Ladies and gentlemen, good day and welcome to the Maharashtra Seamless Q1 FY 2026 Earnings Conference Call hosted by PhillipCapital (India) Private Limited. 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 touch-tone phone. Please note that this conference is being recorded. I now hand the conference over to Mr. Gaurav Mehta from PhillipCapital (India) Private Limited. Thank you, and over to you, sir.
Thank you, Operator. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to Maharashtra Seamless Q1 FY26 Conference Call. From the management side, we have with us Mr. Kaushal Bengani, Deputy General Manager, Investor Relations and Finance. Without taking much time, I hand it over to Mr. Kaushal for his opening remarks. Over to you, sir.
Thank you, Gaurav. Good afternoon, shareholders, and thank you for joining our earnings call. During Q1 FY26, we have been able to dispatch almost 103,000 tons of seamless pipe. However, we have seen a marked slowdown in order booking, which started in the previous quarter but has continued for a longer period than anticipated. This has had a direct impact on the performance in the June quarter of the company. The slowdown in order booking is attributed primarily to Chinese dumping and reduced expenditure in the oil and gas sector. Our margins and EBITDA per ton have also declined, and consequent to the increased Chinese dumping and slowdown of expenditure in the oil and gas sector, there has been a decline in sales realization. While revival in order book is expected, it appears that the September quarter is likely to be muted on the margin front.
I will briefly summarize key financial points. Our Q1 FY 2026 performance versus Q4 FY 2025 had a revenue decline of 11% to INR 1,303 crores. EBITDA declined by 41% to INR 165 crores. PAT declined by 4% to INR 234 crores, and EPS was INR 17 per share. While the decline in EBITDA was 41%, the decline in PAT was much lower because of the performance of our treasury, which contributed an amount of INR 160 crores booked in other income. Apart from financials, there are three key points which I would like to draw attention to. The first is our treasury. It is at INR 2,919 crores as of 30th June 2025. It is being judiciously managed with engagement and inputs at the highest level. The second is our order book, which is at INR 1,149 crores.
We have seen a slight improvement in the export segment, but it is not enough to offset the slowdown in the other segments. The third point is a repetition of our credit rating, which was upgraded from AA to AA+ in the previous calendar year. The reason for the repetition is that it is the highest credit rating which the company has received, and it sends a strong message to all stakeholders about our strength and expertise despite difficult market conditions. That is the entire brief. I would now request Gaurav to kindly open for questions.
Thank you very much. We will now begin the question-and-answer session. Anyone who wishes to ask a question may press star and one on their touch-tone telephone. If you wish to 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 Chetan Doshi from TM Financial. Please go ahead.
Yeah, thank you for giving me this opportunity. I have two questions. One is, there is a sudden drop in EBITDA, so we are not able to get good pricing from the market because orders are collected much ahead of execution. It takes time. So when orders were taken, that time the pricing at which the orders were taken were low. And the second thing is that we have INR 2,900 crores cash, and you have shown that we intend to modernize our plant, and INR 852 crores are to be sold. So when the lean period is going on, why there is no action on this subject?
The reason for the decline in margins is attributed to fall in realization. The reason for fall in realization is increased dumping from China and slowdown in the oil and gas sector regarding the level of expenditure that is taking place. On the cash deployment front, we are continuing with our finishing line project in Telangana and the cold drawn project in Maharashtra. On the Telangana project, we have issued purchase orders of INR 80 crores and expensed around INR 46 crores till now, and we expect that the project will get completed within the allocated budget of INR 184 crores.
On the cold drawn project front, we have received the machines which we had ordered, and we are installing one of the machines in August, and the second machine should also get installed by September, and we should see an improvement in the quantity of cold drawn pipes dispatched from the December quarter onwards.
That is great news. Actually, one more thing. See, as far as this hot mill upgrade is there and where we plan to do an expenditure of around 350 crores, so have we placed an order on somebody, or still it is to be planned out?
We have not started that portion of the capital expenditure plan. Once the Telangana line is completed, then we will address that.
Okay. Thank you. I'll join the queue again.
Thank you.
