Sundram Fasteners Limited

Sundram Fasteners Limited

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Q1 FY2027 · Earnings Call TranscriptAugust 6, 2026

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, good day, and welcome to the Sundram Fasteners Q1 FY27 earnings conference call hosted by Avendus Spark Institutional Equities. 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 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. Mukesh Saraf.

Thank you, and over to you, sir.

Mukesh Saraf

Thank you, Abhirath. Good morning, everyone.

Mukesh here from Avendus Spark. Appreciate everybody logging in to this 1Q FY27 earnings call of Sundram Fasteners.

From the management team, I'm pleased to host Mr. Dilip Kumar, Chief Financial Officer; Mr.

S. Bharathan, Executive Vice President Marketing; Mr.

R. Ganesh, Vice President Finance and Projects.

I'll now hand over the call to Mr. Dilip Kumar for his opening remarks, post which we'll begin the Q&A.

Over to you, sir.

R. Dilip Kumar

Thank you. Good morning, and welcome to call on our Q1 results for FY27.

Want to inform everyone, we have had a very good start in Q1. We've had a 20% growth in the turnover not only at the standalone, at the consolidated level as well.

We have grown from 1,367 crores to 1,618 crores. The growth has been there in all the three key segments in which we have a play, both in OE, aftermarket, as well as exports.

Exports, we have grown well in dollar terms, and the Q2 outlook also looks quite strong, Q2 as well as Q3. We're quite positive about the coming months.

Talking about the middle line, we have had challenges on account of inflation because of rise in the cost of inputs, both direct and indirect materials, primarily because of West Asia conflict. As most of you know in our interactions that we have a pass-through arrangements with domestic customers, and in the aftermarket, we raise our prices, and so we are well protected there.

Also, in the indirect materials, all energy-related indirect materials like LPG gas, everything has gone up. We are also in discussions with the customers to get a price compensation.

The profit for the year has grown from 138 to 150 crores at the standalone level. Thanks to a greater degree of control over fixed costs has helped us to post about almost 10% growth in profits.

The subsidiaries also have done reasonably well, with China leading the way, strong momentum there in the construction segment. The UK subsidiary's performance has been satisfactory.

The domestic subsidiary, Upasana, has also had a reasonable run. Overall, it's been a good quarter.

We are quite excited about the coming quarters. 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 the 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'll wait for a moment while the question queue assembles.

The first question is from the line of Sukrit D. Patel from Eyesight FinTech Private Limited.

Please go ahead.

Sukrit D. Patel

Good morning to the team. I have two questions.

My first question to Mr. Kumar is, from a financial point of view, want to understand what key risks or challenges do you anticipate in the coming quarters and what specific measures are being taken to manage margins, cash flow, and balance sheet strength, especially in areas like raw material cost volatility, receivables, and compliance?

That's my first question. I'll ask my second question after this.

Thank you.

R. Dilip Kumar

On the financial strength, the company's debt-equity, as you would have seen, is just about 0.11 or 0.2. I think the stability and liquidity, the strength of the balance sheet, has never been a concern.

On working capital, the increase is in line with the operations. In fact, both in terms of number of days, our inventories and receivables have actually come down.

In terms of challenges from finance perspective, there are none, because the liquidity is available, the market, and as the repo rate has been held, and we don't expect the interest rates to go up. All our capital expenditure, working capital can be financed out of internal accruals, if necessary, through borrowings.

On the raw material and indirect material, like I explained in my opening remarks, in the domestic market, we have a pass-through arrangements. We are well protected there with a settlement reached between the steel mills and the car manufacturers, or OEMs, and we raise back-to-back invoices on the customers, and we also pay the steel mills.

In the aftermarket segment, we protect ourselves by raising the prices. In the export segment, we are reasonably protected, or well protected, I should say, because of rupee depreciation.

This year, with the tariff behind us, in a manner of speaking, I think we've also grown in dollar terms. Your second question, sir?

Sukrit D. Patel

Thank you. My second question to Mr.

Ganesh is, from a project's point of view, how are you aligning Sundram Fasteners' capital allocation and project pipeline with long-term growth? What risk do you see in execution timelines, financing, or industry dynamics?

Any steps taken to mitigate them? Just want to understand a forward guidance on this.

