Synopsis:
Maruti Suzuki is in focus as the company expects a bumper festive season with 15-20 percent growth YoY. It also added that customer inquiries are already up by 15 percent. Overall booking stands at 1.5 lakh with 10,000 New Bookings.
The shares of the largest automotive maker in India are in focus as it announced key updates and expectations for the upcoming festive season. In this article, we will dive more into the details.
With a market capitalization of Rs 4,76,098 crore, the shares of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd are currently trading at Rs 15,143 per share, up by 0.23 percent from its previous day’s closing price of Rs 15,108 per share. Over the past five years, the stock has delivered a 110 percent return.
About the Announcement
Partho Banerjee, the Head of Marketing & Sales at Maruti Suzuki, cited some favourable growth prospects in its business. He cited that Maruti Suzuki is anticipating a robust festive season this year with a growth of 15–20 percent over the last year. He also added that the customer inquiries have risen by 15 percent since the announcement of the GST cut.
With almost 10,000 new bookings being received every day, the company already has total bookings of 1.5 lakh cars. In addition, Maruti mentioned that it will keep being non-committal with respect to the use of technology, i.e., it will not depend on only one technology but rather concentrate on all kinds of technologies.
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Financial Highlights
Maruti Suzuki’s revenue for Q1 FY26 came in at Rs 38,605 crore, up by 8 percent from Rs 35,779 crore in the same quarter last year. However, on a sequential basis, revenue declined by 6 percent from Rs 40,920 crore in Q4 FY25.
During the period, sales volume grew by only 1.1 percent to 5,27,861 units in Q1 FY26 as compared to 5,21,868 units in Q1 FY25. Sales volume declined by 12.7 percent from 6,04,635 units in its previous quarter.
Coming to its profitability, the company reported a net profit growth of 1 percent to Rs 3,792 crore in Q1 FY26 as compared to Rs 3,760 crore in Q1 FY25. However, on a QoQ basis, it declined by 3 percent from Rs 3,911 crore in Q4 FY25.
Written by Satyajeet Mukherjee
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