Chaman Lal Setia Exports Q1 FY27: PAT jumps 48% YoY to ₹32 Cr, margins expand
PAT +47.8% YoY · revenue +12.6% · margins expanding
₹345.92 Cr
+12.6% YoY
₹31.99 Cr
+47.8% YoY
9.19%
+2.2pp YoY
₹6.44
Chaman Lal Setia Exports posted standalone revenue from operations of ₹345.92 Cr in Q1 FY27, up 12.6% YoY from ₹307.27 Cr, while standalone net profit rose a sharper 47.8% YoY to ₹31.99 Cr from ₹21.64 Cr, with basic EPS at ₹6.44 versus ₹4.35 a year ago. Profit growth outpacing revenue reflects margin expansion: the operating (EBITDA) margin widened to roughly 12.6% from 9.58% YoY, and the net profit margin rose to 9.19% from 6.99%, helped by a lower proportional weight of purchases of stock-in-trade and other expenses relative to revenue this quarter. There were no exceptional items in either the current or year-ago quarter, so the YoY growth is entirely operational — no adjusted-vs-reported split is needed. Sequentially, revenue and PAT fell 19.2% and 16.4% respectively versus the seasonally elevated Q4 FY26 base (₹428.37 Cr revenue, ₹38.27 Cr PAT); this reads as a typical Q4-to-Q1 step-down for a rice-export business rather than a demand concern, and the YoY comparison anchors the verdict here.
Q1 FY-2027 vs prior quarters
Management's Q4 FY26 concall guidance had flagged confidence in sustained profitability, freight-cost pressure from the Iran conflict being passed through to buyers, and expansion plans in the US and Europe alongside new product categories and e-commerce reach; this quarter's YoY margin expansion and profit growth are broadly consistent with that guided trajectory, so the print reads as having met rather than clearly beaten or missed those qualitative expectations. No verifiable street/consensus estimate for this quarter could be found via search — the stock is thinly covered and no analyst preview turned up, so vsStreet is unknown rather than assumed. No separate management press release was available in the source context for this filing, so this extraction rests solely on the exchange filing and auditor's limited-review report. The quarter's only related corporate developments were the routine trading-window closure ahead of results (June 23, 2026) and the August 6, 2026 board meeting that approved these unaudited results following limited review by the statutory auditor, who raised no adverse observations; a post-earnings call is scheduled for August 7, 2026.
The stock went into the print at ₹295.5, up 2.4% over the past month of trading.
What the summary numbers don't show
Tax rate ~25.2% (tax ₹10.76 Cr on PBT ₹42.75 Cr), broadly stable vs comparative quarters
Management expressed confidence in sustained profitability and strong performance in upcoming quarters, building on a profitable FY26. While acknowledging short-term impacts from geopolitical events like the Iran war affecting freight costs and shipping routes, they indicated that these are largely being passed on to b
— This quarter: met
W1
Whether the OPM (~12.6%) and NPM (~9.2%) expansion holds as management previously flagged higher freight costs from Iran-linked shipping disruptions being passed through to buyers
W2
Update on stated US/Europe expansion, new product categories and e-commerce reach at the August 7, 2026 post-earnings call
W3
Q2 FY27 sequential trend given the 19.2% QoQ revenue step-down from the seasonally elevated Q4 FY26 base
Standalone-only filing (no consolidated statement); source scan had minor digit ambiguity on PBT (row shows both 4274.65 and 4274.85) and profit-for-period (3188.73 vs 3198.73) — resolved to 4274.65 and 3198.73 via Total Income − Total Expenses and PBT − Tax cross-checks, both of which now tie out exactly.
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