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Armour Security IPO

Armour Security (India) Ltd.armoursecurities.com

ListedSMEIndustrialsNSE Emerge
Price band
₹55 – ₹57

Face value ₹10.00

Issue size
₹26.51 Cr

100% fresh capital

Lot size
2000 sh
Bidding
14 – 19 Jan

Lists 22 Jan 2026

Grey market
—

No quote recorded

Market data to 30 Oct 2026. Company figures are as filed, sourced 16 Oct 2026. Every figure’s origin is listed under Sources.

IPOVista score

How this issue scores, and why

Every pillar opens to show the raw metric, the curve it was mapped through, the sub-score and its weight. Disagree with the weighting if you like — the arithmetic is all here.

67Balanced
IPOVista score 67 out of 100, graded Balanced.

IPOVista score

A trade-off in both directions

63% of the scoring model was backed by disclosed data for Armour Security, giving medium confidence. Weights for anything missing were redistributed rather than scored as zero.

How this score is built
PillarScoreWeight

Below the line: market sentiment. Capped at 8 of 100 points so a hot grey market can tilt a score but never carry one.

Read this before the number

  • SME platform listing

    SME issues trade in larger lot sizes with thinner volumes than mainboard listings, which makes exiting a position harder.

The IPOVista Score is a transparent summary of disclosed fundamentals and issue terms. It is research, not investment advice, and it cannot predict listing performance.

The company

What the business actually does

Founded 1999 · New Delhi, Delhi · 1,646 employees

Armour Security (India) supplies security guards, supervisors, housekeepers and other contract staff to institutional clients across India, and handles housekeeping and facility upkeep at client premises. It was incorporated in New Delhi in 1999 and still operates from the Defence Colony address that serves as its registered office. The work splits into two lines: security manpower, meaning guards, supervisors and security officers deployed at client sites, and integrated facility management, which in practice is largely housekeeping, alongside other manpower and supervision contracts covering data entry operators and multi-tasking staff. Customers are largely institutional and government bodies won through competitive tenders. As on 9 December 2025 the company had 37 permanent employees and 1,609 contractual workers, among them 592 security personnel and 729 housekeepers.

Revenue is billed per deployed head on service contracts. FY25 revenue from operations was Rs 35.66 crore: 47% security manpower, 32% other manpower and supervision, 21% housekeeping. Wages are the business — employee related expenses were Rs 27.66 crore in FY25, or 77.57% of revenue from operations, down from 84.54% in FY23 — leaving FY25 EBITDA of Rs 4.97 crore and PAT of Rs 3.97 crore. The two structural constraints are customer concentration, with the top 10 customers at 76.48% of FY25 revenue and renewals decided by competitive bidding, and working capital, since staff are paid before institutional clients settle. That is why Rs 15.11 crore of the Rs 26.51 crore raise was earmarked for working capital.

The company on paper

Legal name
Armour Security (India) Ltd.
IncorporatedThe legal entity is often incorporated years before the brand you know, and may have traded under another name first
27 Aug 1999
CINCorporate Identity Number — the unambiguous handle for looking this company up at the MCA
U74920DL1999PLC101313
Sector
Industrials · Private security manpower and integrated facility management services
Employees
1,646
Registered office
New Delhi, Delhi
Promoters
Vinod Gupta, Arnima Gupta
Promoter holding, pre-issue
96.8%
Promoter holding, post-issue
70.1%

The numbers

Financial performance

Revenue has compounded at 11.2% a year across the 3 reported financial years.

Revenue and profit

Figures in ₹ crore, as reported in the prospectus. Interim quarters are not annualised.

  • Revenue
  • Profit after tax

Margin trend

Profit and operating margin as a percentage of revenue

  • Net margin
  • EBITDA margin

Net worth and borrowings

At each period end, in ₹ crore. Gearing below each period is borrowings over net worth, from these same figures.

  • Net worth
  • Total borrowings

The price

Valuation

What the issue asks for the business, set against what the business earns.

No valuation ratios are recorded for this issue. The price band and the reported financials above are what this record holds.

The terms

How the issue is structured

100% of the money raised is fresh capital that goes to the company; the rest goes to shareholders selling down.

Fresh issueNew shares — proceeds go to the company
₹26.51 Cr
Offer for saleExisting shares — proceeds go to the selling shareholders
₹0
Total issue size
₹26.51 Cr
Shares offered in the OFS
—
Pre-issue shares outstanding
—
Employee discount
—
Market maker portionSME issues require a market maker to provide two-way quotes
2,34,000

What the issue does to ownership

Share of paid-up equity before and after the offer. The promoters give up 26.7% of the company.

