Q1-FY24 · Niranjan Gupta
Our singular focus is going to be growth and market share on the back of lots of launches that we have done and the launches that are in the offing in the next few quarters.
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Our singular focus is going to be growth and market share on the back of lots of launches that we have done and the launches that are in the offing in the next few quarters.
We are back to pre-COVID levels, which are around 14%. Therefore, moving forward, having covered the margins back to pre-COVID levels, our singular focus is going to be growth and market share.
The number of new launches that we are doing this year is unparalleled as far as our history is concerned. Probably unparalleled in the industry as well.
We saw INR 10,000 crore revenue being crossed for the first time, registering our highest ever profit after tax with 36% growth.
The 125cc has seen the sharpest increase from a 13% market share in Q4 to 20% in Q1.
Our ICE margins improved further to 16.4%. This improvement is driven by operating leverage, mix improvement, cost savings, and pricing.
We are pleased to report a positive start to the fiscal year with our Wahan market share recovering to 30.9% in Q1 FY 2026, representing a sequential increase of 1%.
In EV, we reported our highest ever market share, quarterly market share of 7%, more than doubling year-on-year. Our July market share further increased to over 10%.
We've given the guidance on the margin, that the margins will operate between 14% and 16%. In the short term, you are right, it will operate on the lower band of this range.
We delivered a revenue of INR 9,445 crores, with our margins of 14.1%, which was up 260 basis points year-on-year basis.
Our win and premium journey has started off very well.
It's only a question of time when we actually put out the scale.
Our P&L shape is stronger than ever before. Our balance sheet is stronger than ever before. The cash flows are stronger than ever before, and that allows us the flexibility and the headroom to invest even more aggressively behind our growth priorities.
We do believe that the customers are the smartest lots. And customers are the king. They are the smartest lot. And we always need to learn something or the other from our customers.
The festival was indeed very, very positive for us, as we saw. We prepared very well. The preparation for something like this that goes into a result like 1.6 million with a 13% growth, obviously, all the channel partners inspiring them, motivating them, getting onto the same page, getting the production and the inventory geared up, and the model mix geared up for that takes a lot.
Our VAHAN market share in October expanded by 3.7% year-on-year to 31.6%.
The company recorded its highest-ever quarterly revenue of INR 12,126 crores, reflecting year-on-year growth of 16%, highest-ever EBITDA of INR 1,823 crores, growth of 20%, and highest-ever PAT of INR 1,393 crores, growth of 16%.
Our goal is to grow ahead of the market, and that's what you would have seen manifesting as we have made our portfolio more robust.
We delivered a top-line growth of 20% and a PAT growth, profit growth of 50%.
EV is a marathon. We don't want to get caught up in a short-term price war.
The single biggest driver from the industry point of view will be the finance penetration down to the lowest strata.
Our EBITDA per unit remarkably has crossed now INR 10,000 per unit, driven by premiumization, mix, and judicious pricing, which augurs well as we expand our volume given the operating leverage it will generate.
All strategies are as good as the execution, and our focus now is going to be purely on executing and accelerating the execution strategy.
We are not there with 60% of the market. If you see our play area and where we play, a lot of towns actually exceeding now 20% market share, and many are 10% market share.
We are all acutely aware of the opportunities that exist in some of the other categories which are growing faster and where we are relatively underrepresented.
The company recorded its highest-ever quarterly revenue of INR 12,328 crores, reflecting year-on-year growth of 21%.
We are seeing inflationary trends. We've seen the prices of aluminum, precious metals going up starting last quarter.
These are exciting times at Hero MotoCorp as well. They are reflected in the results that we declared just a while back. The year has been the year of maximum number of launches while making big strides in the premium segment.
We are fairly confident about our double-digit revenue growth. Now, what shape and mix of volume and price and mix and all that happens, that one we'll see how the industry navigates through.
The whole approach, even when we launched it, we had tie-ups with the gamers, BGMI and others. And they have been really into it in terms of the younger cohort of customers because that's the lifestyle that we wanted to tap into.
We have retained the number one spot during the quarter and on the full-year basis. For the first four months in the calendar year, we have gained month-on-month market share.
We have given a guidance to the market of maintaining our EBITDA margins between 14-16%. Directionally, we will be there.
At a 25,000-30,000 levels of volume per month, we hope that this will break even, which, in our view, is a couple of years away.
In these focus segments, we've seen advancement in last quarter. In scooters, we saw 48% growth year-on-year. In EV, our EV scooter volumes expanded 2.5 times over the previous year.
We are committed to our medium-term margin guidance of 14%-16%.
The price hike that we've taken is close to 2%. Commodity and the labor cost and the fuel cost increase is far higher than that. It's in high single digits, and it's changing day by day.