Thank you.

R. Ganesh

With respect to the capital allocation, it's incurred towards enhancing our non-auto business. With respect to growing the auto business in line with the customer requirements, capital allocation is made.

The execution with respect to all projects are as per timelines. Given the West Asia crisis, whatever the imported content of machinery, that also we are monitoring on a case-to-case basis so that the receipt and commissioning of capital equipments are as per timeline.

With respect to financing, we do not see any concern, and overall, we are very positive about execution of all projects on hand or capexes whatever we have planned.

Sukrit D. Patel

Thank you, and best wishes.

R. Dilip Kumar

Thank you, sir.

Operator

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Rishabh Shah from Beagle Rock PMS.

Please go ahead.

Rishabh Shah

Hello, sir. Sir, in the previous calls, you have mentioned that the growth drivers would be the new customers that you acquire.

Just wanted to know any new customers that you have acquired in the last, okay, 2, 4 years? On the same lines, how many new products have you introduced in the auto or non-auto in the past years?

What is the contribution of these new products which you have introduced?

S. Bharathan

See, actually, Sundram Fasteners has a clear metric for the new product growth. On a 3-year basis, we have a metric of achieving at least 20%, and we are almost there on the new product front, as a percentage of the total revenue that we earn in a year.

Over the years, all our verticals have added new products as well as new customers. In fact, in our venture to expand the portfolio other than North America, we've had a good customer base in Europe as well.

In India, almost we've participated with all the new projects that have come up in the recent past. This way, I think all our new pipeline is protected.

In fact, we are having over 1,000 crores pipeline of new projects and about an equal magnitude is awaiting under discussion.

Rishabh Shah

Okay. Sir, my second question is on the non-auto side of business.

Just wanted to know your thought process as why did we choose to expand in defense? As we know that it takes a lot of time to get approvals approved, and we are working with the Defense Ministry.

Is the reason that the margins and returns ratios are slightly better than the auto business? Just wanted to know your thought process of entering into such kind of business.

R. Ganesh

Sir, with respect to non-auto business, our key drivers at the moment are working on wind energy fasteners, aerospace fasteners, and fasteners for industrial applications. With respect to defense, while we are pursuing the business, it's more on a startup, and we also understand that the defense business goes through a long cycle with respect to validation and approval.

The pursuit of non-auto business is to avoid or beat the cyclicality which the auto business goes through, whether in terms of CV or passenger car. We are also well aligned and poised for growth in the automotive segment as well.

It's like the twin-engine of driving both auto and non-auto. That is how Sundram Fasteners is pursuing its growth story.

Rishabh Shah

Okay. Thank you so much.

Operator

Thank you. Before we take the next question, we would like to remind participants that you may press star and one to ask a question.

The next question is from the line of Sahil Sanghvi from Monarch Networth Capital. Please go ahead.

Yeah.

Sahil Sanghvi

Hi, sir. Good morning, and very happy to see a very strong set of numbers.

R. Dilip Kumar

Sir,

Sahil Sanghvi

my first question is on the exports front. On the standalone numbers, we've done a upwards of 20% growth.

If you can give some more details as to what has led to this number with respect to the constant-currency growth, with respect to the underlying industries that have contributed to this growth, and also a comment on how is the demand with respect to Class 8 trucks and overseas segments that we cater to, that will be very helpful, sir. Then I go with my second question after the answer.

Yeah.

S. Bharathan

See, more than the forex and other elements, there has been a clear uptick in the demand on our exports front. If we look at the car segment on the export front, for the past 2, 3 years probably, there was a pushback, and there was a setback in terms of the EV projects not taking off.

Now that's behind us in the sense that the IC engines have come back. They're back on stage, and we see volumes picking up as far as the passenger car segment of North America is concerned.

When we move to the truck segment, there is a good rebound that we see on the on-highway segment, and especially the Class 8 trucks have come back. In fact, the primary order levels are at least 20% to 25% more than the corresponding period for the last year.

In fact, today, capacities are again come into the focus, and backlogs have gone on a 38-month high as it stands on June. I think the Class 8 trucks have been doing well, and primarily the demand comes from construction and also the replacement of old trucks, because of the aging of the fleet, and also a mild prebuy on account of the EPA 27 norms.

