Maruti Suzuki Q1 result: Massive jump in profit, stock gains 1.5% – key highlights

India’s largest automotive maker Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (MSIL) on Wednesday reported over two-fold bounce in its consolidated web revenue within the first quarter of the monetary yr 2022-23. 

MSIL’s web revenue jumped to Rs 1,036 crore primarily resulting from a low base within the year-ago interval when the corporate had reported Rs 440.8 crore revenue. The corporate’s manufacturing was hampered by COVID-related disruptions. 

The corporate offered a complete of 467,931 automobiles throughout the quarter with exports being the best ever at 69,437 items. 

The auto main has hiked costs six instances from January 2021 to June 2022, whereas chopping again on reductions as demand rebounded from pandemic lows. 

In the course of the quarter, MSIL registered web gross sales of Rs 25,286.3 million as towards Rs 16,798.7 in a yr in the past and the working revenue stood at Rs 1260.7 crore towards Rs 77.9 crore million in Q1FY22. 

EBITDA (earnings earlier than curiosity, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) margin, a key measure of profitability, got here at 7.2 per cent throughout the quarter from 4.6 per cent year-on-year.  

The rise in costs of commodities adversely impacted the working revenue in Q1FY23, Maruti Suzuki mentioned in its outcomes alternate. “The corporate was compelled to extend costs of automobiles to partially offset this affect and the revenue earlier than tax was additionally impacted by the non-operating revenue being decrease on this quarter resulting from mark-to-market loss.” 

“Scarcity of digital elements on this quarter resulted in about 51,000 automobiles not being produced. Pending buyer orders stood at about 280,000 automobiles on the finish of the quarter and the corporate is making efforts to serve these orders quick,” the corporate mentioned in a regulatory submitting. 

Shares of Maruti Suzuki gained over 1.5 per cent to shut at Rs 8660.05 per share on the BSE as towards practically 1 per cent rise within the S&P BSE Sensex.