Ambuja Cements Ltd. Q4 FY2024 results: revenue ₹8,894 crore, up 11.6% on the year
Ambuja Cements Ltd. (AMBUJACEM) reported consolidated revenue from operations of ₹8,894 crore for Q4 FY2024, the quarter ended 31 March 2024, up 11.6% on the same quarter a year earlier. Profit after tax was ₹1,526 crore, up 99.9% on the year, and earnings per share ₹5.31. The figures are the company's own, from the audited results it filed with NSE on 2 May 2024.
The quarter, against the one before and a year earlier
| Line | Q4 FY2024 | Q3 FY2024 | Q4 FY2023 | Change on the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue from operations | 8,894 | 8,129 | 7,966 | +11.6% |
| Other income | 233 | 194 | 284 | -17.9% |
| Total income | 9,127 | 8,322 | 8,250 | +10.6% |
| Cost of materials consumed | 1,141 | 1,044 | 1,034 | +10.4% |
| Purchases of stock-in-trade | 264 | 183 | 88 | +200.3% |
| Changes in inventories | 182 | -37 | 282 | -35.5% |
| Employee benefit expense | 314 | 320 | 387 | -18.9% |
| Finance costs | 93 | 70 | 39 | +135.6% |
| Depreciation, depletion and amortisation | 453 | 418 | 352 | +28.6% |
| Other expenses | 5,295 | 4,887 | 4,936 | +7.3% |
| Total expenses | 7,741 | 6,885 | 7,119 | +8.7% |
| Profit before exceptional items and tax | 1,386 | 1,438 | 1,132 | +22.5% |
| Exceptional items | 212 | 0 | -147 | n/a |
| Profit before tax | 1,598 | 1,438 | 985 | +62.3% |
| Current tax | -21 | 364 | 249 | n/a |
| Deferred tax | 96 | -5 | -23 | n/a |
| Total tax | 75 | 359 | 226 | -66.6% |
| Profit after tax | 1,526 | 1,090 | 763 | +99.9% |
| Attributable to owners of the parent | 1,055 | n/a | 645 | +63.6% |
| Other comprehensive income | 30 | -2 | 12 | +136.9% |
| Total comprehensive income | 1,555 | 1,088 | 776 | +100.5% |
| EPS, basic | ₹5.31 | ₹4.14 | ₹3.25 | +63.4% |
| EPS, diluted | ₹4.79 | ₹3.86 | ₹3.08 | +55.5% |
₹ crore except per share.
Quarterly results, the last 12 quarters
| Q4 FY2023 | Q1 FY2024 | Q3 FY2024 | Q4 FY2024 | Q1 FY2025 | Q2 FY2025 | Q3 FY2025 | Q1 FY2026 | Q2 FY2026 | Q3 FY2026 | Q4 FY2026 | Q1 FY2027 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales | 7,966 | 8,713 | 8,129 | 8,894 | 8,311 | 7,516 | 9,329 | 10,289 | 9,174 | 10,277 | 10,915 | 9,500 |
| Expenses | 7,119 | 7,470 | 6,885 | 7,741 | 7,567 | 7,023 | 8,348 | 9,257 | 8,376 | 9,941 | 10,525 | 8,802 |
| Operating profit | 1,239 | 1,667 | 1,732 | 1,699 | 1,280 | 1,111 | 1,712 | 1,961 | 1,761 | 1,353 | 1,464 | 1,589 |
| OPM % | 16% | 19% | 21% | 19% | 15% | 15% | 18% | 19% | 19% | 13% | 13% | 17% |
| Other income | 284 | 263 | 194 | 233 | 355 | 374 | 1,352 | 256 | 257 | 87 | 234 | 169 |
| Interest | 39 | 52 | 70 | 93 | 68 | 67 | 67 | 67 | 77 | 59 | 21 | 57 |
| Depreciation | 352 | 372 | 418 | 453 | 467 | 552 | 664 | 862 | 885 | 959 | 1,053 | 834 |
| Exceptional items | -147 | 0 | 0 | 212 | 0 | -156 | 0 | 40 | -223 | -15 | -103 | -24 |
| Profit before tax | 985 | 1,506 | 1,438 | 1,598 | 1,099 | 710 | 2,333 | 1,328 | 833 | 407 | 522 | 843 |
| Tax % | 23% | 25% | 25% | 5% | 28% | 34% | -12% | 27% | -176% | 11% | -255% | 22% |
| Net profit | 763 | 1,135 | 1,090 | 1,526 | 790 | 473 | 2,620 | 970 | 2,302 | 367 | 1,857 | 660 |
| EPS in ₹ | ₹3.25 | ₹4.56 | ₹4.14 | ₹5.31 | ₹2.68 | ₹1.85 | ₹8.59 | ₹3.20 | ₹7.15 | ₹0.82 | ₹7.41 | ₹2.32 |
| Filing | NSE | NSE | NSE | NSE | NSE | NSE | NSE | Filing | Filing | Filing | Filing | Filing |
₹ crore except per share, consolidated, as filed with the exchange. Operating profit is sales less the expenses other than interest and depreciation, OPM is that over sales, and tax % is tax over profit before tax: arithmetic on the filed lines; everything else is as filed. Quarters before December 2024 are from the exchange's earlier results feed, which carries the filed lines without the filing itself; the column links to the exchange's page for the company.
Source
Audited consolidated results for the quarter ended 31 March 2024, filed with NSE on 2 May 2024: the result statement. All of Ambuja Cements Ltd.'s results: NSE company page.
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