Ladies and gentlemen, good day and welcome to the Q3 FY26 conference call hosted by Samvardhana Motherson International 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 the conference call, please signal an operator by pressing star then zero on your touchtone phone. I now hand the conference over to Mr. VC Sehgal from Madison. Thank you, and over to you, Mr. Sehgal.
Thank you. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you very much for joining us today. I am pleased to announce that the board has approved the results for third quarter 2026. Q3 for natural year 2026 has been a strong quarter for Motherson, delivering a dynamic environment. We reported our highest-ever quarterly revenues with a double-digit growth. This performance reinforces our position as a global design, engineering, manufacturing, assembly, and logistics domain specialist, underpinned by our execution capabilities and a diversified global presence across the automotive and non-automotive industries. We continue to invest in the future. During the quarter, we announced two greenfield projects, taking our greenfields to 12 across emerging markets, spanning both automotive and non-automotive businesses. We are also seeing strong momentum in our consumer electronics and aerospace business. Importantly, this growth has been achieved while we maintain our financial discipline.
Our net leverage stands at 1.1x, well before our stated financial policy. None of this would have been possible without the dedication of our global teams and the workforce and the continued trust of our customers. With our foundation with this foundation, we remain confident in our ability to deliver long-term sustainable value for all our stakeholders. With that, I conclude my opening statement. For in-depth details on the results, I would like to hand it over to Laksh Vaaman Sehgal and the team to provide it, provide a walkthrough and business insights. Thank you. Over to you, Laksh Vaaman Sehgal.
Thank you, Papa. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for joining the earnings call for the Q3 FY26. Before we begin today's discussion, I'm very pleased to introduce all of you to Mr. Gandharv Tongya, who has recently joined us as the Samuel Group Chief Financial Officer. With over two decades of expertise spanning finance, strategy, capital deployment, technology-enabled transformation, and investor engagement, Gandharv brings the leadership depth that will significantly strengthen Madison's journey towards Vision 2030. Welcome to the family, Gandharv. Proud to have you here. Coming to the Q3 FY26 performance, I am pleased to inform that Samuel continued to build on its solid growth momentum and delivered the highest-ever quarterly review revenue of approximately INR 31,409 crores and EBITDA of INR 3,042 crores.
The revenue grew 14% year-on-year, with multiple drivers at play, including healthy organic growth backed by well-diversified operations and consolidation of the Atsumitec business, and, of course, some favorable foreign exchange movements. Normalized Q3 PAT stood at approximately INR 1,061 crore, reflecting a 21% year-on-year growth supported by savings from the transformative measures undertaken in Western and Central Europe, reduction in finance costs, and higher contributions from RGVs and other associate companies. Normalizations to the reported PAT are on account of post-tax impact of approximately INR 37 crores, primarily related to the new labor code implementation, which is about INR 25 crores, and costs for transformative measures being undertaken in Europe, which is about INR 12 crores. Further details on this are available on slides 2 and 8.
Notably, we've delivered a strong Q3 FY26 performance on both revenue and profitability fronts, despite the dynamic industry conditions where global PV production volumes have degrown on a year-on-year basis. Emerging economies drove healthy production growth, offsetting platform mix-driven softness in the developed markets. The latest global PV production outlook remains encouraging, with FY27 production projected to grow approximately around 20 sorry, 93 million units, up from around 91 million units expected in FY26. Further details on industry trends are available on slide 6. In addition to delivering small financial performance, we continue to maintain disciplined capital allocation, with approximately INR 1,594 crores being reinvested into the business for CapEx. We currently have 12 greenfield plants under development, all across emerging markets, to support future growth in both automotive and non-automotive segments.
In Q3, we have added two new greenfield facilities, one coming up in Vision Systems in India and the other in Wiring Harness in Morocco. The majority of these greenfields are expected to come on stream by the second half of FY27, and will contribute towards growth in the FY27 year. More details are available on this on slide 9 and 10. Our leverage ratio remains comfortable at 1.1 times net debt to LTM EBITDA, providing us with the financial strength and flexibility to pursue our 2030 targets. These details are presented on slide 11. Our financial strength is bolstered by robust end-to-end design, engineering, manufacturing, assembly, logistics capabilities, positioning us to advance towards Vision 2030 targets. These integrated strengths also fuel expansion into the non-automotive sectors, which we have been growing, recently.
