Pine Labs reported 17.8% YoY revenue growth, with strong growth in the Issuing and Acquiring business (up 32.5% YoY) offsetting the weakness in Digital Infrastructure and Transaction Processing (DITP) business (up 11.9% YoY).
We met the management of Radico Khaitan. Dilip Banthiya, CFO, and Saket Somani, Vice President – Finance and Investor Relations, shed light on the company’s aspirations, growth path, and margin development.
Vishnu Chemicals (VCL) completed the acquisition of the chrome ore mine for ~USD10mn on a debt-free, cash-free, and liability-free basis on 21-Nov-25. VCL’s wholly owned subsidiary would own 74% of the mining entity and 100% of the chrome beneficiation plant, along with mining and infrastructure assets.
We hosted the management team of Gopal Snacks, represented by Bipin Hadvani (MD and Promoter), Naveen Gupta (Chief Business Officer), and Rigan Raithatha (Chief Financial officer), for its domestic Non-Deal Roadshow (NDR).
We initiate coverage on Pine Labs with REDUCE and TP of Rs210. Pine Labs has a strong value proposition in the enterprise POS segment (supported by high customer stickiness driven by deep software integration) and dominant position in EMI aggregation (owing to its early-mover advantage).
Samvardhana Motherson (SAMIL) delivered a largely in-line performance, with consol revenue up 8.5% YoY (6% ex-Atsumitech) to Rs301.7bn, with EBITDAM at 8.7% (vs 8.8% YoY), while APAT at Rs7.3bn was modestly below expectations.
We maintain Buy on JUBI with unchanged TP of Rs825 (34x Sep-27 EBITDA), on assuring management commentary around delivering mid-teen topline growth along with gradual margin gains – both have been key investor concerns in our view.
We retain REDUCE on PAG and Sep-26E TP of Rs39,450 (45x P/E), as sub-par growth trends continued in Q2. PAG’s Q2 EBITDA was 6-18% lower than street’s/our estimates, on a 2-6% revenue miss and 100-300bps lower EBITDA margin.
TATA logged a strong Q2, with consol adj EBITDA of Rs89.7bn, led by volumedriven improvement in India, while seeing breakeven in Europe – with strength in Netherlands offsetting losses in UK.
Indian Bank (INBK) continues to rank among the best performing PSBs, and our recent interaction with the MD and CEO, Binod Kumar reaffirms the bank’s firm focus on delivering sustainably higher profitability over growth.
We maintain REDUCE on Britannia, with a Sep-26E TP of Rs5,750, on 48x P/E (in line with its last 5Y average forward P/E). Q2 net sales grew at ~4%, 1%/4% below our estimate/consensus expectation.
We have a BUY on ABLBL, with a TP of Rs170 (25x Sep-27E EBITDA). ABLBL’s Q2 EBITDA was in line with expectations, albeit the performance was muted with 4% topline growth.
Delhivery’s Q2FY26 results (excluding Ecom) were in line with our revenue/EBITDA estimates. With network investments in core transportation businesses (for the festive season) behind us, seasonality would aid peak profitability in H2FY26, coupled with the lower-than-anticipated integration cost (~Rs2bn vs Rs3bn earlier) boosting PAT in FY26, in our view.
We upgrade TeamLease to BUY from Add, with an unchanged SOTP-based TP of Rs2,050, considering ~8%/10% correction in the stock price over the past 3M/6M.
Route Mobile posted a strong operating performance in Q2. Revenue grew 6.5% QoQ to Rs11.2bn, above our estimate, primarily led by international business, ILDO business’ expansion, and domestic volume growth (offset partially by lower realizations), combined with routing synergies.