Grasim Industries (Grasim) has kicked-off FY26 on a strong footing. Its standalone entity’s (SA) Q1FY26 EBITDA has not only beat our estimate (at INR 3.85bn, up 18% YoY; I-Sec: INR 2.55bn), revenues of the new business segments (paints/B2B ecommerce) too have pleasantly surprised; also, EBITDA losses are in check.