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Q2 24/25

Nov 12, 2024

Operator

Please note that this conference is being recorded. I now hand the conference over to Ms. Cyndrella Carvalho from Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited. Thank you, and over to you.

Cyndrella Carvalho
Head of Investor Relations, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

Thank you, Yash. Good evening, everyone, and welcome to Suvin Pharmaceuticals' Q2 and 1H FY 2025 earnings call. I'm pleased to introduce to you all our management team today. Mr. Vivek Sharma, our Executive Chairman, Dr. Prasada Raju, our Managing Director, Dr. Sudhir Singh, our Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Himanshu Agarwal, our Chief Financial Officer. After our remarks, we'll open the floor for Q&A. Now, I'll hand over the call to Dr. Prasada for him to introduce our new Executive Chairman, Vivek Sharma, and share his insights on the quarter and research developments.

Prasada Raju
Managing Director, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

Thank you, Cyndrella. Very good evening to everyone. A warm welcome to your earnings call. We extend a warm welcome to you on our Q2 FY 2025 earnings conference call. It's my pleasure to introduce our Executive Chair, Mr. Vivek Sharma. Vivek brings over 25 years of global entrepreneurship experience, including over a decade as a CEO and in the board roles within global pharma CDMO organizations. His distinguished career is marked by building global businesses and driving profitable, sustainable, and scalable growth initiatives. He's based in Boston. After its merger, Vivek will focus on strengthening and expanding Suvin customer relationships and driving the global expansion of Cohance's combined platform. We are excited to have him on board. Now, I hand over the floor to Vivek for his comments. Thank you.

Vivek Sharma
Executive Chairman, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

Thank you Dr. Prasada. I'm honored to be part of the management team at Suvin Pharma, amongst the leading CDMO players globally. I'm excited about the cutting-edge chemistry, ability, and technology platform Suvin has created, that is, the small molecules, antibody drug conjugates, and the recently acquired oligonucleotide segment. Some commendable achievements include their strong strategic relationship as established by Suvin's team with larger innovator companies and impeccable delivery track records. This is an exciting time for the CDMO industry, especially for the Indian players, and Suvin, with its amazing track record and tech capabilities, is well placed to capture the market cadence. It would be my endeavor to leverage my experience and Suvin's capabilities to drive organic and inorganic growth strategically, integrate Suvin and the Cohance platform together to unlock many growth opportunities, and enhance value creation for all stakeholders.

Suvin has released its first ESG report, and our ESG profile is now available on our website and ESG World, underscoring our commitment to sustainability. We have also received ISO 50001 and other accreditation in one first hedge fund and PCSI status. As previously shared, we are on track to deliver growth on a full-year basis compared to FY 2024 across the overall platform. Our key strategic initiatives are progressing as planned, and we reiterate our goal to double the combined business organically over the next five years, with M&A serving as a growth accelerator. Now, I hand over the floor to Dr. Prasada.

Prasada Raju
Managing Director, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

Thank you, Vivek. I take this opportunity to update you all further on the appointment of our Chief Commercial Officer. Given his extensive experience in the CDMO and biotech space, we look forward to working with him. We have also augmented our business development team with additions across the U.S., Europe, and Asia. The augmented team is geared towards building strategic relationships across these regions. These new appointments and their expertise are pivotal as we deepen our engagement with large innovators and explore collaboration with select biotech firms focusing on oligonucleotide, ADC, and small molecules offering. I also wish to take this opportunity to update you on latest industry developments and our interactions at various industry events, what we learned. We had productive interactions with several of the existing and some of the new customers that reinforced our strong industry standing.

Customer sentiment has been positive, as evidenced by the increased number of RFQs and in-person audits to our select core sites. This aligns well with our commitment to offering an integrated and diversified technology platform that meets evolving customer needs. We continue to see a strong momentum favoring the CDMO sector on the broader industry front, especially in India, as Vivek did mention. Positive sentiment towards India is bolstered by efforts to diversify and stabilize supply chain and supportive macro-environment trends, including the U.S. Biosecure Act. These dynamics strengthen our outlook for healthy growth in the medium to long term. From a pharma CDMO standpoint, our strategic efforts are yielding a healthy inflow of RFQs.

