Kalpataru Ltd.

Kalpataru Ltd.

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5.14EPS
51.48P/E
61.64BMarket Cap

Q1 FY2027 · Earnings Call TranscriptAugust 4, 2026

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, good day, and welcome to Kalpataru Limited Q1 FY27 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 the conference call, please signal an operator by pressing star then zero on your touchtone phone. Please note that this conference is being recorded.

I now hand the conference over to Mr. Adwait Fattepur, Head Investor Relations at Kalpataru Limited.

Thank you, and over to you, Mr. Fattepur.

Adwait Phadke

Thank you, [Renju?] .

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Q1 FY27 results call of Kalpataru Limited.

We have with us today the management of Kalpataru Limited, represented by Mr. Parag Munot, Managing Director, Mr.

Narendra Lodha, Executive Director, and Mr. Chandrashekhar Joglekar, Director Finance and CFO.

I would like to state that any forward-looking statements made during the discussion today are based on our current expectations, assumptions, and projections about future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties beyond our control. With that, I will now hand over the call to Mr.

Munot for the opening remarks, post which we shall open the floor for Q&A. Over to you, sir.

Parag Munot

Thank you, Adwait. Good morning, everyone, and a warm welcome to all of you.

Before we dive into our quarterly operational and financial metrics, I want to take a step back and reflect on the macroeconomic background against which this quarter unfolded. Entering the first quarter of FY27, the global landscape faced significant turbulence: geopolitical friction in the Middle East sent ripples through global supply chains, stoked energy price volatility, and raised fresh questions around inflation and rate trajectories.

In many developed markets, this macro uncertainty led to extended decision cycles and institutional caution. However, we witnessed in India, and specifically within urban real estate, was a remarkable demonstration of structural resilience.

Historically, real estate was viewed primarily as a cyclical, rate-sensitive asset class. Today, Indian residential real estate, and Mumbai in particular, is being driven by a fundamentally different set of structural growth engines.

We are seeing rising number of high-earning end-users actively upgrading to larger, premium homes that offer holistic lifestyle ecosystems, generating steady demand for quality, branded real estate. With that context in mind, Kalpataru delivered a steady start to the fiscal year, driven by operational momentum, robust sales collections, strategic projects launches, along with a new project addition, and continued execution across our core micromarkets.

Let me walk you through some of the key numbers. Pre-sales grew 6% year-on-year to reach ₹1,329 crores in Quarter 1 FY27, up from ₹1,249 crores in Quarter 1 FY26.

Sales collections showed a 17% year-on-year growth to ₹1,365 crores. Our visibility remained robust, backed by ongoing project inflows.

Sales momentum at Kalpataru Parkcity Thane expanded significantly this quarter, with pre-sales surging 350% year-on-year compared to Quarter 1 FY26 on a subpar basis. With more than 2,000 families already residing on site, we anticipate welcoming over 3,000 families by the year-end of next year.

Increase in resident occupancy and key retail outlets turning operational are actively driving higher walk-ins and accelerated conversion rates in Kalpataru Parkcity. Coming to new launches, we launched two projects phases, which have a total potential of 1.25 million square feet of saleable area.

This includes Tower C of Starlite at Kalpataru Parkcity Thane and our luxury development, Kalpataru Vian Rishikesh Lokhandwala in Mumbai. Kalpataru Vian Rishikesh features bespoke 3, 4, and 4.5 bedroom residences with expansive grand decks offering uninterrupted views of Mumbai's mangroves across a private 4-acre enclave.

Positioned strategically within the vibrant ecosystems of Andheri West, Kalpataru Vian Rishikesh enjoys unmatched connectivity to key infrastructure, including major metro lines, upcoming coastal road projects, and the city's finest retail, educational, and wellness destinations. This project was launched towards the end of June 2026, and the response we have received has been encouraging.

We have a strong pipeline of launches spread over approximately 5 million square feet and worth approximately ₹7,800 crores this year, and we hope to carry this momentum into other project phases when we launch them. Turning to project completions.

During the quarter, we received occupation certificate for 0.79 million square feet across 668 units, continuing our strong track record of project execution and handovers. Received occupation certificate for Kalpataru Elitus Tower B and Kalpataru Summit office complex in Mulund during this quarter.

We are well on track to deliver on our target of 5.5 million square feet of completions this year. On the business development front, I'm pleased to share that we have secured the development agreement for the redevelopment of five societies in Ashok Nagar, Kandivali East.

This project is situated on approximately 2.8 acre land parcel and has a GDV potential of ₹1,250 crores. Kalpataru has deep roots in this micromarket and has already delivered six projects in the past.

During the quarter, we have monetized our commercial office property, Kalpataru Infinia Pune, located at Shivaji Nagar in Pune, for a consideration of ₹119 crores. With that, I would now like to hand over the call to Mr.

Chandrashekhar Joglekar for a detailed update on our financial performance. Over to you, Chandrashekhar.

Chandrashekhar Joglekar

Thank you, Parag. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to our Q1 FY27 earnings call.

Let me start with the financial update first. In Q1, we reported revenue from operations of ₹472 crores.

Our adjusted EBITDA during the quarter was ₹95 crores with the margin of 20%. On the profitability front, we reported a loss of ₹29 crores for the quarter.

The company follows project completion method, as we know, for revenue recognition for most of our projects. During H2, second half of FY27, we will be completing several projects as mentioned by Mr.

Parag Munot, which will lead to recognition of substantial revenue and thereby profits. Turning to our balance sheet position.