These three aspects are helping the Class 8 trucks to grow. On the vocational side of the Class 8 as well, we see good project-based investments that are happening which are driving the demand.

When it comes to engines on the North American side, we see all the heavy-duty segment being triggered by the on-highway and the off-highway demand, while the medium-duty is also marginally better than it was last year. On the high-horsepower side, if I may say so, these are mainly driven by the power generation because of the AI compute loads as well as the data center loads.

I think the customers are very upbeat about this demand, and for the next 2, 3 years, they see the order books full. On the whole, we see all the parameters are good, and the North American business is going great as it stands today.

Definitely, the forex is helping us to boost this demand. On the Europe side also, we see a lot of improvement with customers whom we are supplying to on the cooling side and the temperature control side.

Overall, the aspects are in our favor. It is not that we are oblivious to the downside risks.

While we are cautious, the positives, I think, far outweigh the negatives here.

Sahil Sanghvi

Got it, sir. That's a really detailed answer.

Secondly, I wanted to understand this year what could be the revenue that we can get from that EV business from General Motors? I believe we are looking to scale up that business now.

Any rough understanding on where we can be this year from that business?

R. Dilip Kumar

No, on the EV business, it is scaling up nicely, and we expect to do about 200 to 250 crores this year from that customer. Versus

Sahil Sanghvi

what was the base in FY26? Negligible, right?

Nothing meaningful, right? Yeah.

Last year was

R. Dilip Kumar

Last year was negligible, less than 50 crores. The current year plan, our plan itself is high, and we are on track based on Q1.

Sahil Sanghvi

Sir, this business can ramp up to 5, 600 crore run rate by FY29? Do we have that visibility?

R. Dilip Kumar

We will take one year at a time, but in the initial projections, we had even talked about 750 crores at its peak, but we are happy to take this at this point in time.

Sahil Sanghvi

Got it, sir. What kind of traction are we seeing from the Stellantis business?

R. Ganesh

See, with respect to Stellantis, while we have contracted for both ICE, PHEV, and EV, I think the ICE and PHEV platforms are picking well. As Mr.

Dilip had mentioned, I think we should see an uptick in this 200 to 250 crores, comprising of both General Motors and Stellantis.

Sahil Sanghvi

Got it, sir. Got it.

Got it. Sir, lastly, with respect to the margins, now what kind of price hikes are we trying to get over here?

Assuming that all our negotiations go through as expected, what kind of sustainable margin levels do you envisage post these price hikes? Say for the second half of the next year?

R. Dilip Kumar

Price hikes, can you just clarify what do you mean by price hikes?

Sahil Sanghvi

Sorry, sir? No,

R. Dilip Kumar

you said price hikes. What did you mean by that?

Sahil Sanghvi

Sir, the pass-ons on the back of the RM pressure.

R. Dilip Kumar

Oh, RM pressure. Okay.

See, as far as RM is concerned, there is no actually negotiation because it is provided in the contract. It's a pass-through arrangement where we have with OEMs.

Whatever the steel mills and the OEMs agree, we are informed, and we, in turn, collect it from our customers and also pay our suppliers.

Sahil Sanghvi

Accounting for all the input cost pressures, the indirect cost also that we're trying to pass on, what kind of price hike can we expect, or what kind of impact on margins can we expect? Can you give a rough range on the sustainable number on margins?

R. Dilip Kumar

Currently, the impact is there. As you can see, we have reported EBITDA of 16.1%, and from here onwards, I expect it only to go up.

Maybe we will finish closer to 16.5%. See, on the direct materials, we have pass-through arrangements.

The indirect materials is more by way of negotiation. That is something going on, and once that is accrued and accounted, that should expand the margin in Q2.

Sahil Sanghvi

Sure, sir. This is helpful, sir.

I'll come back in the queue, but congratulations to the whole team, sir, on very good set of numbers.

R. Dilip Kumar

Thank you so much.

Sahil Sanghvi

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Participants who wish to ask questions may press star and one at this time.

The next question is from the line of Mukesh Saraf from Avendus Spark. Please go ahead.

Mukesh Saraf

Yes, sir. I'll just ask a few questions as the question queue kind of builds up.

Firstly, you had made some comments on Europe. I think even last couple of quarters, you've been talking about Europe doing better.

