Hindustan Unilever Ltd. Q2 FY2025 results: revenue ₹15,926 crore, up 1.9% on the year
Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (HINDUNILVR) reported consolidated revenue from operations of ₹15,926 crore for Q2 FY2025, the quarter ended 30 September 2024, up 1.9% on the same quarter a year earlier. Profit after tax was ₹2,595 crore, down 2.3% on the year, and earnings per share ₹11.03. The figures are the company's own, from the unaudited results it filed with NSE on 23 October 2024.
The quarter, against the one before and a year earlier
| Line | Q2 FY2025 | Q1 FY2025 | Q2 FY2024 | Change on the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue from operations | 15,926 | 15,707 | 15,623 | +1.9% |
| Other income | 219 | 257 | 183 | +19.7% |
| Total income | 16,145 | 15,964 | 15,806 | +2.1% |
| Cost of materials consumed | 5,005 | 4,874 | 4,799 | +4.3% |
| Purchases of stock-in-trade | 2,914 | 2,728 | 2,636 | +10.5% |
| Changes in inventories | -210 | -57 | -90 | n/a |
| Employee benefit expense | 822 | 656 | 766 | +7.3% |
| Finance costs | 110 | 93 | 88 | +25.0% |
| Depreciation, depletion and amortisation | 338 | 329 | 297 | +13.8% |
| Other expenses | 3,602 | 3,762 | 3,715 | -3.0% |
| Total expenses | 12,581 | 12,385 | 12,211 | +3.0% |
| Profit before exceptional items and tax | 3,564 | 3,579 | 3,595 | -0.9% |
| Exceptional items | -16 | -48 | -5 | n/a |
| Profit before tax | 3,548 | 3,531 | 3,590 | -1.2% |
| Current tax | 940 | 853 | 889 | +5.7% |
| Deferred tax | 7 | 64 | 42 | -83.3% |
| Total tax | 947 | 917 | 931 | +1.7% |
| Profit after tax | 2,595 | 2,612 | 2,657 | -2.3% |
| Attributable to owners of the parent | 2,591 | 2,610 | 2,656 | -2.4% |
| Other comprehensive income | -4 | -2 | 5 | n/a |
| Total comprehensive income | 2,591 | 2,610 | 2,662 | -2.7% |
| EPS, basic | ₹11.03 | ₹11.11 | ₹11.30 | -2.4% |
| EPS, diluted | ₹11.03 | ₹11.11 | ₹11.30 | -2.4% |
₹ crore except per share.
Quarterly results, the last 12 quarters
| Q2 FY2024 | Q3 FY2024 | Q4 FY2024 | Q1 FY2025 | Q2 FY2025 | Q3 FY2025 | Q4 FY2025 | Q1 FY2026 | Q2 FY2026 | Q3 FY2026 | Q4 FY2026 | Q1 FY2027 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales | 15,623 | 15,567 | 15,210 | 15,707 | 15,926 | 15,818 | 15,670 | 16,514 | 16,241 | 16,441 | 16,351 | 17,341 |
| Expenses | 12,211 | 12,305 | 12,100 | 12,385 | 12,581 | 12,576 | 12,478 | 13,284 | 12,999 | 13,078 | 12,934 | 13,822 |
| Operating profit | 3,797 | 3,666 | 3,535 | 3,744 | 3,793 | 3,695 | 3,619 | 3,718 | 3,729 | 3,788 | 3,841 | 3,947 |
| OPM % | 24% | 24% | 23% | 24% | 24% | 23% | 23% | 23% | 23% | 23% | 23% | 23% |
| Other income | 183 | 214 | 231 | 257 | 219 | 232 | 309 | 201 | 147 | 139 | 264 | 188 |
| Interest | 88 | 91 | 105 | 93 | 110 | 112 | 80 | 127 | 129 | 88 | 76 | 75 |
| Depreciation | 297 | 313 | 320 | 329 | 338 | 341 | 347 | 361 | 358 | 337 | 348 | 353 |
| Exceptional items | -5 | -30 | 78 | -48 | -16 | 507 | -138 | -127 | 184 | -576 | 247 | -75 |
| Profit before tax | 3,590 | 3,446 | 3,419 | 3,531 | 3,548 | 3,981 | 3,363 | 3,304 | 3,573 | 2,926 | 3,928 | 3,632 |
| Tax % | 26% | 27% | 25% | 26% | 27% | 25% | 26% | 16% | 25% | 27% | 23% | 26% |
| Net profit | 2,657 | 2,508 | 2,561 | 2,612 | 2,595 | 2,989 | 2,475 | 2,768 | 2,694 | 6,603 | 2,994 | 2,680 |
| EPS in ₹ | ₹11.30 | ₹10.68 | ₹10.89 | ₹11.11 | ₹11.03 | ₹12.70 | ₹10.48 | ₹11.73 | ₹11.43 | ₹9.03 | ₹12.76 | ₹11.38 |
| Filing | NSE | NSE | NSE | NSE | NSE | NSE | Filing | 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
Unaudited consolidated results for the quarter ended 30 September 2024, filed with NSE on 23 October 2024: the result statement. All of Hindustan Unilever Ltd.'s results: NSE company page.
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