Waterbase MD, chairman, board of directors and AGM
NSE: WATERBASEBSE: 523660Food ProductsSmall Cap
Share price at the NSE close on 23 Oct 2026. Previous close ₹42.01.
- Market capMarket capitalisation. Share price times the number of shares: what the whole company is worth at the day's price. The rank is by average market value over the six months to Jun 2026, among listed companies.
- ₹170 Cr2,430th largest listed
- P/EPrice to earnings, trailing. Market cap divided by the profit of the last twelve months (the latest four quarters, or two half years for a company that reports half-yearly) that belongs to the company's own shareholders, after the share of the other owners of its subsidiaries: what investors pay for each rupee of a year's profit.
- Lossover the last 12 months
- P/BPrice to book. Market cap divided by the net worth that belongs to the company's own shareholders, its assets less everything it owes and less the other owners' share of its subsidiaries, on its latest balance sheet. The filing of 28 May 2026
- 1.2
- Dividend yieldDividend yield. Dividends paid per share in the twelve months to the day, as a percentage of the day's share price.
- Nonein the last 12 months
- ROEReturn on equity. Profit over the last twelve months (the latest four quarters, or two half years for a company that reports half-yearly) that belongs to the company's own shareholders, as a percentage of their net worth, the money they have in the business. Net worth is the average of the latest balance sheet and the one a year before it. The filing of 11 Aug 2026
- −6.9%
- ROCEReturn on capital employed. Operating profit after depreciation (revenue less operating expenses and depreciation, without other income and one-off items) as a percentage of all the money the business runs on: the whole group's net worth, the other owners of its subsidiaries included, plus borrowings. Lease liabilities are not counted: the results filings do not state them. The profit is over the last twelve months (the latest four quarters, or two half years for a company that reports half-yearly); net worth and borrowings are on the latest balance sheet. The filing of 11 Aug 2026
- −5.4%
- Debt to equityDebt to equity. Borrowings divided by the whole group's net worth, the other owners of its subsidiaries included: rupees borrowed for each rupee of equity in the business. Lease liabilities are not counted: the results filings do not state them. From the balance sheet at the end of Mar 2026. The filing of 28 May 2026
- 0.42
- Volume, NSEVolume. Shares traded on the last trading day; delivery is the part buyers kept rather than sold again the same day.
- 10,23368.2% delivered
Waterbase board of directors
At the end of the quarter to Jun 2026, as the company filed it; changes since are in its announcements.Their trades in its shares
- ChairpersonVARUN ADITYA THAPARRelated to the promoter
- Company Secretary and Compliance OfficerR Sureshkumar
6 directors3 independent1 executive2 non-executive
- VARUN ADITYA THAPAR · ChairpersonNon-executive · joined Feb 2014 · reappointed May 2026 · 2 months as independent · 3 listed boards · 4 committee seats, 1 as chair
- NITASHA THAPARNon-executive · joined Feb 2023 · reappointed May 2024 · 26 months as independent · 1 listed board · 1 committee seat
- RAHUL KAPURIndependent · joined Sep 2019 · reappointed May 2024 · 26 months as independent · 1 listed board · 1 as independent · 1 committee seat, 1 as chair
- SHASHIKALA VENKATRAMANIndependent · joined Nov 2019 · reappointed Nov 2024 · 20 months as independent · 1 listed board · 1 as independent · 2 committee seats, 1 as chair
- RAHUL CHANDRASINGH MEHTAIndependent · joined Oct 2023 · 32 months as independent · 1 listed board · 1 as independent · 1 committee seat
- RAMAKANTH V AKULAExecutive · joined Aug 2024 · 22 months as independent · 1 listed board
An independent director has no business or family tie to the company, its promoters or its managers beyond the seat. Listed boards counts the boards of listed companies the director sits on, this one included, and "as independent" how many of those seats are independent ones. Committee seats are audit and stakeholder committee seats across those companies. Months as independent is filed for independent directors only, whose terms the rules cap. Disqualified is the company's own mark that a director may not serve under company law.