Evident in the accelerating growth of our consumer electronics and aerospace businesses, you can see that these businesses continue to gain traction, growing at 41% year-on-year growth rate in the third quarter. The aerospace order book has been consistently growing, supported by product portfolio expansion. We are now supplying to business jets and rotary wing aircraft, thereby further diversifying and increasing content with our customers. The consumer electronics business is ramping up as planned, with two operational plants on track to achieve an annual capacity of approximately 16 million units by the end of their current fiscal year. The segment recorded a 75% quarter-on-quarter revenue growth, along with meaningful margin improvement in Q3, marking an important milestone in its scale-up journey. The third plant is expected to commence operations in the third quarter of FY 2027. We are very excited about this.
It will double up the current capacity and enable vertical integration to enhance operating efficiencies. To meet growing customer demands, we plan incremental investments in further capacity expansion in the coming fiscal year. Additionally, we have also secured government incentives under the ECMS scheme, which will further support scalability, competitiveness, and long-term profitability. More details on this are available on slide 15. During the quarter, we also signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the wiring harness business of Nexans Autoelectric, which will provide SM which will provide Samuel a scalable platform for PV and CV growth globally. This acquisition is expected to be completed by the end of H1 FY26.
We have also recently signed multiple strategic partnerships, including the development of a dedicated state-of-the-art Ro-Ro terminal at Dighi Port, Maharashtra, for end-to-end handling of finished vehicles and a joint venture with Egtronics Co., Ltd., focused on manufacturing clean mobility electronics. This is all done to support our customers even further. The earlier announced acquisition of Yutaka Giken, in Japan, is expected to close in the first half of FY26, and our tender offer to Yutaka's public shareholding, which is about 30%, has already commenced on the 9th of February. We will keep you updated as we progress through the offer. Finally, I can confidently say that all business developments have been very positive and position us well to realize our 2030 ambitions. Madison remains well-positioned with its diversified business model backed by strong domain capabilities, deep customer relationships, and disciplined financial strategy.
With the continued trust of our shareholders and the unwavering support of our customers, and the commitment of our global teams, we look forward to a promising journey ahead. With this, I conclude my remarks. I have on the call with me Pankaj Mital, Gandharv, and Rajat, and, of course, Papa, and we're happy to take all your questions now. Moderator, please take over.
Thank you very much. We've allowed, again, the question-and-answer session. Anyone who wishes to ask a question may press star and 1 on the touch-tone telephone. If you wish to remove yourself from the question queue, you may press star and 2. Participants are requested to use handsets while asking a question. Ladies and gentlemen, we will wait for a moment while the question queue assembles. First question is from the line of Sajal Kapoor from Antifragile. Please go ahead.
Yeah, hi. Thanks for the opportunity. I would like to acknowledge the scale and depth of Samuel's multi-domain capabilities, starting from automotive, as, of course, but then spreading into aerospace, consumer electronics, and now health and medical, which is rare globally. I would like to explore how you are leveraging this platform to maximize long-term optionality and capital efficiency across divisions. So my first question is, with your ventures into now semiconductors, aerospace, health and medical CDMO, how do you create cost or capability synergies that enhance the overall ROCE at a group level, and which of these synergies are quantifiable in terms of capital efficiency? Thank you.
Thank you. I'll take this. I'll take this question. Look, everything is driven by our focus, which is to be a globally preferred sustainable solution provider. So with an open mind and this not-yet attitude of Madison, of course, we get a lot of opportunities, but we are extremely selective for the ones that we go after. And they have to show us a possibility to deliver that 40% ROCE down the path. I mean, of course, we there is an investment time. There is a time where, you know, these capacities have to be built up. New greenfields have to come up. The orders have to be won. But you must remember that we only get into these businesses once the customer support is there and the customer is directing us to be able to do it.
So we kind of prove it out in a small way, perhaps in India. And then we have global ambitions with that product or that technology or that industry. And that customer usually is, you know, a blue chip or a leading customer with the global spread and depth. So the whole idea is to again, you know, with us being hugely successful on the automotive side, it was actually a platform that was built by Papa on this, you know, operational excellence, financial discipline, follow-the-customer kind of mentality. And we're using that same strategy to go after these new industries. And, of course, we have strength in, for example, wiring harness. We have strength in plastics. We have strength in all of that. So we go after those kind of places where we can draw from the group synergy.