Thank you. The next question is from the line of Ankur Shauria, an individual investor. Please go ahead.
Good evening, sir. My question is regarding one of the products that you said that we were about to begin our developing in our R&D, which one of the competitors has already developed. So what is the update on that, sir?
You are referring to premium connections. That process is continuing. It is a very slow process. It's continuing for more than two years now. You will find that hard to believe that launching a new product takes that much time, but it involves a tie-up with a foreign partner, and that process is excruciatingly time-consuming, and that is why it is taking that much time. I cannot give you a definitive date even right now, but even today, we have had an update on that project, which I cannot share right now. But to be sure, we are working on it, but unfortunately, I cannot give you a definite date because there are many factors which are beyond our control. And for our competitor also, when they had launched in 2022 or early 2023, they had been working on it from 2019 onwards.
My next question is regarding the other income. You also would agree that our other income has now become a major part of our total PAT, and I have no problem with that. But the only issue is that now when we have a quarterly or a yearly result, we for ourselves are not sure as to how would the company do out of the main operation or from the mutual funds or the other investment that you have. So one of the—and we also see that the management is not willing to distribute the money to the shareholders in the quantum that they have by their good management they have earned.
But you are not willing to give that to the shareholders as well because I have been a shareholder in the company for the last five years, and for the last three years, we have seen that your Capex has been the same, the projected Capex, but nothing is being happening on the ground. Also, one of the things is that you are well covered because even if in case in the worst-case scenario, I feel that INR 600 crores is something that you will yearly earn even everything goes haywire. When you are well covered, and I think a business like yours is in a maturity stage wherein either you want to grow or you want to distribute this profit that you are gaining to the shareholders. As a shareholder, I think that your company is one of the most valuable companies that I have come across.
Of a market cap of 9,000 crores, you have 3,000 crores in cash or cash equivalent. But as a shareholder, I want to be a part of it, but at the same point of time, I don't see what the management is trying to do with what they are accruing.
Your points are well noted, Mr. Ankur. We had put out the capital expenditure plan of INR 852 crores, against which we issued purchase orders for two projects, which would be less than INR 150 crores to the best of estimates. And on the dividend front, we have quadrupled the amount of dividend which was paid out in FY 2024 from the level that it was at in FY 2022. In FY 2025, despite a decline in profitability, we maintained the level of dividend which we had paid in FY 2024. Your point is that despite these two points, there is still a comfortable level of cash between the company, which is a correct point. I had mentioned in one of the earlier calls that our plant and machinery is subject to the risk of obsolescence because it is a very old plant and machinery.
There is no problem right now, and we are doing good in terms of the ability to produce based on the current plant and machinery that we have. But there will come a time in the future when we have to replace the existing technology in entirety with new technology, and that is also one of the reasons why we are conserving the cash. The third point which I would like to make is that we are still trying for inorganic opportunities, but in our assessment, we have not found any opportunity which makes sense as per our method of doing business right now.
So your point is well taken here. Even I run a business, I have a factory, and you would agree with me that in no point in time, the entire machinery is out of date until unless a new technology comes in and our technology is obsolete. You are also agreeing that you already are increasing your manufacturing limits by the CapEx that you are going to do. So you will get ample opportunity if in case you don't have enough orders or let's say that your order doubles, you have enough time to—you are increasing your capacity. You can also do is you can use that capacity and improve this capacity. But I don't see that the requirement would be in the next three to five years.
So when you know that you do not have an immediate requirement for the next three, five years in replacing the entire technology that you have, why would you like to keep so much amount of money with you? And sir, it is not necessary for a company to grow. If in case you feel that you are comfortable, you are earning a good amount of money, it is good to enjoy that and share that with the shareholders. But never will be a time when you will feel in your entire life that either you will get an opportunity or you will not get an opportunity. If in case you get an opportunity, come out with the right issue, we will be more than happy to share money with you. But for the last three years, God has been kind that your investment has reaped benefits again and again.
