Highest Upside

Richly valued, despite a favorable outlook

Topline broadly in line; but EBITDA missed on margin contraction due to low absorption of fixed-cost overhead

Raymond Lifestyle (RLL) reported a weak 3Q with modest ~2% YoY revenue growth. EBITDA declined 37% YoY due to operating deleverage, higher ad spends in branded apparels and adverse segmental mix.

PVR Inox’s ad revenue grew ~36% QoQ to ~INR 1.48bn (highest quarterly ad-income post Covid) in Q3FY25, which in our view is an encouraging development.

Stovekraft logged healthy ~12% revenue growth (vs 3% decline at larger peer TTK Prestige), which was in line with the company’s guidance of sustained 8-10% revenue outperformance vs the underlying industry.

Kajaria Ceramics’ Q3 revenue rose only 1% y/y to Rs 11.6bn. EBITDA/PAT fell 16.8%/25.4% y/y to Rs1.5bn/Rs777m, below ARe’s Rs1.9bn/Rs 1.2bn.

Quarterly Update Q3FY25

We retain a Buy on Mahindra Lifespace Developers Limited (MLDL) with a revised PT of Rs. 644, removing NAV premium due to slower-than-anticipated new project additions and higher leverage.