But it's not only to that. We also get technology partners. For example, the Consumer Electronics, we have a global partner called BIEL who has the technology. And our job is to be able to scale that. So we kind of de-risk that with having a partner who's fully capable. So, you know, there are many, many ways and means. We don't just follow one path. But the business plan has to make sense, and it has to show us a path to 40% ROCE. And it's the entrepreneur's job to be able to make sure that we are able to get that funding and the team over here to make sure that the financial discipline is there and make sure that they execute, you know, to perfection.
We've shown that in the last 5 years, you know, having 0 business in aerospace and consumer electronics, we are now one of the, with God's grace, one of the fastest-growing companies out there, with a significantly large order book and executed for, you know, the world's best customers in these industries. So I hope that gives you the confidence of our capability if we were able to convince those customers. Of course, as these places scale, you will also see the translation into ROCE and that the capital promise of returns is also maintained.
Sure. That's helpful, Vaaman. And just to clarify, because we do a lot of R&D and experimentation, is it fair to say that we follow kind of a quote-unquote "fail-fast" model where we only scale up the winners, or what is not fragile or what doesn't die, out of those experiments, and then we gain the confidence and the sort of empirical evidence that what we are putting, you know, the capital deployment and strategy is, is, is fit for the purpose? Is that how you also approach?
Yeah. Of course, for the automotive side, where we are quite mature, you know, we are able to do a lot of those things in-house and have those customer relationships for a very long period of time. So we are able to do things which we know that they want to grow or they're interested in and they want to grab. For the newer ones, we have a relatively more de-risked way by joining up with partners like we have done in consumer electronics. And even in the aerospace side, if you saw, our entry was through partnering with a company called CIM Tools, which has already got that customer portfolio and those, you know, technologies in there. And all we have to do is work together with them to further enhance it and to scale it. So that's the strategy that we use.
We do not go for any blue, you know, ocean kind of technologies where we are burning a lot of money and hoping that the customer would grab it. It's a more consistent approach and more de-risked approach where we follow the customer.
That's very thoughtful. Thank you. I've got more questions. I will read you and give you. Thank you.
Okay. You too.
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Hi. Good evening. Thanks for taking my question. Firstly, in the Modules and Polymers Division, can you talk about what drove this big margin expansion? You talked about operational efficiencies, etc., but I mean, when you think of this improvement, is this sustainable? What is the path from there? Is there more left in terms of the.
I'm sorry to interrupt you, Mr. Nitish. May we request you to speak a bit louder? We are unable to hear you clearly.
is this better?
Yes. Please go ahead.
Okay. Sure. So in the modules and polymer division, there is a very good margin improvement we have seen. And you have talked about this potential margin improvement in the earlier quarters as well. So can you talk about, what I mean, how much of this is sustainable, and is there more left in terms of the benefit of the transformative measures you have taken in Europe?
Yeah. Thanks for that question. And I think, you know, we have talked about this with the previous quarters where, you know, we have done a lot of acquisitions also. And we have tried to streamline because the growth has also come in those regions. The customer asked us to do a whole bunch of acquisitions over there, as you know, in the last couple of years. And it was a good time to kind of streamline and restructure and make sure that, you know, all our plants are positioned for the long term. So we did announce that in the previous quarters of some restructuring costs that we had taken. And you're seeing the benefits of that.
Of course, I think, there's always more to do to drive more efficiencies, you know, with the onset of AI, with the onset of more automation, our focus on robotics, our in-house capabilities. We believe that there is a lot more that, of course, we want to bring in and drive efficiencies. As you know, Madison does not believe in export business. We source locally, produce locally, supply locally. So we have to be constantly on our toes in every country, whether it is low cost or high cost, to be able to sustain our operations, as that's our responsibility. So this is an ongoing thing. But as you can see, obviously, the steps that we had taken have resulted in the positive way. The customers are still getting the quality that they that they deserve.
They're recalibrating with, you know, even the customers doing a recalibrating of what's coming out in EV and ICE. There was a lot of, you know, uncertainty over there, which models will take off and not. As we are getting more and more clarity as well and our restructuring thing is happening, I think, you know, we're able to deliver better performance. But more to come on this.
Okay. Vaaman. Secondly, we keep hearing about the pressures that the European OEMs are facing within China as well as, you know, this risk whether Chinese OEMs can become bigger in Europe. From your perspective, is that something that worries you? I know you're present with both Chinese and the Europeans, but the overall exposure of the business is higher in Europe. How do you assess this risk for your business?
