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LIBERTY SHOES LTD.

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P/L Snapshot

Q1 FY27 · standalone

vs Q4 FY26·vs Q1 FY26
Revenue
169.88
-20.0%-1.8%
Expenditure
168.59
-18.2%+0.1%
Net Profit
0.68
-87.1%-79.5%
OPM %
7.86%
-1.63pp-1.40pp

Shareholding

Pattern breakdown

P/L Trends

(in crores)

RevenueExpenditureNet Profit
0.0059.44118.88178.31237.75Q2 FY25Q3 FY25Q4 FY25Q1 FY26Q2 FY26Q3 FY26Q4 FY26Q1 FY27
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Liberty Shoes Q1FY27: standalone PAT crashes 79% YoY to Rs 0.68 Cr as margins compress

footwear retail · margin compression · profit decline

ResultsQ1 FY2710 Aug 20263 minConsumer & Retail
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Board Meeting10 Aug, 2:52 pm

Liberty Shoes Q1FY27: standalone PAT crashes 79% YoY to Rs 0.68 Cr as margins compress

Liberty Shoes' standalone PAT for Q1 FY27 (June 2026) fell to Rs 0.68 Cr, down 79.5% YoY from Rs 3.33 Cr and 87.1% QoQ from Rs 5.30 Cr, even as revenue from operations was roughly flat YoY at Rs 169.86 Cr (-1.7%). The 19.9% QoQ revenue drop from Rs 212.05 Cr is largely a seasonal artifact — Q4 (Jan-Mar) is the company's strongest quarter for footwear sell-through — so the YoY comparison, where both revenue and profit are weaker, is the one that matters, and it shows genuine deterioration rather than a sequential blip. There is no formal management guidance on record for this quarter (none in our database, and no prior-quarter outlook statement was found), so the print cannot be graded against a stated target; similarly, no brokerage or consensus estimates specific to this quarter turned up in a search, so vs-street is unknown rather than a beat or miss — Liberty Shoes carries limited formal analyst coverage. The margin bridge explains the profit collapse: operating margin (OPM) compressed to 7.95% from 9.26% YoY and 9.49% QoQ, and net margin (NPM) fell to 0.40% from 1.92% YoY and 2.50% QoQ. Cost of materials consumed rose to 40.2% of revenue from 37.7% a year ago, employee benefit expense rose to 22.4% of revenue from 20.5%, and finance costs increased 11.4% YoY to Rs 4.25 Cr (2.5% of revenue vs 2.2% YoY) — three separate cost lines all grew as a share of sales while topline was flat to down, squeezing the bottom line from multiple directions simultaneously. Purchases of stock-in-trade also jumped 28.4% YoY, pointing to a heavier mix of third-party sourced (lower-margin) product this quarter. A small Rs 0.15 Cr exceptional charge (versus a Rs 0.04 Cr exceptional gain a year ago) added modest further drag, but adjusting for both leaves PAT still down about 77% YoY, confirming the weakness is structural to the quarter's cost base rather than a one-off. The results were announced alongside a same-day leadership reshuffle: Executive Director Shammi Bansal resigned from the board and was concurrently appointed President, while Raman Bansal — previously COO — was appointed Additional/Executive Director for three years, and two independent directors (Anand Das Mundhra, Piyush Dixit) were re-appointed for a second three-year term. None of these governance moves are tied to the numbers directly. Separately, the company continues to work through a SEBI-directed review of a promoter reclassification request (communication dated 21 July 2026); the board flagged unresolved questions on Regulation 31A(3)(b)(ii) around control and will forward the application with its own observations to the exchanges — an open item, not something that affected this quarter's P&L. No management press release or commentary accompanying the results was available in the context to cross-check against the numbers. Going into Q2 FY27, the key markers are whether the cost of materials ratio (40.2% of revenue, up from 37.7% YoY) and employee cost ratio (22.4%, up from 20.5% YoY) normalise, and whether the new Executive Director's operational stewardship shows up in the cost structure over the next couple of quarters.

10 Aug 2026, 02:52 pm

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