Greenpanel Industries’ (GREENP) consol. revenue grew 17.5% YoY in Q2FY26 as MDF revenue rose 20.4% YoY and beat our expectation.

Greenpanel's Q2FY26 performance was significantly below our expectations. Revenue grew 18% YoY to Rs3.9bn, driven by robust growth in MDF segment despite weakness in plywood segment. Consolidated EBITDA dropped 17% YoY to Rs248mn, primarily impacted by an EUROINR forex loss of Rs 124mn and higher chemical prices. However, margins were aided by raw material optimization and improved power consumption efficiencies, and an EPCG benefit of Rs60mn. Management expects high teen digit domestic volume growth for MDF segment with high single digit to low double digit EBITDA...

Century Plyboards' Q1FY26 profitability missed our expectations. Revenue grew by 16% YoY to Rs12bn, driven by strong growth in Plywood (+15% YoY) and MDF (+24% YoY), despite a decline in Particle boards (-7% YoY). EBITDA margin contracted by 10bps YoY to 11.0%, due to margin pressure across all segments except for MDF. Century's new particle board facility in Chennai, with revenue potential of Rs5bn+ and EBITDA margins of 15.0%, commenced operation in Q1FY26 and is expected to drive volume growth from Q2FY26 onwards. Additionally, the plywood facility at Hoshiarpur, with a capacity of 50,000 CBM,...

Century Plyboards (CPBI) reported Q1FY26 consol. revenue growth of 16.3% YoY. Plywood / laminates / MDF and allied revenue grew 14.5% / 12.8% / 23.7% YoY with volume up 10.6% / 6.8% / 19% YoY (6-year CAGR of 9.9% / 4.5% / 12.6%), respectively.

expected at 12-14%/8-10%/15%/low single digits. We believe Plywood will continue to see healthy volume growth and better realizations as the company took a price hike of 2% in Q1FY26. Also the company highlighted during the call that Jul'25 saw the highest volume growth in its history, and improvement in Laminate and MDF segments. We expect overall revenue/EBITDA/PAT CAGR of 13.2%/26.1%/47.8% with Plywood/Laminate/MDF/Particleboard volume CAGR of 11.1%/14.0%/19.0%/15.6% over FY25-27E. We maintain our rating of...

Greenpanel's Q1FY26 performance was significantly below our expectations, with revenue declining by 10% YoY to Rs3.3bn due to weak performance across segments. A consolidated EBITDA loss of Rs 158mn was reported, impacted by an EUROINR forex loss of Rs 275mn out of which Rs 41mn was classified under finance costs and Rs 234mn under other overheads. Despite the weak performance, management remains ambitious, maintaining MDF volume guidance of 550,000 CBM as they realign their strategy to regain market share through pricing and cost control. We cut our FY27E EPS estimates by 10% and...

Greenpanel Industries’ (GREENP) consol. revenue dipped 10.1% YoY in Q1FY26 as MDF revenue fell 10.8% YoY. Blended MDF volume slumped 14.3% YoY (flat QoQ; 6-year CAGR of 4.9%) with an 8.6% YoY decline in domestic volume (+1.9% QoQ; 6-year CAGR of 11.7%) due to discontinuation of OEM SKUs (on BIS implementation).

Greenply's Q1FY26 Revenue grew 3% YoY to Rs6bn, driven by healthy growth in MDF segment. EBITDA increased by 6% YoY to Rs616mn, with EBITDA margin expanding by 34bps YoY to 10.3%, driven by improved margins in the MDF segment. Adj. PAT declined by 28% YoY to Rs204mn, (excluding Rs 44.3mn received on liquidation of 30% stake in GMEL-Dubai). Net debt increased by Rs74mn to Rs5.4bn, due to inventory build-up in preparation for MDF plant capacity extension in the month of Aug'25. Also, Greenply plans to set up PVC & WPC windows facility with a capex of Rs 550mn, which can achieve revenue of...

Century Plyboards' Q4FY25 profitability missed our expectations. Revenue grew by 13% YoY to Rs12bn, driven by strong Plywood (+8% YoY) and MDF (+37% YoY), despite decline in Particle boards (-25% YoY). EBITDA margins contracted by 275bps YoY to 11.2% due to margin pressure across all segments except for plywood. Century plans an 50,000 CBM plywood facility at Hoshiarpur within a year, along with an additional 50,000CBM capacity through brownfield expansions and de-bottlenecking. Century expects its continuous process plant for particle board at Chennai facility to commence operation in Q1FY26,...

Century Plyboards (CPBI) reported Q4FY25 consol. revenue growth of 13% YoY. Plywood/laminates/MDF and allied revenues grew 9.6%/ 1.3%/37.2% YoY with volumes up 6.8%/0.5%/39.2% YoY (6-year CAGRs of 10.2%/2.7% / 16.3%), respectively.

Misses EBITDA estimate by 7.7% on sharp sequential margin contraction across segments (except plywood)

CPBI has guided revenue growth of 10%/20%/20%/40% in FY26 across its Plywood/Laminate/MDF/PB segments with expected EBITDA margin of 1214%/single digit/15%/low single digit for Plywood/Laminate/MDF/PB. We believe Plywood performance will continue with healthy volume growth and better realizations as company took a price hike of 2% in Q1FY26 and...

Beats EBITDA estimate on unexpected sharp improvement in MDF gross margin, despite weak realisations and higher timber prices

Century Plyboards (India) Limited (CPIL) reported robust revenue of Rs 1,140.5 crore (+21.7% y-o-y) in 3Q FY25, driven by volume expansion in MDF (+19.0% y-o-y) and Plywood (+16.0% y-o-y). The Particle Board (1.2% y-o-y) and Laminates (-9.4% y-o-y) segments witnessed volume de-growth.

CPBI beats our estimate on strong plywood sales volume and sharp sequential improvement in MDF margin