Over the last five years, Venus Pipes and Tubes enhanced its cumulative capacity by 4.1x to 38,400 tonnes. Under the next leg of expansion, it is enhancing its presence in high-grade stainless steel/titanium-welded tubes, fittings and seamless pipes/tubes, thus taking the cumulative capacity to 46,800 tonnes.
We recently met Sharda Cropchem’s Chairman and MD, Mr R V Bubna to gauge the business outlook. Management is confident of achieving double-digit revenue growth (guidance raised 26% y/y post Q3 results vs. 15-20% earlier) in FY25, particularly due to volumes and penetration into new markets.
Lagging the consensus and in line with ARe, Narayana Hrudayalaya’s Q3 results were decent, revenue/EBITDA/PAT rising 14%/10%/3% y/y. Cayman reported Rs2.8bn/Rs1.2bn revenue/EBITDA, up 14/2% y/y.
A schedule ‘A’ Miniratna Category-I company, MOIL is the largest manganese ore producer in India, with market shares at ~20% domestically and ~2.2% globally.
On a consolidated basis, SEL topline increased by 14.8% YoY and remained flat QoQ to Rs8,315 mn. EBITDA increased by 11.2% YoY and 54% QoQ to Rs970 mn. EBITDA margin remained flat YoY and grew by 411bps QoQ to 11.7%.
In line with ARe, Dollar Industries' Q3 sales grew 14.8% y/y. The South brought ~8% to 9M FY25 revenue; plans are to hike this to 13-15% over 2-3 years. At end-Q3, the company had 17 EBOs and plans to increase this to ~125 by FY26. Force NXT (premium segment) continues to do well, recording 13.8%/23.3% value/volume growth y/y.
Hindalco’s 600k-tonne strategic expansion in Bay Minette is on track to be completed in H2 CY26. The recently commissioned 250k-tonne Guthrie facility continues to ramp up automotive sheet ingot casting and the 100ktonne recycling centre in Ulsan (South Korea) has been commissioned.
Greenpanel Industries’ Q3 revenue/gross profit/EBITDA/PAT fell 6.8%/28%/71/69.3% y/y to Rs3.6bn/1.6bn/173m/85m. The poor showing stemmed from export volumes falling (due to unprofitable orders) while domestic volumes were flat.
Surpassing our Rs11.3bn estimate on more-than-expected revenue and less-than-anticipated other expenses, Ashok Leyland’s Q3 EBITDA grew 9% y/y to Rs12.1bn.
Kewal Kiran’s Q3 revenue grew 27.5% y/y on Kraus’ acquisition. Standalone sales growth was muted at 0.8% y/y. Some of the revenue loss was on Lawman brand’s discontinuation from MBO channel.
