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P/L Snapshot

Q1 FY27 · standalone

vs Q4 FY26·vs Q1 FY26
Revenue
1.1K
-10.7%+1.8%
Expenditure
1.1K
-14.8%-2.5%
Net Profit
47.95
+174.5%+2823.8%
OPM %
7.88%
+8.88pp+15.66pp

Shareholding

Pattern breakdown

P/L Trends

(in crores)

RevenueExpenditureNet Profit
-228.34195.38619.101.0K1.5KQ2 FY25Q3 FY25Q4 FY25Q1 FY26Q2 FY26Q3 FY26Q4 FY26Q1 FY27
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Reports

Margin up, growth stalled: where the 8–10% guidance lives

margin expansion · growth shortfall · BLDC transition

Result verdictFollow-upQ1 FY2716 Aug 20266 minConsumer & Retail

Margin rebound masks weak 2.3% growth; execution risks ahead

turnaround · premiumization · fan weakness

TranscriptDeep diveQ1 FY2716 Aug 20266 minConsumer & Retail

Bajaj Electricals: CP turns EBIT-positive, consol PAT ₹48 Cr; revenue growth soft at 2.3%

consumer durables · margin expansion · consumer products turnaround

ResultsQ1 FY2706 Aug 20263 minConsumer & Retail
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Bajaj Electricals: CP turns EBIT-positive, consol PAT ₹48 Cr; revenue growth soft at 2.3%

Bajaj Electricals reported consolidated revenue of ₹1,089.4 Cr for Q1 FY27, up 2.3% YoY from ₹1,064.6 Cr, and consolidated PAT of ₹48.4 Cr against ₹0.9 Cr a year ago (standalone PAT ₹48.0 Cr — standalone and consolidated tell the same story this quarter, with the divergence limited to the associate/JV share of ₹0.43 Cr). PBT jumped to ₹65.7 Cr from ₹1.5 Cr YoY. No external consensus estimates for this specific print turned up in a web search, so vsStreet is marked unknown rather than assumed. The swing was driven almost entirely by Consumer Products (CP), which turned EBIT-positive at a 3.9% margin (₹32.4 Cr) versus a ₹13.6 Cr loss (-1.7% margin) in Q1FY26, even as CP revenue grew just 1.7% YoY to ₹820 Cr — margin recovery, not volume growth, did the work. Lighting Solutions (LS) grew revenue 4.4% YoY to ₹269 Cr, but its EBIT fell to ₹17.9 Cr (6.7% margin) from ₹27.2 Cr (10.5% margin) — a clear compression that runs counter to management's prior guidance of "steady revenue growth and stable EBIT margins" for the vertical. Company-wide EBIT margin (ex-exceptional items) came in at 6.6%, up sharply from roughly 0.8% a year ago and already close to the 6-9% band management had targeted for FY28-29. The quarter carries a ₹8.78 Cr one-off gain on sale of immovable property, against a ₹6.68 Cr one-off Nashik factory ex-gratia charge in the year-ago quarter; adjusting for both, consolidated PAT still rose roughly 422% YoY, though off a low ₹7.6 Cr adjusted base — so the headline growth rate is real but exaggerated by how close to breakeven the year-ago quarter was. Against the prior concall's guidance — CP to "bounce back in FY27" on kitchen appliances and fixes to fans/BLDC, LS to deliver steady growth with stable margins, and overall growth "ahead of market" at mid-single digits — this is a mixed scorecard: CP's EBIT turnaround materialized largely as flagged, but revenue growth of 2.3% trails the mid-single-digit ambition and LS margins compressed rather than held steady. Sequentially, revenue fell 12.1% QoQ from ₹1,239.5 Cr and PAT swung from a ₹67.5 Cr loss to a ₹48.4 Cr profit — but the Q4 loss was itself driven by ₹55.6 Cr of exceptional impairment charges (goodwill and moulds/dies) rather than a genuine slowdown, and Q4-Q1 both sit inside India's summer demand window, so this QoQ swing reads as a one-off/base effect rather than a trend and is not the headline. The same board meeting appointed Krishnan Sundaram (ex-HUL, ex-Vini Cosmetics) as Chief Growth & New Business Officer effective August 11, and approved expanding the ESOP pool from 5.76 lakh to 30.03 lakh options, alongside a revised whole-time-director remuneration structure — none of these carry a P&L impact this quarter. Chairman Shekhar Bajaj called it "a strong start to the year" despite "input cost inflation, uneven summer demand, and industry-wide price increases," while MD & CEO Sanjay Sachdeva attributed the CP turnaround to "strategic actions, margin expansion, and operating leverage" and noted LS's 4.4% growth came "on a strong base" — management's own framing implicitly concedes the LS margin softness even while spotlighting the CP recovery. Going into Q2, the key question is whether CP can sustain EBIT-positive economics without one-off support, and whether LS can arrest the margin slide shown this quarter.

6 Aug 2026, 01:15 pm

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