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ROSSELL INDIA LTD.

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P/L Snapshot

Q1 FY27 · standalone

vs Q4 FY26·vs Q1 FY26
Revenue
38.20
+125.6%-16.2%
Expenditure
32.84
-24.4%-10.6%
Net Profit
3.81
+116.0%-52.4%
OPM %
17.86%
+117.86pp-6.72pp

Shareholding

Pattern breakdown

P/L Trends

(in crores)

RevenueExpenditureNet Profit
-37.03-2.8231.4065.6199.82Q2 FY25Q3 FY25Q4 FY25Q1 FY26Q2 FY26Q3 FY26Q4 FY26Q1 FY27
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Rossell India Q1: standalone PAT slides 52% YoY to ₹3.8 Cr on wage-cost squeeze

tea · agri commodity · wage cost inflation

ResultsQ1 FY2707 Aug 20263 minIndustrials & Infra
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Board Meeting7 Aug, 2:26 pm

Rossell India Q1: standalone PAT slides 52% YoY to ₹3.8 Cr on wage-cost squeeze

Rossell India's standalone Q1 FY27 revenue from operations came in at ₹36.78 Cr, down 15.6% year-on-year from ₹43.58 Cr, while PAT fell 52.4% YoY to ₹3.81 Cr (EPS ₹1.01) from ₹8.01 Cr (EPS ₹2.12) a year ago. Sequentially both metrics look strong — revenue up ~122% and the company swinging from a ₹23.79 Cr loss in Q4 FY26 to a profit — but that comparison is a seasonality artifact: the filing itself notes tea cultivation and sale is seasonal with cropping patterns varying by quarter, so quarterly results are not indicative of trend, and the YoY comparison is the one that matters here. The YoY decline is margin-led. Operating margin (revenue less total operating expenses, over revenue) compressed to about 17.9% from 24.6% a year ago, and net margin to roughly 10.0% from 17.6%, even as total income grew closer to flat than revenue alone suggests. Management's own notes point to two specific drivers: a notified 12% wage-rate revision for daily-rated tea-estate workers effective 1 April 2026 plus retrospective arrears from a salary revision for sub-staff, which pushed employee benefits expense to ₹44.47 Cr this quarter (+13.7% YoY, and nearly double the ₹24.66 Cr in Q4 FY26); and non-recognition of the Orthodox Subsidy in other operating income this quarter due to uncertainty over its receipt — a discretionary swing factor that has cushioned reported revenue in other periods. There is no analyst consensus or brokerage preview available for this small-cap standalone tea producer — a web search for Q1 FY27 estimates returned only coverage of the separately listed Rossell Techsys (a related but distinct aerospace-electronics company), not Rossell India — so vsStreet is unknown, and the company carries no formal prior guidance on record, so vsGuidance is also unknown; there is nothing in our concall records to check the quarter against either. The same board meeting that approved these results also formalised a finance-leadership transition: long-serving Director (Finance) & Company Secretary Nirmal Kumar Khurana (32 years with the company) retires effective 1 September 2026, with Raunak Rathi — a chartered accountant with prior CFO experience at Apeejay Tea and roles at Mcleod Russel and Asian Tea Group — stepping in as CFO, and Manish Shaw taking over as Company Secretary; the Stakeholders Relationship and CSR committees were reconstituted accordingly.

7 Aug 2026, 02:26 pm

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