Ugar Sugar swings to ₹1.49 Cr profit as revenue jumps 32% YoY, margins razor-thin
revenue +32.17% · margins expanding
₹480.94 Cr
+32.17% YoY
₹1.49 Cr
0.31%
+4.1pp YoY
₹0.13
Ugar Sugar Works' standalone Q1 FY27 revenue rose 32.2% YoY to ₹480.94 Cr, and the company swung to a ₹1.49 Cr net profit from a ₹13.73 Cr loss in Q1 FY26 (EPS ₹0.13 vs -₹1.22). The turnaround is real but thin: net profit margin recovered to just 0.31% of total income from -3.76% a year ago, and pre-tax profit was a bare ₹1.04 Cr — the bottom line was lifted above PBT only by a ₹0.45 Cr deferred-tax credit, similar to the ₹0.37 Cr credit booked a year ago.
Q1 FY-2027 vs prior quarters
Sequentially the picture looks very different: revenue was up 21.1% QoQ but PAT fell 96.7% from ₹45.76 Cr in Q4 FY26, and NPM compressed from 11.42% to 0.31%. That is not itself a red flag — the filing's own Note 1 states the sugar business is seasonal and quarterly figures are not annualised-comparable, and Q4 (Jan-Mar) typically captures peak crushing-season economics that Q1 does not. By segment, Industrial Alcohol PBIT more than doubled YoY to ₹35.02 Cr from ₹17.50 Cr, and the core Sugar segment swung to a ₹3.91 Cr profit from a ₹2.74 Cr loss, together driving the YoY turnaround; Co-generation partly offset this as its segment loss widened to ₹8.96 Cr from ₹4.10 Cr. Finance costs rose 33% YoY to ₹18.47 Cr, consuming most of the operating gain and keeping PBT thin.
The stock went into the print at ₹43.12, up 5.2% over the past month of trading.
There is no management guidance or prior concall commentary on record for this company, and a web search turned up no broker consensus estimate specific to this quarter — Ugar Sugar Works does not appear to carry formal sell-side coverage at the quarterly level, so the print cannot be graded against a street number. No separate management press release accompanied the filing beyond the board-outcome letter and the financial statements. The results were approved at the board meeting held the same day as the company's 86th AGM (August 5, 2026).
W1
Whether Industrial Alcohol segment momentum (PBIT +100% YoY to ₹35.02 Cr) sustains into Q2 FY27.
W2
Co-generation segment loss trajectory — widened to ₹8.96 Cr this quarter; watch if it narrows in coming quarters.
W3
Finance cost trend (up 33% YoY to ₹18.47 Cr) against thin PBT (₹1.04 Cr) — further increases would pressure profitability given how little operating buffer exists.