I don't think we take guesses as to which one is going to do better or not. Look, automotive business, you've been there for some time, but we've been there for a long lifetime, actually. We've seen somebody going down, and then the next model nexus thing, he's back on the top. So there's much to say. I don't think the same thing is going to happen with EVs as you projected. But anyway, the time is on our side. We are very sure that the best car which you as a customer will choose is going to do well. So it's not going to be only Chinese cars which will do very well or something like what you alluded to. I think everybody has a very clear need and focuses on the kind of kilometrage he does in a day.
And that kind of decides which kind of vehicle he's going to go for. But time and again, we don't want to get into that particular argument. But I think time will show that actually everything is going to come back. I would recommend that you please have a look at the Neue Klasse from BMW. Then you will understand what the West is capable of.
Okay. Sure. Thank you, sir. And one last question, if I may. On the electronic side, so your plants have started to ramp up, and there's a bigger facility, which will come in 3Q FY2027. But beyond this,
So 26.
27 this year.
Or 26 on 10th. Yeah. Okay.
More activity you're seeing there. Thanks.
No?
Yeah. So, look, this plant that's coming up is fully already spoken for. But, you know, this has opened up a lot of doors for other customers. So we will be coming back to you in time, and telling you about other wins. Of course, our idea is to completely diversify this business. But, you know, showcasing that we can scale, a large plant for a new customer, for a new technology, for a new product is something very important and something we take very seriously, as our reputation is definitely on the line. So, to be able to attract even more customers, we have to show them, you know, what we are able to do. So I think, that's happening now.
The customers are extremely interested in our capabilities and how we've been able to expand this business in such a short period of time. I think we are extremely excited about what that brings. You know, more to come on this. And definitely, this will be a place where we will look to have significant wins of new customer names and product lines, as this new plant comes up, and we can showcase it even more.
Okay. Thanks, Vaaman. Wish you the best.
Thank you.
Thank you. The next question is from the line of Siddhartha Bera from Nomura. Please go ahead.
Yeah. Thanks for the opportunity, sir. Sir, first question is on the strong ramp-up of aerospace and the consumer electronics business, which you mentioned we have done in the quarter. So possible to give some indication like, of the INR 4,000-crore emerging business revenue in the quarter, what percentage, if you can throw some color about, the contribution from the consumer electronics and aerospace businesses in this quarter?
Gandhar, what, what numbers are we allowed to share? Because we're not reporting them, you know, individually.
That's true. Yeah. So, Siddhartha, as you know, our emerging business has registered a fair amount of growth. It's more than 50%. It has mainly two major components. One is the two set of businesses which you called out, which has registered a fair amount of growth. Consumer Electronics has grown sequentially by 75%. And aero has also registered a year-on-year growth of north of 40%. We have also consolidated Atsumitec for the first time, and that is also getting reflected in emerging businesses. At this stage, we are not giving break-up at individual business level. But it's safe to assume that these businesses will continue to grow at a rapid pace.
As we had called out on page 15 of our presentation, the Consumer Electronics capacity will be doubled in fiscal 2027 by Q3 of fiscal 2027, and which will also help us in improving the performance of this business and its contribution to the emerging businesses in the quarters to come.
Got it, sir. But, like for consumer electronics, you mentioned that we will be probably touching the run rate of 16 million-plus by the end of FY 2026. Where are we right now? So if you can give us some indication of the current status, it will help us appreciate the increase in the next few years.
Again, can't give you the exact number, but it's a fraction of that.
Okay. Okay. Understood. And, sir, from the modules and polymer segment, specifically, like you mentioned that the growth had sort of multiple tailwinds from both forex commodity and all. So possible to highlight what will be the year-over-year growth for this business in the current quarter? And, given that backdrop, I mean, the margin improvement has been quite commendable. So, some more thoughts there that, given the challenges we see in some of the businesses globally with commodity costs also rising, is some of this improvement on the margin sustainable, or there can be some cost pressure we can expect in the longer term or medium term going ahead?
Which product group are you specifically talking to? Because all of them are slightly different.
The modules and polymer product.
Modules and polymer. Yeah. So, look, over there, you know, the commodities obviously play a little bit, but it's more plastics is the, the most dominant one. So, of course, there will be a small impact for the, you know, copper prices and things like that, but not as meaningful as it is on the plastics and engineering plastics side. So, most of the expansion in the margin that you're seeing over there is definitely due to operational improvements. There could be some small ones due to, you know, currency movements and stuff like that. But, in majority, we are seeing that the restructuring measures and everything that we put in, definitely into Europe, that's playing a part. And, a lot of our operations, globally are more stable, and growing in this area.
