Marico Q1 FY27: Consol PAT +25% YoY to ₹630 Cr as revenue beats guidance, margins steady
PAT +25% YoY · revenue +22.85% · margins expanding · beat vs street
₹3,957 Cr
+22.85% YoY
₹630 Cr
+25% YoY
15.73%
+0.3pp YoY
₹4.86
Marico's consolidated revenue came in at ₹3,957 Cr for Q1 FY27, up 22.9% YoY and 19.9% QoQ, with PAT attributable to owners at ₹630 Cr, up 25.0% YoY (group net profit ₹652 Cr including ₹22 Cr non-controlling interests). Basic EPS rose to ₹4.86 from ₹3.90 a year ago. Standalone told a very different story: revenue grew a similar 18.9% YoY to ₹2,794 Cr, but standalone PAT fell 55.5% YoY to ₹344 Cr — entirely because standalone other income (largely dividends up-streamed from subsidiaries) dropped to ₹53 Cr from ₹473 Cr a year ago. That's a timing effect specific to the parent-only books and is eliminated on consolidation, so it should not be read as a sign of operating weakness; the consolidated print is the one that reflects underlying performance.
Q1 FY-2027 vs prior quarters
Net profit margin expanded to 16.5% from 15.9% a year ago, and the sequential jump from 12.4% in Q4 FY26 is partly the usual Q4-to-Q1 seasonal pattern in FMCG (Q4 typically carries heavier trade/inventory adjustments) rather than a step-change, so it shouldn't headline over the YoY move. By segment, India revenue grew 20.9% YoY to ₹3,003 Cr with segment PBIT up 23.7% to ₹580 Cr, while International grew faster at 29.3% YoY to ₹954 Cr with PBIT up 20.7% to ₹257 Cr — the international number is partly boosted by the consolidation of Vietnam's Skinetiq (Candid skincare brand, 75% stake acquired effective April 2, 2026), which the company itself flags as not comparable to prior periods.
The stock went into the print at ₹875, up 4.4% over the past month of trading.
For context: this is the second-highest quarterly PAT of the last 6 quarters; revenue is at a 6-quarter high.
What the summary numbers don't show
NPM expanded to 16.5% from 15.9% YoY — consolidated PBT margin ~20%, broadly flat as copra cost tailwinds offset A&P/opex investment
Beardo (Zed Lifestyle) business vested into the standalone entity effective June 29, 2026, restating standalone comparatives; Just Herbs integration (Oct 1, 2025) also reflected
Revenue restated across all periods (customer A&P now netted against revenue rather than expensed) — PBT, PAT and EPS unaffected by the reclassification
Management guides for a strong FY27, targeting double-digit consolidated revenue growth to over INR 15,000 crores and high-teen EBITDA growth, subject to stable macros. This is expected to be driven by sustained high single-digit volume growth in the India business and mid-teen constant currency growth in the internati
— This quarter: beat
The quarter runs ahead of both external and company guidance. Marico had pre-announced on July 2 that it expected consolidated revenue growth 'in the early twenties' for the quarter, and Nomura had modelled roughly 18.5% YoY — the actual 22.9% beats both. Against the broader FY27 outlook set out on the Q4 FY26 call (double-digit consolidated revenue growth toward over ₹15,000 Cr and high-teen EBITDA growth), this quarter's revenue growth and roughly 25% growth in PBT+depreciation-based EBITDA run comfortably ahead of the low end, though it is only one of four quarters against a full-year target. No separate management press release or commentary was included in this filing beyond the board outcome letter and financial statements/notes, so India volume growth and international constant-currency growth — both watch items flagged pre-result — cannot be independently verified from this document; the July 2 business update had separately indicated India volumes at a 'multi-quarter high' and copra prices down roughly 45% from peak, aiding gross margin.
W1
Margin durability if copra prices rebound from their ~45% correction off peak — current OPM/NPM expansion rests partly on this input-cost tailwind
W2
Normalization of standalone other income (dividends from subsidiaries) after Q1's unusually low ₹53 Cr vs ₹473 Cr a year ago
W3
International segment's organic growth rate once the Skinetiq (Vietnam) consolidation, included from April 2, 2026, anniversarizes
Consolidated PAT of ₹630 Cr is owners' share (EPS is computed on this base); group net profit before non-controlling interests was ₹652 Cr (PBT ₹790 Cr − tax ₹138 Cr), with NCI ₹22 Cr — this reconciles the PBT-tax check. Standalone other income swung from ₹473 Cr (Q1 FY26) to ₹53 Cr (Q1 FY27), driving a standalone PAT decline that is a dividend-timing artifact, not an operating trend; consolidated eliminates it. Revenue restated across all comparatives (customer A&P now netted off revenue instead of shown as expense) — no P&L/EPS impact. Skinetiq (Vietnam) consolidated from Apr 2, 2026 and Beardo vested into the standalone entity from Jun 29, 2026 (restating standalone comparatives) — both flagged by the company as non-comparability items. The pre-result preview's numeric revenue-range field (~₹350–370 Cr) appears to be a data error given actual scale; used its 'early-20s growth' narrative guidance instead.
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