When we see other companies in the auto ancillary space which are into machining, forging, casting, basically the metal side of business, they're all commenting that Europe is kind of getting really strong. Could you give some more sense on this, how is our new customer base in Europe, how is the revenue growth there, any order book?

Because I remember even the Sri City plant, we had kind of earmarked it for a few customers in Europe for some hybrid components. It'll be good to kind of understand how Europe is doing for us and what we can look forward to there.

See,

S. Bharathan

Europe, we have had good business acquisitions now in the recent past, Mukesh. One is on the one is on the machined parts for turbochargers and from Garrett Motion.

Also, we are already, as you said, the Sri City is working with ZF. On the Europe side, really our percentage the as a as a part of the whole export business has really grown in the past 2, 3 years.

At least two of our divisions have acquired business from Garrett Motion, so that is definitely improving our Europe base. We also see RFQs coming from other customers, maybe a bit early to spell the details, but definitely, you as you say, Europe is going strong.

Mukesh Saraf

Of the overall exports, how much would Europe be now? Just approximately.

It is,

R. Ganesh

Mukesh, it's sub-20%, and we are working to increase the European presence. Got it.

Got it.

Mukesh Saraf

Got it. Just one more question from my side before I again go back to the queue.

You're seeing a lot of new launches in India from I think next year or so, multiple launches across OEMs on multiple powertrains as well. There's a lot of hybrids as well in the pipeline.

How are we placed with a lot of these launches? I think in the past, we had been having a high exposure to the small car segment, while SUVs, we didn't have as high as a contribution there.

Now that there are upcoming launches, are we seeing some kind of a traction there, improvement in some of the wallet shares there? Thank you.

S. Bharathan

Yes. Yes, Mukesh.

Certainly. See, I think many of our parts are almost fuel agnostic or transmission agnostic, I would say, whether it is our powertrain division, whether it is Metal Forms division, or Fasteners.

I think not much depends on the type of a fuel or the transmission that is used. It's only we need to just dovetail the products to suit them.

That way, I think we are well placed in the new products that are coming. While in the past, as you say, our exposure to small car was good, I think over the years, we have also improved our multi-utility segment presence, especially with our Fasteners and Metal Forms division getting into quite a lot of new parts there.

Even in the future launches, as you say, on the multiple fuels or these multiple transmission that's coming, I think we are well poised to reap the benefits. Great.

Mukesh Saraf

Great. All right.

Thank you. We'll go back to the queue, sir.

S. Bharathan

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Naveen Vijay from NS Capital.

Please go ahead.

Naveen Vijay

Good morning, sir. Thanks for the opportunity.

Sir, my question is out of the 20% revenue growth, how much is it due to the raw material inflation? If you could provide a volume growth also, that'll be helpful, sir.

R. Dilip Kumar

In volume growth, we've had about 13% in terms of tonnage, and in terms of the raw materials inflation, roughly about 20 crores to 25 crores may be there in the top line.

Naveen Vijay

Thank you, sir. My second question is on our powder metallurgy setup.

Are we making any inroads into precision engineering projects? If so, in what sectors are we pursuing those, sir?

I think

R. Ganesh

with respect to powder metal business, we are supplying to all the passenger car manufacturers. We are present with the shock absorbers and also to certain extent with respect to consumer durable business.

All our supplies are precision machined, and we are working with expanding the capacity to serve the requirements of customers.

Naveen Vijay

Currently, we don't have any projects with aerospace or even the power generators in the precision engineering? See,

R. Ganesh

with respect to aerospace, I think we supply fasteners which are from exotic materials. From powder metallurgy front, we are discussing on required aerospace applications, but it's in the very primitive stage.

Growing the aerospace fasteners, I think as we had explained in our earlier calls, as part of our non-auto business drive, we are looking that business to grow to say 500 crore level in 2 to 3 years. It has come through nicely in the last couple of years, moving from 50 crores, and this year, we are targeting 100 crore-plus in aerospace.

Naveen Vijay

Great, sir. Great.

Very helpful. Sir, my last question.

This quarter, we have clocked a 20% run rate. How confident are we in maintaining a similar pace, plus or minus few percentage points?

R. Ganesh

See, I think with the festivals around and the indicative schedules of various customers, I think the run rate should be at this level.

