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Darshan's stories span Saudi equity research, greenfield project modeling, and private credit due diligence.

Darshan Patil

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Primary Research and Financial Modeling

Darshan builds financial models from the ground up, starting where secondary data runs out. When reports and databases don't have the answer, he goes directly to traders, suppliers, and operators to get the real constraints. This pattern showed up across the FlyNess IPO analysis, the Saudi chocolate factory project, and the private credit due diligence work. In each case, the model was only as good as the inputs, and the inputs required direct sourcing. His approach is to separate what is theoretically possible from what is operationally real. Minimum order quantities, hedging practices, machinery configurations, and fuel cost structures are the kinds of inputs that change a model's conclusion, and he goes and gets them. The result is financial analysis that reflects actual market constraints rather than textbook assumptions.

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Independent Investment Judgment

Darshan forms his own view on a business and backs it with a recommendation, even when the data is incomplete or the comparable set is thin. On FlyNess, he identified the near-term cash flow problem (fuel costs eating into revenue) but made a forward-looking call that the Saudi growth trajectory would resolve it. The family office followed the recommendation and realized a gain on listing day. On the chocolate factory project, he recommended diversifying the revenue model into B2B industrial applications for cocoa butter and powder, reasoning that B2B margins are more stable and revenue more predictable than consumer demand. In both cases, the call was grounded in specific evidence: margin structure, market growth rates, and supply chain logic, not general optimism.

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Building Research and Deal Infrastructure

Darshan builds analytical tools that get used on live decisions, not just as templates or reference documents. At Preferred Square, he co-built a private credit scoring calculator that evaluated deals across covenants, financial ratios, sector growth, management quality, and collateral. It was used on live private credit opportunities to give the team a consistent first-pass view. He also contributed to building a public equity screener for a Saudi family office, pulling live data from the TASI and NOMU exchanges and integrating valuation ratios and earnings feeds into a single client-facing repository. The pattern is the same in both cases: identify a gap in how the team processes information, build a structured tool to fill it, and make sure it is usable on real decisions.

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Darshan Patil

Career Stories

FlyNess IPO: A Buy Call on Saudi Arabia's Low-Cost Airline

At Preferred Square as Business Analyst

2024 - 2025

Saudi Chocolate Factory: Building a Greenfield Model from Scratch

At Preferred Square as Business Analyst

2024 - 2025

Private Credit Calculator: A Scoring Tool for Live Deal Due Diligence

At Preferred Square as Business Analyst

2024 - 2025

Saudi Equity Screener: Building a Research Repository for a Family Office

At Preferred Square as Business Analyst

2024 - 2025

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