Denta Water Q1 FY27: consolidated PAT down 40% YoY, revenue -13% as margins compress
PAT -39.79% YoY · revenue -12.8% · margins compressing
₹58.66 Cr
-12.8% YoY
₹11.17 Cr
-39.79% YoY
18.32%
-8.3pp YoY
₹4.18
Denta Water and Infra Solutions reported consolidated revenue from operations of ₹58.66 Cr for Q1 FY27 (quarter ended June 30, 2026), down 12.8% year-on-year from ₹67.28 Cr, and consolidated net profit of ₹11.17 Cr, down 39.8% YoY from ₹18.55 Cr. Sequentially the print looks better — revenue rose 6.1% and PAT rose 22.6% over Q4 FY26's ₹55.31 Cr revenue and ₹9.11 Cr PAT — but for an order-book-driven EPC business like this, a QoQ bounce off a soft prior quarter is not the headline; the YoY decline is. Standalone and consolidated are virtually identical (standalone PAT ₹11.17 Cr) — the group's 99%-owned Denta Properties and Investment partnership contributes negligibly, so there is no material standalone-vs-consolidated divergence to flag.
Q1 FY-2027 vs prior quarters
Margins compressed sharply YoY: net profit margin (PAT/total income) fell to 18.3% from 26.6% a year ago, and operating margin (EBITDA/revenue from operations) fell to 22.4% from 33.4%. Both did expand sequentially off Q4 FY26's 15.9% NPM / 19.3% OPM, but the YoY compression — costs (materials, employee, other expenses) rising as a share of a shrinking topline versus the year-ago quarter — is the dominant story, not the sequential recovery.
The stock went into the print at ₹316.9, down 5.6% over the past month of trading.
Management has significantly revised its FY26 revenue guidance downward from a prior Rs. 300 crores target to a 20-25% year-over-year increase, citing execution timing and billing delays in government projects. For Q4 FY26, they project 20% YoY revenue growth. Looking ahead, the company anticipates 30% revenue growth i
— This quarter: missed
Management's FY27 guidance, set at the Q3 FY26 concall (tone then: cautious), called for 30% revenue growth for the year, after already downgrading FY26 guidance mid-year from a ₹300 Cr revenue target to 20-25% YoY. Against that 30% FY27 bar, Q1's 12.8% YoY revenue decline is a clear miss out of the gate, requiring a sharp acceleration in the remaining three quarters. No published Street/brokerage consensus estimate for this specific quarter turned up in search, so vsStreet is marked unknown rather than assumed. The filing carries only the standard board-outcome letter — no separate management press commentary on the print to reconcile against the numbers.
W1
FY27 guidance of 30% revenue growth needs a sharp turnaround after a -12.8% YoY start to the year
W2
Working-capital cycle improvement management flagged last concall — auditors again cite unreconciled Trade Receivables/Payables
W3
Conversion pace of the ₹65.56 Cr July order win and broader order book into billed revenue in coming quarters