KSE Q1 FY27: standalone PAT crashes 97.5% YoY to ₹0.94 Cr as raw-material costs bite

KSE Ltd's standalone PAT for Q1 FY27 fell to just ₹0.94 Cr from ₹38.55 Cr a year ago, a 97.5% YoY collapse, even as revenue from operations grew 9.1% YoY to ₹453.67 Cr. Net margin was crushed to 0.21% of total income from 9.17% a year ago. There is no street coverage or consensus estimate available for this stock — a targeted search turned up no brokerage previews or analyst forecasts for the quarter, consistent with its thin float and lack of formal management guidance; vsGuidance and vsStreet are both unknown rather than assumed. The damage sits entirely in the cost of materials consumed, which rose 29.3% YoY to ₹374.02 Cr and now absorbs 82.4% of revenue versus 69.5% a year ago — a raw-material (copra/oilseed) cost spike that outran the pricing the company could pass through. Stripped of the ₹0.47 Cr exceptional insurance income, pre-tax profit before exceptional items was just ₹0.83 Cr, meaning the underlying operating business essentially broke even this quarter versus a healthy ~12% operating margin a year ago. The segment split shows where it hit hardest: Oil Cake Processing swung from a ₹29.89 Cr segment profit to a ₹3.74 Cr segment loss, while Animal Feed segment profit fell 85.8% YoY to ₹3.09 Cr; only the small Dairy division improved, turning a year-ago loss into a ₹0.61 Cr profit. Employee costs were a partial offset, down 15.2% YoY to ₹14.42 Cr after the company reversed ₹4 Cr of a ₹5 Cr ad-hoc provision tied to the Labour Codes (Note 5). Sequentially the picture is less alarming: Q4 FY26 was a net loss of ₹3.73 Cr, so Q1 FY27's ₹0.94 Cr profit is a QoQ turnaround, and revenue grew 10.9% QoQ — but per the YoY-primary framing, that QoQ improvement is off a loss base and does not offset the scale of the year-on-year profit erosion. Adjusting for the exceptional item on both sides (none in the year-ago quarter), YoY PAT decline is still about -98.4% on an underlying basis, confirming the drop is a genuine margin story, not an accounting artefact. The board also flagged (Note 6) an unresolved title-deed dispute over ~24.68 acres of land at Muthalamada acquired in 2021, with a court injunction restraining its sale — a legal overhang unrelated to this quarter's numbers but disclosed alongside them.