Aditya Birla Money Q1: PAT falls 28% YoY to ₹11.1 Cr as broking profit collapses

Aditya Birla Money's Q1 FY27 (standalone) is a revenue-up, profit-down quarter: revenue from operations grew 16% YoY to ₹130.77 Cr, but net profit fell 27.6% YoY to ₹11.13 Cr (from ₹15.38 Cr) and 40.6% sequentially from Q4's ₹18.73 Cr. EPS dropped to ₹1.97 from ₹2.72 a year ago. YoY is the primary read here — the QoQ decline partly reflects Q4 being a seasonally strong close, but even against the year-ago base profitability deteriorated sharply while the topline expanded, so this is unambiguously margin compression, not a timing artifact. The squeeze sits in two places. First, the core broking segment: its result collapsed 82% YoY to just ₹1.01 Cr (from ₹5.69 Cr) even as broking segment revenue rose ~21% to ₹98.14 Cr — meaning the incremental broking topline converted to almost no profit, pointing to cost and pricing pressure in the retail broking business. Second, funding economics: finance costs jumped 38% YoY to ₹43.67 Cr as the borrowing book expanded ~39% to ₹2,306 Cr (debt-equity now 7.36x), while interest income grew only 28% — so the interest spread narrowed. Employee costs (+14% YoY to ₹31.74 Cr) added further. Net profit margin fell to 8.51% from 13.64% a year ago (14.43% in Q4), and the filing's operating margin dropped to 11.78% from 18.25%. The wholesale debt segment was the relative bright spot, holding its result near flat at ₹13.84 Cr. There are no exceptional items in the quarter (the prior-year ₹3.13 Cr Labour-Code charge affected only the FY26 full-year), so reported and adjusted YoY are the same -27.6% — no cushioning to adjust for. Management provides no formal guidance and there is no prior concall on record, so there is no outlook benchmark to test the print against; consensus estimates for a company of this size are not published. The board also cleared FY26 annual report/AGM matters and raised authorized capital to ₹333 Cr alongside this result, but none of those bear on the quarter's earnings quality.