Gland Pharma Ltd.

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Q1 FY2027 · Earnings Call TranscriptAugust 10, 2026

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, good day, and welcome to the Gland Pharma Limited Q1 FY '27 earnings conference call. As a reminder, all participant lines will be in the listen-only mode, and there will be an opportunity for you to ask questions after the presentation concludes.

Should you need assistance during this conference, please signal an operator by pressing star then zero on your touch-tone phone. Please note that this conference is being recorded.

I now hand the conference over to Mr. Shriniwas P.

Dange, Investor Relations at Gland Pharma Limited. Thank you, and over to you, sir.

Shriniwas P. Dange

Thank you, Darwin. Good evening, everyone.

We welcome you to Gland Pharma earnings conference call for Q1 of FY '27. I am Shriniwas Dange from the Investor Relations team at Gland Pharma.

Today, we have Mr. Srinivas Sadu, Executive Chairman, and Mr.

Ravi Mitra, Chief Financial Officer, from India office. We will begin the call with the business and operational highlights from Mr.

Sadu, followed by the group financial overview by Mr. Ravi.

Before we proceed, I would like to remind everyone that some of the statements made today will be forward-looking and are based on management's current estimates. These statements should be considered in light of the risk associated with our business.

This call is being recorded. The playback and script will be available on our website shortly.

With that, I hand over the call to Mr. Sadu for his opening remarks.

Srinivas Sadu

Thank you, Shriniwas. Good evening, everyone, and a warm welcome to all of you to Gland Pharma's earnings call for the first quarter of fiscal year 2027 ended June 30th, 2026.

I will begin with the business and strategic overview, and Ravi will subsequently walk you through the financial performance for the quarter. We have started FY '27 with a strong momentum, delivering healthy year-on-year growth in revenues, EBITDA, and profit after tax.

Our performance reflects the resilience of our business model and the successful execution of our strategic priorities. Growth during the quarter was driven by continued strength in our CDMO and B2B businesses, contribution from recent product launches, increasing volumes from existing products, improved capacity utilization, and sustained operational efficiency initiatives across the organization.

For the first quarter of FY '27, we reported revenues of ₹18,003 million, representing a growth of 20% year-on-year. Adjusted EBITDA for this quarter stood at ₹5,102 million, with margins of 28%, while profit after tax was ₹3,170 million, reflecting a healthy growth of 47% year-on-year with PAT margin of 18%.

The quarter demonstrates our ability to consistently execute on multiple growth levers while maintaining strong profitability. We continue to benefit from a balanced business mix and differentiated manufacturing capabilities.

Continued operating leverage, improved capacity utilization, and disciplined cost management have further supported our profitability during the quarter. Let me now provide an overview of our performance across business segments.

Our CDMO business continued to deliver strong growth during the quarter and remains one of the key pillars of our long-term strategy. Revenue from the CDMO segment stood at ₹8,915 million, which grew by 20% year-on-year and contributed 50% of total revenues during the quarter.

Growth was driven by recent product launches and progression of existing commercial programs. Our customer engagement remains strong, and we continue to attract robust global pharmaceutical companies seeking reliable sterile manufacturing partners.

Our pipeline of development and commercial opportunities remain healthy and provides good visibility for future growth. The continued expansion of our CDMO partner and product portfolio validates our investments in capabilities, infrastructure, and customer relationships over the last several years.

Our B2B business revenues stood at ₹9,088 million, contributing 50% of total revenues and recorded healthy growth of 19% year-on-year. The growth was supported by increased demand from existing customers, new contract wins, and higher volumes across several key products.

Recent product launches, together with strong execution and supply reliability, have enabled us to deepen customer relationships and expand market share across select products and markets. Having discussed our performance by business segments, let me now provide an overview of our key geographic markets.

The United States continues to be our largest market and delivered another strong quarter. Revenues for the quarter stood at ₹9,810 million, reflecting a growth of 32% year-on-year.

Growth in the US was driven by recent product launches from the CDMO segment and volume expansion in existing products. MVI and dalbavancin has witnessed an encouraging launch and continues to ramp up as expected.

During the quarter, we launched four products in the US. In Europe and other regulated markets, revenues for the quarter stood at ₹4,488 million, reflecting a growth of 11% year-on-year.

Growth was supported by increasing customer engagement, contribution from recent launches, and improving momentum across both our commercial and CDMO activities. We continue to strengthen our presence in these markets through differentiated products, expanded customer relationships, and improved commercial execution.

In the recent past, we have licensed four products to various partners across several countries, and several active discussions are underway in Europe. In the rest of the world markets, revenues for the quarter stood at ₹3,039 million, broadly in line with the corresponding period last year.

While demand across several key markets remain healthy, revenues in the quarter were impacted by supply disruptions in Saudi Arabia, one of our important markets. The award of NUPCO tenders has been delayed, and we expect the results to be announced shortly.

Looking ahead, we continue to see attractive opportunities to expand our presence across key international markets, supported by our broad product portfolio and strong manufacturing capabilities. In India, revenues for the quarter stood at ₹666 million.

