Dixon Technologies (India) Ltd.

Dixon Technologies (India) Ltd.

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Q4 FY2026 · Earnings Call TranscriptMay 12, 2026

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, good day and welcome to the Dixon Technologies Q4 FY26 earnings call hosted by DAM Capital Advisors Limited. As a reminder, all participant lines will be in 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. Tanay Shah from DAM Capital.

Thank you, and over to you, sir.

Tanay Shah

Thank you, Ikra. Good evening, everyone.

Welcome to the Dixon Technologies Q4 and FY26 earnings call. Today, we have the management being represented by Mr.

Atul Lall, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, and Mr. Saurabh Gupta, Director and Group CFO.

At this point, I will hand over the floor to Mr. Lall for his initial remarks, post which we'll open up the floor for Q&A.

Thank you, and over to you, sir.

Atul Lall

Thank you, Tanay. Good evening, everyone.

This is Atul Lall, and joining me today is our Director and Group CFO, Saurabh Gupta.

Saurabh Gupta

Good evening, everybody.

Atul Lall

I would like to welcome warmly all our stakeholders to discuss our Q4 and 12 months performance for financial year '25-26 and future growth outlook. The key highlights for the quarter are as below: The revenues for the quarter ended March 31, 2026 was 10,520 crores.

EBITDA, excluding exceptional gain for the quarter, was 418 crores. PAT, after minority interest and excluding exceptional gain for the quarter, was 192 crores.

The key highlights for the whole year are as below: Revenues for the year ended March 31, 2026 were 48,893 crores against 38,880 crores in the same period last year, and that's a growth of 26%. EBITDA, excluding exceptional gain for the year, were 1,887 crores against 15,28 crores in the same period, which is a growth of 23%.

PAT, after minority interest, excluding exceptional gain for the year, were 845 crores against 706 crores in the same period last year, which is a growth of 20%. Starting March '26, global macroeconomic landscape has undergone a dramatic transformation, including rising Middle East tensions and concerns around a potential US-Iran escalation, leading to disruption across supply chains, freight, energy, forex, and commodity prices.

Q4 revenues remained flat due to geopolitical concerns, softer consumer demand, inventory rationalization by brands, elevated input cost, meaningfully impacting the smartphone and IT hardware segment. Electronics industries continue to face inflationary pressure in key components such as memory chips and semiconductor linked inputs driven by AI-led demand and supply constraints, resulting in cautious procurement behavior towards brands.

Despite near-term headwinds, we continue to strengthen our customer partnerships and expand capacities across segments while accelerating our backward integration and localization strategy. Our priorities remain clear to sustain growth momentum, strengthening our competitive positioning, and continue to invest in talent, capabilities enhancement.

We will be expanding the capacities of camera module and our subsidiary, QTech, which is an ECMS beneficiary for smartphones, from 70 million annually to around 180 to 190 million annually over the next 15 to 18 months, largely catering to our captive smartphone volumes, in addition to deepening the level of manufacturing, capturing more value add in India. We have received PN3 and ECMS approval for 74/26 display module JV with HKC.

Construction of our display facility is completed, and installation of machineries are ongoing for mobiles, IT hardware products, and automotive displays. The response from various brands is very encouraging.

The trials will start from beginning of Q3 and mass production to commence from end of Q3, beginning of Q4 this fiscal. We remain focused to strengthen capital efficiency and balance sheet quality, improved asset utilization, operating leverage, and disciplined capital allocation supported healthy ROCE and ROE of 44.8% and 28.1%, respectively.

Overall, working capital efficiency led to stronger cash flow generation and working capital cycle of -8 days. We remain focused on sustaining profitable growth while maintaining strong return ratios and balance sheet discipline.

We remain confident in the long-term Indian EMS opportunities, supported by supply chain diversification, increased localization, supportive government policies, PLI-led discreet expansion, and continue to create a strong multi-year growth runway for the industry. Now, I'll share with you the business performance and insights in each of the segments.

Mobile and other EMS businesses: Revenue for the quarter for mobile and other EMS business was 9,485 crores and operating profit of 337 crores. Mobile industry has seen some headwinds from memory price inflation and demand moderation in last 6 months.

Over the past few weeks, supply-demand dynamics are becoming more balanced, and we are beginning to see an improvement in customer ordering pattern. We expect a higher double-digit growth quarter-on-quarter in the smartphone volume, along with growth in selling prices by 12% to 15%.

We strongly feel that the momentum will sustain for the balance part of the fiscal year. We expect a strong growth in volume for our existing US brand, and we expect a significant uptick in volumes for our subsidiary, Ismartu, on exports for largely feature phones and also smartphones mainly for Africa market from mid Q2, and we have started manufacturing smartphones for HMD in Q1.

Our 400,000 square feet facility for 74/26 Longcheer JV for manufacturing of smartphones and other electronic products is expected to start operations by Q3, which will meaningfully strengthen our execution capabilities. We are having robust order book for smartphones, and also in advanced discussion with them for adding other product categories in the JV.

Construction of our 1 million square feet facility in Noida with higher capacities for our anchor customers is nearing completion, and we expect the operations to commence by Q2 this fiscal. Telecom and networking product: The segment continued its strong growth trajectory on the back of expanding customer relationships and higher execution across key product categories driven by increasing network infrastructure investments, including capturing emerging opportunities and growing localization of telecom equipment manufacturing.

We have commenced manufacturing of highly complex telecom backhaul microwave radios and plan to initiate exports in this fiscal. We have commissioned a new manufacturing plant for capacity expansion and increased warehousing area to support the growth trajectory.

