Aug 2026).

Financials, as filed

Revenue fell 22.2% a year over 3 years, FY23 to FY26. Operating margin narrowed to 0.1%.

Year endingFY23FY24FY25FY26
Revenue₹837 Cr₹633 Cr₹696 Cr₹394 Cr
Operating profit₹90 Cr₹88 Cr₹12 Cr₹1 Cr
Operating margin10.8%13.9%1.7%0.1%
Interest₹12 Cr₹11 Cr₹6 Cr₹6 Cr
Depreciation₹16 Cr₹20 Cr₹24 Cr₹25 Cr
Net profit₹54 Cr₹58 Cr₹-0 Cr₹6 Cr
Net margin6.4%9.2%-0.1%1.4%
Cash from operations₹-223 Cr₹43 Cr₹310 Cr₹9 Cr
Free cash flow₹-283 Cr₹3 Cr₹-32 Cr₹29 Cr
ROCE27.0%17.0%1.0%2.0%
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 endingFY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26
Equity capital₹10 Cr₹30 Cr₹31 Cr₹119 Cr₹125 Cr₹177 Cr
Reserves₹35 Cr₹43 Cr₹153 Cr₹336 Cr₹364 Cr₹524 Cr
Borrowings₹22 Cr₹42 Cr₹283 Cr₹102 Cr₹50 Cr₹29 Cr
Other liabilities₹59 Cr₹86 Cr₹60 Cr₹62 Cr₹38 Cr₹109 Cr
Total liabilities₹126 Cr₹202 Cr₹526 Cr₹619 Cr₹578 Cr₹839 Cr
Fixed assets₹65 Cr₹81 Cr₹131 Cr₹247 Cr₹452 Cr₹651 Cr
Capital work in progress₹0 Cr₹5 Cr₹0 Cr₹0 Cr₹0 Cr₹0 Cr
Investments₹6 Cr₹2 Cr₹5 Cr₹8 Cr₹1 Cr₹1 Cr
Other assets₹55 Cr₹113 Cr₹390 Cr₹364 Cr₹125 Cr₹187 Cr
Total assets₹126 Cr₹202 Cr₹526 Cr₹619 Cr₹578 Cr₹839 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 Jul 2026

Since Jun 2025, the public added +10.67 pp while promoters trimmed −9.60 pp. The shareholder count shrank 11% to 1,04,420.

Promoters
35.1%
FIIs
0.4%
DIIs
1.6%
Public
63.0%

Since Jun 2025

  • Public +10.67 pp
  • Promoters −9.60 pp
  • DIIs −0.76 pp

How it drifted, 12 quarters

Over this window the public went from 31.8% to 63.0% — +31.2 pp.

Dec '23Mar '25Jul '26

Ownership split by quarter, oldest first. Dec '23: Promoters 44.7%, FIIs 23.3%, DIIs 0.2%, Public 31.8%.Mar '24: Promoters 43.6%, FIIs 20.8%, DIIs 2.8%, Public 32.9%.Jun '24: Promoters 42.4%, FIIs 16.9%, DIIs 2.7%, Public 38.0%.Sep '24: Promoters 41.9%, FIIs 11.8%, DIIs 2.7%, Public 43.6%.Dec '24: Promoters 41.9%, FIIs 6.2%, DIIs 2.7%, Public 49.3%.Mar '25: Promoters 44.7%, FIIs 1.1%, DIIs 2.4%, Public 51.9%.Jun '25: Promoters 44.7%, FIIs 0.7%, DIIs 2.3%, Public 52.3%.Sep '25: Promoters 44.7%, FIIs 0.7%, DIIs 2.3%, Public 52.3%.Dec '25: Promoters 44.7%, FIIs 0.6%, DIIs 2.3%, Public 52.4%.Mar '26: Promoters 31.7%, FIIs 0.4%, DIIs 1.6%, Public 66.3%.Jun '26: Promoters 31.7%, FIIs 0.4%, DIIs 1.6%, Public 66.3%.Jul '26: Promoters 35.1%, FIIs 0.4%, DIIs 1.6%, Public 63.0%.

Who was buying across the market this quarter →

Who bought this quarter

since Jun 2026

Disclosed holders that added to a position or appeared on the register for the first time, biggest addition first.

The same filing shows 7 holders trimming and 0 off the list — both are in the register beside this.

Who is on the register

Named in the Jul 2026 filing

Every holder of Lancer Container Lines Limited above SEBI's 1% disclosure line, and what changed since Jun 2026.

HolderStakeChange
Suleyman Emre 28.94%+3.73 pp
Miju Kattukaran Antony Kattukaran Vareed Antony 6.64%−0.35 pp
Prafulla Kumar Jha Someshwar Jha 6.64%−0.35 pp
Muhammed Noufal Balliyod Master Abdullakunhi 6.64%−0.35 pp
Naeema Cheruvathan Kandy Mahin Kottikkulam Moola 6.64%−0.35 pp
Tarannum Emre 3.37%−0.17 pp
Badoor Textiles Llc 2.26%−0.12 pp
Quant Mutual Fund - Quant Multi Cap Fund Mutual fund1.55%−0.09 pp
Vijesh Astin Dsouza Wilfred Dsouza 1.11%unchanged
Fauzan Abdul Khalik Chataiwala 0.50%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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