From INR 400 crores, you have come to INR 3,000 crores. And it is very good that God has been with you and the market has reaped benefits. Either divide the company in two parts. One should be a holding company. One should be a seamless company. Maybe I don't want to be a part of your holding company. I want to be a part of your seamless company. But now you have merged two big things together, and the picture is not clear, sir. Don't mind my saying it, but the management should take a big decision. And again and again, shareholders have raised this question with you, and you have repeatedly given the same answer, but the answer doesn't satisfy me. I'm sorry to say.
Okay. I don't have anything to add.
Thank you.
The next question is from the line of Saket Kapoor from Kapoor & Company. Please go ahead.
Namaskar, Kaushalji, and thank you for this opportunity. I'm audible, sir?
Yes, yes. Thank you.
Yes, sir, you're audible.
Thank you, sir. Sir, firstly, the EBITDA per ton is now in the range of closer to 13,000. And in your earlier conversation, we were looking for a bracket of, say, 15,000 to 18,000 to be very precise. So with this kind of order booking and the slow intake in the orders, what should we be penciling in for the current year in terms of the band for your EBITDA per ton?
Current year would be difficult to guide, but I think we are one month into the second quarter, and the order book does not look encouraging. So I don't think margins would be higher than what they are in the September quarter.
The band will be closer to where we are today. That should be the very likelihood.
Yes.
And for the tonnage part, sir, last year we did 442 for the seamless segment. And with the commissioning of the new lines for Telangana in the December quarter, and if these business environments continue, what should be the tonnages for the seamless segment that we may expect or anticipate for the entire year?
As of now, I think you should expect a similar level of tonnage that was achieved last year. When the Telangana line is operational, then we will see if we have to revise it at that point in time.
Sir, you mentioned about the Chinese product dumping. I think so in your earlier interaction, you did mention that there were some specific products wherein, hello?
Yes.
There were some specific product lines which were not included in the anti-dumping, which was introduced in 2022, I think so. So now we have also put forward the revision for the same. So where are we in terms of the hearing? And so process कैसा चल रहा है जिसमें हमें anti-dumping की हमने जो request डाली है?
The duty will be up for renewal in October 2026. Data selection process has started, and we want to include as many products as the key product in which we have noticed dumping from China, which is one of our value addition products, is cylinder pipe. We want to address that issue so that we can sell more tonnage of cylinder pipe and sell them at a better margin.
Sir, we have been predominantly of companies being approximate to what ONGC and Oil India Capex has been. And whatever we have heard in the public domain from the interaction with ONGC and Oil India, all have put forward the Capex amount higher than what has been for the March 25 closing balance or whatever the interaction has been for the last phone call. So taking that into account and the annual Capexes that has to go through in terms of the budget, where has been the sense that the Capex from these central PSUs are not happening the way that they should be? And they should have this, I think, so sir, [Foreign language] schedule [Foreign language] quarterly Capex [Foreign langauge] . So what are we hearing from them, sir, in this context?
Sir, tender issuance is on a slower side, while we would have expected that tender issuance would have improved, but they have not improved. So the fall in order book is attributed only to two factors. Number one, decline in expenditure in oil and gas sector, and number two, Chinese dumping. I think both these factors are equally responsible for the decline in our order book, and I think similar trends should be seen for the other participants in the industry.
Right. Sir, last point on the last two points, especially on the modernization.
Sorry to interrupt, sir.
Okay, ma'am. I will come again. Yes, sir. I will join the queue.
Thank you, sir. Thank you.
Moderator, please, please allow him to finish, please.
Okay, okay, sir. Sorry.
There is no problem.
Thank you, sir. You can go ahead.
Yeah, yeah.
Thank you. Sorry.
Sir, yeah, no, not an issue, ma'am. Sir, as you were mentioning about we creating a surplus for modernization of our plants and machinery as and when the time comes for the refurbishing the same. So taking into account the homework which you people must have done, what should be the replacement cost that we are penciling in that may be required, say, six, seven years down the line for which you are working from today in order not to be in a corner when the time comes and not to be in the borrower's list rather than to be a cash-rich company till then? So you must have worked out your numbers for the same, sir, in a ballpark number if you could share.
