NATCAPSUQ
Natural Capsules financials
- Market cap
- ₹198 Cr
- Sector
- Healthcare
- Calls analysed
- 3
Natural Capsules Q4 FY26
What went well
- Q4 FY26 consolidated revenue from operations of Rs. 58.45 crores, reflecting growth of 55% on a quarter-on-quarter basis and 30% on year-on-year basis.
- EBITDA for Q4 FY26 recovered to Rs. 1.33 crores, an improvement of 157% over Q3 FY26.
- Full financial year FY26 consolidated revenue grew 11% year-on-year to Rs. 187.20 crores from Rs. 169.21 crores in FY25.
What to watch
- EBITDA for the full year FY26 was a loss of Rs. 1.56 crores at a margin of negative 0.83%, a deterioration of 1,119 basis points from FY25.
- Net loss for FY26 was Rs. 24.66 crores.
What Natural Capsules Limited does
Natural Capsules Limited manufactures hard capsule shells — hard gelatin capsules and HPMC (vegetarian) capsules along with specialty variants (shiny, sweet, fast-release, SLS-free, preservative-free, TSE-free) — supplying pharmaceutical and nutraceutical companies domestically and in 28 countries. It pioneered vegetarian capsule manufacturing in India and is the country's second-largest gelatin capsule producer. Through its subsidiary Natural Biogenex Private Limited, it has entered active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing, producing steroidal APIs — Prednisolone, Betamethasone, Dexamethasone, Hydrocortisone and their derivative salts — using in-house fermentation and synthesis technology at a new greenfield facility in Tumkur, near Bengaluru.
Segments
- Capsules
- API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients)
- Manufacturing facilities
- 2 for capsules (Bengaluru & Pondicherry) + 1 for API (Tumkur, near Bengaluru)
- Installed capsule capacity
- 20.25 BCPA (Billion Capsules per Annum) as at FY26, up from 19.50 BCPA in FY25
- New HPMC line capacity addition
- New HPMC line commissioned in FY26, expanding capacity toward 25 billion capsules/annum, ready for double-zero capsule production
- Capacity utilisation
- 94.21% (FY25)
- Export reach
- 28 countries across 5 continents
- Planned API capacity (Tumkur)
- Dexamethasone 10 MT, Betamethasone 12 MT, Prednisolone 15 MT
Guidance record · Q4 FY26
what the last two calls moved 14 tracked 3 delivered 4 missed 7 open- Total Debt Position delivered said Q4 FY25 Promised: Maintain around ₹102 crores Q4 FY26: Management guided for debt to remain around ₹100-110 crores in FY27, implying the FY26 closing level is within this range.
- Consolidated Revenue missed said Q4 FY25 Promised: ₹260 crores (later clarified as ₹270-280 crores) Q4 FY26: FY26 revenue came in at ₹187.2 crores, significantly missing the revised guidance of ₹225 crores.
- API Commercial Production Ramp-up delayed said Q4 FY25 Promised: Meaningful pickup in sales from end of Q2 FY26 Q4 FY26: Commercial API sales commenced in Q4 FY26, missing the revised Q3 timeline.
All 14 tracked — every revision, and every one management stopped mentioning.
Open the guidance ledgerQuarterly results
Q1 FY27: revenue up 7.8%, net profit down 3.0% 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 | 41 | 44 | 45 | 45 | 46 +11% | 38 −14% | 58 +30% | 49 +8% |
| EBITDA | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | -1 −120% | -2 −154% | 1 −70% | 1 +250% |
| Net profit | -1 | 0 | 1 | -6 | -7 −1046% | -7 −6573% | -5 −1058% | -6 −3% |
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 −3.2% 1Y
1Y: ₹195.63 on 10 Sept 2025 → ₹189.39. High ₹276.93 (29 Sept 2025), low ₹140.04 (20 Jul 2026).
