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GODFREY PHILLIPS INDIA LTD.

BSE: 500163

P/L Snapshot

Q1 FY27 · standalone

vs Q4 FY26·vs Q1 FY26
Revenue
3.9K
+8.8%+98.8%
Expenditure
3.7K
+24.5%+143.6%
Net Profit
177.39
-63.4%-51.4%
OPM %
4.57%
-11.82pp-13.59pp

Shareholding

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P/L Trends

(in crores)

RevenueExpenditureNet Profit
0.001.1K2.2K3.3K4.4KQ2 FY25Q3 FY25Q4 FY25Q1 FY26Q2 FY26Q3 FY26Q4 FY26Q1 FY27
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Godfrey Phillips Q1 PAT falls 44% YoY to ₹198 Cr as cigarette tax overhaul bites

cigarettes · tobacco · excise duty

ResultsQ1 FY2727 Jul 20263 minFMCG
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Board Meeting27 Jul, 5:30 pm

Godfrey Phillips Q1 PAT falls 44% YoY to ₹198 Cr as cigarette tax overhaul bites

Godfrey Phillips India reported consolidated Q1 FY27 (quarter ended June 2026) net profit of ₹198.4 Cr, down 44.3% from ₹356.3 Cr a year ago and down 62% sequentially from the ₹521.5 Cr Q4 print. The headline revenue figure of ₹3,819.6 Cr — up 110% YoY — is optical and must not be read as growth: effective 1 February 2026 an indirect-tax restructure on cigarettes now grosses tax into both revenue-from-contracts and excise-duty expense, and the company itself flags (Note 5) that these lines are 'not comparable' with prior periods. Excise duty in the expense stack ballooned from ₹327 Cr to ₹2,614 Cr, the direct mirror of the same gross-up. The clean read is the bottom line, and it is weak. The profit compression is real, not just presentational. Cigarette segment result — the core of the business — fell to ₹139 Cr from ₹299 Cr a year ago, indicating the higher tax burden was not fully passed through to consumers this quarter. The consolidated result was further softened by a sharp drop in the share of associate profit (Philip Morris India / KKM) to ₹28.3 Cr from ₹64.7 Cr, and at the standalone level dividend income from the associate collapsed to ₹12.4 Cr from ₹80.1 Cr. Standalone PAT fell 51% YoY to ₹177.4 Cr — a steeper decline than the consolidated 44%, the ~7-point gap reflecting the associate cushion at group level; readers comparing the two numbers should note both tell the same down-quarter story. Reported EPS of ₹12.72 (restated 2:1 bonus base) is down from ₹22.84. One swing factor to watch on quality: the company received a ₹100 Cr interim insurance payment during the quarter against the October-2025 Andhra Pradesh fire loss (total claim ₹284 Cr plus a separate loss-of-profit claim). If any part of that recovery flowed through the P&L, the underlying operating decline is even deeper than the reported 44%. The board concurrently fixed 11 August as the record date for the FY26 final dividend of ₹33/share and set the 89th AGM for 24 August. Godfrey Phillips gives no formal earnings guidance and no analyst consensus is on record for this quarter, so the print is judged on its own terms: a tax-driven margin squeeze that turned a fast-growing profit base into a sharp YoY decline.

27 Jul 2026, 05:30 pm

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