Sula Q1 FY27: consolidated PAT down 45% YoY to ₹1.06 Cr, propped up by one-off gain
Sula's consolidated PAT of ₹1.06 Cr for Q1 FY27 is down 45.4% YoY from ₹1.94 Cr and down 87.7% QoQ from ₹8.59 Cr, on revenue from operations of ₹120.79 Cr (+2.1% YoY, -15.3% QoQ — the QoQ drop is largely the seasonal step-down from Q4, historically the strongest quarter for the business). Crucially, the reported profit is not organic: ₹1.79 Cr of the ₹2.38 Cr consolidated other-income line (same at the standalone level) is a one-off gain on the sale of the company's Mumbai office property. Strip that out and consolidated PBT swings to a marginal loss of ₹(0.27) Cr against ₹2.56 Cr a year ago — adjusted PAT is roughly break-even-to-negative versus ₹1.94 Cr a year ago, an adjusted YoY decline of roughly 110%, far worse than the 45% headline drop suggests.
Consolidated OPM compressed to 13.7% from 15.5% YoY and 19.5% in Q4 FY26; NPM fell to 0.9% from 1.6% YoY and 6.0% QoQ. This matches management's own Q4 FY26 warning that gross margins would face pressure "for the next couple of quarters due to a higher-cost grape mix," to be partially offset by cost reduction and selective price hikes — that offset is not visible in this print. The growth half of that guidance ("growth momentum from Q4...to continue into FY27") also did not materialise: 2.1% YoY revenue growth is tepid against a company that had guided continued acceleration, so the quarter reads as a miss against management's own prior outlook.
On a standalone (secondary) basis the picture is better: standalone PAT of ₹4.06 Cr is a turnaround from a ₹(0.91) Cr loss a year ago, and even excluding the ₹1.79 Cr property-sale gain, standalone PBT of ₹3.58 Cr still marks a swing to profit from a ₹(1.10) Cr loss a year ago — a divergence from the consolidated adjusted picture that likely reflects weaker numbers at the Artisan Spirits/N D Wines subsidiaries rolled into the group (not broken out in this filing). During the quarter, a subsidiary acquired Domaine Chandon assets for ₹20 Cr (24 June 2026), continuing the Wine Tourism capex focus flagged at the Q4 concall including the Chandon estate; director Nicholas Cator retired (25 June 2026) with the vacancy unfilled; and the company issued a clarification denying undisclosed price-sensitive information ahead of this result. No press release accompanied this filing to independently frame the print, and no analyst preview specific to this quarter turned up in a web search (results surfaced only last year's Q1 FY26 result coverage), so vsStreet is marked unknown rather than inferred.