There isn't a definitive number. There are only broad estimations. And the cost of new machinery five, six, seven, eight, 10 years down the line is difficult to estimate. But the idea is that if we want to grow the operational capability of the company, then we want to grow in a cost-conscious manner. All the capital expenditure that we have done, whenever we have added mills, we have purchased those equipment at 15%-20% of replacement cost at that point in time. And that is one of the big reasons why we have been a cash-rich company at all times and a market leader at all times.
So I cannot give you a number right now, but there is a certain basis for our kind of management, and it has protected our position in the market and the combined wealth of shareholders on a longer-term basis, which other competitors in our industry have not experienced. And while the other competitors have taken aggressive positions, and we have taken less aggressive positions at that point in time, over a longer term, we have been the greater beneficiary of our decision. So I think we will stick to that style of decision-making where we have been able to demonstrate sustainability and profitability over a longer-term basis.
Right. I joined the queue for two more follow-ups. Thank you.
Thank you, sir. The next question is from the line of Vikash from ICICI Securities. Please go ahead.
Good evening, Kaushal.
Good evening, Vikash.
Yeah. Just one question to start with. This ONGC IOCL, they have a minimum order quantity usually for every year. Can you just tell us what percentage of that minimum order quantity they have already placed in the tender, or?
Very little percentage because we have seen a significant decline in our order book on a quarter-on-quarter basis. There has been a decline of INR 400 crores, which has not been seen for the past at least 12 quarters, on a quarter-on-quarter basis. So new tenders are in the process of being issued, and some tenders have been concluded and are in the process of negotiation. But the actual ordering is much slower than we had seen at this time in the previous calendar year.
Noted. So there is a hope of second half, some orders would come in.
Yes. And the large order from ONGC that we had received in the earlier part of the year, we have dispatched most of it.
Noted that. So in case of given our order book, the revenue visibility is very less. In case of if these orders are further delayed, is there any contingency plan on the other segment in terms of exports or other product mix which we can actually shell out at least to get the fixed cost covered up? So if you could give us some insights regarding this?
We can do that. Obviously, if we reduce our prices by INR 3,000-INR 4,000 per ton further, which would mean a decline in EBITDA by an additional INR 3,000-INR 4,000 per ton, then we can easily run our plant and machinery. There is no problem on that front. But we want to maximize profitability, and then that trade-off has led to a decline in order book.
Understood. And secondly, if you could tell us the impact status on this one lakh ton Telangana plant, is there any further delay, or now it is on track?
I think we will start by January. We will at least start some production by January 2026. If not the entire line in its entirety, then something will definitely start by January 2026.
Noted. Any other opportunities which you have come across in your segment basically since you are sitting with cash?
We have not, Vikash.
Just one last question. Again, some participants have asked about the cash, but right now, given the current market conditions, are we keeping a major portion of our cash in mutual funds or with the banks? Because with mutual funds, with the market fluctuation, we run the risk of getting some losses there, right? So just wanted to understand this INR 2,900 crores, how it is divided in the treasury or bank?
We have given a breakup on slide 11 of the presentation wherein INR 514 crores is in bonds, INR 20 crores is corporate deposits, mutual funds is INR 2339 crores, fixed deposits is INR 4 crores, cash as on 30th June 2025 was INR 42 crores, and the investments in mutual funds are in equity, bond funds, gold, silver, and liquid mutual funds, and also target maturity funds.
Noted. Noted. That's all from my side. If I have further questions, I'll join back with you.
Okay.
Thank you. The next question is from the line of Radha from B&K Securities. Please go ahead.
Hello, sir. Thank you for the opportunity. Sir, from April onwards, the seamless and ERW pipes had been put under the Melt and Pour. So what has been the impact of this in 1Q FY 2026?
There hasn't been much of an impact for us because our order book has declined by almost INR 400 crores.
Okay, sir. And sir, in ERW, we have seen a slowdown for the last six, seven quarters for the industry. So specific to ERW, when do you expect the demand to level in the segment?
Pipes in ERW segment are used in water and oil sector. So in the oil sector, there is a slowdown in expenditure, which has impacted the ordering for such pipes, and in the water sector, there is slowdown on the Jal Jeevan Mission side, which has also impacted the water pipe segment.
Okay. Thanks, Kaushal.