Our strategy in this vertical is to move up the value chain from pure EMS to design-led solution-centric partnership, and have now entered into joint design and manufacturing model with the key customer enabling greater backward integration, localizing a higher share of the BOM. We expect this vertical to deliver high double-digit revenue growth in the current fiscal.

IT hardware products: The segment delivered a healthy performance for the quarter under review, and we expect 3x growth in the revenues in the current fiscal against last year with huge uptick in order books from all customers. Our dedicated IT hardware products manufacturing unit in Chennai has successfully stabilized mass production of laptops and all-in-ones and have secured orders for desktops from one of our customers.

The execution for the same shall start in Q2 of this fiscal. We have also start manufacturing tablets in addition to laptops for our existing customer.

Our new facility adjacent to our existing facility under our 60/40 JV with Inventec Taiwan is progressing well and expected to go into mass production in Q3 of the current fiscal. In line with our backward integration plans, we'll commence SSD manufacturing in Q2 and display module with HKC from end of Q3, beginning Q4.

We're also exploring other critical components, such as power supply and mechanicals, which will enhance value addition and margins. We're also in discussion with a JV partner to participate in the fast-growing server opportunity and to move from end-client IT hardware into data center and enterprise infrastructure hardware, which is supported by strong government policy tailwinds on server manufacturing and backward integration, including a clear push on localization and a tax holiday framework for the same, which meaningfully improves the viability and return profiles of India-based server and component manufacturing.

All the above taken together, these drivers give us strong visibility on robust growth in the vertical and potential to make it a meaningful pillar for Dixon's overall portfolio over the next few years. Home appliances: The revenue for the quarter was 329 crores and operating profit was 31 crores.

Semi-automatic washing machines continued to deliver robust growth. We have started manufacturing semi-automatic washing machines in 16 and 18 kg capacity, which is first across the industry.

Fully automatic washing machines business is scaling well on the back of healthy demand and deeper engagements with key brands. We have a healthy order book in emerging categories such as robotic vacuum cleaners, where we see strong potential for multi-year growth, and also deeply working on introduction of other appliances like dishwashers, microwaves, and kitchen chimneys, which would help us to offer a complete home appliances portfolio.

The segment continues to demonstrate strong ODM capability across design support, testing, manufacturing, product customization, value-added offering, increase in automation, which will enhance margin and improve customer stickiness. Addition of our new manufacturing facility in Tirupati will expand our capacities from 0.6 million units per annum by another 0.3 million units, including fully automatic front-loading washing machine, which will be launched by end of Q2 this financial year.

This is the first Indian company launching the ODM solution. Lighting: The JV with Signify continues to deliver strong revenue growth, and we expect the revenues to grow almost to 2x in the current fiscal.

The growth is being driven by the strong operational synergies between Signify's technology leadership and Dixon's manufacturing scale, leading to enhanced productivity, improved operational efficiency, and enhanced cost competitiveness with huge focus on automation and backward integration. Further building on our share in B2B space on bulbs, battens, and downlighters, we are significantly increasing our volumes on the other niche products like 2x2 panel lights, T-lights, mirror lights, positioning us firmly as the foremost player in the lighting industry, which is witnessing consolidation at a rapid scale.

Pursuing an active product mix improvement strategy, we are continuously adding premium indoor and professional lighting products and luminaires to our portfolio. We have received two export orders from one of the largest US chain and a European retail chain for strip lights, which will start getting executed from Q2 and are also in discussion for other product categories.

Consumer electronics, that is LED TV and refrigerators: Revenue for the quarter under review was 697 crores with an operating profit of 40 crores. The quarter under review saw temporary slowdown in the industry demand due to geopolitical concerns and rising input costs, but we have actively procured advance orders from customers with better-priced offerings for the upcoming quarters.

Our focus remains on large screen, smart, connected, and premium models where we can differentiate through manufacturing quality, platform capabilities, cost efficiency, and technological upgradation. We have launched production of high-end mini LED TVs and will be shifting it to ODM-plus model by Q2, and also introducing soundbar series enabling our customers to tap into the fast-growing premium segments.

Refrigerators: Q4 marked the transition to revised BEE norms and upgraded energy efficiency standards for compressors. This led to industry-wide price increase just ahead of the peak summer demand season beginning in January.

As a result, several brands focused on liquidating existing inventory with older BEE ratings and limited procurement under the new norms. We continue to see traction with healthy orders and improved visibility book in direct cool and in mini bars, that's 50 and 100 liters.

Our ODM capabilities are scaling well, allowing us to offer more differentiated, value-added designs to support faster model refreshes. To support future growth, we are expanding our current facility by another 375,000 square feet, which will also enable manufacturing of two-door refrigerators, deep freezers, visi coolers, and side-by-side refrigerators with meaningful opportunity to move up the value chain, expand wallet share with customers, and build a broader appliance platform over the period.

Rexxam Dixon Electronics, our 60/40 JV with Rexxam Japan for AC PCBA continues to perform well, delivering healthy growth along with a strong cash flow and a strong ROCE with stable and long-term relationship with our anchor customer. We also added a new facility in Chennai strategically located closer to our anchor customers, which will expand our capacity and strengthen our partnership.

Hearables and wearables: This vertical, operated through our JV with Imagine Marketing, continues to see broad-based growth with solid balance sheet and healthy cash flow generation. The business is scaled well with our existing product portfolio and has now entered the next phase of expansion by adding new product categories such as dash cams, power banks, smart watches, and other adjacent accessories, which will improve capacity utilization and operating leverage across JV's manufacturing footprint.