Committees and meetings
Who sits on each, and how often they met.Board meeting notices and outcomes
Board
- 28 May 20265 of 6 present3 independent · 104 days in between
- 12 Feb 20266 of 6 present3 independent
Audit Committee
Chair RAHUL KAPUR
VARUN ADITYA THAPAR, SHASHIKALA VENKATRAMAN, RAHUL CHANDRASINGH MEHTA
- 28 May 20264 of 4 present3 independent · 104 days in between
- 12 Feb 20264 of 4 present3 independent
Nomination and remuneration committee
Chair SHASHIKALA VENKATRAMAN
VARUN ADITYA THAPAR, RAHUL KAPUR, RAHUL CHANDRASINGH MEHTA
- 28 May 20264 of 4 present3 independent
- 12 Feb 20264 of 4 present3 independent
Stakeholders Relationship Committee
Chair VARUN ADITYA THAPAR
SHASHIKALA VENKATRAMAN, NITASHA THAPAR
- 28 May 20262 of 3 present1 independent
Corporate Social Responsibility Committee
Chair VARUN ADITYA THAPAR
SHASHIKALA VENKATRAMAN, NITASHA THAPAR
- 28 May 20262 of 3 present1 independent
Meetings in the quarter filed and the one before it. The days in between are as the company files them, neither meeting's day counted; the rules allow at most 120. A quorum is the least number of members who must attend for the meeting to decide anything.
Statutory auditor
Named in the results for the quarter to Jun 2026.
- Deloittee Haskins & Sells LLPPeer-review certificate valid to Jul 2027
1 earlier auditor
- Deloitte Haskins & Sells LLPNamed in filings from Mar 2025 to Sep 2025
A statutory auditor checks the company's accounts and signs its results. Peer review is the accountants' institute's check of an audit firm's own work, which a listed company's auditor must hold a valid certificate of.
Waterbase AGM and shareholder votes
Each resolution, how the votes went, and how institutions voted apart from the promoters. A postal ballot is a vote by post or online, held without a meeting.Waterbase dividend history
Annual general meeting, 30 Sep 2026
33,399 shareholders on the register on 23 Sep 2026; present: 5 promoters and 51 others; votes counted by M FRANCIS / M. FRANCIS & ASSOCIATES.The company's voting result (opens in a new tab)
Adoption of Standalone Financial Statements and Consolidated Financial Statements of the Company for the Financial Year ended 31st March, 2026 together with the reports of the Directors and Auditors thereon.MoreLess
Ordinary100.00% for0.00% againstAgainst: promoters 0.00% · institutions 0.00% · other public 2.29%
Turnout: all 61.78% · promoters 89.64% · institutions 0.00% · other public 0.04%
- Appointment of Ms. Nitasha Thapar, (DIN: 00061445) as a Director of the Company by retire by rotationOrdinaryPromoters have an interest in it100.00% for0.00% against
Against: promoters 0.00% · institutions 0.00% · other public 3.35%
Turnout: all 61.78% · promoters 89.64% · institutions 0.00% · other public 0.04%
- Redesignation of Mr. Ramakanth V Akula appointed as Managing DirectorOrdinary100.00% for0.00% against
Against: promoters 0.00% · institutions 0.00% · other public 9.12%
Turnout: all 61.78% · promoters 89.64% · institutions 0.00% · other public 0.04%
For and against are per cent of the votes cast. Turnout is the votes cast as a per cent of the shares each group holds. Institutions are funds, insurers, banks and foreign investors. An ordinary resolution passes with more than half the votes cast, a special one with at least three quarters.
Tax disputes
Reported in the filing for the quarter to Jun 2026.
- Tax disputeCommissioner of Income Tax ( Appeals )Since 22 Mar 2013Hearing in progressAt the filing before: Pending
- Tax disputeCommissioner of Income Tax ( Appeals )Since 26 Sep 2017Hearing in progressAt the filing before: Pending
- Tax disputeCommissioner of Income Tax ( Appeals )Since 30 Mar 2016Hearing in progressAt the filing before: Pending
- Tax disputeCommissioner of Income Tax ( Appeals )Since 7 Mar 2021Hearing in progressAt the filing before: Pending
- Tax disputeCommissioner of Income Tax ( Appeals )Since 28 Nov 2023Hearing in progressAt the filing before: Pending
- Tax disputeCommissioner of Income Tax ( Appeals )Since 10 Jan 2024Hearing in progressAt the filing before: Pending
- Tax disputeDeputy Director of Income Tax - CPCSince 15 May 2024Hearing in progressAt the filing before: Pending
- Tax disputeAdditional Commissioner Appeal ( ST )Since 30 Dec 2023Company has filed an appeal before GSTAT - 30.06.2026At the filing before: Pending
1 more
- Tax disputeVAT Appellate TribunalSince 31 Jan 2013Hearing in progressAt the filing before: Pending
In the company's own words, from its latest governance filing.
Investor complaints and compliance
Quarter by quarter.
Investor complaints received and resolved, the company's own count
- Received
- Resolved
Open at the quarter's end
- The board is made up as the listing rules require
- Yes
- The board has a regular chairperson
- Yes
- The company has a risk management committee
- No
- The chair is related to the managing director
- No
- The filing has a part on fines and penalties
- No
- The filing has a part on tax disputes
- Yes
- There was a cyber security incident in the quarter
- No
The company's own answers in its filing.