Our pharma CDMO business has posted growth of around 40% year-on-year in Q2, highlighting our committed focus on the pharma CDMO space and reaffirming our commitment to building a robust pipeline that can drive mid-to-long-term growth. As we have always maintained, this is not a quarter-on-quarter business, so we will not read too much into the current quarter growth, but we feel very strong and good about the input metrics which are defined and being executed for the business by the management team. We also have expanded our phase III pipeline by adding one new molecule. Of two pending phase III readouts, glad to inform you that one yielded a positive result. RFQs continue to sustain a healthy mix of mid-phase and lateral projects, which is one of the strategic intents that we have taken, including some of the commercials as well.

RFQs now are coming in from a broader set of customers versus the history. We are also exploring opportunities to cross-sell and leverage the customer relationship for Sapala, our oligonucleotide technology platform. In summary, we are geared up to meet customers' increased demand of backward integration. By utilizing our existing capacities, we continue to expect growth in the second half of FY 2025. Wish to use this opportunity to cover our next strategic business segment, which is specialty chemical and agrochemical business. As mentioned in our previous update, we have converted our specialty chemical service line into a new dedicated strategic business unit. As highlighted earlier, the recovery was delayed than our earlier expectations. However, we are expecting green shoots about recovery, and we have better business visibility for the coming calendar year, and the potential new products are in discussion.

As we continue to build strategic partnerships, we are seeing new product discussions and fresh RFQs reflecting a positive outlook for this segment as well. We have increased our focus, included specialized resources to drive the continuous improvements, and including automation while implementing the best ESG and EHS practices as well. Moving on to oligonucleotides and Sapala, we have consolidated the Sapala business from 11th July onwards in Q2 FY 2025. In a while, our CFO, Himanshu, will take you through. Our commitment to expand the oligonucleotide business is very clear, with an investment in phase I of its GMP facility, which is underway in one of the USFDA regulatory-approved plants, which will accelerate the customer onboarding as well and the commercialization of the projects. These investments enhance our capacity and broaden our service capability around the existing and upcoming R&D pipeline, which is getting built up.

I will now briefly discuss Cohance's performance based on the Cohance presentation. As stated in their investor presentation, Cohance is back on the growth. As of YTD October, Cohance's overall business has delivered growth with a confirmed annual order book to deliver FY 2025 full growth. ADC segment expected to grow year-on-year in FY 2025, with shipment schedules largely towards the second half of the year. There has been a decline in H1 on a year-on-year basis, driven by phasing of orders with shipment schedule in the second half of the year when compared with the first half of the year. Cohance is also receiving more number of inquiries on the new existing payload platforms, and one of the new existing payload platform developments, followed by the process validation, is on PAT, and one of the payload new orders has come from the new customer.

Existing commercial products are progressing very well with the latest information of some of the therapeutic indication expansion, which is also going to drive mid-to-long-term growth as well. From a non-ADC CDMO segment, it was our pleasure to share that Cohance, one of the large pharma innovators' phase III product, has received USFDA approval, and we expect it to contribute towards mid-to-long-term growth of the CDMO business at Cohance. Regarding API Plus, Cohance is experiencing demand recovery, which was evident in Q1 itself, and has reported 8% of year-on-year growth in the segment in the first half of the financial year. The order book remains very healthy, and it is completely set for delivering the growth on a full-year basis. Coming to the overall outlook, the outlook is unchanged at the platform level.

The first half of the year has been in line with our estimates, while the second half will see a better growth trajectory. As Vivek shared, we have reiterated our guidance for overall platform growth on a full-year basis. Now, I will request Himanshu Agarwal, our CFO, to walk you through our financial performance and provide further updates to you. Thank you. Thank you Dr. Prasada. Dear investors, Suvin's profit revenue increased by 12% year-on-year to INR 2.58 billion. This includes Sapala, which has been consolidated from the date of acquisition being 12th of July. While excluding Sapala, the growth has been 7% year-on-year. The pharma CDMO segment reported a growth of 40% year-on-year, and we expect it to deliver growth on a full-year basis for the financial year FY 2025. The gross margins have expanded 473 basis points year-on-year, driven by the business mix as well as Sapala's addition.