High-end specialty EMS business: As a part of our next phase of transformational growth, we have partnered with a leading global management consulting firm for designing a comprehensive multi-year strategic roadmap to build scaled, specialty, high-margin EMS business, including M&A opportunities focused on aerospace, defense, automotive, medical, and industrial verticals. This initiative was focused on identifying the most attractive, high-growth, and high-value products in the above segments, defining a differentiated technology and capability roadmap, and creating a robust execution framework spanning capital allocation, talent development, strategic partnerships, and market expansion with the aim to accelerate Dixon's evolution into complete, competitive manufacturing platform.

With that, I'll conclude my remarks, and both me and Saurabh are happy to take any 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 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 is from the line of Pankaj Tibrewal from Ikigai Asset Manager. Please go ahead.

Pankaj Tibrewal

Good evening, Atul ji. Hope all is well at your end.

Atul Lall

All well, Pankaj ji. How are you?

Saurabh Gupta

Hi Pankaj.

Pankaj Tibrewal

Very well. Thank you.

Thank you, Saurabh. Just quickly two, three questions.

First, congratulations on great cash flow conversion. Preliminary look suggests that the cash flow has been very strong despite of earnings being a little sluggish.

Continue doing that. On '27, just wanted to get your sense on two, three...

Operator

I'm sorry to interrupt, Pankaj. Can you please use your handset mode?

Your voice is fluctuating.

Pankaj Tibrewal

I'm using the handset only.

Operator

Then please speak a little louder. Thank you.

Pankaj Tibrewal

Yeah. On the mobile side, can you give us some color on how we are looking at the ramp-up on volumes in FY27?

What are the other areas of growth this year we are targeting? In terms of IT hardware, I remember last time you spoke about that 3.5, 4,000 crores could be possible in this year FY27, on the display JV, on the camera module.

Can you just take us through some of the growth drivers for this year, and also the Vivo JV, any thoughts on that, how should we think about from that perspective? Whether your volume, which you will probably end up talk about, does it includes Vivo, doesn't include Vivo, just some color on that so that we are able to help understand on the growth side for us.

Atul Lall

Sure Pankaj ji. You see we have really focused on our balance sheet strength, and in spite of a sluggish business environment, we have generated after doing a capex of almost 1,058 crores, a free cash of 700-plus crores.

The ROCE is 44.8%, and working capital operating cycle is -8 days. That way, the balance sheet is very strong for triggering any kind of growth.

Pankaj Tibrewal

Absolutely.

Atul Lall

As far as '27 business plan growth numbers are concerned...

Pankaj Tibrewal

Yeah. ...and

Atul Lall

here I'm talking on mobile without Vivo...

Pankaj Tibrewal

Yeah.

Atul Lall

...we have closed at almost 32-odd million...

Pankaj Tibrewal

Yeah.

Atul Lall

...in the current fiscal. We feel that the overall volumes without Vivo is going to be almost similar...

Okay. ...because there is an overall decline due to increase in the memory prices and the ASP going up significantly.

Pankaj Tibrewal

Okay.

Atul Lall

As far as Vivo is concerned, we are deeply engaged with the government. We feel that we are very close to it.

Pankaj Tibrewal

Okay.

Atul Lall

That's where the status is. I reiterate that we feel that we are very, very close to it.

Pankaj Tibrewal

If Vivo comes, what could be the volumes?

Atul Lall

It depends on the timelines. On an annualized basis, 67% of what Vivo sells—and last year Vivo sold almost 35 million units—another 20, 22 million units can be added on an annualized basis.

Okay.

Pankaj Tibrewal

Okay. Okay.

Atul Lall

That's the number. Apart from that, on the feature phone side, there is a significant upside because we are going to be starting exports of feature phones under our subsidiary, Ismartu, to Africa.

Pankaj Tibrewal

Yes.

Atul Lall

That number will take us up to almost 50 million units.

Pankaj Tibrewal

Okay.

Atul Lall

Right. Further, we are expecting PLI 2 for mobiles to be rolled out.

Pankaj Tibrewal

Okay.

Atul Lall

Let's see what will be the structure and format of it. Mhm.

We understand the focus is going to be more for global markets. If that happens, then I feel that beyond Vivo and beyond Ismartu, another 4 to 5 million units can be added.

I'm giving you the overall picture and direction as far as mobile portfolio is concerned. Yes.

Pankaj Tibrewal

Absolutely.

Atul Lall

IT products, the business looks very healthy. We have created more capacities.

We have deep relationships with top four brands in the country, the global brands, and we feel that our revenue in this fiscal is going to be more than 4,000 crores.

Pankaj Tibrewal

That's good to hear.

Atul Lall

In our camera module acquisition of QTech, we're expanding capacity from present 70 to 80 million to almost 190 million. Last year on an annualized basis, we did a revenue of 1,700 crores.

We're targeting a revenue of almost 2,500 crores in that business. As far as the display is concerned, the building is ready, the machinery is getting installed.

We plan to start the trials in Q3 of this fiscal, and Q4, the commercial production is going to start. I'm not putting in the numbers to that in the current fiscal.

The other triggers of growth: The telecom network business is doing extremely well.

Pankaj Tibrewal

Okay.

Atul Lall

We have grown from 3,600 crores to 5,000 crores in the current fiscal. We are targeting almost 7.5, 8,000 crores in '26-27.

That's another major trigger of growth.

Pankaj Tibrewal

Wow, okay.

Atul Lall

In lighting which was a laggard for us, we did almost 800, 850 crores. The next year target is almost 1,700 crores.

We expect 2x after we have formed the JV with Signify.

Pankaj Tibrewal

Okay. Then,

Atul Lall

there are further additions. Our Inventec with JV, Inventec JV is going to start generating numbers from Q3 of the current fiscal.

In that, we're going to be setting up the SSD module line, which is going to further generate the numbers. These are all triggers of growth which have been planned, and they are in the execution mode, Pankaj ji.