  • Promoters
  • Everyone else
Before97%After70%30%

Hover or focus a segment to see who it is. The two bars are the same company, measured before and after the offer.

Percentages are of paid-up equity, and the “after” column assumes the offer is fully subscribed, which is how the offer document states it. This record does not disclose a pre- and post-issue share count, so the part of the company actually changing hands is not split out — everyone who is not a promoter is shown together.

Demand

What the market is bidding

Subscription is hard exchange data. Grey-market premium is not — it is an unofficial quote, shown because readers want it and labelled because it deserves the label.

Subscription by category

Cumulative bid multiples at the end of day 3. Anchor allocations are excluded.

QIB1.00×NII / HNI1.08×Retail2.58×

Hover or focus a category to see who bids in it.

Total subscription1.82×

A category subscribed above 1× is oversubscribed; allotment in that category then runs as a lottery or on a proportionate basis.

Grey market premium

Unofficial over-the-counter sentiment

No grey-market quotes have been recorded for this issue.

Outcome

How it actually listed

Issue price
₹57.00
Listed at
₹45.60
Listing gain
down 20.0%
Since listing
down 49.6%

Trading at ₹23.00 on 30 Oct 2026

Against the issue price
down 59.6%

What an allotment is worth now, before costs

Work it out

What this means for one application

Three calculations, each stating the assumption it rests on.

What one application costs

Shares are applied for in whole lots at the cut-off price. The full amount is blocked in your bank account under ASBA, not debited, until allotment.

Lots
2 lots, 4000 shares, ₹2,28,000 blocked
Shares applied for
4,000
At cut-off price
₹57.00
Amount blocked
₹2,28,000

One lot is 2000 shares at ₹1,14,000. This issue requires a minimum of 2 lots, so the smallest application is ₹2,28,000. That is how the SME board is built rather than a quirk of this issue: the minimum application is set above the ₹2,00,000 that caps a retail bid on the mainboard — two lots rather than one. The smallest bid here still sits in the individual investors’ category, the one the subscription figures call retail, and when that category is oversubscribed the minimum application is allotted by draw of lots — so the odds beside this apply directly.

Odds of getting an allotment

When the retail category is oversubscribed, SEBI requires a lottery for the minimum lot. Every application has the same chance, whatever its size.

~39%

chance of one lot, per application

Retail subscription
2.58×
Applicants per share available
2.6× the retail quota

This is an estimate of a lottery, not a prediction. Actual odds depend on the final basis of allotment, how many applications were at the minimum lot, and rejections for technical reasons. Applying from multiple distinct PANs is the only legitimate way to hold more tickets in that lottery.

What it actually did

This issue has listed, so there is a real number instead of a prediction. The grey-market premium is shown beside it for comparison.

₹45.60

listed at, −20.0% against the issue price

Issue price
₹57.00
Premium said
—
If allotted 2000 shares
−₹22,800

Listing-day figures are as reported by the exchanges.

Our read

Easy to misread

Grounded only in figures disclosed in the prospectus. This is analysis, not a recommendation.

Easy to miss in the prospectus

  • Net worth quadrupled between FY23 and FY24 (Rs 3.49 cr to Rs 14.46 cr) on a non-cash share issue, not on earnings. Share capital went from Rs 1.00 lakh to Rs 1,222.00 lakh while reserves FELL from Rs 348.06 lakh to Rs 223.82 lakh: 64,00,000 shares were allotted to the promoters on 26 December 2023 for consideration other than cash against the Defence Colony property (valued at Rs 6.40 cr), and a bonus issue capitalised reserves. Return on net worth therefore drops from 64.65% (FY23) to 18.10% (FY24) with no deterioration in the business.
  • Roughly half of the FY25 profit increase is non-operating. PAT rose Rs 1.36 cr over FY24, of which Rs 0.74 cr is the increase in other income, which jumped from Rs 0.17 cr (FY24) to Rs 0.91 cr (FY25). The EBITDA figures above exclude other income by the prospectus's own definition (PBT + depreciation + finance cost - other income), so EBITDA and PAT are not comparable across the two years on a like basis.

Straight from the filing

Read it yourself

Every figure on this page comes out of these. Go and check them.

Served by the issuer, the exchange or the regulator — never a copy hosted here, so what you open is the filing itself.

The paperwork

Who is running the issue

Lead managers
Sobhagya Capital Options Private Limited
RegistrarAllotment status is checked on the registrar's own site
Skyline Financial Services Private Limited

How these figures were checked

Reconciled to Armour Security's own prospectus and to exchange disclosures, then cross-checked against 5 other independently published compilations of the same filing. Where a stated ratio disagreed with the line items it should come from, the disagreement was settled against the prospectus itself.

The prospectus is the authoritative document. Check anything that matters against it before you act.

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