Existing EBITDA was at INR 1.11 billion, with EBITDA margins being 43.3%. Existing PAT margins were 34.1%, reflecting our current investment to steer Suvin towards the next growth chapter. EBITDA has a one-time cost of INR 52 million, largely being ESOP cost as well as merger cost, factoring for which the reported EBITDA margins for the quarter stood at 40.4%. On an H1 basis, revenue declined 15.6% to INR 4.88 billion, while gross margins expanded by 378 basis points to 76.3%.

Existing EBITDA of INR 1.99 billion, with margins stood at 40.7%. The one-time expenses of INR 107 million were largely due to ESOP as well as merger cost. In the first half, we spent a total of INR 694 million on CapEx primarily on Phase I of our R&D center at Genome Valley, of which 229 has been operational since June 2024, and on the effluent treatment plant of approximately INR 164 million.

In the first half, Suvin has generated a free cash flow of INR 1.10 billion, with the cash and bank balance standing at INR 6.56 billion at the end of September 2024. This includes the first tranche payment towards the acquisition of Sapala of INR 2.58 billion. As mentioned by Dr. Prasada, we've started consolidating the Sapala business as of 11th July, which contributed to our net revenue of INR 93 million in the second quarter. Regarding the proposed merger with Cohance, we have received approval from our stock exchange and SEBI, and we have received an order from the Honorable NCLT Mumbai Bench to host a shareholder meeting for the voting on the merger. The meeting is scheduled for 28th September 2024. Subject to shareholder and other regulatory approvals, we expect the merger to complete in the next four to six months.

Moving to Cohance, according to Cohance's presentation, the quarter to FY 2025, the following are the key takeaways. Cohance has posted a revenue of INR 3.47 billion in quarter to FY 2025, a 13% decline year-on-year. For H1 FY 2025, Cohance's reported revenue stands at INR 6.04 billion, a 4% decline year-on-year. The decline, as mentioned, is largely due to the shipment schedule being phased for the second half. Based on the current order book visibility, Cohance is back on the growth path. The API Plus segment has posted a growth of 7% year-on-year, driven by healthy product launches and demand recovery. Scale-up in the ADC-led CDMO business is tracking well, with growth in existing commercial and new orders from new customers. However, the shipment schedule for ADC-led CDMO is weighted towards the second half of the current year.

Overall, Cohance expects year-on-year growth on a full-year basis across both segments, that is API as well as CDMO. Improved demand and utilization, as well as product mix, has helped increase the existing EBITDA margins to 25.4% in the first half. The quarter to FY 2025 existing EBITDA margins were at 30.3%. Cohance has invested INR 1.06 billion on CapEx in the first half, of which INR 415 million is towards a new facility in Visakhapatnam, an intermediate capacity near the existing unit bought from Avra Synthesis, and a capitalization of Ankleshwar Block 5 as well.

On a combined pro forma basis for Suvin and Cohance, the numbers look as under: quarter to FY 2025, revenues were INR 6.05 billion, declined by 4.1% year-on-year, while the gross margin stood at 70.6%, expanding by 364 basis points. Existing EBITDA stood at INR 2.17 billion, with margins at 35.8%, and existing PAT was at INR 1.48 billion.

The reported revenue in the first half was INR 10.93 billion, which declined by 9.4% year-on-year. The gross margin expanded by 206 basis points to 69.3%. Existing EBITDA was at INR 3.53 billion, with EBITDA margins at 32.3%. At a combined platform level, we anticipate a higher growth trajectory in the second half of FY25, with year-on-year growth in revenue and EBITDA, and further growth acceleration from FY26 onwards. Now, I would hand it over to Cyndrella.

Cyndrella Carvalho
Head of Investor Relations, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

Thank you, Himanshu. Operator, we can open the floor for Q&A.

Operator

Thank you very much. We will now begin the question and answer session. Anyone who wishes to ask a question may press star and one on the touch-tone telephone. If you wish to withdraw 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. We'll take our first question from the line of Amey Chalke from JM Financial. Please go ahead.

