Quanto Agroworld (SME IPO)
📅 Dates: 15-17 September • 💰 Issue Size: ₹31.02 Cr.Complete guide to Quanto Agroworld SME IPO: latest Grey Market Premium (GMP), live bidding subscription status, price band, lot size, financial report, and investment analysis.
📊 Overview & Key Highlights
| Parameter | Details |
|---|---|
| Issue Type | SME IPO (BSE SME) |
| Issue Dates | 15-17 September |
| Price Band | ₹67 |
| Total Issue Size | ₹31.02 Cr. |
| Minimum Market Lot | 4000 shares (Min. Inv: ₹2,68,000) |
| Listing Price (Debut) | ₹60.00 (-₹4.90 (-7.55%)) |
| Subscription Status | 1.39x (Final / Bidding Closed) |
| Investor Demand Rating | ⭐⭐☆☆☆ (2/5 - Low / Mild Demand) |
📅 Tentative Timetable
| IPO Open Date: | September 15, 2026 |
| IPO Close Date: | September 17, 2026 |
| Basis of Allotment: | September 18, 2026 |
| Refunds: | September 21, 2026 |
| Credit to Demat Account: | September 21, 2026 |
| IPO Listing Date: | September 22, 2026 |
📈 Live Subscription Demand
| Category | Subscription Multiplier (x) |
|---|---|
| Qualified Institutional (QIB) | 0.00x |
| Non-Institutional / HNI | 1.66x |
| Retail Individual (RII) | 0.79x |
| Total Subscription | 1.39x (Updated: 07 Oct, 17:54) |
💼 Market Lot & Investment Sizing
| Application | Lot Size | Shares | Amount |
| Retail Minimum | 2 | 4000 | ₹2,68,000 |
| Retail Maximum | 2 | 4000 | ₹2,68,000 |
| S-HNI Minimum | 3 | 6,000 | ₹4,02,000 |
💰 Financial Summary
| Period Ended | Revenue | Expense | PAT | Assets |
| 2024 | ₹15.56 | ₹9.80 | ₹5.37 | ₹24.82 |
| 2025 | ₹16.49 | ₹10.27 | ₹6.63 | ₹33.43 |
| 2026 | ₹40.35 | ₹31.94 | ₹8.38 | ₹40.00 |
🎯 Investment Analysis & Verdict
1. Business SummaryQuanto Agroworld is a botanical ingredient manufacturer specializing in the cultivation, processing, and supply of medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs), primarily focusing on lemongrass. The company generates revenue by selling downstream products—including lemongrass essential oils, tea-cuts, biomass, and functional ingredients—to the personal care, pharmaceutical, fragrance, and beverage industries through a vertically integrated farm-to-factory model.
2. Key Strengths
• End-to-End Control: Manages the entire operating chain from land preparation, plantation, and harvesting to on-site steam distillation, packaging, and dispatch, ensuring quality and margin retention.
• Diversified End-Use Applications: Products serve multiple high-growth sectors, including aromatherapies, nutraceuticals, home care, and herbal teas, reducing single-industry dependency.
• Capacity Expansion: A significant portion of the IPO proceeds is earmarked for farm expansion and a new distillation plant, directly scaling up future production capacity.
3. Key Risks & Watchouts
• High Capital Intensity & Asset Scale: The manufacturing facility sits on a modest 0.50 acres in Nashik, and the large lot size (4,000 shares requiring ~₹2.68 lakh) introduces high ticket-size risk for retail investors in an SME stock.
• Agricultural & Weather Volatility: Being deeply tied to farming, crop yields are vulnerable to unseasonal rains, pests, and climate uncertainties.
• Working Capital & Debt Utilization: While a portion of debt is being repaid, the business requires continuous capital for land leasing, crop management, and scaling farm operations.
4. Retail Verdict
Quanto Agroworld offers a unique play in the niche botanical and aromatic extraction space backed by clear expansion plans, but the hefty ₹2.68 lakh minimum retail lot and agricultural risks make it suitable only for high-risk investors looking for SME exposure.
🏢 About Quanto Agroworld | Dates: 15-17 September | Price: ₹67 | Lot: 4000
Quanto Agroworld undertakes agricultural and farming activities with a focus on growing lemongrass and processing and supplying medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs). Quanto operates as a botanical ingredient manufacturer, producing lemongrass-based products including lemongrass biomass, lemongrass tea-cut, and lemongrass essential oil.Its essential oils are used in personal care, home care, fragrance, aromatherapy, and pharmaceutical industries, while its lemongrass-based products are sold to herbal tea manufacturers, nutraceutical companies, and functional beverage brands.
Its manufacturing facility is located at Ravalgaon, Nashik, Maharashtra, spread across approximately 20 gunthas (0.50 acres). Moreover, Quanto Agroworld handles the entire operating model, which includes land preparation, plantation, crop management, harvesting, on-site steam distillation, packaging, and dispatch.
🎯 Objects of the Issue
• Capital Expenditure for Distillation Plant at Rawalgaon, Maharashtra: ₹3.79 Cr• Capital Expenditure for expansion of Farms: ₹15.23 Cr
• Prepayment or repayment of all or a portion of certain outstanding borrowings availed by the Company: ₹3.63 Cr
• General Corporate Purposes: ₹4.65 Cr
• Issue Expenses: ₹3.72 Cr
📬 Registrar & Allotment Information
MUFG Intime India Pvt. Ltd. Phone: 022-49186000 Email: [email protected] Website: MUFG Intime India Private Limited💬 Community Discussion & Views
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