At an overall level, growth across geographies reflects increasing diversification of our revenue base, deeper customer relationships, and the success of our strategy to build a balanced presence across regulated and emerging markets. Our recent new launches are doing well.

These new products are expected to remain important growth drivers through FY '27 and beyond. In addition to these launches, we are seeing healthy demand across several existing products.

Growth has been supported by volume expansion from existing customers and improved competitiveness enabled through our cost optimization initiatives. Increased capacity utilization across manufacturing facilities is further contributing to operating leverage and supporting profitability.

Our CDMO business continues to show strong traction. During the quarter, we secured multiple new CDMO contracts, including a new GLP-1 collaboration, and expanded our pipeline across complex injectables, peptides, and drug delivery platforms.

We continue to see strong customer interest and a growing pipeline of opportunities that provides confidence in the long-term growth prospects of this business. Yesterday, we announced the execution of a strategic manufacturing and supply agreement with one of the leading global pharmaceutical companies for the technology transfer, manufacturing, and supply of a portfolio of sterile injectables to the global markets.

The portfolio comprises a diversified basket of oncology and non-oncology products in vials, lyos, ampoules, and pre-filled syringe presentations, covering both complex and conventional injectable formulations. The agreement is expected to provide strong long-term business visibility, with revenue generation anticipated from calendar year 2029.

The current agreement covers 55 SKUs to be manufactured across the three sites, with scope of adding more products soon. Once all products are commercialized, annualized revenue potential is expected to be approximately $90 to $100 million.

Technology transfer activities are planned for completion within two years, with revenues expected to commence from calendar year 2029. We have also entered a strategic collaboration with Neuland Laboratories for the manufacture of sterile APIs for microparticle depot products.

Long-acting depot formulations continue to represent an attractive and growing pharmaceutical segment globally, and this partnership strengthens our capabilities in complex injectable technologies while complimenting our broader strategy of building differentiated and high-value product platforms. As demand continues to grow across our businesses, capacity creation remains a key strategic priority.

Building on our recently announced capex program, we are actively progressing multiple brownfield and greenfield expansion initiatives across our manufacturing network. These investments are intended to support growth from existing products, upcoming launches, and increased CDMO demand and newer specialty technology platforms.

We continue to evaluate additional capacity requirements to ensure that we remain well-positioned to capture future growth opportunities while maintaining operational flexibility and best-in-class service levels. Another important strategic development during the quarter is our in-licensing agreement with a China-based development company for the development, manufacturing, and commercialization of a niche liposomal product for the US and European markets.

This partnership strengthens our entry into differentiated drug delivery systems and expands our product portfolio. This collaboration has the potential to extend beyond a single product, given the partner's extensive pipeline for complex injectable products.

Given the development timelines involved, we expect commercial opportunities and meaningful revenue contribution to start from FY '30, creating another important long-term growth driver for the company. Our R&D efforts remain focused on building a differentiated pipeline.

During Q1 FY '27, we spent ₹772 million on R&D, representing around 4% of our consolidated revenue. In the US, we filed three ANDAs, received seven approvals, and launched four products.

Our pipeline is increasingly focused on complex injectables and differentiated platforms, which will drive long-term value. Let me now touch upon the continued progress being made across our European manufacturing operations.

Cenexi's revenues stood at €48 million, with an EBITDA of €2 million. Despite the disruption of activities caused by the summer heatwave in Europe, the Fontenay facility delivered a good performance, benefiting from the production ramp-up of our new ampoule line and higher operational efficiency.

During the summer shutdown, as part of our ongoing modernization efforts, we will discontinue one of the older ampoule lines and replace it with a high-capacity line. This new line is expected to enter production in early 2027 and will add approximately 30 million ampoules of annual capacity, further enhancing efficiency, competitiveness, and growth potential for the site.

At the Hérouville facility, activity levels continue to increase steadily. Revenue growth is being supported by higher volumes from two products successfully launched during 2025, which continue to gain momentum.

We are seeing encouraging customer demand trends, improving utilization levels, and a steadily strengthening operating profile. Combined with ongoing cost optimization measures, we remain optimistic about the site's performance trajectory.

In Braine-l'Alleud, we secured a pre-filled syringe manufacturing program for an injectable orphan drug for a European customer. This further strengthens the site's order book and reflects the continued momentum in business development and customer acquisition activities.

We continue to see encouraging traction in new business generation across our European operations. Across the organization, we remain focused on initiatives aimed at improving productivity, procurement efficiency, manufacturing yields, automation, and energy optimization.

These programs continue to deliver tangible benefits and, together with high utilization levels, support margin expansion and long-term competitiveness. To summarize, we have delivered a strong start to FY '27, with healthy growth across revenues and profitability.

We continue to strengthen our commercial portfolio, expand our manufacturing capabilities, deepen customer relationships, and invest in the future growth platforms. We remain highly confident in our CDMO strategy, execution capabilities, and long-term growth trajectory.