And especially the India side also contributes to it, and that's also doing fairly well. So new model launches, new programs that are coming in, some of the old programs leaving out, restructuring, all of this is definitely helping, which was under pressure in the last few quarters because we were waiting to do all of this. And like I said, from here, we definitely look to push on. There's more to happen from here.
Okay, sir. Thanks, sir. I'll come back in a bit.
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Yeah. Hi. Many thanks for the follow-up. Vaaman, with aerospace now tier one at Airbus and semiconductors emerging as a high margin sort of adjacent space, on the same precision platform. I mean, which two, three operating metrics, over the next, let's say, two years would prove this is a, you know, self-reinforcing aerospace semiconductor virtuous kind of a circle, not just parallel growth or not something which is a flash-in-the-pan kind of, you know, because I mean, how will they differ from aerospace earlier, you know, tier two phase kind of? Because we have jumped from tier two to tier one. I mean, I'm more interested in, you know, how can, what can we track to see if this aerospace semiconductor virtuous circle is taking shape?
So I think, first thing is that you have to look at our customer list, you know, with customers like Airbus and Boeing and what they are saying and how much they want to grow in India, on our investor day also. You know, we had people on the panel that were talking about it. I think that should really give you the confidence that they're here for the long term. They're putting up meaningful capacities, and their order book wins are significant in India. So that makes it, you know, quite there for the long term. I don't think they are trying to do something, you know, fad or something like that. So this is something that's important. I think we built partnerships. It's not something that's happened overnight. We were seeding this aerospace division since 2017.
You know, it took us multiple years to break in and to get a customer. So it was not something that was easy, and took a lot of time as well. And, again, that should give you the confidence that it's not something that, you know, it's kind of off the cuff. Semiconductor, on the other side, of course, is something that is extremely new in India. You know, you're seeing only a few companies that are investing really over there to go after this because the entry barriers are quite large. There's a lot of technology that is needed. And, you know, we're working with, again, some of the top names in this industry, not with more tier twos or tier threes kind of companies.
We're talking about companies with a big stature in the U.S. that are looking to set up footprint in India and support their supply chains globally. So again, all the customers that we are going after are the well-reputed names or the top names in the semiconductors. You take their names. They'll feature in the top, you know, 5, 10 teams of their category, which have, you know, multi-billion-dollar market caps, sometimes even the hundreds of billions. So, you know, these are, you know, very, very strong companies with strong development cycles and very strong entry barriers to come in. So if you come in, then you make investments. You foster relationships. And, you know, it's something that is quite difficult to do.
So, again, all of this has been extremely calculated by us, a lot of time that is spent on it. And, you know, all investment decisions come with this that, these investments are here to build capability, foster partnerships with even technology partners, that are, again, putting equity into the company so that they are, you know, fully, fully versed into it. And that's how we do business. We're not taking, you know, off the cuff or, you know, you know, nuts and bolts kind of operations that can be, you know, moved overnight, with, with the wind. We are, you know, building capability, technology, and partnerships here.
No, that's helpful. I mean, putting equity.
I think.
Yeah. Putting equity or yeah. Sure, sir.
I just wanted to say that almost all the cases, they have identified us as a partner in India. It's not just we going after them. We have not gone after any of these particular things. The proof of that is 5 or 6, 5.5 years ago when we came out with a 5-year plan, the fifth vertical of Consumer Electronics, we were not there. We didn't want to go into that. And then the customer came, and he wanted it this way only. And that's why it's happened. So, it's not that we go after these guys. They come after us because they know that we have the capability and the resolve and the wherewithal. Thanks. Sorry.
No. Sajal Sahab, I fully appreciate and, you know, on your website, you have got this four-hour-long video of the September five-year investor connect. I've watched the entire video. You know, one thing that was kind of flashing out in that one is the ROCE focus, you know, at a machine level. You know, and there was a statement that said something along the—I think it's there in the annual report as well—that when the capital goes to zero, the ROCE goes to infinite, something along those lines. That was that was very impressive. The whole four-hour recording, I mean, is great that, you know, I can access it from thousands of miles away on the on the website. So, so that was helpful.
Coming to my last question, really, I mean, it is good to see a skin in the game because if the partner is putting the, the equity, you know, so they are kind of locking themselves. And you mentioned entry barrier, Vaaman. I mean, there is also a strong exit barrier for customers because once you come in, you know, we need to give them a very strong reason to make a U-turn and go elsewhere because qualifying a partner is a time-consuming, resource-intensive process that no customer would want to do it again and again. So I completely appreciate. My question really is, my question really is that, you know, this aerospace to semiconductor pivot is, that's a clear long jump, right? I mean, what is that single constraint to your mind that might hamper it to scale?