Amey Chalke
Pharma Research Analyst, JM Financial

Yeah, thank you so much for taking my question, and congrats to the management and good set of numbers. First question I have on the pharma CDMO side on the Suvin within Suvin, which has registered around INR 200 crore revenue with good double-digit growth. Also, we have mentioned there that it is led by BD efforts and micro-environment. So if you can, if management can elaborate more on this line of the BD efforts and the micro-environment, what has changed during the quarter, and also if they can give the color within CDMO, whether it has been led by development revenues or the commercial growth? Thank you.

Prasada Raju
Managing Director, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

Sure, thank you, Amey. I'll try to respond to you. We caution against reading into a single quarter growth because we remain optimistic due to the overall sustained customer interest and a strong pipeline broadening the relationship. However, quarter growth should not be read beyond what is expected to. However, as we have also discussed in the previous calls, we have created additional bandwidth from the business development side because customers also wanted to have more touchpoints with them, and the prospective engagement is happening, and reading their pipeline and offering our services to them and deeper engagement levels with the customers is actually supporting us. This is the first point. Second, from a macro standpoint, data is available in the public domain.

In the first nine months of the current calendar year 2024, there are 3,000 plus small molecules that have actually got introduced into the overall clinical pipeline, out of which close to around 52% belongs to the small molecules and ADC and specialty chemicals. So coupled with macro and BD, we are able to see the traction of the RFQs as well as the growth as well.

Amey Chalke
Pharma Research Analyst, JM Financial

Sure. So, Mr. Prasada, for us, for Suvin specifically, after new management has come in, are we seeing traction which is now resulting in good growth? Is that right, understand?

Prasada Raju
Managing Director, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

Yes.

Amey Chalke
Pharma Research Analyst, JM Financial

Okay. Is this growth basically led by our efforts since last one year? What we are putting, what management is doing?

Prasada Raju
Managing Director, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

So I would say the additional efforts which we are putting because some of the efforts which we have kept, which were kept by the previous management, and coupled with our additional interventions have helped. That's the right way to read it.

Amey Chalke
Pharma Research Analyst, JM Financial

Sure, and second question I have on the GLP side, what opportunities typically are we seeing from the innovator side for the GLP-1 product? Thank you.

Prasada Raju
Managing Director, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

So it's a very interesting evolving space to watch. Two types. One is predominantly peptide-based, and there is also research. What we learned is not peptide-based as well. Definitely, this space is going to be much more exciting going forward.

Amey Chalke
Pharma Research Analyst, JM Financial

Sure. But in terms of Suvin, what role could it play in this value chain?

Prasada Raju
Managing Director, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

At this stage, it's too early to comment right now. You should allow us for some time. Till such time, something gets materialized.

Sure. Thank you so much. I will join them.

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. We'll take our next question from the line of Darshit Shah from Nirvana Capital. Please go ahead.

Darshit Shah
Portfolio Manager, Nirvana Capital

Yeah, so thanks for the opportunity. So on this Suvin Pharma CDMO, as you alluded, there were two readouts that are going to happen. So both the readouts have happened, and out of that, one readout for phase III is positive. Is the understanding correct?

Prasada Raju
Managing Director, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

That's right. That's true.

Darshit Shah
Portfolio Manager, Nirvana Capital

Even on the Cohance side, we have one phase III approval by the USFDA. In total, we have two molecules that have cleared phase II, right?

Prasada Raju
Managing Director, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

Yes, slight differentiation. In the Cohance product, it has moved from clinical to commercial, which means phase III has actually been approved for launch of the product, meaning it is in the commercial phase.

Darshit Shah
Portfolio Manager, Nirvana Capital

Okay.

Prasada Raju
Managing Director, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

On the Suvin side, launch will take time.

Darshit Shah
Portfolio Manager, Nirvana Capital

Okay, so probably the launch...

Prasada Raju
Managing Director, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

But definitely, results are positive. Results are positive. The way to read here is the extent of uncertainties are minimized. Predictability of the revenue coming in for mid-term to long-term is much higher.

Darshit Shah
Portfolio Manager, Nirvana Capital

From what I understand is Cohance will have a little early commercialization as compared to the Suvin Pharma CDMO molecule, which has just cleared phase III.