Thank you for your continued trust and support. I will now hand over the call to Ravi for the financial review.

Over to you, Ravi.

Ravi Mitra

Thank you, Mr. Sadu.

Good evening, everyone, and thank you for joining us today as we review our financial performance for the first quarter of financial year 2027. I am pleased to share that we have delivered a strong start to the year, with healthy revenue growth, robust profitability, and strong cash generation.

Our performance during the quarter was driven by continued momentum across our CDMO and B2B businesses, contribution from recent product launches, increasing volumes from existing products, and the benefits of operating leverage and ongoing cost optimization initiatives. As the Executive Chairman highlighted earlier, we continue to see encouraging traction across our business segments, geographies, and product portfolio, positioning us well for sustained growth in the coming quarters.

Before I discuss the quarterly performance in detail, I would like to mention that as integration benefits between Gland Pharma and Cenexi continue to increase, Cenexi is now fully integrated into our broader CDMO business. Accordingly, its contribution is increasingly reflected in our consolidated performance.

Let me begin with the financial performance for the quarter. For Q1 FY '27, our consolidated revenues stood at ₹18,003 million, reflecting a growth of 20% year-on-year.

Growth during the quarter was driven by continuous contributions from recently launched products, expansion in CDMO revenue, and continued volume growth in existing products. From a business segment perspective, both our CDMO and B2B businesses delivered healthy growth during the quarter.

The contribution from CDMO continues to increase and remains an important driver of our long-term growth and profitability profile. Moving to margins, overall gross margin for the quarter stood at 65%, reflecting the benefits of a favorable product mix, increasing contribution from CDMO projects, improved operational efficiencies, and procurement initiatives.

Margin improvement was also supported by yield improvement, alternate sourcing, and manufacturing optimization. Aligned with our strategy of building a differentiated portfolio of complex injectable products and advanced drug delivery platforms, our R&D investments continue to remain healthy.

R&D expenditure for the quarter stood at ₹772 million, representing approximately 4% of consolidated revenue, an increase from ₹723 million in the previous quarter and ₹664 million in Q1 FY '26, demonstrating a 16% year-on-year increase. Our investments continue to focus on complex injectables, peptides, depot products, drug delivery technologies, and liposomal products.

We remain committed to strengthening our development pipeline and expanding our technology capabilities to support long-term growth. Coming to profitability, reported EBITDA for the quarter stood at ₹4,930 million, with EBITDA margin of 27%, higher as compared to 24% in corresponding quarter of previous year.

This is after excluding forex losses of ₹36 million in this quarter. Adjusted for non-cash ESOP expense of ₹172 million, adjusted EBITDA stood at ₹5,102 million, reflecting an adjusted EBITDA margin of 28%, up from 25% in the corresponding quarter of the previous year.

The year-on-year improvement in profitability was driven by combination of higher CDMO revenue, favorable contribution margin mix, operating leverage, productivity improvements, and cost optimization initiatives. Continued utilization improvement across our manufacturing operations and the growing contribution from value-added products also supported margin expansion during the quarter.

Other income, comprising primarily interest income, stood at ₹612 million in Q1 FY '26. During the quarter, there was a forex loss of ₹36 million, which is included in other expense, as compared to forex gain of ₹508 million in Q4 FY '26 and ₹39 million in Q1 FY '26 included in other income.

Profit after tax for the quarter stood at ₹3,170 million, representing a sharp growth of 47% year-on-year, with PAT margins of 18%. However, as compared to Q4 FY '26, the decline in PAT is largely attributable to forex loss in this quarter vis-a-vis forex gain in the previous quarter.

The effective tax rate for the quarter stood at approximately 27%. Our balance sheet continues to remain strong and provides significant flexibility to invest in future growth opportunities.

As of June 30th, 2026, total cash and cash equivalents at the group level stood at ₹35,466 million. External debt remained at a minimal level, and our overall financial position continues to be strong and well-capitalized.

With healthy cash in hand, we are a net cash surplus company with a net cash position of ₹32,939 million. Cash flow from operations during the quarter remained healthy at ₹3,183 million, reflecting strong operating performance and disciplined working capital management.

Our focus on inventory optimization, receivables management, and supply chain efficiency continues to support cash generation while ensuring uninterrupted customer service levels. Capital expenditure during the quarter amounted to ₹1,132 million, primarily towards capacity expansion projects, capability enhancement initiatives, infrastructure additions, and investment supporting future growth opportunities across our CDMO and fill-finish platforms.

As discussed earlier, we have commenced execution of our recently announced ₹2,000 crore capital expenditure program. Ongoing projects of vial, ophthalmic, BFS lines, and liposome products, among others, at our India sites remain on track.

In addition, capacity expansion projects to cater to the anticipated demand arising from increasing CDMO collaboration have been approved and are being prioritized for execution. These investments are intended to support increasing demand across our existing portfolio, upcoming product launches, expanding CDMO programs, fill-finish opportunities, and future product and technology platforms.

