Monarch Networth Q1: consolidated PAT flat at ₹45.2 Cr as fee income jumps 55%
PAT -0.15% YoY · revenue -7.25% · margins expanding
₹90.89 Cr
-7.25% YoY
₹45.18 Cr
-0.15% YoY
49.62%
+3.6pp YoY
₹5.7
Monarch Networth Capital's consolidated PAT came in at ₹45.18 Cr for Q1 FY27, down just 0.15% YoY and 0.82% QoQ — effectively flat — even though consolidated total income fell 7.5% YoY to ₹91.05 Cr and revenue from operations dropped 7.2% YoY to ₹90.89 Cr. Standalone PAT was ₹41.91 Cr, down a sharper 5.25% YoY, a divergence from the near-flat consolidated print. Consolidated basic EPS was ₹5.70 versus ₹5.76 a year ago and ₹5.75 last quarter.
Q1 FY-2027 vs prior quarters
The revenue dip masks a strong core business: fee and commission income (broking, merchant banking, asset management) rose 54.9% YoY to ₹54.01 Cr and interest income rose 36.1% YoY to ₹32.79 Cr. Both were swamped in the headline number by an 89.5% YoY collapse in net gain on fair value changes — the mark-to-market/treasury line — to ₹4.09 Cr from ₹39.02 Cr a year ago; that single swing accounts for essentially all of the revenue decline. With core fee income scaling and total expenses actually down 8.8% YoY to ₹35.46 Cr, net profit margin expanded to 49.6% of total income from 45.99% YoY and 45.77% QoQ — margin expansion, not compression, despite the softer top line.
The stock went into the print at ₹393, up 9% over the past month of trading.
No formal management guidance is on record for the quarter, and a web search turned up no analyst/street consensus estimates for this print — unsurprising for a small-cap broking name with thin sell-side coverage — so both vsGuidance and vsStreet are marked unknown rather than assumed. No separate management press-release commentary accompanied this filing to cross-check against the numbers. The standalone-consolidated gap traces to the NBFC subsidiary segment, whose profit before tax more than tripled YoY to ₹4.08 Cr from ₹1.26 Cr, cushioning the group print even as the insurance segment swung to a small ₹0.16 Cr loss from a ₹0.13 Cr profit a year ago. Quarter developments — incorporation of a new wholly owned subsidiary (May 21) and a clarification denying inside-information allegations tied to a share-price surge (Jul 28) — are governance-adjacent with no direct P&L read-through.
W1
Whether fee & commission income growth (+54.9% YoY) sustains into Q2 FY27, now that it is effectively carrying group profitability
W2
Recovery or further decline in net gain/(loss) on fair value changes (treasury book), which swung from ₹39.02 Cr to ₹4.09 Cr YoY — its path will swing headline revenue materially either way
W3
NBFC subsidiary segment profit (₹4.08 Cr this quarter vs ₹1.26 Cr YoY) — whether this scaling continues as a second profit engine alongside core broking
Clean scan, unambiguous column headers, all figures converted from ₹ Lakh (source) to ₹ Crore; totalIncome and PAT tie exactly to revenue+other income and PBT-tax on both statements. Only prior-period item is an immaterial ₹0.18 Lakh in the year-ago quarter (not adjusted). Standalone vs consolidated PAT growth diverges >3pp due to subsidiary (NBFC segment) contribution.