Davangere Sugar Q1 FY27: PAT falls 28% YoY to ₹0.94 Cr despite 44% revenue growth
PAT -28.05% YoY · revenue +44.24% · margins compressing
₹34.72 Cr
+44.24% YoY
₹0.94 Cr
-28.05% YoY
2.67%
-2.7pp YoY
₹0.007
Standalone revenue for Q1 FY27 (quarter ended June 30, 2026) rose 44.2% YoY to ₹34.72 Cr from ₹24.07 Cr, but standalone PAT fell 28.1% YoY to ₹0.94 Cr from ₹1.30 Cr — profit trailing revenue growth by a wide margin is the actual story despite the topline gain. Sequentially both lines are down sharply (revenue -58.6%, PAT -51.9%) against the seasonally heavy March-2026 quarter (₹83.82 Cr revenue, ₹1.95 Cr PAT); management's own notes flag the sugar business's seasonal nature, so the QoQ drop is not read as underlying weakness.
Q1 FY-2027 vs prior quarters
The YoY profit shortfall traces to costs, not revenue. Net profit margin compressed to 2.70% from ~5.4% a year ago, and PBT fell 25.7% YoY to ₹1.28 Cr from ₹1.73 Cr. Two items explain most of the gap: an inventory-accounting swing that added roughly ₹7.69 Cr to reported costs (the "changes in inventories" line moved from a ₹4.50 Cr credit to a ₹3.20 Cr charge), and power & fuel costs that more than doubled to ₹2.36 Cr from ₹1.14 Cr (+106.9%). By segment, Distillery remained the sole profit engine, growing segment PBIT 18.6% YoY to ₹15.84 Cr, while Sugar's segment loss widened to ₹4.42 Cr (from ₹3.37 Cr) and Co-generation's loss nearly tripled to ₹2.73 Cr (from ₹1.10 Cr); Aviation's loss narrowed to ₹0.22 Cr (from ₹0.40 Cr).
The stock went into the print at ₹3.01, down 14.2% over the past month of trading.
What the summary numbers don't show
Basic EPS ₹0.007 (not annualised) vs ₹0.014 YoY
There is no formal management guidance or prior concall commentary on record, and no analyst consensus estimate could be found for this quarter (small-cap, thin coverage) — so both the vs-guidance and vs-street reads are unknown; no press release accompanied this filing beyond the standard board-outcome intimation. The cost pressure sits against a backdrop of aggressive capital-raising: finance cost, up just 3.4% YoY to ₹7.19 Cr, jumped 58.8% QoQ from ₹4.53 Cr, and on results day the board approved ₹40.12 Cr of convertible warrants (10.64 Cr warrants at ₹3.77 each, allotted to promoters), superseding a July 28 loan-conversion proposal — following a $100M FCCB listing on the Mauritius exchange (July 9) and an $84.95M investment in a UK subsidiary (July 25). Together these point to a debt- and equity-funded expansion phase whose financing cost is only beginning to show up in the P&L.
W1
Distillery segment PBIT trend — grew 18.6% YoY to ₹15.84 Cr this quarter; whether it keeps offsetting Sugar/Co-gen losses through the year
W2
Finance cost trajectory given the ₹40.12 Cr warrant issue and $100M FCCB — Q1 finance cost already ₹7.19 Cr, up 58.8% QoQ
W3
Sugar segment loss (₹4.42 Cr this quarter, widened YoY) — company flags seasonal distortion in any single quarter, so track full-year trend
Only a standalone statement is filed (no consolidated section); figures converted from ₹ Lakhs to ₹ Crore (÷100); no exceptional items in current or year-ago quarter; EPS is per-quarter, not annualised.