At Cenexi, the growth capex for the addition of new block with vial and lyos at BLA and a high-speed ampoule line at Fontenay are also on track to finish by the end of next year. Overall, we are pleased with the strong start to FY '27.

Quarter reflects the benefits of strategic investments we have made over the last several years in manufacturing infrastructure, capabilities, R&D, and customer relationships. With multiple strategic levers in place and optimal cash deployment priorities, we believe we are well-positioned to deliver sustainable growth while maintaining a strong profitability profile.

With that, I would now request the moderator to open the line for questions. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you very much. We will now begin the question-and-answer session.

Anyone who wishes to ask a question may press star and one on their touch-tone telephone. If you wish to withdraw yourself from the question queue, you may press star and two.

Participants are requested to please use handsets while asking a question. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now wait for a moment while the question queue assembles.

Our first question comes from the line of Saion Mukherjee with Nomura. Please go ahead.

Saion Mukherjee

Hi. Good evening, and thanks for taking my question.

Sir, I just wanted if you can throw some light on this strategic manufacturing agreement which was announced. Is this with a big pharma innovator kind of company or are these generic products?

If you can throw some light. The manufacturing would be largely out of India and whether you talked about $90, $100 million of peak revenue potential.

How should we think about once the commercialization starts in 2029, how would be the revenues ramp up to those levels of $90, $100 million, please? Thank you.

Srinivas Sadu

This is a specialty pharma global company. Their revenue is a mix of generics as well as complex and specialty pharma.

Probably 30%, 40% of the revenue comes from specialty business. These are all from Indian sites, the manufacturing happening at Indian sites.

It's a mix of all these products, including oncology and non-oncology spread across different formats and different products. It will also extend into the development pipeline in terms of specialty products what they have.

The estimate what we gave is the preliminary view of the products what is getting transferred in next two years. Probably there's a potential to add more products in the future.

Now the tech transfer activities will start from September of this year. The first period of time will be transferred in 24 months.

Every quarter, we'll be filing certain. The 60% of the products are for the US market, about 50%, I would say, 30%, 35% to European market, and the rest of the world are about 15%, 20%.

The Cenexi plays a little part in this as well. They wanted a end-to-end solution for the products because it has to be a global supply.

Some of the products which go to Europe, the Cenexi will warehouse certain products and probably package few and also do a final QP release for the European market. That's the role Cenexi will play, but basically the agreement is with Gland and manufacturing will happen at Gland manufacturing sites.

To be fair, without Cenexi, this wouldn't have happened in a way. That's also strengthens our strategic initiative when we acquired Cenexi because otherwise we couldn't have provided the full-fledged solution for the partner.

The revenues will ramp up from CY '29 because the filings will start happening from next year. As soon as the products get approved, especially the US ones is a easier one because it's a CBE-30 format.

Then it started getting launched in CY '29. The ramp-up will happen from '29 to '30.

Hopefully, by CY '30, we should see this entire portfolio getting launched.

Saion Mukherjee

That's very clear, sir. Thank you.

Sir, just wanted to understand, are you looking for such type of contracts which are such strategic? Can we expect more of such contracts or this is a one-of-a-kind opportunity?

Srinivas Sadu

To be honest, this is what we're looking at because we're trying to give a solution to big pharma where a lot of the large companies are procuring products from over 80 to 100 different sites because over a period of time, they'll in-license products or getting contract manufacturing. Now we're reaching out saying that we'll give end-to-end solutions for them for different markets.

It also helps them in a way because currently if the sites are in Europe, it's 5 to 6 times more expensive than India. It also helps to get market share in ROW markets, increase the market margins in the products what you're making.

Also with the new situation of branded products to be manufactured in US, if they want to move the branded products to US, then their own sites or the CDMO sites where they're doing, then the operational leverage is lost. Companies are looking at this kind of options.

With the track record we have on quality and the breadth of platforms we provide, it's helping us, yeah. Great.

Saion Mukherjee

Sir, just one more question before I join back. On capex, you had announced ₹2,000 crore capex.

One is the timeline around that, and now with these new initiatives, and you also mentioned in your prepared remarks that new capex has also been approved by the board. Can you share a revised capex estimate now?

Srinivas Sadu

I would say for one immediate capex is about ₹165 crore, we're investing in an isolated line in oncology plant where several of these oncology products are getting manufactured. Luckily, we could get a line quicker, so that will be installed January of this year.

This is specific, I would say, a priority for us in terms of for this project what we just announced. There's another capex on the Neuland collaboration what we said on the API front, Ravi?

Ravi Mitra

For that we'll be building a block. That also has been started the project now.

To answer your question, Saion, this year we are going to spend about ₹550 crore capex. This will scale up as and when we start building the brownfield, which we have already announced earlier.

Right now the sweet 10 in Pashamylaram, we are adding a new vial line, BFS, and ophthalmic line. Along with the recently CDMO contract for which we need to spend capex of ₹165 crore mentioned just now, this is going to be our priority.