Pankaj Tibrewal

Very nice. Just last question.

On the mobile side, is it fair to say that because of the memory chip pricing going up and also your product realization going up, the top-line growth could be much higher than the volume growth which you will see?

Atul Lall

That's that's that's right. That's right.

Saurabh Gupta

We expect Pankaj that the revenue growth should be at least 12% to 15% higher, if not more.

Pankaj Tibrewal

That was not the case for the last few years where volume was equal to the top-line growth. Is that a fair understanding?

Saurabh Gupta

That's absolutely. Once the Vivo thing comes into the system, there we are hoping that the selling prices would be better than our existing weighted average selling price of the current portfolio.

Pankaj Tibrewal

Okay. That will be an added one from a overall realization perspective.

Saurabh Gupta

Revenue growth perspective,

Atul Lall

that's right.

Saurabh Gupta

The margins may optically can look lower, but the revenue-wise, there'll be upside on that.

Pankaj Tibrewal

Okay. Fair enough.

Thank you and wish you all the best. Thank you.

Atul Lall

Thank you.

Saurabh Gupta

Thank you.

Pankaj Tibrewal

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Next question is from the line of Aditya Bhartia from Investec.

Please go ahead. Aditya, your line is unmuted.

Please go ahead with your question. Aditya, can you hear us?

Aditya Bhartia

Hello, am I audible?

Operator

Yes, you are. Yes, you are audible.

Please proceed.

Aditya Bhartia

Hi, good evening, sir.

Atul Lall

Hi Aditya.

Aditya Bhartia

Hi sir. Sir, my first question is on the PLI scheme coming to an end on the mobile phone side.

How are the conversations with customers? Is it only the element that we were retaining, which we'll start losing out in terms of profitability?

Or can there be any other hit in terms of PLI scheme going away as well?

Atul Lall

Aditya, we have five large relationships: Motorola, our relationship through Longcheer with Oppo, and our other relationships. Please be rest assured that the relationships are extremely strategic, deepened, anchor, and we expect volume growth and a larger share of business across all these relationships.

Please be rest assured on that. Obviously, there is a margin pressure because the PLI going away.

A part of it is getting compensated through the enhanced operational efficiency, and the balance part of it is going to start kicking in with our backward integration piece of camera modules and display. That's the path we're pursuing, which we have shared with you earlier also.

Please be rest assured, the anchor relationships are very deep, and there is no hit on that.

Aditya Bhartia

Sure, sure. What we had earlier kind of discussed that 50 to 70 basis points of margin impact may be there, add to that maybe optically how the margins may look lower on account of higher realizations, but that should be the complete impact, nothing more than that.

Atul Lall

That's right, Aditya. Absolutely.

Absolutely, Aditya.

Saurabh Gupta

That's right, Aditya.

Atul Lall

You have captured it absolutely.

Aditya Bhartia

Perfect, perfect, sir. Sir, in the last conference call, you had spoken about industrial EMS, wherein you had referred to hiring a senior resource.

This time around, you have kind of hinted about exploring different opportunities within specialty EMS. If you could give us some more details about what are the kind of opportunities within let's say aerospace, defense, automotive that you spoke about, how large those opportunities could be, is it likely to be organic, inorganic, what's really the roadmap over there if there's anything that you can disclose?

Atul Lall

Aditya, we've already taken a very senior resource at the level of President and CEO who is going to build this business for us. We have partnered a very very large consulting company.

Five micro-verticals have been identified. The strategies are being prepared.

Already on the table, there are a couple of serious inorganic opportunities across the verticals that I had mentioned in my opening remarks. We have not budgeted any numbers out of these opportunities as of now in '26-27, but we feel that something substantive, at least a couple of them, is going to happen in the current fiscal.

Aditya Bhartia

Okay. Any indication on size, sir, how large could these be?

Atul Lall

These are going to be higher-margin businesses. We feel that the combined opportunities which come in are going to be at least scalable to the size of 3 to 4,000 crores with a significantly higher operating margins.

Aditya Bhartia

Understood. Understood.

Sir, my last question on exports of mobile phones. Of course, with Ismartu, we are starting with feature phones, but is there a roadmap of moving that relationship to smartphone exports as well?

Besides Motorola and Ismartu, which are the potential other customers that may get added, let's say if PLI 2 scheme comes in and incentivizes export opportunities? Thank you.

Atul Lall

Aditya, well, we have deep discussions with our partner, and starting with feature phones with Ismartu, their smartphones exports is also going to be initiated. Of course, the Motorola relationship for export is going to get a fillip after the PLI 2.

At present, these are the two relationships which are going to mature into exports. Beyond that, as I had shared in my opening remarks, we have already got two orders: one from large retail chain in US, another one from another large retail chain in Europe for lighting.

That has already triggered. Also in our telecom business, wherein we have started manufacturing radios, microwave radios, we have got an export break.

Step-by-step, we are building.

Aditya Bhartia

Sure. This is part of your indication of doubling up of lighting revenues, or this could be over and above that?

Atul Lall

At present, to be very candid, in our AOP, we have not considered these numbers. This is going to be over and above that.

Aditya Bhartia

Sure. Perfect.

That's very helpful, sir. Thank you so much.

Atul Lall

Thanks, Aditya.

Operator

Thank you. Thank you.

Ladies and gentlemen, in order to ensure that the management is able to address questions from all the participants in the conference, kindly limit your questions to two per participant. Should you have a follow-up question, please rejoin the queue.

The next question is from the line of Siddhartha Bera from Nomura. Please go ahead.

