Q1-FY24 · Pirojsha Godrej
We remain confident of meeting our annual bookings guidance of INR 14,000 crore.
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We remain confident of meeting our annual bookings guidance of INR 14,000 crore.
The most important objective going forward will be to get all of our recently added projects launched in the upcoming quarter.
Our endeavor is to generate PAT margins close to about, in the range of 12%-15%.
GPL achieved its highest-ever net profit in the quarter of INR 520 crore.
Booking value grew by 283% to INR 8,637 crore.
Our 99% of last quarter was all front-ended sales, 1% because the tag of some project is OC, which gets access PLP.
We have delivered our highest ever quarterly net profit of INR 600 crore in the first quarter, a growth of 50% year-on-year.
We remain very confident of the guidance. Both on collections and deliveries quarter to quarter.
I think we have enough and more to kind of sustain the growth for the next 18-24 months.
This quarter's booking figure is also nearly equal to our annual booking level three or four years ago.
We are confident of exceeding our annual booking guidance of INR 14,000 crore.
The most important objective going forward will be to get all of our recently added projects launched in the upcoming quarter.
We've already achieved 51% of our annual bookings guidance.
Our goal isn't to do only luxury developments, which have their own drawbacks.
We are seeing a lot of opportunities that do meet this threshold still, but I think the IRR threshold of 20%-25% is what we look at.
We are quite confident that that visibility will change considerably, as we said, by FY 2028, by when we expect the accounting numbers to catch up to at least some extent, and we expect to be able to deliver the 20% ROE we've talked about.
I think there is no constraint in that sense to the growth opportunity before us. As a company, if we look at residential sales on a national level, we are currently last year at about 4.3% of total sales. Clearly, we think that gives us headroom for growth.
I think this is the most important metric for the company. Whether we look at incentives or other things, certainly this will be the key focus.
The third quarter was Godrej Properties' most successful quarter ever in terms of new bookings, with year-on-year growth of 76% to INR 5,720 crore.
I clearly don't think those kind of growth rates will be sustainable over the medium term. I think we'd look more towards ambitious but reasonable steady state growth in the range of around 20% on an ongoing basis.
The basic cyclicality of the sector, I think, is here to stay, and I think it's incumbent upon individual developers to figure out how to best maximize the opportunity in each leg of the cycle and maintain a balance sheet that can withstand any surprises that come along.
Calendar year 2024 was a record-breaking year for Godrej Properties. Our booking value reached ₹28,800 crore, a year-on-year growth of 69%.
We've seen six consecutive quarters of ₹5,000 crore plus sales. I think that's an industry record.
Golf Course Road is a pure margin expansion play for us. We are not targeting a booking value play from Golf Course Road; we are looking more from a value-accretive and strong margin profile kind of play.
We currently hold about INR 135,000 crores' worth of inventory. Within that, if I talk about inventory that is very recent, which is very fresh inventory, which is from the acquisitions of last three years, that itself give or take is about INR 65,000 crores.
I think the market is slowly maturing. So now you have a tendency in different micro-markets where I would say buyers are appreciating more about product quality, location. It is gradually becoming what we always believed to be more of either an end-user market or a very seasoned retail investor.
Our belief has been that there is opportunity, irrespective of what happens with the overall market. We've seen, for example, I think last year was our ninth consecutive year of booking value growth.
Our hypothesis of raising capital five years ago, deploying aggressively into business development when market conditions were favorable for investments, and using these new projects to deliver exponential growth in bookings is, we believe, playing out exactly as we had hoped.
I think the base that we need is more demanding now than it has been in past years, but I think we'd like to stick with our guidance of 20% growth over the medium term.
If we see great opportunities, the INR 20,000 is not going to form any kind of upper cap, certainly.
This is the highest-ever quarterly booking value achieved by GPL, and it's the first time that we crossed INR 10,000 crore booking value in a quarter.
I think the advantage of having a strong presence, a strong brand, but a relatively small market share is that irrespective of how the market performs, there is a market share gain opportunity that remains.
Growth is more or less hygiene for us now. It's to look at other buckets of performance.
GPL delivered its best-ever year for business development, bookings, collections, operating cash flow, and earnings in financial year 2026.
We crossed bookings of INR 7,000 crore and area sold of more than 6,000,000 sq ft in each quarter of the last financial year, demonstrating the consistency made possible by our national presence and strong product portfolio.
Our record business development additions, combined with the strong operating cash flow of over INR 15,000 crore that has been generated over the last two years, will enable us to continue building on the strong growth momentum the company has established.