Naveen Vijay

Great, sir. All the best.

Thank you.

R. Ganesh

Thank you, sir. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Krishi Parekh from Beagle Rock.

Please go ahead.

Krishi Parekh

I think my questions related to growth are already answered. Just a very small question.

We have been investing a lot into this digital transformation strategy, and we continue to do that. What kind of investments we continue to see into it?

Additionally, if you can help quantify the productivity improvement through it, and potentially even the margin improvements through it, that'll be helpful. See,

R. Ganesh

with respect to digital transformation, we have been working with respect to IoTs across all our facilities, whether it is the Fasteners or pumps and assemblies. We have established across all plants, and we have seen benefits in the form of the data, quality, and with respect to looking at the machine downtime or looking at the quality levels, whether within the parameters, upper control limit or lower control limit, manufacturing of the products with respect to specifications.

I think it has been helpful, and it has given now I would say productivity improvement of say 5% to 10%, and we will be deploying it horizontally to all our facilities. I think the IoTs and usage of AI, and we have also got into automatic storage and retrieval systems.

All these are helping in terms of improving overall efficiency.

Krishi Parekh

Okay. So 5% to 10% improvement in productivity is expected throughout.

Can you help quantify what kind of margin improvement can we expect out of this?

R. Ganesh

See, the margin improvement can be about 0.2% to 0.5%. Okay.

Krishi Parekh

Okay. Got it.

All right. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Nikunj Mehta from Magma Ventures.

Please go ahead.

Nikunj Mehta

Yeah. Hi.

Thank you for the opportunity. I have a couple of questions.

First question is on our fasteners business. Just wanted to understand how is our wallet share moving with our existing set of customers, cuz many new programs are coming on board to that extent?

Secondly, in terms of a few OEMs which we are not present, how do we see getting into their ecosystem? That's the first question.

R. Ganesh

I think with respect to the wallet share, as we supply specials as well as standard fasteners, on the specials with most of the OEMs, we are single source. On the standards, while our overall presence is 30% to 40% with each of the OEM, there, I think our share of business would be 50% to 60%.

Moving on to addition of OEMs, thanks to the BIS and QCO, we have been working with the OEMs like Hyundai for getting entry into the fasteners, where they have been importing earlier from their existing supply chain community. I think we are seeing quite a bit of headroom for us to penetrate.

We have already got few orders, and we have been meeting their requirements, and they are also happy to work with us.

S. Bharathan

With Cummins also, our Fasteners segment has seen good opportunities, and we have encashed that. Our Cummins business of the Fasteners segment is also growing very well, in addition to Hyundai's entry.

Nikunj Mehta

Okay. Okay.

There's a follow-up on this one. For both Hyundai and Kia, I'm assuming, how big this opportunity can be for us in 2, 3 years' time as we scale up?

No,

R. Ganesh

we should be looking at, say, 100 crore-plus from this customer.

Nikunj Mehta

Okay. We have Kia as well, or it's just Hyundai for now?

No, no.

R. Ganesh

It is both Hyundai and Kia, and we are servicing sintered metal components from the time the plant was established in Chennai. That business is growing.

In addition to that, we are working with Fasteners where we have got an entry. Understood.

Nikunj Mehta

Understood. The second question is on the non-auto side of the equation.

You mentioned about aerospace. We did 50, and we are looking at 100 crores, and eventually 2, 3 years' time of 500 crore.

There's journey which we are basically kind of envisaging. I just wanted to understand that how is our number of customers increasing over there, and how is our wallet share basically increasing there?

Cuz the most difficult part is to get into their supply chain, cuz it is a very well established chain out there. How do we see that scale-up, and proportionately to reach that 500 crores, do we have enough gross block to support that 500 crores in aerospace and in railways and wind energy segment?

Any thoughts on that?

R. Ganesh

I think with respect to aerospace, while we have gone through multiple approvals and certifications in the form of NADCAP as well as AS9100, customers have very well appreciated our quality standards. We work with the likes of Hindustan Aeronautics, we are there with ISRO multiple platforms, we work with General Electric in terms of their aviation requirement.

We are also adding new customers like the recent one like Skyroot Aerospace. That way, the customer additions have been on the increasing side.