Siddhartha Bera

Thanks for the opportunity, sir. Sir, first one clarification, when you said that the revenue for the current quarter, you expect a 12% to 15% growth, is it volume or are we talking about the value here?

Second is... Sorry?

Atul Lall

It's the volume growth you're talking about.

Siddhartha Bera

Volume growth, okay.

Saurabh Gupta

Also, Siddhartha, both the pricing growth will also happen and the volume growth will also happen.

Siddhartha Bera

Understood. Sir, second thing was on the exports.

How much was the exports in FY26? When you say flat volume growth, that does not include exports, right?

The export of 4 to 5 million will be over and top of the number which we are planning for the next year.

Atul Lall

That is subject to the policy framework of mobile PLI 2. In the last fiscal, the export was approximately 5,375 crores.

5,375 crores.

Siddhartha Bera

Okay. Any color on which markets are we looking for these exports which we plan to do?

In the IT segment also, I think we have seen some increases in the impact from the memory prices. Also, do you see a potential risk of ramp-up slower being there as well as we go into the next two years?

Atul Lall

Siddhartha, the export market for mobiles are largely going to be for our anchor customer to US, and for our other partner company, it's going to be to the African countries. As far as the impact to the price increase or cost increase due to commodity prices in IT hardware is concerned, we have large, deep relationship.

In any case, our base was very small. We are confident of touching this revenue figure of 4,000 crores in the current fiscal, and this business, particularly our other partnership with Inventec, is in a significant ramp-up phase.

Siddhartha Bera

Got it, sir. Sir, last question is on the...

Operator

I'm sorry to interrupt, Siddhartha. You may please rejoin the queue for more questions.

Siddhartha Bera

Sure.

Operator

Thank you. We will take our next question from the line of Indrajit Agarwal from CLSA.

Please go ahead.

Indrajit Agarwal

Hi, thank you for the opportunity. I have two questions.

Post Vivo, you would have something around 55, 57-odd million smartphones. Let's say we hit this run rate by FY28 at some point in FY28, and that would imply more than 50% market share of the outsourced market in India.

How do we see the smartphone volumes growth post that?

Atul Lall

We feel undoubtedly that there is a significant potential for exports. One is that.

The second is we need to work upon getting a larger share of market of existing brand itself. A couple of relationships, we feel there is still a potential for increasing the share of the wallet.

The next is bringing in one more acquisition of a large customer. Definitely, the kind of ramp-up of growth that Dixon has had in its mobile business is not going to be the same level, but yeah, the growth will be there.

That's what we are pursuing.

Indrajit Agarwal

Sure. You can gain market share further in the domestic market as well?

Atul Lall

We will definitely strive for it.

Indrajit Agarwal

Sure. Second, the smartphone concerns that you talked about, the near-term issues, is it more a demand issue because of rise in ASP or availability of memory chips?

Atul Lall

Due to the kind of relationships that we have as far as the mobile phones customers and principals are concerned, we are able to ensure the supply chain smoothness. I'm not seeing any shortage due to which the business is getting impacted, but definitely, there is a cost increase.

There's no impact on production.

Indrajit Agarwal

Sure. The cost increase is impacting demand, not production.

Atul Lall

That's right. That's right.

That's right.

Saurabh Gupta

These are large brands. They have global relationships with the memory suppliers, and they have very deep relationships, long-term contracts.

I think so supply availability is not an issue, Indrajit.

Indrajit Agarwal

Thanks, Saurabh. The reason I ask is we have seen Apple and Samsung gain market share in the Indian market while most of the Chinese brands losing.

All right, that answers. Thank you so much.

Operator

Thank you. Next question is from the line of Keyur Pandya from ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Limited.

Please go ahead.

Keyur Pandya

Thank you for the opportunity. Sir, on the mobile volume side, you mentioned demand, basically pricing impacting the demand.

When we speak to industry people, their point of view is that basically, there is a shortage below $200 kind of phones, and brands are also prioritizing premium phones because of the shortage. Now in that backdrop, what is giving us confidence of flat volumes?

Are we getting higher wallet share? Thereby, we are securing our volumes, or as you mentioned, there is no impact on demand.

Even with the same wallet share, you are confident of flat volumes? Since this part of commentary versus the industry player was slightly different, just wanted to get more clarity on it.

Atul Lall

In our case, what we are pursuing is a larger share of the customer's wallet, that how many new project wins we are having. With those project wins with us, we are fairly confident that we'll sustain the volumes.

Am I able to answer your question?

Keyur Pandya

Yes. Yes, absolutely.

Just one more clarification. As you have highlighted earlier, the profitability is on the per-unit basis.

Optically, only percentage margin may look lower, but that is it. Otherwise, per-unit absolute profitability remains intact.

Atul Lall

That's right.

Keyur Pandya

Ex of PLI.

Atul Lall

That's right.

Keyur Pandya

Okay. Sir, thanks a lot and all the very best.

Atul Lall

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Next question is from the line of Bharat Shah from ASK Capital Ideas Limited.

Please go ahead.

Bharat Shah

Namaste Atul ji.

Atul Lall

Namaskar, Bharat

Saurabh Gupta

bhai. Namaskar,

Bharat Shah

sir. Namaskar.

Atul ji, I'm just kind of reflecting on the past and kind of drawing a line ahead. For a longest period, we have done wonderfully well in terms of capturing opportunities across many areas, but mobile phone has been [the main?]

. We have not only grown there, but throughout we have maintained financial hygiene of the balance sheet and capital efficiency.

[unclear] facilities...

Operator

I'm sorry to interrupt, Mr. Shah.

Your voice is fluctuating.

Bharat Shah

Okay. Is it better now?

Operator

Yeah. Thank you.