Considering the demand and volume growth we are looking at, we need to look at brownfield or greenfield quickly, and that's what we are currently working on.

Saion Mukherjee

Okay. Thank you, and I'll join back.

Srinivas Sadu

Yeah.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Vivek Gautam with GS Investments.

Please go ahead.

Sir, congratulations on good numbers, sir. Sir, I just wanted to understand how sustainable is the turnaround of the Cenexi and what were the factors behind it?

Was it the one subsidiary which was dragging our performance down, and now things have improved a lot? Second question is about what is opportunity size for us, expected growth rate, and our differentiating factor, USPs, which can help us in retaining the growth ahead, sir?

Thank you.

Srinivas Sadu

From the growth front, we did mention last time that we're looking at 15% CAGR in next 4, 5 years. With the new contract signing, if you look at from current top-line, I think this will cover almost 12% of our current revenue.

If you look 3 years down the line, probably it's still about 9% to 10%. We're reevaluating the CAGR with few of other contracts we're discussing now with other partners.

Probably next quarter we'll have more clarity on the growth for next 4 years, but as of now, with this new contract in place, we're looking at 20%, around 20% growth next 4 years. While the current year, with a constant currency, we'll still estimating we're not estimating, but probably 15% is clearly achievable.

We're also looking at a couple of lines, like the bag line and ophthalmic products, we have tight capacity constraints. Bag line, we're expecting an approval in the third quarter.

If it happens as planned, then probably we can cross 15%. It's a new line to be approved by the FDA, if it approves by August, September, then probably we'll exceed the 15% growth for this year.

Otherwise, the constant currency, we'll stick to 15% and then see where it goes for the current year. I think next 4 years, we're looking at 20-odd percent, but we'll get a clear clarity next quarter.

We'll give a clear clarity once we also see how the other initiatives what you've taken up in the recent past will pan out. Probably we'll get a clear picture by August, September, October.

Sir. Thank you.

Srinivas Sadu

Yeah.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Neha M.

with Bank of America. Please go ahead.

Neha Manpuria

Thanks for taking my questions. Sir, the 50% CDMO number that you have indicated for this quarter, if I were to look at FY '28 probably exit, I understand the big contract is coming in '29, but in the next 2 years, how much of our business do you think could come from CDMO and how does it change our margin profile?

Is it fair to assume that CDMO has much superior margins versus our existing standalone margins?

Srinivas Sadu

The idea is to balance between CDMO or B2B business. The target is to reach as a consol basis, in near term, we're looking at 30% near term as a consol basis.

Cenexi growth, the target for Cenexi is the profitability rather than the top-line, we're working towards that. Today we are at 28% consol EBITDA percent, near term, we're working towards 30%.

We'll see in mid-term to long-term, ultimately always we look like a profitable company, wanted to be a profitable company hitting those 35% EBITDA. Hopefully, next 3, 4 years, we might reach there once we get all these CDMO contracts on track.

For near term, we're looking at because we are also growing other businesses as well in the same range as CDMO, and it's a large base. We still feel once we hit CY '29, probably there could be a skewed around that the CDMO business will be larger than the B2B business.

For probably next 2 years, it will be around 50-50 kind of a business, yeah.

Neha Manpuria

Understood. Srinivas, on the Cenexi business, given that we had the impact of heatwave in France, does that mean that second quarter would end up being better than the usual seasonal decline that we see because of the shutdown, it won't be as sharp because some of the shipments would have moved to second quarter?

Is that a fair assumption?

Srinivas Sadu

Sorry, can you repeat, Neha?

Neha Manpuria

I think, sir, you mentioned that Cenexi was impacted because of the extreme summer in first quarter. I understand that second quarter usually tends to be seasonally weak, but would the seasonality be lower because some of the shipments would have moved into the second quarter?

Would that be a fair assumption?

Srinivas Sadu

I would say it will be better than last year for sure. Because some releases couldn't happen last quarter because of the heatwave.

The impact was more on the quality release, so that will help a bit the next quarter over the last year, yeah.

Neha Manpuria

Currently, we're still maintaining Cenexi guidance of near €200 million and high single-digit margins for FY '27?

Ravi Mitra

That's correct, yes.

Neha Manpuria

All right. Thank you so much.

Srinivas Sadu

Yeah.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Ashish with Leo Capital.

Please go ahead.

Hi, sir. Am I audible?

Hello?

Srinivas Sadu

You're audible, a bit Go ahead.

Sir, on GLP-1, could you give us an update on the scale-up of the business? What is the current status of the commercialization and capacity ramp-up?

Srinivas Sadu

From capacity, the new line is on track. We are taking some exhibit batches from some of the customers whom we have signed up in last few quarters.

We signed a new contract this quarter again, and the tech transfer activities will happen in next quarter or two. The new contract what we signed is both for sema and tirzepatide for US and EU markets.

Now we're also evaluating when we said that this year we still trying to maintain the 15% constant currency growth. There are also some positives could be upside.

One of our customers who has filed in Canada, it could be an opportunity to launch in the last quarter. If that happens, then there could be an upside.