Prasada Raju
Managing Director, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

That's right. That's right.

Darshit Shah
Portfolio Manager, Nirvana Capital

Got it. And sir, one more thing on just a suggestion. I think the results and the presentations come out pretty late. So I mean, by the time we are going to the presentation, the call is already out. So maybe you can schedule it a little later or the next day. That would be helpful for shareholders like us to go through it and then attend the call.

Prasada Raju
Managing Director, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

Point very well noted, Darshit. Thank you.

Darshit Shah
Portfolio Manager, Nirvana Capital

Because I got the presentation itself on 6:25 P.M. or 6:30 P.M., I think, by the time I just tried to log in to the call.

Prasada Raju
Managing Director, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

Point very well noted. That's it.

Darshit Shah
Portfolio Manager, Nirvana Capital

Sure. And sir, just one bookkeeping question, maybe it would have been answered in the earlier call, but I've just missed out. Suppose this merger with Cohance, 11 shares of Suvin are to be issued for 295 shares of Cohance. What would be the share capital of Suvin? I mean, number of shares? Currently, it's 25.4 crore, if I'm not wrong.

Prasada Raju
Managing Director, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

Darshit, this is Himanshu. There would be 38.11 crore shares outstanding.

Darshit Shah
Portfolio Manager, Nirvana Capital

38.11 crore shares would be outstanding post-merger, right?

Prasada Raju
Managing Director, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

Yeah.

Darshit Shah
Portfolio Manager, Nirvana Capital

Got it. Sir, lastly, on the spec chem side, we haven't seen much revenue or any growth in the first half, and now we are seeing the segment to be bottoming out. So when can we probably see some growth happening in this segment? Maybe in the second half of probably next year. What's our estimate?

Prasada Raju
Managing Director, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

As we understand, the complete bottoming out has already happened, and we don't expect any further bottoming out to happen. It's all done. At the same time, we also have started seeing the early signs of recovery. And definitely, from a bottom number, full year of next year, which is CY of FY 2025, we expect the growth to come back to us. Not just only the commercial product, there is also discussion around the new products as well.

Darshit Shah
Portfolio Manager, Nirvana Capital

Okay. Including the newer product as well, you see growth coming in from next calendar year.

Prasada Raju
Managing Director, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

In a sense, the accelerated growth is going to happen in FY 2025-2026.

Darshit Shah
Portfolio Manager, Nirvana Capital

Great. Thank you, sir, so much. I'll come back in the queue.

Prasada Raju
Managing Director, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Before we take the next question, we'd like to remind participants to press star and one to ask a question. Next question is from the line of Arjun Sindwani from Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead.

Arjun Sindhwani
Associate, Goldman Sachs

Good evening, team. Thank you for taking my question. This might have been answered in the previous question by Mr. Darshit.

Operator

Okay, Arjun, can you please? Your voice is not very clear.

Arjun Sindhwani
Associate, Goldman Sachs

Hi, sorry, team. Thanks for taking my question. Probably this question has already been answered in the last set of questions. I just want to understand on the spec chem side, just from the presentation, were there zero revenues booked for this quarter for spec chem? And just the second part of the question is that you mentioned the growth, early signs of recovery you started seeing in the segment. So we are expecting some sort of pickup from the second quarter onwards, or will we see most of it from the next year? Thank you.

Darshit Shah
Portfolio Manager, Nirvana Capital

Arjun, thank you for your question. So yes, this quarter, there is a zero revenue for spec cam and cam. And to the second part of your question, I mean, the H2, we do expect that there would be orders, and that would get recorded in the H2 of the current year. And as Dr. Prasada mentioned in the previous question, we would be looking at a growth for FY 2026.

Arjun Sindhwani
Associate, Goldman Sachs

Okay. But the majority of growth is expected in FY 2026 is what then is good. Probably that's the expectation from management because then H2 is when the sort of orders come in, and it's always skewed towards the end of the year then.

Darshit Shah
Portfolio Manager, Nirvana Capital

I would not conclude to that. I would say that there would be an execution in FY25, and there would also be over and above a delivery in FY26 as well. So Arjun, the way to look at here is from the coming quarter onwards, we see deliveries kicking in.