Parallelly, we are also working on equipping the division with sufficient and adequate investments. That is also getting addressed.

On the wind energy fasteners, as we had already explained, we have gone through one phase of expansion last year, and that has helped us move from 25 to 30 crore level per month. Today, we are having a further expansion of close to 100 crores of investments that should help us move from 350 crore level on an annualized basis to 500 crore level.

That way, the expansion and gross block is moving to support the targeted revenue. Okay.

Nikunj Mehta

Okay. Understood.

Just last question from my side in terms of capital allocation from here. The industry is doing quite well, and even on the non-auto side, there is a lot of scope to that extent.

Do you see any acceleration in terms of capex or any inorganic opportunities where it is better to get it via inorganic route so that the scale-up happens quickly as compared to going through an organic route? Any thoughts on capital allocation from here?

R. Dilip Kumar

We keep scanning the environment for inorganic opportunities, and, in fact, when we receive such teasers from other parts of the world such as Europe, we even look for whether we can buy the assets in which we have experience, and then shorten the procurement time, because typical project expansion takes these days about 12 months to 18 months. To shorten that, we look for asset purchase.

Nikunj Mehta

Okay. Anything is there in pipeline in that which looks at an advanced stage?

R. Dilip Kumar

No, sir. Nothing.

Even if it is, I cannot tell you.

Nikunj Mehta

Okay. Sir.

Thank you so much, and all the best.

R. Ganesh

Thank you, sir.

R. Dilip Kumar

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Gurpreet from InCred AMC.

Please go ahead.

Gurpreet Arora

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you so much for the opportunity, sir. Congratulations on very good set of results.

Sir, my first question would be on the line of domestic sales. We have grown around 16%, but if I see the industry growth for this quarter would have been around 20% plus.

If you could just give some perspective on that. Are we losing on market share, or is it because of mix?

If you could give some insight on the same.

S. Bharathan

See, from a domestic perspective, I think we've grown on all the vehicle segments. In fact, if you look at the M&HCV segment, which is one of the prime drivers of the economy as well, I think the industry has grown by 20% in the first quarter, and our growth almost matches that.

We are seeing growth in all the subsegments of the industry as well, whether it is heavy commercial, whether it is intermediate and light commercial vehicles, whether it is small commercial vehicles and pickups, or buses. Every subsegment has its own drivers, and that has helped spur the activity.

On the passenger car segment also, post the rationalization of GST last year, middle of last year, even the small car segment has started looking up, and small car, commercial, multi-utilities, as well as vans have grown. There also, I think the industry growth has been 23%, and our growth has almost matched the industry segment.

Maybe an area where [speaks Tamil]. On the tractor segment also, while the growth was expected to be muted, but it has grown by around 14% to 15% in the first quarter, supported by a lot of environmental factors, and there also, we have almost matched the industry growth.

The one factor that might be leading to your perception is that the 2-wheeler and 3-wheeler segment, which is added to the auto growth normally, we're just 5% to 6% of the overall pie, and there, I think we would not be on par with the industry. Except for that, wherever we are participating, I think we are either we have outperformed the segment or we are on par with the segment.

Gurpreet Arora

Sure, sir. That was very detailed and very helpful.

Sir, just a follow up on the same, you mentioned that EV we are not at par with the industry. What can we expect in this EV domestic business?

We are doing good at EV exports. If you could give some insights on the EV domestic.

Also, this quarter subsidiary growth was around 20%, 23%, but last few years, we have been clocking around 750 crores of revenue in the subsidiary business. What can we expect in subsidiary for this year, and also your vision with the subsidiary business for the next 4, 5 years?

R. Ganesh

I think to clarify your point, I think my colleague mentioned about the 2-wheeler presence, not on the EV. With respect to EV, while all our platforms have presence with respect to the EV, I think most of the revenue, as you mentioned, it comes from the export segment, and we are also working with the multiple players on propping up EV revenue in India as well.

Coming to subsidiaries, I think the China's economy is doing well on the backdrop of growing the construction and commercial vehicle segments. The revenue from the subsidiary Sundram Fasteners China, that is also mirroring the growth, and I think we would post close to 20% growth in China for the current year compared to 25-26.