Otherwise, as of now, it's more of exhibit batches taking for different customers and then filing and then waiting for them to commercialize.

How should we think about the revenue potential or contribution from GLP-1 over the next 3 years?

Srinivas Sadu

Very limited. We have not assumed too much of that because the major volume will come from the US when it goes in FY '30, '30-'31.

We're not considered much in the next few years other than the tech transfer fees what we get for transferring. If anything happens in Canada or any other markets for the customers, because these are CDMO business, we don't have a clear visibility on the front-end approval status for these products, it's very difficult to assume the numbers for them.

That's why we keeping close touch just how that pans out. That will be an upside if it pans out well.

Thank you, sir. Thank you and all the best.

Srinivas Sadu

Yeah.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Chintan Sheth with Girik Capital.

Please go ahead.

Chintan Sheth

Am I audible?

Srinivas Sadu

Yes.

Chintan Sheth

Thank you. Thank you for the opportunity and congrats for a good set of numbers as well as continued customer win and project win for our CDMO site.

Just one clarification on the opening remarks: Cenexi revenue, you mentioned €58 million and €2 million EBITDA?

Ravi Mitra

€48 million. Revenue is €48 million.

Yeah, €48 million revenue and €2 million EBITDA.

Chintan Sheth

It's flat on a YoY basis, but EBITDA numbers

Ravi Mitra

with

Chintan Sheth

that number was okay. EBITDA you mentioned that because of the extreme heatwave, that also impacted some bit of profitability this quarter?

Ravi Mitra

No,

Chintan Sheth

if

Ravi Mitra

the profitability is in the same trend like what we said, it's 4% EBITDA. At the end by the end of the year, we want to get into double-digit EBITDA.

Chintan Sheth

Okay. Because last year, I think we were at 2% EBITDA, which has improved to 4% EBITDA.

Got it. In terms of the 15 products which are in pipeline, the ANDAs and the co-development products, what would be the opportunity size for this?

I think seven are 505(b)(2) and eight are ANDAs. If you can any timelines around those launches, if you can provide some insights?

Ravi Mitra

Give me a second.

Chintan Sheth

Hello?

Ravi Mitra

Can we come back to you exactly how much is the market for No worries,

Chintan Sheth

no worries. For the year, what kind of launch pipeline we are looking at?

If you can any significant ones which can be a swing factor for us in terms of growth?

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, the line for the management seems to have disconnected. Please stay with us while we reconnect with the management.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have now reconnected with the management. Over to you, sir.

Chintan Sheth

I was asking about the new launch pipeline for the current year. We launched four molecules this quarter.

Can you provide some insight on which are the key molecules to look out for for the current year, which can contribute to our growth as you mentioned there's upside to this year?

Srinivas Sadu

The products what we launched, we launched MVI, multivitamin, we launched Dalba, we also launched Sugammadex. The MVI, we have CGT exclusivity, we don't see competition coming in soon.

It's a very difficult product to make. Dalba, while there is a competition, but still we have enough contracts on place to continue for next few years.

Chintan Sheth

Expected launches, anything to call out for which one should focus on?

Srinivas Sadu

We can come back to you later.

Chintan Sheth

Sure,

Srinivas Sadu

sir.

Chintan Sheth

I'll join the queue. Thank you.

Srinivas Sadu

Sure.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question is from the line of Karan Vora with Goldman Sachs.

Please go ahead.

Karan Vora

Thank you for taking my question. My first question is with respect to the CDMO business.

Just wanted to get a sense with respect to do we have in the current base any products which we are supplying to or say supplying which have patent protection? What would that number look like say 3 or 5 years out?

Srinivas Sadu

We cannot reveal those numbers because some of these belong to customers. There are a few products which are under 505(b)(2) which are also patents.

If you're talking about innovator products, no, we don't have any innovator products right now.

Karan Vora

Anything in the pipeline, just qualitatively?

Srinivas Sadu

It's under discussion, it's not yet signed.

Karan Vora

Got it. Is it fair to assume that some of them could also be on the bio side where we were investing in the bio-CDMO front or that is mainly this is mainly on the small molecule side what discussions we are doing?

Srinivas Sadu

It will be on the peptide side, if that answers your question.

Karan Vora

Got it. My second question is with respect to our base business growth.

I think we've changed some disclosure. Just wanted to get a sense on what is the ex-Cenexi growth in the US and ROW markets?

Srinivas Sadu

The base business has grown by 24%.

Karan Vora

Similar for US and ROW markets?

Srinivas Sadu

Give me a second. US has grown by 32%.

Karan Vora

US 32% and ROW? What would also be the constant currency number in that, within that?

Srinivas Sadu

Constant currency, you can remove forex gain around 5%. Out of the base business 24, 5% can be because of the forex gain.

Around 20 around 20%, 19%, 20%.

Karan Vora

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Saion Mukherjee with Nomura.

Please go ahead.