Arjun Sindhwani
Associate, Goldman Sachs

Okay. Okay. Thank you, team. Thank you so much.

Operator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, to ask a question, please press star and one on your phone now. Next question is from the line of Vivek from Citi. Please go ahead.

Hi, thanks for the opportunity. So my question is related to CDMO segment. Sorry. So the question is related to CDMO segment. So over the next two years, let's say, right? So as far as the growth is concerned, is it going to be completely dependent on the products where you are working or involved with the innovator, let's say from the clinical stage, phase I, phase II, phase III, or the recent time, have you added any product which is already commercialized, or the customer might be trying to diversify their supply chain or adding, let's say, another CDMO like you? So how to look at it? Or do you see this kind of opportunity, let's say, for the near term? Or are you in any kind of discussion with any of the innovator or any of the big pharma companies like that? Thank you.

Prasada Raju
Managing Director, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

Thank you Vivek. Obviously, March of 2023, our phase III products stands at three products and six intermediates. As of today, September 24, we have seven phase III products covering 12 intermediates. Definitely, there is going to be a component of new product addition that's going to drive the growth in the next midterm. Number two, we also have discussed and made strategic interventions of looking for potential laterals, which also we are able to see some evidences. Combination of these two will definitely going to drive the growth.

Understood. So have you added any potential lateral product that is already in market or already commercialized at this point of time?

We do have a few examples. We were able to create a few case studies in the last few quarters. Earlier, it was an intent, but we have an evidence in our hand, which is quite promising for us.

Okay. And over the next couple of years, we can see some of any of these kind of laterals.

That's right.

Okay. Thank you. That's from my side.

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. We'll take our next question from the line of Ashish Thavkar from JM Financial Mutual Fund. Please go ahead.

Ashish Thavkar
Senior VP, JM Financial Mutual Fund

Yeah. Thanks for the opportunity. So I had a question on this entire Biosecure Act. So as and when it becomes a law in the U.S., where do you see the first part of benefit coming in? Would it be at the early stage of clinicals, like discovery stage, or you feel it could immediately also flow to the custom synthesis side of the business?

I would request Vivek, can you just take up this question?

Sure. So I think in some ways, we are already seeing the traction. People are starting to talk to us about de-risking their supply chain. When the act becomes real, I think with the changes in the government and all that, we don't know. But in general, we have seen the traction already. People are talking to us. In my view, it's not about early stage or commercial. It's about China, right? So whatever work people have in China, they will try to migrate. So we have some early stage discussions going on, some large supply chain discussions going on. But keep in mind, there is time for people to make their decision. But we are excited about the potential that we see out there for us to help our customers de-risk their supply chain with the technology in China. Okay. Yes, fair enough.

And since obviously, you said four to six months, the time that is there for consolidation. So as we move ahead two to three years beyond, would you feel the need for more M&As in order to possibly add more capabilities to your offering?

Prasada Raju
Managing Director, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

Yes, so our strategy, I think, as we have said very clearly, right, it's organic as well as inorganic. You have seen the company has done inorganic acquisitions to add capabilities in the past. I think that remains a key focus. We will continue to look at capabilities that are better to buy than build, so that's a key part of our strategy, and we'll continue to evaluate those opportunities as they come across.

Just to add to Vivek's mention, our commitment on the platform technologies is completely unwavering. We are definitely poised for looking for such kind of opportunities to offer wider offerings to our customers. So by any chance, would you guys also be there on the GLP-1 side of the thing?

As I was just mentioning to some other question when Amey asked, it's too early for us to comment, and definitely, we'll be more than happy to come back to you once we have some answer, internally.

Ashish Thavkar
Senior VP, JM Financial Mutual Fund

Fair enough. So just last question from my side. So you said second half will be a recovery, but given the fact that first half saw a revenue decline, are you saying for the full year of FY25, we will see a growth?

Prasada Raju
Managing Director, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

Ashish, as we have mentioned, that at the platform level, for full FY 2025, we would be growing versus FY 2024.

Ashish Thavkar
Senior VP, JM Financial Mutual Fund

This is very helpful. Thank you and all the best.