Thank you.
Thank you. Next question is from the line of Mohamed Farouk from Pearl Capital. Please go ahead.
Good afternoon, sir. I would like to hear the management's long-term strategic vision for the company. I have three questions in that. Where do you see the company over the next five years in terms of capacity expansion, revenue growth, and market positioning, both domestically and internationally? The second one is, what are the key tailwinds supporting this vision, and what headwinds or structural challenges do you foresee? The third one is, taking all of this into account, how does the management define success for the company by 2030? Thank you.
On the expansion of capacity for the company going forward, the capital expenditure plan has been put out in slide 14 of the earnings presentation, wherein we have given line-by-line breakup of various items adding up to 852 crores. That is the only capital expenditure plan that we have right now. And as and when these things are completed, then we will come out with a new plan. On the second point regarding where we see ourselves by 2030, I think we see ourselves as a market leader because we have not known any other situation for the past 35 years. There have been other competitors in the same industry who have come after us and who have left the industry in the past 35 years.
And our method of doing business is different from what we have seen our competitors adopt, which could also be a reason why all of our competitors have either been bankrupted or gone to corporate debt restructuring or gone to bankruptcy courts and then somehow managed to eke their way out. But we have always remained cash-rich and financially strong. And those are the core characteristics of our organization, which we would like to preserve, apart from the fact that we will continue to remain a market leader.
Sir, is there any, as you mentioned now, some of the competitors have gone bankrupt, is there any opportunity for acquisitions, one of them? And second is, any of your competitors adding any capacity as of now?
Yes to both questions. We acquired United Seamless Tubulaar Private Limited from the IBC process in 2020 and amalgamated that entity with our company. So that was one competitor which we had taken over. There aren't any other opportunities right now in India. On the capacity expansion front, like the way we are going ahead with capacity expansion, one of our competitors is also doing so.
Can you please quantify that? How much is that adding capacity? Any idea?
It is available in public domain.
Okay, sir. Thank you.
Thank you. Our next question is from the line of Amol Rao from OneUp Financial Consultants. Please go ahead.
Hi Kaushal. Very quick question on the rig. It comes into operation, as you mentioned in the presentation, in Q3. Anything that you could mention about what the day rates could be or what? I mean, if you could just give us some color on that.
The rig will be deployed by Jindal Drilling with ONGC at $35,000 per day. The rate payable by Jindal Drilling to Maharashtra Seamless would be around $17,000-$18,000 per day, but that is subject to approval of shareholders, which they will obtain in their upcoming annual general meeting.
Got it. And Kaushalji, the rig CapEx, how much are we spending on that, if that detail could be shared?
On the?
Refurbishment?
Refurbishment of the rig.
Sorry.
Of the rig. Refurbishment of the rig. We are not sharing that.
Okay. No. Thank you so much, sir. Thank you so much, and wish you all the best, sir.
Thank you.
Thank you. The next question is from the line of Chetan Doshi from TM Financial. Please go ahead.
Yeah. Thank you for giving me the opportunity. As far as the presentation is concerned and as far as your stake, you are increasing your stake in the company. So that shows that you are serious as far as the operations are concerned. But the presentation doesn't highlight as to where we want to put this company in. Because the last couple of presentations, you see the growth plans. For example, a couple of months back, we developed an import substitute, and that product was going to this oil rig. But after that, no big orders received on those. You see, these are all value-added products. There is no mention of that product at all in this current presentation. And what happened to this government's Jal Jeevan Mission? We were expecting a lot of orders from that also.
Sir, if you are tracking the company, then I think you should also track where the company's products are used. 70% of our dispatches are in the oil and gas sector, which I have pointedly mentioned in almost every earnings call. So the Ghar Ghar Jal Yojana is not so much relevant to us.
Do they still use seamless pipes in that, no?
No, you don't use seamless pipes for household tap water connections.
Okay. I'm sorry.
On the value-added product, please tell me which value-added product you are referring to. I'll give you an update.
Value-added products which we develop, which was an import substitute and which was going in this drilling rigs.
Drill pipes. Drill pipes, we have an order of INR 270 million. We mentioned that in our order book.
