Larsen & Toubro Ltd. share price target

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) is India’s premier engineering and construction conglomerate, excelling in EPC, manufacturing, and services across diverse industrial and infrastructure segments.

L&T, the engineering conglomerate, by virtue of its leadership and commendable execution track record in the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) domain is well poised to benefit from the capex upcycle in both public and private sectors.

Healthy order inflows of Rs. 28,000-47,500 crore during Q2FY2025 led by two mega orders from the Middle East, which comprise over 60% of the order intake.

LT’s 1QFY25 results were 3% ahead of our estimates on both revenue and PAT. The company reported 15%/15%/12% YoY growth in revenue/EBITDA/PAT on a consolidated basis.

Consolidated revenue growth was healthy at 15.1% y-o-y at Rs. 55,120 crore for Q1FY2025 led by strong execution in its projects & manufacturing vertical (revenues up 18.1% y-o-y at Rs. 38,624 crore), also aided by a 38% y-o-y.

NAM: Strong growth but upside capped cut to HOLD. APOLP: Disappointing result on all fronts. ITC: Cigarette and paperboard businesses disappoint. LT: Order inflow guidance raised; maintain BUY. NTPC: Normal quarter, aggressive expansion; maintain BUY. MRCO: Domestic business still lacklustre. UTIAM: Core earnings miss estimates. ASTRA: Mixed quarter, guidance broadly intact

Q3 order inflows and topline strong but margins declined due to legacy orders in the mix