SJS Q1 FY27: PAT +115% YoY on land-sale gain, +34% adjusted; margins expand to 30.6%
S.J.S. Enterprises posted consolidated revenue of ₹260.99 Cr (+24.5% YoY, +0.3% QoQ) and PAT of ₹74.42 Cr (+115.0% YoY, +52.3% QoQ) for Q1 FY27. The PAT print is flattered by a ₹27.95 Cr exceptional gain on the sale of a Bengaluru freehold land parcel for ₹58.5 Cr (announced June 15); stripping that one-off, adjusted PAT is ~₹46.5 Cr, up a steadier 34.2% YoY but down 4.9% QoQ, since Q4 FY26 carried no comparable one-off. Basic EPS was ₹23.18 (reported) against ₹15.16 in Q4 FY26 and ₹11.03 a year ago. No consensus/Street preview for this specific quarter turned up in search, so the print cannot be graded against a published estimate — vsStreet is unknown rather than assumed.
The more durable story is margins: operating margin (EBITDA/revenue, computed pre-exceptional) expanded to 30.6%, up from 28.7% in Q4 FY26 and 26.7% a year ago — running ahead of management's own 27-28% long-term EBITDA-margin guidance given on the May concall, and consistent with the mix/premiumization drivers management cited then. Adjusted net margin (ex the land-sale gain) was 17.8%, roughly flat versus 18.4% in Q4 FY26 and up from 16.3% YoY. Reported NPM of 28.5% is a one-off-inflated number and shouldn't be read as the underlying margin.
On revenue, management had guided FY27 growth to outperform the auto industry by 1.5-2x on an order book covering over 85% of forecast; +24.5% YoY consolidated growth is consistent with that framing though the underlying industry growth rate to benchmark against wasn't independently verified here. Consolidated growth outpaced standalone (+17.6% YoY, ₹145.53 Cr), a >3%-point divergence pointing to subsidiaries SJS Decoplast and Walter Pack (WPI) growing faster than the parent. Corporate action this quarter ties directly into that guidance: the board approved buying the remaining 9.9% of WPI (34,661 shares, ₹19.9 Cr) from Roy Mathew to make it wholly owned, and approved a new wholly-owned subsidiary (up to ₹10 Cr investment) to manufacture automotive displays — the vehicle for the BOE partnership management said would start contributing business in early FY28. Separately, SJS Decoplast announced a ₹100 Cr capacity expansion (13,243 sq ft/day) on August 4, consistent with the capacity-expansion plank of FY27 guidance, and the board declared a ₹3.50/share dividend (₹11.2 Cr) at the July 4 AGM. No management press release/commentary was available in the source set to cross-check against these numbers.
Going into Q2, the readthrough is a real margin beat layered under an inflated headline PAT number — investors should anchor on the ~34% adjusted PAT growth and the 30.6% OPM, not the +115% reported figure, when judging whether the quarter met the guidance bar management set in May.