Yeah, but I'm expecting that what growth we are doing on quarter-on-quarter basis on that.
Sir, I mentioned in my opening statement that there is a slowdown in oil and gas sector expenditure. No matter how much I want to grow, I cannot sell if someone doesn't want to buy.
Okay, so when you expect to improve on this?
Sir, the expenditure in the oil and gas sector is expected to improve, but I think the expenditure in the September quarter is also not as much as we would expect because we want to keep an order book of at least 1,500 crores. So for the order book to go back to 1,500 crore level, and assuming we sell 500 crores worth of pipes every month, then in the next two months, we should expect orders of at least another 1,000 crores. If that does not happen, then it will be difficult to go back to the current level of order book. And in fact, to maintain 1,500 crores of order book as on 30th September, we need orders right now of 1,500 crores. So.
That is not going to happen.
The changes in the market are impacting all participants, and we are not above what happens in the market.
Okay. Any active tender which is going on and which is expected in next August or September?
There are tenders in process. We cannot give you specific details, but definitely, there are tenders in process.
So something is expected in next month or maybe a month after that, right?
I don't know.
No, no. We may not get it, but see, something will happen. See, some company will be getting because if tender opening is already completed, only finalization is left out, no?
Yes, but that finalization may take two months. It can also take 15 days. We don't know. To commit to a timeline is difficult.
Okay. So these are from ONGC and Oil India and companies related to oil companies?
Sir, all tenders are from PSU sectors, mainly.
Okay. Thank you.
Thank you. The next question is from the line of Tanmay Roy, an individual investor. Please go ahead.
Hello.
Hi. Good evening. I have only two questions. One was the order book which was telling that it slowed down, but you said that if you go down on our EBITDA per tonne, you might be able to get more orders. That's what I'm understanding, or am I wrong?
I did not say that. I said that performance in the second quarter is also expected to be muted because we are already one month into the second quarter, and our order book is at INR 1,149 crores. So we don't expect significant upward movement in EBITDA per ton for the second quarter.
Okay, and there is no sign as of now for improvement in any order books, but there are tenders ongoing. That's what it is.
Yes. Correct.
Okay. Okay. Sure. Thank you so much.
Thanks.
Thank you. The next question is from the line of Sakshi Shah from Hathway Investments Private Limited. Please go ahead.
Yeah. This is Vinnay Nathani from Hathway. Just wanted one clarification. Last year, there was a planned shutdown. This year, in this quarter, there was no such planned shutdown, right?
Correct.
Secondly, how have the raw material prices moved in this quarter compared to, say, the quarter before?
Raw material prices have declined by INR 2,500-INR 4,000 per ton.
That would have also impacted your realization?
Yes. That has also impacted our realization, depending on the type of product.
Okay. And lastly, on this order book where you have got the order book from ONGC and oil and gas sector reduced, is there any competition which has come in, or is it that overall there is a slowdown, what you have been mentioning?
Overall, there is a slowdown.
There's no competition which is taking away your share?
No.
Okay. Thanks a lot.
Thanks.
Thank you. Our next question is from the line of Shaurya Shah from Equirus Securities Private Limited. Please go ahead.
Yeah. Hello, sir, so I'm new to the company, so apologies if I'm missing out on something, but wanted to know that, see, many of our peers are planning to expand operations and grow exports to the Middle East, so are we also having some discussions regarding growing our exports to the Middle East?
Our peers are not exporting seamless pipes to the Middle East. They are exporting DI pipes and SAW pipes to the Middle East.
Yeah. The other thing is that where do we see our ERW segment placed in the overall scheme of things after we complete all our CapEx? So in terms of revenue contribution, where do we see our ERW segment mix?
ERW segment is a small segment. It contributes 7%-8% of total EBITDA. We are not growing in the ERW segment because the seamless segment is more profitable.
Okay. Okay. Understood, sir. Yeah. Those are the two questions. Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you. The next question is from the line of Ankur Shauria, an individual investor. Please go ahead.