Saion Mukherjee

Thank you for the follow-up. Sir, just you have also announced the other two contracts: one is with Neuland for, I think, API, and then there's a contract on China for a liposomal product.

In terms of revenue potential, how should we think about these and what are the timelines for the revenue from these two contracts? I think China you mentioned 2030, right?

Srinivas Sadu

That's a one liposomal product in-licensing product where they have already developed this product and is approved for China market using EU R&D. It's a $3 billion product, estimated $3 billion in next 3 years.

Currently, it's $1.6 billion globally and US about $600-$700 million. We got rights for US and EU.

The technology will be transferred, we will be investing in a compounding suite specifically needed for this. The technology will be transferred here, and then the BE study will happen, and then we'll file in US.

There's a patent protection for this product, we'll try to be there by patent expiry date. On the then the Neuland, the API, we actually had this supply agreement with them before as well in the current suite.

This is an extension of this. We are building a new suite for them.

We cannot really disclose the revenue, but it's more a strategic thing where we are trying to give end-to-end solutions for even other clients who are looking at finished product as well because we have a microparticle depot technology also with us. Very few companies offer sterilization of APIs as well.

Current capacity is fully occupied with and currently we only manufacture two APIs. There are another set of 5 to 6 products which will fall into this category, which we need this expansion.

This will ease out our current capacity constraint because there are also requirements from other customers who wants this service from us. Also we ourselves have this pipeline of products which we need to develop, we need that capacity as well.

It's more a strategic thing. It's a combination of what revenue we get from that collaboration as well as what we can get moving forward for our own from our own products and the new contracts what we'll sign from the current capacity.

Saion Mukherjee

Sir. Understood.

My other question was on your complex ANDA pipeline, I think you have 20, 25 such products. Generally what we see is that a few of them tend to be pretty large.

Is in that sense those large or the largest opportunities that you have, is that an FY '29 kind of an opportunity or something which will be after FY '29, you think?

Srinivas Sadu

It's post '29. Some of the big products, especially on the microsphere products, a couple of big ones which is post '29.

Currently they are at different stages, some at the BE clinical stage and some at the exhibit stage, I would say. They're at different stages, but some under patent post '29.

Most of the big things are post '29, yes.

Saion Mukherjee

Okay. Sir, also I understand that you have in your US filings or what you're developing or what you have filed, there's a bunch of products which are like Para I, Para II, Para III which are probably already generic.

Is that a large opportunity and how should we sort of think about Gland sort of trying to develop such which seem to be old kind of old products?

Srinivas Sadu

Some products are developed many years ago. One.

Second is we also see a lot of these products where companies are exiting. There is still value in it as an injectable company.

Several products where there was no revenues many years ago actually are doing well now. As an injectable company, we need to have that portfolio.

The portfolio what you have developed 15 years back probably those are also there in that list what you're seeing, where there was no NDA fees and the development was far cheaper than what we do today. That's why that portfolio got developed over the many years.

Saion Mukherjee

Right, right. Sir, now your US base revenue would be $95, $100 million, right, current run rate?

How should that sort of play out with all these launches over the next 3, 4 years, you think? It's

Srinivas Sadu

a bit more than $100 million.

Saion Mukherjee

Okay.

Ravi Mitra

It's about $110, $120 million.

Srinivas Sadu

Correct.

Saion Mukherjee

Sorry, sir. Can you repeat?

Srinivas Sadu

Sorry, tell me. Go ahead.

Saion Mukherjee

No, sir. You said more than $100 million currently.

Srinivas Sadu

Correct, correct.

Saion Mukherjee

How should that play out over the next, say, 3 years as you launch these products? Do you think it will materially go up or it would sort of have a more modest growth like most generic companies?

Srinivas Sadu

See, we are getting to newer modalities also in this space. If you look at the entire market is growing probably 3%, 4%, but then you have to see which are the products where we don't have and what is our base and what products we actually never launched.

If we launch those products, what will be the growth, right? That's how we have to look at this.

We still feel there's a growth of that business. It's not that it's completely low.

Then the other thing is with the efficiencies what we have in operations, we are able to compete more and grow our own business. One is how the market is growing, second is how we are growing.

If you look at the market growth versus our growth in the US is always far higher than the market growth because of the new launches what we do and also the current products what is secured by others, we're able to garner that market share to us because of our better cost structure.

Saion Mukherjee

Sir. Great, sir.

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Maulik Varia with 361.

Please go ahead.

Maulik Varia

Hi, sir. Thank you for the opportunity.

I hope I'm audible. Sir, just wanted to understand if there's any progress, any update from our Dr.

Reddy's partnership on the biologics? We were also negotiating with one more partner to set up additional capabilities, is there any update there?

Srinivas Sadu

Currently, it's normal business, I would say. It's generating around ₹50-₹60 crore a year, and probably it will slowly ramp up a bit in next year or two.

As such, there's not a big contracts which we have signed up in the recent past.

Maulik Varia

Okay. Going ahead from our complex portfolio, I understand that the contribution is lower currently, but going ahead, would you be able to give us some direction how much as a percentage of our portfolio or in terms of revenue would the complex products become?