Prasada Raju
Managing Director, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, to ask a question, please press star and one on your phone now. We'll take our next question from the line of Darshit Shah from Nirvana Capital. Please go ahead.

Darshit Shah
Portfolio Manager, Nirvana Capital

Yeah. Thanks for the opportunity again. Sir, just I want to ask, both these molecules which have kind of cleared phase III, can you let us know and throw some color on which therapeutic segments they are focused into and a little bit more on if you can highlight some opportunity or market size of where these drugs are going to be launched and all this? That would be.

Prasada Raju
Managing Director, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

I can only say because we are governed by the CDAs that we have executed with our customers. Hope you can understand. But definitely, this is one of the most fastest growing space in the therapeutic segments. It always stands for top five of the therapeutic segments for the last 10 years.

Darshit Shah
Portfolio Manager, Nirvana Capital

Got it. Both the drugs.

Prasada Raju
Managing Director, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

You can draw the conclusion.

Darshit Shah
Portfolio Manager, Nirvana Capital

Yeah. For both the products, right?

Prasada Raju
Managing Director, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

Yeah. For one.

For one. Okay. And just lastly, when we say that FY 2025 on a full year basis as a platform combined, we might see some growth happening. So just to clear it, would it be on the revenue side or also on the profitability side?

Darshit, it would certainly be on the revenue side, but you do understand that profitability is a function of many, many elements. So at this stage, once we have more visibility of the order pipeline, we'll come back to.

Darshit Shah
Portfolio Manager, Nirvana Capital

Sure. Thank you so much.

Operator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, to ask a question, please press star and one on your phone now. Participants who wish to ask a question, may please press star and one on your phone now. Ladies and gentlemen, that was the last question for today. I now hand over the call to the management team for closing comments. Please go ahead. I'm sorry. There is one question in the queue. I'll take that. We have a question from the line of Ashish Thavkar from JM Financial Mutual Fund. Please go ahead.

Ashish Thavkar
Senior VP, JM Financial Mutual Fund

Yeah. Thanks for giving the opportunity. So on the API side of the business, the kind of findings that we have appear that almost 50%-60% are niche in nature. So when do you see the monetization of these pipelines starting?

Prasada Raju
Managing Director, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

It's continuously happening, Ashish, and we are very happy to inform you that even first quarter and the second quarter half-year basis, around 7%-8% of the growth has already been demonstrated and is going to be better in the next half of the year. Monetization of these products are very happening, and the uniqueness of this asset is the pipeline is healthy. Last year, five validations have happened. This year, at least seven to eight new products are going to be introduced on the platform so that the midterm to long term is fully secured.

Ashish Thavkar
Senior VP, JM Financial Mutual Fund

Perfect. And lastly, sir, would you be open to consider international M&As? Is this something which is out of the cards?

Prasada Raju
Managing Director, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

So whatever our commitment on technology-led platform, if it means for us to go outside of this country, we will be open-minded.

Ashish Thavkar
Senior VP, JM Financial Mutual Fund

Thank you. And all the best.

Prasada Raju
Managing Director, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. We'll take our next question from the line of Karthik from Suyash Advisors. Please go ahead.

Karthikeyan VK
Senior Investment Analyst, Suyash Advisors

Yeah. Good evening, Doctor. Just one clarification. Can you give some context on the appointment of Mr. Vinod Padikkal? What exactly does he bring to the table? And some context, please.

Prasada Raju
Managing Director, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

We can try to put this note in.

I'll cover that. I think Vinod, as you would have read in the notice, Vinod is a nominee from a Berhyanda perspective. So he is a nominee of Berhyanda, and he represents Berhyanda by virtue of Advent's equity investment in Berhyanda.

Okay. Sure. Thanks for making that decision.

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, that was the last question for today. I hand over the call to the management team for closing remarks. Over to you.

Cyndrella Carvalho
Head of Investor Relations, Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited

Thank you, Operator. Thank you, everyone, for giving your time, and we look forward to interacting with you on next quarter call. Thank you, everyone.

Operator

Thank you, members of the management team. On behalf of Suvin Pharmaceuticals Limited, that concludes this conference call. Thank you for joining us, and you may now disconnect your line.

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