JSW Cement swings to ₹153 Cr consol profit YoY as one-off fades; PAT down 58% QoQ
JSW Cement's consolidated PAT came in at ₹153.43 Cr for Q1 FY27 versus a ₹1,366.41 Cr loss a year ago, on revenue of ₹1,896.41 Cr (+21.6% YoY, +0.07% QoQ). The headline YoY swing is almost entirely a base-effect story: Q1 FY26's loss was driven by a one-time non-cash ₹1,466.38 Cr charge on CCPS conversion, which has no counterpart this quarter. Stripping that out, adjusted PAT rises from roughly ₹100 Cr (₹164.74 Cr pre-exceptional PBT less the period's ₹64.77 Cr tax) to ₹153.43 Cr this quarter — an adjusted YoY growth of about 53%, a healthy but far less dramatic underlying improvement than the reported numbers suggest.
Sequentially the picture is weaker: PAT fell 57.6% from ₹361.65 Cr in Q4 FY26, and net margin compressed to 7.8% of total income from 18.9% in Q4. Q4 (Jan-Mar) is typically the strongest quarter for Indian construction activity, so part of this sequential dip is seasonal rather than a structural deterioration, though the size of the fall — helped along by a one-off ₹55.21 Cr JV-dilution gain sitting in other income — means underlying operating profitability softened more than the QoQ revenue line (flat) implies. Standalone PAT was ₹111.41 Cr on revenue of ₹1,737.89 Cr, down from ₹388.27 Cr in Q4 FY26, a quarter that had benefited from a ₹218.92 Cr deferred-tax credit tied to adopting the Section 115BAA new tax regime under the Finance Act, 2026 — a credit not repeated this quarter.
Management's FY27 guidance from the Q4 FY26 call called for mid-to-high-teens volume growth (excluding the newly operational North India region) and ~₹2,300 Cr of FY27 capex toward the 43.5 MTPA-by-FY30 target. This filing does not break out volumes, so the guidance cannot be verified directly, but the 21.6% YoY revenue growth is broadly consistent with that band. No formal analyst consensus for this print could be confirmed — the one available preview (Univest) flagged its own PAT range as a non-formal trailing-growth extrapolation that is not credible against the actual print, though its revenue estimate range of ₹1,628-1,873 Cr was roughly in line with the ₹1,896.41 Cr actual. Alongside the results, the board approved raising up to ₹500 Cr via listed NCDs on private placement, which sits against the FY27 capex guidance rather than against any immediate cash shortfall disclosed in this statement.
Going into Q2 FY27, the numbers to track are whether volume growth holds to the mid-to-high-teens guided range now that North India capacity is live, whether the promised green-energy/logistics cost savings show up in a margin rebound from this quarter's 7.8% NPM, and how the new NCD proceeds are deployed against the ₹2,300 Cr FY27 capex plan.