Please proceed. Yeah.

Bharat Shah

I was saying that over a period of time, we have taken hold of mobile opportunity in a big way and have grown. Somewhere along the line, do you think that strategically we have allowed ourselves to depend way too much on mobile phone, where it has become very large part of the business?

Therefore, anything unfortunate happening is affecting our overall picture, like it has happened in the last year where memory, other things, JV approvals not coming, all have combined together and it has hurt us. Have we strategically kind of taken eyes off the ball?

Atul Lall

Bharat bhai, how do we strategize our business? We look at the opportunity pool.

We look at the scalability of that opportunity. We look at derisking after the scalability that can we have multiple customers.

Is there a possibility of entering the global markets? Also, is there a possibility of deepening the manufacturing?

Now in EMS services sector, the biggest opportunity pool was and is mobile. It was aligning with the government policy framework, which I think as a company, we have leveraged well.

Now definitely, there have been some aberrations. There have been some delays, particularly in Vivo government approval.

Also similar business model, we have tried successfully deploying it across the other product categories. We have done it well in telecom products.

Please appreciate in '23-24, we were at 700 crores. We have grown to 3,600 in last year, 5,000 in this year to 8,000.

It's absolutely a similar model. We are trying to do the same thing with the IT products, where we feel that a similar trajectory of growth will happen.

Now with the balance sheet strength and also the new foray into components is being replicating through the similar strategy. Now I humbly admit where possibly we have missed out is on the high-margin category of industrial EMS.

Bharat Shah

Correct.

Atul Lall

That I accept. Yes, possibly I should have tried it 2 years back.

That's where we are, Bharat bhai.

Bharat Shah

Sure. Therefore, if we sum it up all that it is there, various other initiatives which we have taken and probably more will take, from the current year where 47, 48,000 turnover that we have achieved, because there are too many moving parts, what kind of turnover one should believe would be there for the current year?

With what kind of margin? Similar, better, or lower?

Atul Lall

Bharat bhai, usually I don't give guidance, but then, yeah, let me just share with you. Without the Vivo numbers, this year we closed at almost 48,000 crores, 48,800-odd crores.

Next year, we are targeting almost 56,000 crores without the Vivo numbers and mobile volumes being flat. If Vivo comes in, then it's a very major trigger.

We feel that without the Vivo also, the company will keep growing at almost 15% to 17%.

Bharat Shah

With a better, same, or lower margin in the current year compared to last year?

Atul Lall

The margin profile will be slightly under pressure this year because the PLI has gone off, and there is a lag in the margin accretion happening due to component foray. Finally, when the component play is completely deployed, there will be a margin expansion from last year's number by almost 40, 50 bps.

Bharat Shah

Overall profitability, will it rise rather than margin? Overall profit pool for the company in the current year will rise compared to last year?

Atul Lall

Absolute profitability will rise.

Saurabh Gupta

Absolute profitability will rise, and once the component play comes in, sir, then there will be a significant margin expansion, which will largely get played out in '27-28. Camera modules will happen in H2, where we are deepening the level of manufacturing.

Display part, which is larger part of the backward integration strategy, will start playing out in '27-28.

Bharat Shah

Sure. Not a question, but just a point...

Operator

I'm sorry to interrupt, Bharat sir.

Bharat Shah

Just a point I am putting. I am putting just a point, not a question.

Don't worry. You see, our core capability is hardcore manufacturing at efficient cost.

We have done a wonderful, wonderful job in that. Cash flow, balance sheet, ROCE, ROE, everything.

I think manufacturing industry, automobile, defense-related, there are multiple opportunities, I think, which once we widen the horizon, I think opportunity pool can widen materially. That is all that I wanted to put in.

Thank you, Atul ji.

Atul Lall

We are absolutely aligned with you, and just to respond to you, there are significant adjacencies in our existing forays also. For example, the display, one is getting such positive traction for the automotive industry.

There are many, many adjacencies, and also what I had mentioned responding to the question by Aditya that our foray into industrial EMS, please be rest assured, will be a reality.

Bharat Shah

Sure. Thank you, Atul ji.

All the very best. Thank you, Saurabh.

Thank

Atul Lall

you, Bharat bhai.

Saurabh Gupta

Thank you, sir. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Next question is from the line of Achal Lohade from Nuvama Institutional Equities.

Please go ahead.

Achal Lohade

Good evening, sir. Thank you for the opportunity.

First question, just a clarification. The 32 million included the exports of 5.5 million, right?

No,

Atul Lall

no, no, no. This is not including exports.

Achal Lohade

Would you be able to quantify for FY26, what is the export number, sir?

Saurabh Gupta

33 million, yeah, is what we did,

Atul Lall

26, 27 number. 32 million.

Saurabh Gupta

Your question is on 26, 27 number?

Achal Lohade

For FY26. For FY26.

FY26,

Saurabh Gupta

we did 33 million smartphones, and that includes exports. That includes

Achal Lohade

exports. When you're guiding for flat volume, that also in a similar context, total basis or that was just for the domestic?

Saurabh Gupta

That export volumes can be over and above this 32 million.

Atul Lall

Yeah. That is largely domestic.

Saurabh Gupta

Yeah.

Achal Lohade

What was the quantum for export in FY26, sir, if you could call out that?

Saurabh Gupta

Around

Atul Lall

4 million.

Saurabh Gupta

4.5 million or something, yeah.

Achal Lohade

Understood. The second question I had was with respect to PLI.

If you could clarify what is the PLI income we booked on a gross and net basis for FY26? How much did we receive, and how much is outstanding as of 31st March 2026?

Saurabh Gupta

The first part of the question: The total PLI income which has been booked across the four PLI schemes that we are a beneficiary of, the total income is around 360-odd crores.

