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Hi-Tech Pipes Ltd

BSE: 543411

P/L Snapshot

Q1 FY27 · standalone

vs Q4 FY26·vs Q1 FY26
Revenue
1.1K
-6.4%+76.1%
Expenditure
1.1K
-6.4%+79.6%
Net Profit
15.16
-5.3%-15.1%
OPM %
3.49%
+0.04pp-2.00pp

Shareholding

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P/L Trends

(in crores)

RevenueExpenditureNet Profit
0.00332.95665.89998.841.3KQ2 FY25Q3 FY25Q4 FY25Q1 FY26Q2 FY26Q3 FY26Q4 FY26Q1 FY27
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Reports

Growth Pays in Volume; Profitability Broke

margin compression · capacity ramp · EBITDA per ton

Result verdictFollow-upQ1 FY2717 Aug 20266 minMetals & Mining

Revenue surge masks profit decline; margin recovery pushed to FY28

volume growth 26% · margin compression · capacity expansion

TranscriptDeep diveQ1 FY2717 Aug 20266 minMetals & Mining

Hi-Tech Pipes Q1FY27: consol PAT dips 4% YoY to ₹20 Cr as trading surge dilutes margins

steel pipes · trading mix · margin compression

ResultsQ1 FY2712 Aug 20263 minMetals & Mining
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Board Meeting12 Aug, 12:42 pm

Hi-Tech Pipes Q1FY27: consol PAT dips 4% YoY to ₹20 Cr as trading surge dilutes margins

Hi-Tech Pipes' consolidated revenue jumped 78.5% YoY to ₹1,412.80 Cr (₹791.36 Cr in Q1FY26) but consolidated PAT actually declined 4.2% YoY to ₹20.04 Cr (₹20.92 Cr a year ago), even as it improved 13.9% QoQ from ₹17.60 Cr in Q4FY26. EPS came in at ₹0.99 versus ₹1.04 in Q1FY26. There is no exceptional item in either period, so the YoY profit decline is on a like-for-like basis. No quarter-specific Street PAT estimate could be sourced for Q1FY27; publicly available brokerage commentary pegs FY27 full-year PAT growth at 15-20%, which this quarter's YoY PAT decline does not yet support. Management's own FY27 guidance (from the Q4FY26 concall) targeted 6.5-7 lakh tons of sales volume and EBITDA of ₹3,500-4,000/ton; Q1's record 1,56,136 MT volume (+26% YoY) annualizes to roughly 6.2 lakh tons, near the low end, while EBITDA/ton works out to about ₹3,198 — below the guided band, so the quarter is a miss on per-ton profitability even as volume tracks close to plan. The gap between 78.5% revenue growth and 26% volume growth is the story: Purchase of Stock-in-Trade — essentially low-margin trading purchases resold rather than manufactured — jumped nearly 8x YoY to ₹280.46 Cr (₹35.16 Cr in Q1FY26), inflating the topline while diluting profitability. Consolidated NPM fell to 1.42% from 2.64% a year ago, and OPM (EBITDA margin) to about 3.54% from 5.19%, though both improved sequentially from Q4FY26's 1.19%/3.13% troughs — a QoQ recovery that is incidental to the underlying YoY compression, not a trend reversal on its own. Standalone PAT fell a steeper 15.1% YoY to ₹15.16 Cr against consolidated's 4.2% decline, meaning the wholly-owned subsidiaries (HTL Metal, HTL Ispat, Hitech Metalex, Hitech Global Steels, Sain Software) cushioned the group number — largely by absorbing more of the trading volume. On the corporate side, the company allotted 90 lakh warrants to the promoter group on 31-Jul-2026, consistent with the ₹90 Cr preferential issue flagged in the Q4FY26 concall to fund working capital and capex for the FY29 2-million-ton capacity build-out; no update was given this quarter on the value-added product mix reaching 50% of sales, a separate FY27 target from the same guidance.

12 Aug 2026, 12:42 pm

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