AVG Logistics Q1FY27: consol. PAT up 30% YoY to ₹6.46 Cr, revenue growth trails guidance
PAT +29.78% YoY · revenue +5.96% · margins compressing
₹132.48 Cr
+5.96% YoY
₹6.46 Cr
+29.78% YoY
4.81%
+0.8pp YoY
₹4.06
AVG Logistics's consolidated revenue rose 5.96% YoY to ₹132.48 Cr in Q1 FY27 (from ₹125.02 Cr in Q1 FY26) — well short of the 15-20% annual growth management guided for FY27 onward in its February 2026 concall. This is the first quarter of that guided growth phase, so the pace so far is running at roughly a third of the target. Sequentially, revenue fell 14.7% from ₹155.28 Cr in Q4 FY26, but that quarter's base included a ₹21.19 Cr one-off gain on termination of a Railways lease (Ind AS 116), so the QoQ comparison is not a clean momentum read. Consolidated PAT rose 29.78% YoY to ₹6.46 Cr (EPS ₹4.06 vs ₹3.29); a web search turned up no analyst consensus or brokerage preview for this quarter — AVG Logistics has no visible formal Street coverage, so vsStreet is unknown.
Q1 FY-2027 vs prior quarters
The profit growth is not coming from operating leverage: operating expense rose to 76.1% of revenue from 71.6% a year earlier, compressing EBITDA-level margin to roughly 15.9% from ~19.4% in Q1 FY26. What carried PBT up 24.5% YoY to ₹8.71 Cr was a near-halving of depreciation and amortisation (₹5.76 Cr vs ₹11.12 Cr) plus a lower effective tax rate (25.9% vs 28.9%) — both below-the-line effects rather than a stronger core business. Standalone PAT grew a slower 22.0% YoY (₹6.01 Cr vs ₹4.93 Cr), a roughly 7.8pp gap to the consolidated print, arising from the two subsidiaries — Galaxy Packers and Movers (100%) and Kaizen Logistics (99%) — now folded into the group numbers.
The stock went into the print at ₹226, up 49.7% over the past month of trading.
For context: this is the second-highest quarterly PAT of the last 6 quarters; PAT has now risen for 3 consecutive quarters.
Management guides for modest growth in FY26, terming it a 'consolidation year' with revenues projected around INR 560-570 crores. From FY27 onwards, the company anticipates 15-20% annual growth, driven by significant capex in higher-margin verticals like cold chain, warehousing, and sustainable logistics. The strategic
— This quarter: missed
The quarter's main corporate action was a ₹52.93 Cr rights issue (36.50 lakh shares at ₹145 each, closed June 9), which lifted paid-up capital 24.2% to ₹18.71 Cr; of the ₹52.04 Cr net proceeds, ₹29.18 Cr has gone to working capital and ₹6.79 Cr to general corporate purposes, leaving ₹16.07 Cr unutilised as of quarter-end. Segment-wise, freight income grew 7.1% YoY to ₹125.99 Cr but warehousing income fell 21.9% YoY to ₹5.36 Cr. Post-quarter the company signed a 5-year, 30-EV-truck contract and separately flagged liquor-logistics contracts targeting ₹25 Cr of revenue — new-business wins that support the FY27 growth case but have not yet shown up in this quarter's print. The filing carries no fresh management outlook commentary beyond the results and a Re. 1.2/share final FY26 dividend recommendation; the board also cleared an ESOP pool and raised authorised capital from ₹21 Cr to ₹25 Cr, both shareholder-approval items rather than operational signals.
W1
FY27 revenue growth pace vs management's 15-20% guided target — Q1 ran at just 5.96% YoY, needs to accelerate sharply through the year.
W2
Utilisation of the remaining ₹16.07 Cr unutilised rights-issue proceeds and its effect on finance costs/capex.
W3
Whether the newly signed 30-EV-truck (5-year) and liquor-logistics (₹25 Cr revenue target) contracts start showing in freight revenue from Q2 FY27.
Original filing in ₹ Lakhs, converted to Cr. No exceptional items in current or year-ago quarter — the ₹21.19 Cr Railways lease-termination gain was recognised in Q4 FY26 (previous quarter), not Q1 FY27 or Q1 FY26, so it distorts QoQ but not YoY. Two subsidiaries (Galaxy Packers 100%, Kaizen Logistics 99%) are unreviewed by their own auditors per MSKA's review report (combined revenue ₹1.92 Cr, PAT ₹0.12 Cr, flagged immaterial to the group). No prior-quarter DB record existed for QoQ context; QoQ was computed from this filing's own comparative column.