Achal Lohade

Okay.

Saurabh Gupta

The overall across these four PLIs, the overall receivable balance will be closer to 1,380-odd crores.

Achal Lohade

This 360 is net...

Operator

I'm sorry to interrupt, Achal.

Achal Lohade

...PLI, right? Just a clarification, ma'am.

Just a clarification, I'm not asking any new question. Just a clarification.

Is this net PLI numbers, Saurabh? Hey,

Saurabh Gupta

what is net? 360 crores?

Achal Lohade

There is gross and there is pass-through, right? This is the net PLI recognized

Saurabh Gupta

in the P&L? This is the net, and 960 would be the net.

960 is the pass-on, difference is the net number.

Achal Lohade

Understood. Got it.

Thank you. I'll fall back in the queue.

Thank you so much.

Operator

Thank you. Next question is from the line of Ashutosh Kumar Jha from Balanced Asset Management.

Please go ahead.

Ashutosh Kumar Jha

Hi, Atul sir, hi Saurabh. Thank you for taking my question.

Atul Lall

Sir,

Ashutosh Kumar Jha

just two questions. One is a bookkeeping question: On the mobile and EMS division, can you just break out the hearables, wearables, telecom, and QTech part of it, if possible?

Atul Lall

We don't split these numbers, please, if you don't mind.

Ashutosh Kumar Jha

Understood, sir. No worries.

The second was around your earlier comment on the ASP increases that are happening in the industry. As far as Dixon is concerned, can you just clarify the accounting on what happens when the ASP goes up due to memory issues?

Then how does it impact our revenue, and how does it exactly impact our EBITDA? Does EBITDA per unit remain same or EBITDA profitability remain the same?

Saurabh Gupta

Yes, basically, the revenues is a function of the bill of material, the cost of goods sold plus our conversion charge. The bill of material, the cost of goods sold goes up because of increase in the memory prices, accordingly, the revenue will go up.

What our understanding with the customer is that we get an EBITDA per unit depending on the complexity which goes into the smartphone, various models of smartphones. Yes, if the revenue goes up, the margin can optically look lower.

We get a per-unit conversion charge.

Ashutosh Kumar Jha

Understood, sir. Thank you.

These are my questions.

Operator

Thank you. Next question is from the line of Santhosh Seshadri from Avendus Spark.

Please go ahead.

Santhosh Seshadri

Hi, sir. Good evening.

Thanks for taking up my questions. My first question is on the volume cadence for the full year.

Correct me if I'm wrong, sir, based on the FY26 volumes of 32 to 33 million units, our run rate for 4Q26 implies 5 million units approximately. If we factor in the guided volume growth of 12% to 15% sequentially, and extrapolate that to second quarter of FY27 as well, we are arriving at roughly 12 to 13 million units for first half, and 20 million units for second half.

Could you explain, is this largely driven by the steep recovery in the second half, is it driven by any customer ramps or any market share gains, or is it just a broader demand recovery?

Saurabh Gupta

Your quarter four numbers are closer to 5.6 million, it's not 5 million. Then we are saying on this, we expect a higher double-digit teen growth in terms of volumes.

We have that numbers in mind, but we don't want to share the specific number. Higher double-digit teen growth I'm talking about.

Then on top of it, we are talking about 12% to 15% pricing growth. There will be a significant growth in terms of mobile revenues overall on account of both pricing and volumes.

Then, of course, you can't just multiply the quarter one numbers into four because quarter two is generally the best quarter for us. Also the exports which we mentioned also will start happening from Q2, which we mentioned in our opening remarks.

We feel confident that excluding Vivo, we will be looking at a similar volumes. Exports can potentially add some more volumes to it, and then the Vivo volumes, as and when the approval comes in, it'll have a proportionate impact for the balance part of the year, yeah.

Santhosh Seshadri

Thank you. My second question is on the display business.

Could you provide some more color on the ramp-up schedule and how should we think about the margins and the utilization for FY26 and FY20—sorry, FY27 and FY28?

Atul Lall

In the phase one, we are setting up a capacity of 24 million mobile displays annually, and 2.4 million of automotive and IT product display. The first line being installed is for IT products and automotive display, for which the trial is going to start in Q3 of current fiscal, and the commercial production is going to start in Q4 of the current fiscal.

Mobile display, the trial and the commercial production is going to start in Q4 of the current fiscal. As I had shared, finally the capacity build-up for mobile over next 2 years is going to be from 24 million to almost 50, 55 million.

The final picture of this business, the revenue target, once we start achieving 80, 89—80% to 90% of the capacity utilization, the revenue generation is going to be almost 5.5 to 6,000 crores with a double-digit margin.

Santhosh Seshadri

Thank you very much, sir.

Operator

Thank you. Next question is from the line of Keshav Lahoti from HDFC Securities.

Please go ahead.

Keshav Lahoti

Hello, sir. Just a follow-up on the last question.

Once the display business will ramp up, fair to assume the margin will be mid- to high teens?

Atul Lall

Sorry, the question is not clear. We're not able to understand, please.

Can you repeat?

Keshav Lahoti

Hello. Is it better?

Saurabh Gupta

No, please, can you repeat the question, Keshav?

Keshav Lahoti

Hello, am I audible?

Saurabh Gupta

You're audible, but we could not understand your question. Can you repeat it?

Keshav Lahoti

Yeah. My question is, once the display business will ramp up, is it fair to assume the margin will be mid- to high teens?

Atul Lall

We feel that it should be double-digit margin. It should be in mid-teens.

Saurabh Gupta

Your understanding is right.

Keshav Lahoti

Understood. Got it.

