AIML: standalone loss widens 11% YoY to ₹22.98 Cr; NPA, going-concern doubt persist
PAT -11% YoY · revenue +42.1% · margins expanding
₹22.79 Cr
+42.1% YoY
₹-22.98 Cr
-11% YoY
-100.85%
-0.9pp YoY
₹-0.58
Alliance Integrated Metaliks' standalone net loss widened 11.0% year-on-year to ₹22.98 Cr in Q1 FY27, from ₹20.71 Cr in Q1 FY26, even as revenue from operations grew a sharp 42.1% YoY to ₹22.79 Cr (₹16.04 Cr a year ago). Sequentially the loss narrowed 16.2% from ₹27.44 Cr in Q4 FY26 on a 32.8% QoQ jump in revenue — but for a business this distressed, the QoQ improvement is a low-base bounce rather than a turnaround signal, and the YoY read (revenue outrunning the bottom line) is the one that matters.
Q1 FY-2027 vs prior quarters
The loss is structurally a finance-cost problem: total expenses of ₹45.77 Cr included ₹19.36 Cr of finance costs alone (42% of the expense base) plus ₹7.08 Cr of depreciation, against total income of just ₹22.79 Cr. Net margin, while still deeply negative at roughly -101% of income, actually improved from about -129% a year ago and -157% last quarter — the expansion in revenue is diluting the fixed finance/depreciation burden even as absolute losses persist. There is no operating guidance or street estimate on record for this micro-cap — management has not issued forward guidance and no consensus preview was found, so vsGuidance and vsStreet are both unknown rather than assumed.
The stock went into the print at ₹2.58, up 24% over the past month of trading.
The going-concern picture stayed unresolved this quarter: outstanding bank/FI loans of ₹597.997 Cr (including accrued interest) remain classified as non-performing assets, and the auditor flagged material uncertainty on going concern with net worth eroded to a negative ₹381.99 Cr as of June 30, 2026. The review report is also qualified on unreconciled trade payables, receivables and loan-account balances, and carries an emphasis of matter on the Enforcement Directorate's provisional attachment (order dated 13.09.2024, since confirmed by the Adjudicating Authority) of company properties and promoter shareholding, currently under appeal. The company says it has deposited upfront amounts under one-time settlement (OTS) proposals with lender banks and has reclassified all such borrowings as current liabilities pending resolution. Separately, the board used the same meeting to appoint Mr. Vineet Kumar Ojha as an additional independent director — unrelated to the operating numbers but disclosed alongside them.
W1
Progress on OTS resolution of the ₹597.997 Cr NPA debt with lenders — a settlement would materially change the ₹19.36 Cr/quarter finance-cost drag.
W2
Trajectory of net worth, currently a negative ₹381.99 Cr as of June 30, 2026 — whether further quarters of narrowing losses stem the erosion.
W3
Outcome of the pending appeal before the Appellate Authority against the ED's provisional attachment of company properties and promoter shares.