Nilkamal Q2 FY27: consolidated PAT +101% YoY to ₹67.8 Cr as margins expand, B2B leads
PAT +101.5% YoY · revenue +16.34% · margins expanding
₹1,125.85 Cr
+16.34% YoY
₹67.83 Cr
+101.5% YoY
6.01%
+2.5pp YoY
₹45.41
Nilkamal's consolidated PAT rose 101.5% YoY to ₹67.83 Cr (from ₹33.66 Cr) on revenue of ₹1,125.85 Cr, up 16.3% YoY — profit growth running roughly 6x ahead of revenue growth, with no exceptional items on either side of the comparison, so this is a clean YoY print. Sequentially PAT was up 178% and revenue 37.4% over Q1 FY27, but that jump is largely seasonal (Q2 covers the pre-festive ramp-up for furniture/plastics demand) and is supporting detail, not the headline. Standalone tells the same story — PAT up 102.4% YoY to ₹66.53 Cr on revenue up 16.7% — so there is no material divergence between the two bases this quarter.
Q2 FY-2027 vs prior quarters
The margin expansion is the real driver: consolidated OPM moved to roughly 11.97% from 8.81% a year ago (and 9.10% last quarter), and NPM to 6.01% from 3.47%. Raw-material cost held roughly flat as a share of revenue (~57%), and employee cost ticked down modestly (7.76% of revenue vs 8.10%); the bulk of the improvement came from other expenses/overheads shrinking to 22.87% of revenue from 25.92% a year ago — classic operating leverage as revenue grew faster than largely fixed overhead. By segment, B2B (industrial/channel) revenue grew 17.4% YoY to ₹1,007.24 Cr with segment profit more than doubling to ₹106.72 Cr; Retail & e-commerce revenue grew a slower 7.9% YoY to ₹118.61 Cr but swung to a ₹3.51 Cr segment loss from a ₹1.40 Cr profit a year ago, so the headline strength is entirely a B2B story. The JV, Cambro Nilkamal, added ₹3.05 Cr to consolidated PBT, up from ₹1.84 Cr.
The stock went into the print at ₹2,116.3, up 10.3% over the past month of trading.
For context: this is the second-highest quarterly PAT of the last 6 quarters.
There is no prior management guidance or concall outlook on record to grade this against, and management's press release text was not available for this filing, so neither can be checked against the print here. Formal sell-side coverage of Nilkamal also looks thin — a scraped consensus (₹863 Cr revenue, ₹9.70 EPS) found via search is inconsistent with the company's actual scale and is not used as a comparison. Two shareholding disclosures this quarter are worth flagging alongside the print: Madanlal Jain & PACs acquired a 5.42% stake (Sep 23) and Seetha Kumari separately disclosed a shareholding change the same day — both ahead of the trading-window closure (Sep 28) for these results. Separately, an appeal on a ₹7.22 Lakh GST demand was rejected (Sep 10) — immaterial to the P&L.
W1
Retail & e-commerce segment loss (₹3.51 Cr this quarter, vs ₹1.40 Cr profit a year ago) — watch whether it narrows into the Q3 FY27 Diwali-season quarter.
W2
Other-expenses ratio (22.87% of revenue, down from 25.92% YoY) — whether this operating leverage holds once revenue normalises seasonally in H2.
W3
B2B segment margin (~10.6% of B2B revenue this quarter vs ~6.6% a year ago) — watch for sustainability as volumes normalise post-festive season.
Figures in ₹ Lakhs, converted to Crore at source precision. Tax shown is derived as PBT minus the reported bottom-line PAT (reported current+deferred tax sub-total is ~₹59.4 Lakh lower, apparently due to a prior-period tax adjustment line not folded into the main tax total — immaterial, reported PAT is used as-is). No exceptional items in the current or year-ago quarter (the only exceptional item, ₹15.41 Cr, sits in the FY26 full-year column). Consolidated PBT includes ₹3.05 Cr share of profit from JV Cambro Nilkamal. Press release text not available in this filing batch.