Let's say, what about if we expect FY28 will be a full year of operation? Initially, it would be start with lower and possibly will ramp up to mid- to high teens in next 2, 3 years.

That is how we should look at the business, right?

Atul Lall

That's right.

Keshav Lahoti

Sir. Got it.

Thank you. That's it.

Operator

Thank you. Next question is from the line of Rahul Agarwal from Ikigai Asset.

Please go ahead.

Rahul Agarwal

Hi, sir. Very good evening, Atul ji and Saurabh.

Just two questions. Two questions are on capex.

Clearly we are going ahead with most of the capacity expansions. Even fiscal '26, you've ended at 1,000 crores.

Sir, next year fiscal '27, how do we look at capex budget, and which segments take the largest share? That is question one.

Question two, just from a top-down perspective for Dixon, both from an input cost inflation perspective and the forex rate, which is INR/US dollar, how does it impact Dixon, positive or negative? Is there a time lag between what we should actually anticipate, once it's a 100% pass-through business is what I understand.

Could you just put some thoughts around these three points, would really help to understand further. Thank you so much.

Atul Lall

Rahul, on the capex side, we feel that a lot of capex in our existing businesses has already been front-ended. The capex allocation is largely going to be on three things: one, our display capacity; second, our expansion of the IT business; and third is expansion of our camera module capacity and deepening of manufacturing.

As far as the absolute number is concerned, it will be in the similar range, and the balance sheet and the cash accruals are adequate to support this expansion. As far as the commodity price increase and the currency fluctuation is concerned, in our EMS business, it's an absolute pass-through, there is no currency risk and there is no time lag.

As far as our ODM business is concerned, which is the business of our appliances, that is washing machine, refrigerator, LED television, and lighting, that's wherein we do a product sale and we have to pass on that cost increase to the customer. We are pushing that cost increase to the customer.

Sometimes, there can be a lag of a couple of months, but largely, we are able to pass it on to the customer. That's where it is.

Rahul Agarwal

Got it, sir. Thank you so much, and wish you all the best for fiscal '27.

Atul Lall

Thank you, Rahul.

Operator

Thank you. Next question is from the line of Saumil Mehta from Kotak AMC.

Please go ahead.

Saumil Mehta

Thanks for the opportunity. One question from my side: In terms of the industrial EMS opportunity, is it fair to assume that in terms of the opportunity size, it is maybe as big or bigger than the IT hardware, and also from a margin perspective, it will be better margins with less dependency on government PLIs, etc.?

Would that be a fair assumption?

Atul Lall

You're absolutely right.

Saurabh Gupta

Not so much, Saumil, the in terms of revenues, IT hardware can be a big bigger opportunity, but margin profiles, definitely in an EMS high-margin EMS business, specialty EMS business, will be much, much higher. Definitely, yes, there is no PLI there in that particular segment.

Saumil Mehta

Sure. Just a bookkeeping question of the 360 crore of net PLI what we have booked across five entities, would it be possible to give just for the mobile and EMS division?

Saurabh Gupta

That would be... ...so that is closer to almost 250-odd crores, yeah.

Saumil Mehta

250. Last question: Now with various things on the plate, is it fair to assume that our earlier thoughts of putting up a display fab unit is less prioritized versus some of the other businesses what we are talking about?

Atul Lall

That's right.

Saurabh Gupta

That's right.

Saumil Mehta

Sure, sir. Thank you so much, and all the best for subsequent quarters.

Saurabh Gupta

Thank you, Saumil.

Operator

Thank you. Next question is from the line of Pulkit Patni from Goldman Sachs.

Please go ahead.

Pulkit Patni

Sir, thank you for taking my questions. I have a couple of them.

One is, you spoke about server opportunities, like looking at data center servers. Could you highlight what stage of discussion are we in, what is the kind of work that we could get over the next say 12, 18 months here, or is it very, very initial stage?

Atul Lall

We are mapping this opportunity, and dialogue with our partner has already started. We feel that the government policy framework for local manufacturing of servers for serving the Indian data center requirement is going to get a significant flip.

The contours are being worked out. Exact numbers and opportunity in terms of numbers, I'm not in a position to share.

I think it's early for that.

Pulkit Patni

Sure, sir. This is clear.

Sir, my second question is, I'm referring to notes to accounts 11, which talks about 1,100-odd crore which is receivable from PLI and 730-odd crore that is payable. Could you highlight the reason why this is mentioned in the note?

Is it something where government's not given approval? If you could just highlight what's the status there in terms of both our receivable and our payout to the customer?

Saurabh Gupta

Basically, as part of the PLI scheme, there was a provision under the guideline and there was a budget allocated to it for domestic companies, five domestic companies and five foreign companies. Now, and there was a provision under the guideline that if those five domestic companies underperform, to the extent that there is an overperformance by a company, in this case, of course, is Dixon, the incentive will be given to the extent of underperformance by other companies.

We have been given all the incentives by the government till the ceiling revenues, which was defined per applicant or per company. Now, the overflow money is still pending, which we are in discussions with the government.

Similar cases would be there for foreign companies as well, the vendors of large global brands. That thing is being pursued with the government.

The auditors felt right that there should be a note to it, and that's the reason it has been mentioned.

Pulkit Patni

Okay. Very clear.

Thank you, Saurabh.

Saurabh Gupta

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will take that as the last question for today.

I would now like to hand the conference back to the management for closing comments.

Atul Lall

Thank you so much, everyone, for being with us for the evening, and thanks a lot. Have a great day.

Saurabh Gupta

Thank you so much. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. On behalf of DAM Capital Advisors Limited, that concludes this conference.

Thank you all for joining us today, and you may now disconnect your lines.