How the price took the results
close before → close after
- Q4 FY26
- −1.3%
- 3 Jun
- Q2 FY26
- −5.0%
- 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 2.8% a year over 3 years, FY23 to FY26. Operating margin narrowed to -0.8%.
| Year ending | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | ₹172 Cr | ₹155 Cr | ₹169 Cr | ₹187 Cr |
| Operating profit | ₹34 Cr | ₹20 Cr | ₹18 Cr | ₹-2 Cr |
| Operating margin | 19.8% | 12.8% | 10.4% | -0.8% |
| Interest | ₹3 Cr | ₹5 Cr | ₹6 Cr | ₹11 Cr |
| Depreciation | ₹7 Cr | ₹9 Cr | ₹9 Cr | ₹17 Cr |
| Net profit | ₹18 Cr | ₹6 Cr | ₹1 Cr | ₹-25 Cr |
| Net margin | 10.2% | 3.6% | 0.4% | -13.2% |
| Cash from operations | ₹17 Cr | ₹-8 Cr | ₹27 Cr | ₹11 Cr |
| Free cash flow | ₹-88 Cr | ₹-79 Cr | ₹-18 Cr | ₹-1 Cr |
| ROCE | 15.0% | 5.0% | 3.0% | -5.0% |
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 | ₹7 Cr | ₹9 Cr | ₹9 Cr | ₹10 Cr | ₹10 Cr |
| Reserves | ₹56 Cr | ₹76 Cr | ₹114 Cr | ₹194 Cr | ₹235 Cr | ₹165 Cr |
| Borrowings | ₹10 Cr | ₹53 Cr | ₹97 Cr | ₹109 Cr | ₹112 Cr | ₹162 Cr |
| Other liabilities | ₹27 Cr | ₹29 Cr | ₹70 Cr | ₹64 Cr | ₹62 Cr | ₹87 Cr |
| Total liabilities | ₹99 Cr | ₹165 Cr | ₹290 Cr | ₹377 Cr | ₹420 Cr | ₹424 Cr |
| Fixed assets | ₹38 Cr | ₹66 Cr | ₹97 Cr | ₹103 Cr | ₹281 Cr | ₹274 Cr |
| Capital work in progress | ₹7 Cr | ₹20 Cr | ₹88 Cr | ₹144 Cr | ₹1 Cr | ₹4 Cr |
| Investments | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹3 Cr | ₹3 Cr | ₹3 Cr |
| Other assets | ₹54 Cr | ₹79 Cr | ₹105 Cr | ₹127 Cr | ₹135 Cr | ₹143 Cr |
| Total assets | ₹99 Cr | ₹165 Cr | ₹290 Cr | ₹377 Cr | ₹420 Cr | ₹424 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 −0.34 pp while the public added +0.34 pp. The shareholder count shrank 6% to 8,756.
- Promoters
- 50.9%
- Public
- 49.1%
Since Jun 2025
- Promoters −0.34 pp
- Public +0.34 pp
- DIIs 0.00 pp
How it drifted, 12 quarters
Over this window the public went from 42.1% to 49.1% — +7.0 pp.
Ownership split by quarter, oldest first. Sep '23: Promoters 56.6%, DIIs 1.3%, Public 42.1%.Dec '23: Promoters 56.6%, DIIs 1.3%, Public 42.1%.Mar '24: Promoters 56.6%, DIIs 1.3%, Public 42.1%.Jun '24: Promoters 56.6%, DIIs 0.2%, Public 43.3%.Sep '24: Promoters 51.6%, Public 48.4%.Dec '24: Promoters 51.1%, Public 48.9%.Mar '25: Promoters 51.2%, Public 48.8%.Jun '25: Promoters 51.3%, Public 48.8%.Sep '25: Promoters 51.3%, Public 48.7%.Dec '25: Promoters 51.3%, Public 48.7%.Mar '26: Promoters 51.0%, Public 49.0%.Jun '26: Promoters 50.9%, Public 49.1%.
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.
- Investor Education and Protection Fund (IEPF) newly disclosed 1.31% held
The same filing shows 1 holder trimming and 1 off the list — both are in the register beside this.
Who is on the register
Named in the Jun 2026 filing
Every holder of Natural Capsules Limited above SEBI's 1% disclosure line, and what changed since Mar 2026.
| Holder | Stake | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Tajos Investments Private Limited | 12.04% | unchanged |
| Nandi Synthetics Pvt Ltd | 8.83% | unchanged |
| Sunil Laxminaryan Mundra | 5.79% | unchanged |
| Sushil Kumar Mundra | 4.89% | unchanged |
| Indra Mundra | 3.76% | unchanged |
| Sangeetha S . | 3.14% | unchanged |
| Ms. Jyoti Mundra | 2.95% | unchanged |
| Tarinika Management Llp | 2.74% | −0.53 pp |
| Sharada Mundra | 2.55% | unchanged |
| Laxminarayan Moondra | 2.31% | unchanged |
| Radha S Mundra | 2.30% | unchanged |
| Satyanarayan Mundra | 1.78% | 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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