Century Plyboards (India) Ltd. share price target

Century Plyboards is undertaking capacity expansions across segments to drive growth. The laminates business has shown early signs of recovery in terms of revenue growth and EBITDA margins, and the company remains optimistic about coming quarters.

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...

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.

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...

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

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

Century Plyboards (India) Limited (CPIL) reported highest ever quarterly top-line of Rs 1,183.6 crore (+18.7% y-o-y) in 2Q FY25, driven by volume expansion in MDF (+16.4% y-o-y), Plywood (+19.3% y-o-y) and Particle Board (8.0% y-o-y). The Laminates (-9.8% y-o-y) segment saw volume de-growth.

CPBI's topline beat; EBITDA missed our estimates sharply on margin pressure across segments except plywood

We retain BUY on Century Plyboards with an unchanged PT of Rs. 840, considering its strong earnings growth outlook over the next 2-3 years.

Century Plyboards (India) Limited (CPIL) reported a healthy top-line of Rs 1,005.4 crore (+12.8% y-o-y) in 1Q FY25, driven by volume expansion in MDF (+29.0% y-o-y) and Plywood (+13.4% y-o-y). Laminates (-6.7% y-o-y) and Particle Board (-2.8% y-o-y) segments saw volume de-growth.

Century Plyboards (CPBI) has reported Q1FY25 consol. revenue growth of 12.8% YoY. Plywood / laminates / MDF revenue grew 14.2% / (-1.1)% / 25.5% YoY with vol growing +13.4% / -6.5% / 47.3% YoY.

Century reported broadly in-line performance for Q1FY2025. Standalone revenue at Rs. 952 crore
(up 7.9% y-o-y) was primarily driven by plywood (revenue up 14.9% y-o-y aided by 13.4% y-o-y.