Aeries Technology Inc. Class A Ordinary Share (AERT) fair value

ACCE thesis

Aeries Technology is an IT services and digital engineering provider, selling software development, cloud and data consulting, and managed application services, largely to mid-market and enterprise clients in the US and India. It sits at a small scale, with a $36M market cap, so the appeal rests on operating momentum rather than on a moat that size alone would prove. Revenue growth of 43.0% is the headline, and the 15.3% operating margin with an 18.1% ROE suggests that growth is not being bought at any obvious cost to profitability. A trailing P/E of 14.7 is modest for a business growing this fast, though the 26.0% gross margin reflects the labour-heavy nature of consulting and leaves little room for error if utilisation or pricing softens. The forward P/E figure in the data is zero, so we should not read anything into it and need to build our own earnings estimates before drawing conclusions on valuation. The stock is not in any index, which limits liquidity and forced-buying support, and it is worth a deeper look mainly to test whether the 43% growth is organic and repeatable or driven by acquisitions.