Good evening once again, sir. I have one more question regarding the other income. Sir, our other income, sorry, our mutual fund investment has increased from, let's say, INR 500 crores to INR 3,000 crores. Am I correct in assuming that if in case some of it would have been from the profit that we earned every quarter, and the amount increase would have also been because you have managed it so well that the amount increased? Would it be safe to say that if in case we sell all the mutual funds today, there would be about INR 2,000 crores of unaccounted profits in the books as well?
No. The mutual fund investments are restated on quarter end, every quarter. So the mutual fund value of INR 2,339 crores includes the notional profit that we have accrued.
No. But if in case you don't sell it, you cannot take the profit in the books. Am I correct? Let's say I invested in INR 500 crores five years back, and today it is INR 3,000 crores. And unless I sell my mutual funds, I cannot book the profit. Am I correct?
Sir, that is not correct. As per Indian accounting standards, you have to do a mark to market at the end of every quarter end. So whilst we have taken income, the income is notional income, and we will not pay tax on it, which is why you will see that our current tax has not increased so much despite an increase in other income. Only a deferred tax liability provision has been made. When we sell the mutual funds, then we will realize the profit, and on that realized profit, we will pay tax, and the deferred tax liability which we had created earlier will get reversed.
So if in case what you are showing as other income of INR 140 crores, it is the increase in your investment that we have made from last quarter. Is that correct way to understand that?
It is mostly that. It also includes realized gain. So other income is realized gain plus unrealized gain.
Okay. I got it, sir. Thanks a lot.
However, we will only pay income tax right now on realized gain. We are not paying any income tax on unrealized gain.
Yeah, but in that case, there would be a time when you sell the mutual fund. In that quarter, the income tax payable would be far more than the operational profit.
We don't know how that quarter will work out. What will happen is when we sell the mutual fund at a profit, then we will pay income tax on the realized profit, and the deferred tax liability which we had created in earlier quarters will get reversed.
Okay. Okay. Thank you, sir.
Okay. Thank you.
Thank you. Our next question is from the line of Sriram, an individual investor. Please go ahead.
You mentioned that there is an impact of Chinese dumping. So what is the difference between our cost and their landed cost? And do you think the pricing pressure will increase, or it has bottomed out?
When the Anti-Dumping Duty was implemented in 2016, then it was done by way of a Minimum Import Price. In 2016, that Minimum Import Price was prohibited. However, when the first renewal happened in 2021 after five years, then the Minimum Import Price was not increased. Because the Minimum Import Price was not increased in 2021, in 2023, 2024, 2025, in that period, the Minimum Import Price became less prohibitive or not prohibitive at all, which meant that products from China could be easily sold into India. The Anti-Dumping Duty is again up for renewal in October 2026, and we will definitely petition for a higher Minimum Import Price and a larger coverage of the products that we manufacture.
Okay. But this should not impact the domestic oil and gas projects, right? Because there is a preference given to domestic manufacturing.
Yes. It will not impact domestic projects specifically, but if the domestic customer does not engage in oil and gas expenditure, then it will have an impact on us. Completely unrelated to Chinese dumping. It's a separate factor.
Okay. Okay. Got it, sir. All right. Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you. The next question is from the line of Venkatesh Shah, an individual research analyst. Please go ahead.
Hello, sir. My only one question what I have is now if you look at the oil ministry saying we are finding a lot of probable oil wells what they are looking at. So is there any possibility that we get a better order book from this oil well findings?
Possibility is definitely there because if you have the ability to explore and extract more oil indigenously, then ideally we should do that, but there must be some reason why that is not happening. I have also mentioned on slide 17 of my earnings presentation, and I will read that short paragraph out. Despite fresh discoveries, tender issuance by oil companies has reduced. This is primarily due to slowdown in oil and gas expenditure. Consequently, India's crude oil and natural gas production has fallen, particularly from mature fields. Crude oil output dropped 2.5% year on year in 2024-2025, and natural gas production declined by 1%. The decline in domestic production has led to a higher import bill, with India importing a significant portion of its crude oil, which is 88%, and natural gas, which is 51% of its needs.
I think that gives you an idea of what I have been trying to say the entire call.
Sir, thank you. Sir, thank you. I understood. Thank you.
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