Photon Capital posts ₹88.88 lakh profit. A ₹144 lakh one-off is why.
A full-year loss became a full-year gain after a Q4 investment sale. The real shift is a ₹19.6 crore cash pile from a preferential allotment.
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- Photon Capital's full-year net profit flipped to ₹88.88 lakh from a ₹50.64 lakh loss, all in Q4.
- Q4 profit of ₹120.19 lakh came from a ₹144 lakh one-time gain on selling investments.
- Bank balances surged to ₹19.60 crore from ₹3.26 crore after a preferential share allotment.
Why this matters
The headline swing to profit masks the underlying story. Without the ₹144 lakh one-off, the company would have posted a full-year operating loss. The real news is the ₹19.6 crore cash pile on a ₹36 crore market-cap balance sheet. That changes the company's capacity for future action.
What we're watching
- How Photon deploys the ₹19.6 crore it just raised.
- Whether Q4 profit ex-one-off shows a sustainable earnings trajectory.
- The dilution impact from the preferential allotment.
The full read
Photon Capital Advisors reported a full-year net profit of ₹88.88 lakh, reversing a ₹50.64 lakh loss. But the number is misleading. The entire swing was a Q4 event: the final quarter contributed ₹120.19 lakh in profit, almost all of it from a ₹144 lakh one-time gain on selling investments. Strip that out, and the core business lost money. The filing's real substance is the balance sheet. Bank balances leapt to ₹19.60 crore from ₹3.26 crore after a preferential allotment. That's a ₹19.6 crore cash pile on a ₹36 crore market-cap company. The stock price will react to the headline profit. What matters is the new capital and what the company does with it.
Questions answered
- How much of the full-year profit was driven by a one-time item?
- The entire profit was driven by the one-off. Photon's full-year net profit was ₹88.88 lakh, but Q4 alone contributed ₹120.19 lakh, almost entirely from a ₹144 lakh gain on selling investments.
- Where did the big jump in cash come from?
- Bank balances climbed to ₹19.60 crore from ₹3.26 crore a year ago. The increase reflects the proceeds from a recently completed preferential share allotment.
- What is the significance of the cash pile relative to the company's size?
- The ₹19.6 crore in cash represents more than half of Photon's ₹36 crore market capitalisation. It gives the nano-cap a major new pool of capital relative to its existing scale.
- Was the underlying business profitable without the investment sale?
- No. For the full year, the one-time gain of ₹144 lakh from the sale exceeded the net profit of ₹88.88 lakh, implying an underlying loss before that transaction.
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All notes on PHOTON →- 29 May 2026 · 7:07 PM IST Photon Capital posts ₹88.88 lakh profit. A ₹144 lakh one-off is why.
- 1d ago Photon swung to profit on a ₹144 lakh one-off gain and a ₹20 cr cash pile