Healthy Show on Higher Margin: Maintain BUY Ahluwalia Contracts (ACIL) has reported a better-than-expected operating performance in 3QFY18, with its reported EBITDA growing sharply by 32% YoY and 25% QoQ to Rs625mn mainly on account of continued belt-tightening exercise and a good progress on high-margin projects. While reported revenue rose by just 1% YoY to Rs3.6bn, revenue on comparable basis grew by ~10% YoY. EBITDA margin rose by 411bps YoY and 240bps QoQ to 17.3%, which is the key positive, in our view. Despite a one-time provisioning of Rs87mn in finance cost, reported net profit surged by 19% YoY and 13% QoQ to Rs292mn owing to higher operating profit. Further,...