As on June 30th, 2026, our gross debt stood at ₹9,189 crores, while our cash and cash equivalents were ₹960 crores, resulting into a net debt of ₹8,229 crores. Consequently, our net debt-to-equity ratio stands at 2 times.

In continuation to our strategy for optimizing cost of the debt, during this quarter, we have refinanced a debt of approximately ₹1,800 crores, which will give us an estimated annual savings of ₹55 crores in finance cost. As a result of this refinancing, since our IPO, the total debt which stands refinanced is approximately ₹5,300 crores.

Hence, our weighted average cost of borrowing now stands at 11% per annum, down by approximately 200 basis points since the listing. This cumulative optimization of borrowing costs therefore adds to approximately ₹180 crores annually.

For remainder of financial year FY27, our focus is clear: to build upon the foundation we established in Q1. We have a robust pipeline of new launches designed to sustain our pre-sales trajectory.

Looking ahead to FY27, we target closing the year with pre-sales of approximately ₹6,500 crores, which would be a growth of 23% over FY26. Keeping in view the capital allocation of upcoming launches and the business development spends, we expect the net debt levels to end for FY27 and to remain around the same levels of FY26.

However, the net debt-equity ratio is expected to improve from current levels of 2 due to recognition of profits at the end of FY27. In closing, I wish to state that company would be completing around 15 million square feet of ongoing projects in FY27, FY28, and FY29 gradually.

All these projects will recognize revenue and profits in these three years. This will also strengthen our balance sheet and cash flows significantly and reduce the debt.

With that, we would be happy to take your questions.

Operator

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

Anyone who wishes to ask a question may press star and one on a touchtone telephone. If you wish to remove yourself from the question queue, you may press star and two.

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

The first question comes on the line of Shivam Gupta with Prinetra Asset Managers. Please go ahead.

Shivam Gupta

Hi, sir. Thank you for the opportunity.

Area sold increased by 48% in Q1, but pre-sales grew only 6% as an average realization fell. Was this entirely due to project mix or was there some discounting in specific product?

Chandrashekhar Joglekar

It is right. Yes, it is due to project mix.

Shivam Gupta

Okay. Collection was strong at around ₹1,365 crores.

How much it came from the old sold receivable and how much was linked to booking made during the quarter?

Chandrashekhar Joglekar

The booking made during the quarter were not, they were marginal only. Most of the collection was due to the units sold earlier.

Shivam Gupta

Debt increasing from March to June, can you please give us some bridge where the cash was deployed during the quarter?

Chandrashekhar Joglekar

On the debt, the company is very clear, directionally it is going to be on the downside year-on-year. Periodically within quarters, it is possible that it may increase slightly or marginally due to the spend or investment or capital allocation onto the ongoing projects or the new projects which are acquired on the new BD.

However, the trend would be generally on the downside.

Shivam Gupta

Sir. Earlier call you have told 1,800-200 crore of FY27 27 sales to come from new launches.

How much of this already have been achieved in Q1 and does the full-year expectation remains change or it's unchanged only?

Chandrashekhar Joglekar

Yeah. In this quarter, 35% was from new sales, and as we had said, for the entire year, about 25% will be from new launches.

Shivam Gupta

Okay. What the expectation is remain the same for the full year?

Chandrashekhar Joglekar

I'm sorry?

Shivam Gupta

Expectation for the full year? Full year,

Chandrashekhar Joglekar

expectation for the full year from new launches will be about 25%.

Shivam Gupta

Okay. That's it from myself.

Thank you.

Chandrashekhar Joglekar

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. A reminder to all the participants that you may press star and one to ask a question.

Next question comes from the line of Sourabh Gilda with JM Financial. Please go ahead.

Sourabh Gilda

Yeah. Hi.

Good morning. Thank you for taking my question.

I just wanted to get a sense on the timeline for the launches that you have highlighted in the PPT. If you can share any update at what stages these launches are, and when can we expect the launch of these projects?

Are they back-ended or are well spread across the next three quarters?

Parag Munot

Yeah. Hi, Sourabh.

They're well spread across the three quarters. Blossom will happen in the next quarter.

Starlite, the one tower will happen in this quarter. Hariniketan will happen this quarter.

Adin and Suman Nagar will go next quarter.

Sourabh Gilda

Okay. Thanks for the update, sir.

Sir, and just wanted to get a sense on pricing, sir. How are you seeing the recovery specifically?

How are you seeing the pricing trend across your projects and across the markets that you're operating?

Parag Munot

We're seeing a positive trend towards walk-ins and conversion, and also the pricing is looking stable and strong.

Sourabh Gilda

Anything that you can quantify, maybe what's the expectation for the year in terms of pricing?

Parag Munot

The pricing generally as the progress of the project goes, wherever we can see an increase, we are planning to move towards that. By Q2, we will know how much the price increase shall be about.

Sourabh Gilda

Sure, sir. Thank you.

Those were my questions. I'll come back in the queue.

Thank you so much.

Operator

Thank you. A reminder to all the participants that you may press star and one to ask a question.

Once again, a reminder to all the participants that you may press star and one to ask a question. Thank you.

Ladies and gentlemen, as there are no further questions, we have reached the end of question-and-answer session. I now hand the conference over to the management for closing comments.

Parag Munot

Thank you to all the participants for joining our results call. We look forward to regularly interacting with you.

In case of any further questions, feel free to reach out to our investor relations or the Ernst & Young team for clarification. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. On behalf of Kalpataru Limited, that concludes this conference.

Thank you for joining us. You may now disconnect your lines.