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SALZER ELECTRONICS LTD.-$

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P/L Snapshot

Q1 FY27 · standalone

vs Q4 FY26·vs Q1 FY26
Revenue
486.21
+5.1%+12.3%
Expenditure
474.99
+5.3%+16.1%
Net Profit
8.47
-15.5%-51.9%
OPM %
6.07%
-0.34pp-3.48pp

Shareholding

Pattern breakdown

P/L Trends

(in crores)

RevenueExpenditureNet Profit
0.00136.14272.28408.42544.56Q2 FY25Q3 FY25Q4 FY25Q1 FY26Q2 FY26Q3 FY26Q4 FY26Q1 FY27
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Reports

Growth Solid, Margins Crushed—and Guidance Now in Doubt

margin compression · commodity volatility · pass-through lag

Result verdictFollow-upQ1 FY2713 Aug 20266 minIndustrials & Infra

Strong volume growth masked by commodity-driven margin collapse

margin compression · commodity volatility · price pass-through lag

TranscriptDeep diveQ1 FY2713 Aug 20266 minIndustrials & Infra

Salzer Q1 FY27: consolidated PAT falls 52% YoY as margins compress despite 13% revenue growth

electrical installation products · margin compression · raw material cost

ResultsQ1 FY2708 Aug 20263 minIndustrials & Infra
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Board Meeting8 Aug, 6:20 pm

Salzer Q1 FY27: consolidated PAT falls 52% YoY as margins compress despite 13% revenue growth

Salzer's consolidated revenue rose to ₹498.02 Cr (+12.9% YoY, +5.0% QoQ), but consolidated PAT fell to ₹8.33 Cr, down 51.7% YoY and 20.5% QoQ from ₹17.22 Cr and ₹10.47 Cr respectively. Standalone tells the same story — PAT of ₹8.47 Cr, down 51.9% YoY on revenue of ₹485.96 Cr (+12.4% YoY) — so the two bases are not materially divergent here. Neither the current nor the year-ago quarter carried exceptional items on either basis, so this is a clean underlying decline, not a one-off distortion. The squeeze sits on the cost side: consolidated OPM (EBITDA margin) fell to roughly 6.4% from 9.6% a year ago and was broadly flat versus Q4 FY26's 6.6%, while NPM fell to 1.7% from 3.9%. Cost of materials consumed (₹397.50 Cr) grew 15.8% YoY, outpacing the 12.9% revenue growth, and employee benefit expenses rose 24.3% YoY to ₹20.13 Cr. This lines up with management's own May 2026 commentary that it planned to pass on 100% of raw-material cost escalation only via price increases effective June 2026 — by quarter-end the hikes had barely had time to flow through, leaving margins compressed. Against the FY27 target of 9-9.5% EBITDA margin on ₹2,000-2,100 Cr revenue, this quarter's 6.4% OPM is running well below plan even though the ₹498 Cr print, annualised to ~₹1,992 Cr, is roughly on track for the low end of the revenue range — guidance is met on revenue, missed on margin. No confirmable analyst consensus PAT estimate could be sourced for this small-cap print (coverage is thin); a public trailing-growth model (Univest) had projected Q1 FY27 revenue of ₹515-593 Cr off the Q1 FY26 base, above the ₹498 Cr actual, so vsStreet is left unknown rather than inferred from that estimate. No company press release accompanied the filing, so management's own framing of the quarter could not be cross-checked against the numbers. Concurrent with the results, the board approved re-appointment of Joint MD D Rajesh Kumar for a further five-year term from October 1, 2026, and recommended re-appointment of Chairman N. Rangachary and director V. Sankaran at the September 12, 2026 AGM — governance continuity items unrelated to the operating margin miss. Separately, the voluntary strike-off of subsidiary Salzer Kostad EV Chargers completed in July 2026, with step-down subsidiary Salzer Emarch Electromobility's strike-off still in process; management states neither affects the Group's going-concern position.

8 Aug 2026, 06:20 pm

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