With respect to the subsidiary in UK that serves predominantly the European truck market, and I think we are aligned with the truck market growth there, and parallelly, we are also working for adding new business out of USA, apart from serving the European market. The other subsidiary operating out of India, TVS Upasana, that serves the 2-wheeler segment where we are present with the likes of Bajaj, Royal Enfield, and TVS Motor.

That business is also growing well. I think for the current year, all subsidiaries put together, we should have a nice growth compared on similar lines of SFL standalone.

Gurpreet Arora

Yeah. Thank you so much, sir.

If you could just mention our EV fasteners business wallet share, like we mentioned that we have around 100% wallet share for special fastener and 40% wallet share for standard fastener. If we could mention similar number for our EV business as well?

R. Ganesh

See, with respect to EV, our overall revenue is 4% to 5% of Sundram's revenue. See, generally, these OEMs pick up fasteners, and they do not distinguish between when they place schedules, whether it is going for auto, M&HCV, or EV.

To that granular level, we do not have such information.

Gurpreet Arora

Got it, sir. Sir, and on last quarter, we mentioned that for our business, the growth we expect is CV 8%, PV 10%, tractor 7%, versus industry CV 4% and tractor flat to 2%.

Now the demand has been strong, and we are seeing that similar showing in quarter one. Would you like to change any growth rates, or we would be maintaining same rates?

See, I think

S. Bharathan

as of now, you might have seen in the news in the public domain as well, the credit rating agencies are not talking about such high numbers. Whereas we would like to hold on to our high assessment which we did in the beginning of the year.

The only thing is we are confident about the activity levels and the numbers being as robust. The only thing that needs to be borne in mind is the high base effect of H2 of last year, so that maybe as a percentage, the figures might not be as good, but still we would hold on to the percentages that we had said earlier.

Maybe a quarter or so later, maybe we can calibrate.

Gurpreet Arora

Sure, sir. I'll join back in the queue.

Thank you so much.

Operator

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Himanshu Singh from Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Funds.

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Singh, your line has been unmuted. Please go ahead with your question.

As there is no response, moving on to the next question. The next question is from the line of Sahil Sanghvi from Monarch Networth Capital.

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Sahil Sanghvi

Thank you for the opportunity again, sir. My first question is on the cash conversion cycle.

From what I see in the last 2 years, we have been a little elevated, we used to be at around 110 to 130 days, but the last 2 years have been upwards of 150. Where do you expect this number to stabilize this year?

Any direction on that front?

R. Dilip Kumar

It should be around this level, sir. As the exports come back, and the share of exports in our total revenues has inched up again back to 30%, and it used to be as high as 1/3 at one point in time.

As the share of exports go up, the operating cycle is long, and depending on the customer mix, it tends to stay elevated. It doesn't impact the balance sheet, and like I said in the beginning, the actual DSO has actually come down.

Between one reporting period and another reporting period, you may see a temporary hike or a spike in the number of days. That's because there could have been a slight delay in settlement of payments in the payment cycle of the OEM, but there are no concerns.

Sahil Sanghvi

Sir. Majorly, what I see is the inventory days spiking up.

Your message here is that we'll come back to the 140, 150 levels if things are in place with respect to execution and logistics?

R. Dilip Kumar

Correct. Okay.

Sahil Sanghvi

Okay. Secondly, sir, in the last concall, we had guided for roughly 250 crores of capex this year.

Would you stick to that number? Is there a revision to the capex estimate this year?

R. Dilip Kumar

We have said in the press release about 400 crores, and in any year if you see last 3 years balance sheet, it's roughly around those levels. About 30% could be for replacement, and the balance would be for growth capital expenditure.

Sahil Sanghvi

Will this capex continue for the next few years, or are we largely done with our capex cycle? Because we have done about 1,000 crores, upwards of that.

R. Dilip Kumar

Inherent nature of the industry, sir, because we continue to invest. We'll continue to invest.

Sahil Sanghvi

Okay. Okay.

Got it. Thank you.

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

R. Dilip Kumar

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. As there are no further questions from the participants, I would now like to hand the conference over to the management for closing comments.

R. Dilip Kumar

No specific comments. I thank everyone for attending the Q1 conference call.

Thank you so much.

R. Ganesh

Thank you.

S. Bharathan

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. On behalf of Avendus Spark Institutional Equities, that concludes this conference.

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