Srinivas Sadu

Because most of the complex products is post FY '29. Our base business is also very large now compared to that, right?

Probably it will take a much larger chunk of the US business, but I can't give a exact number because the timing of each product is different. It will take quite a share of the total business once it gets there.

When we are saying the growth what we're saying about 20%, 25% 20% when you're growing next 4 years, at the end of this 4 years, probably this product will get launched, and probably the next growth driver will be these products as well.

Maulik Varia

Okay. Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

Srinivas Sadu

Yeah.

Operator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, to ask a question, you may please press star and one.

Our next question is from the line of Rahul Jeewani with IIFL. Please go ahead.

Rahul Jeewani

Hi, sir. Thanks for taking my question.

Sir, can you call out the constant currency growth for the quarter on a consol basis? We reported 20% growth in INR terms, what was the constant currency growth at the company consol level?

Ravi Mitra

It's 15%, Rahul.

Rahul Jeewani

15%? Ravi, that calculation isn't clear to me because if I look at your Cenexi revenue, the Cenexi revenue would have been flat YoY.

Let's say the USD-INR on a YoY basis has depreciated by almost close to 10%, this number looks a bit high to me in terms of constant currency growth.

Ravi Mitra

It's a basis of when the products are dispatched. It's not uniformly across every, average-wise, you cannot take.

We have to look at the rate on the particular date of supply and then see the forex impact.

Rahul Jeewani

Okay. This 15% constant currency growth which we guide, then if we are using, let's say, the date of shipment of the contract, then it becomes very difficult for you to project the constant currency growth, no?

Wouldn't that be the case?

Ravi Mitra

No. For projection, we take constant currency only.

For forex movement, we cannot predict. All our projection or guidance what we are giving is the basis of constant currency.

Rahul Jeewani

Sure, sir. Sir, in the past for our base business when we had the two sets of businesses, which was IP-led and then the tech transfer business, our understanding was that the tech transfer business used to be lower margin for us as compared to the IP-owned business.

Now for this new CDMO contract which you have won while this business is tech transfer, would the margins on this tech transfer CDMO business be higher than, let's say, what we would have done on an IP-owned business?

Srinivas Sadu

The IP-owned business actually we're sharing our profit also with the front-end partner. See, there in the CDMO there are two kinds.

One is the B2B tech transfer when you say, it's coming from a development lab or the another company and then we're taking exhibits and flowing on. In the current CDMO, there are two types of business: one is this, which is smaller portion, other is commercialized products coming out from US or Europe, which are more expensive places to manufacture.

There we have a leverage where we can have a better margin profile, and also the type of products what we're going to make for these companies.

Rahul Jeewani

Sure, sir. That's it from my side.

Thank you.

Srinivas Sadu

Yeah.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Alankar Garude with KIE.

Please go ahead.

Alankar Garude

Hi, thank you for the opportunity. Sir, if we go back a few years, CDMO was relatively much smaller for the company.

Can you highlight the top three, four factors that have driven strong growth in this segment over the past few years and are also driving the healthy outlook going ahead?

Srinivas Sadu

One is, of course, the portfolio what we have, we kind of running out of the portfolio in the large one. That's one.

Second, the opportunity out there: while everybody talks about the pressure on generic pricing, at the same time, there is an opportunity for players like us because there are companies or leading pharma companies whose manufacturing base is in expensive countries. That opens up a door for us where we have better operational leverage and better history of quality and then at scale we can do.

That opens up an opportunity for them where the margins are going down at the end market, they need to compete. They need to take those products to a place where they can manufacture cheap.

I think that's where it opened up, that's when we thought. We've also seen interacting with a lot of these customers over the years, they have 300, 400 people just managing this relationships across 60, 70 different sites in different companies.

Now we kind of approached them and saying that we'll give a full-proof solution, you can get three or four different sites under one company with the breadth of platforms under one roof. That's how this got evolved because we looked at opportunity where probably everybody is saying that there's no money in generics, but we're saying, "Okay, our strength is in manufacturing and quality.

Why can't we leverage that to offer these services so that they'll be more competitive?"

Alankar Garude

Got it, sir. That's helpful.

Two smaller questions: one is can you highlight the profit share in this quarter?

Srinivas Sadu

Profit share is about 9%.

Alankar Garude

Okay. The final one is can you reconfirm the timelines for the NDDS project?

Srinivas Sadu

The NDDS project is '29.

Ravi Mitra

'28.

Srinivas Sadu

'28, sorry. '28 and commercialize '29.

Alankar Garude

Got it. With a revenue potential of $25 to $30 million?

Srinivas Sadu

That's correct.

Alankar Garude

Got it, sir. That's it from my side.

Operator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, that was the last question for the day.

I would now like to hand the conference over to the management for closing comments. Over to you, sir.

Shriniwas P. Dange

Thank you, everyone, for joining us today. We appreciate your participation in the question-and-answer session during the call.