I mean, is it customer trust, you think, because we are still early on, or is it engineering depth or maybe capital or leadership bandwidth? And, and you know, what, what concrete steps you are taking to make it, you know, kind of a repeatable playbook and not a one-off?
That's the way Motherson works. We are known as a not yet company. You know, once we get into something, once we put in our resources, we put in our engineering, we put in our capital, we don't run away. Tell me which plant we have closed in the last 20, 30 years, which technology have we entered into and then walked out. I mean, we can go on. But you know, we are that company. We will never say no. We're not we're known as a not yet company. These are things that we all sit down at the top, and we agree that yes, this is some worth something that we want to get into, and we want to be somebody in this particular game. We're not enthused just by turnover numbers or something. We're not a company which runs away. We've never run away.
We are there for the long haul. We would, definitely, follow it through. That's all I can say because it's not very subjective. That's why I can tell you that. We have a history of.
That's very helpful. Yeah, yeah. No. That's very helpful, Sajal Sahab. And I'm sure your DNA to scale is, you know, deeply rooted not just into Vaaman, but, you know, the entire Motherson family. So I wish you guys all the very best. And hopefully, you know.
Thank you.
We will scale higher and higher. Thank you.
Just watch this space.
Yeah, yeah. Sure, sure. All of us are. Definitely. We are excited. Thank you.
Thanks.
Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, to ask a question, please press star and one now. Participants who wishes to ask a question may press star and one. Anyone to ask a question, please press star and one. The next question is from the line of Aniket Mhatre from Motilal Oswal Financial Services. Please go ahead.
Hi, listen. Thank you for the opportunity. Just quickly on the Integrated Assemblies facility segment, we have seen a very marked improvement in margins. Could you just help us understand what's driven this, and can we expect this to be sustainable going forward?
Yeah. I can I can start. Look, integrated assemblies has now been with us for a couple of years. So, of course, now they are fully integrated. They are drawing on the group strength. They are being able to get into a lot of their numbers, with a lot of depth with the group, strategy and synergy. And our customers are also, you know, appreciating that we bring a lot more synergies to the table because, you know, integrated assembly only does the assembly side, and the manufacturing side is not done by them. But, in the last couple of years working together, we've also been able to enhance their capabilities, go after some product lines that they were not doing before, doing some more manufacturing in-house, to support their kind of operations.
Of course, you know, the focus on the financial discipline that Motherson brings together with the expert leadership of Frederick over there really turned up the keys to the next level. You're seeing, you know, an excellent focused approach to improve the margins over there, which was the playbook of Motherson because this, you know, was not, you know, a sick company or something like that. We paid a fair value for it. We saw the synergy strength that it would bring to the next step for the assemblies and logistics side of Motherson. That's playing out. So hopefully, this continues. Not hopefully. I'm sure it will continue with the focused efforts. The team will continue to grow from here.
So this is, again, an excellent example of, you know, focused execution and teamwork, that Frédéric and the whole team were able to bring and show, and improve performance even in tough conditions.
Got it. Thanks for that. I just want, final question on CapEx. We have done about INR 4,200 crores CapEx, so far in the nine months. Where will we end up this year at and any guidance for FY27?
Vandharv?
Yeah. So earlier this year, we gave guidance of around INR 6,000 crore plus 10%. We believe our exit number would be well within this guidance. As far as next year is concerned, allow us a quarter. During the March year-end call, we'll probably give you update on the next year's CapEx outflow.
Got it. Thanks and all the best.
Thank you.
Thank you. As there are no further questions from the participants, I now hand the conference over to Mr. VC Sehgal for closing comments.
Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for attending this call. We are very excited because the wiring is very positive. The team is extremely excited. Right at the end of the second quarter, we had said that the third quarter and the fourth quarter would be much better than what we have given in second quarter. So we are one quarter down. We feel the thing is going to be even better in the fourth quarter because I think most of our copper scenarios will play out. We will get the final money that we have to get from the customers by the fourth quarter. So all I can say is that all our teams are very excited and are working very hard to ensure that we have a great financial year, first financial year for our 108 target.
Thank you very much and wish you all the very best in the future. Thanks. Bye.
Thank you. On behalf of Samvardhana Motherson International Limited, that concludes this conference. Thank you for joining us. You may now disconnect your lines.