Maruti Suzuki India Limited (NSE:MARUTI)
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Q4 25/26

Apr 28, 2026

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, good day. Welcome to the Maruti Suzuki India Limited Q4 FY 2026 earnings conference call. 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, 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. Pranav. Thank you. Over to you, sir.

Pranav Ambaprasad
Assistant General Manager of Investor Relations, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

Thank you, Dolan. Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon once again. Welcome you all to Q4 FY 2026 earnings call. May I introduce you to the management team from Maruti Suzuki. Today, we have with us our Chief Investor Relations Officer, Mr. Rahul Bharti, and CFO, Mr. Arnab Roy. Before we begin, may I remind you of the safe harbor. We may be making some forward-looking statements that have to be understood in conjunction with the uncertainty and the risks that company faces. I'd also like to inform you that the call is being recorded and the audio recording and the transcript will be available at our website. Please note that in case of any inadvertent error during this live audio call, a transcript will be provided with the corrected information.

The concall will begin with a brief statement on the performance and outlook of a business by CIRO and Senior Executive Officer, Corporate Affairs, Mr. Rahul Bharti. After which, we'll be happy to receive your questions. I would now like to invite our Chief Investor Relations Officer, Mr. Rahul Bharti. Over to you, sir.

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

Thanks, Pranav. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for joining us. Before I come to the company's financial performance, I would like to briefly share our perspective on the passenger vehicle industry during the financial year 2025- 2026 and Maruti Suzuki's operating performance in this environment. You would be aware, financial year 2025- 2026 was a year of two distinct halves for the Indian PV industry. In the first half of the fiscal, the passenger vehicle market declined by about 0.4% year-on-year, reflecting affordability pressures, particularly in the small car segment. In the second half of the year, led by the government's GST reform, the industry witnessed a sharp turnaround, with the passenger vehicle market growing by a whopping 16.7% year-on-year.

This rebound was clearly led by the small car segment, vehicles in the 18% GST bracket, where reduction in acquisition cost helped revive demand. For Maruti Suzuki, the rebound in the domestic market was even stronger than the industry. While our domestic sales declined by 5.6% in the first half of the year, the sales volume grew by 12.3% in the second half of the year, generating a swing of about 17.9%. Our domestic sales volume growth during the year was constrained by production capacity. As of the end of the fiscal year, around 190,000 customer orders remained unserved, we are trying to service them fast, highlighting the strength of the underlying demand.

Importantly, near 130,000 of these pending orders were in the small car segment, falling in the 18% GST bracket. In addition, the dealer inventory was at a low of about 12 days top. Notably, even in a market largely driven by SUVs, the top-selling passenger vehicle in passenger, in financial year 2025- 2026 was the Dzire, which is a sedan placed within the 18% GST bracket. During the second half, we observed higher showroom traction from two-wheeler upgraders as well as an increase in first-time buyers. While rural markets continued to perform well during the entire year, the urban markets also recovered and posted a growth post the GST reform. Alongside the recovery in small cars, Maruti Suzuki also strengthened its performance in the mid-SUV segment during the year. Towards this, the launch of the Victoris played an important role.

The Victoris has seen strong customer acceptance and is the fastest model in our portfolio to cross 50,000 cumulative sales. It is no wonder that the Victoris got the Indian Car of the Year award, where 19 prominent auto publications form a jury and jointly vote for the best car in the country. While GST reform supported the revival of entry-level demand, the Victoris contributed meaningfully to our volume growth in the mid-SUV segment, enabling us to participate more competitively in one of the fastest-growing segments of industry. In addition, during the year, we also launched our first battery electric vehicle, the e Vitara. The e Vitara represents Maruti Suzuki's first fully electric SUV, developed on a fresh, dedicated platform and designed for Indian and about 100 global markets.

Happy to share that the initial response has been quite encouraging and the model strengthens our preparedness for the gradual transition towards electric mobility while we continue to follow a balanced multi-power train technology pathway for reducing fleet carbon emissions. Alongside the domestic market, exports remained an important growth driver during the year. Exports volume grew strongly in the financial year, reinforcing Maruti Suzuki's position as the leading exporter of passenger vehicles, supported by a diversified presence across global markets. Investors will be very happy to note that your company, just one company, among 18 car manufacturers in India, alone contributed 49% share of India's total passenger vehicle exports in the financial year. At the same time, in financial year 2025-2026, the operating environment for the industry remained complex.

You are aware during the year geopolitical developments such as supply issues in rare earth metals, the conflict involving the West Asia region pose risks to supply chains, particularly energy, certain raw materials and logistics. These developments increase uncertainty for the industry and require greater focus on business continuity. The company has been working very closely with its supply chain and logistic partners to ensure continuity of operations and mitigate potential disruptions. We have strengthened coordination across critical suppliers and enhanced contingency planning. However, the situation does remain dynamic and cost pressures do persist. We continue to closely monitor developments and respond as required. Despite the uncertainties posed by the ongoing geopolitical tensions, the company maintains strong confidence in the resilience of India's economy.

While acknowledging that war-related challenges may impact the business environment in the short term, the company believes these disruptions are temporary and will likely subside as circumstances improve. Importantly, the recent GST reduction is seen as a transformative factor for the passenger vehicle sector in India. By lowering taxes, the reform has enhanced affordability, making passenger vehicles accessible to a broader segment of customers. This, in turn, has set the industry on a path of sustained long-term structural growth by enlarging the potential customer base. Consequently, the company is proactively accelerating its capacity expansion efforts to address the strong demand and fulfill pending orders. In April 26, the second plant at the Kharkhoda facility was commissioned, and the fourth production line at the Hansalpur facility in Gujarat is set to become operational, within the financial year.

Each of these new units will add an annual production capacity of 250,000 vehicles. To put this in perspective, increasing production capacity by about 500,000 units in a single year is virtually unheard of in the passenger vehicle industry, at least in India and many countries abroad. This bold move is a clear testament to our unwavering confidence and optimism in the immense growth potential that lies ahead. Besides, the company has put plans in place to increase the production capacity to 4 million units per annum in the medium term. Before we move to the financial results, I would like to share the major business highlights for the company. In this financial year, the company achieved several significant milestones.

First, the company recorded its highest ever annual sales of 2.42 million vehicles, which includes the highest ever export of 447,000 vehicles. Maruti Suzuki has set a new benchmark in the industry by achieving cumulative sales of 3 crore or 30 million units in the domestic market. Coming to products, demonstrating its commitment to customer safety, the company is now offering six airbags as standard in almost all of its PV passenger vehicle product lineup, volumes going beyond 99%. Advanced safety features like electronic stability control, anti-lock braking system with electronic brake force distribution as a standard across the entire product lineup. On the same lines, the all-new Dzire, the Victoris, the e Vitara and the Invicto secured 5-star Bharat NCAP safety rating, while the Baleno secured a 4-star rating.

Further strengthening the company's robust network of 2,000 exclusive charging points across our sales and service network, spanning across 1,100 cities, we have collaborated with 13 charge point operators to offer access to a vast charging infrastructure across the country. Aligned with Suzuki's global vision, we plan to introduce multiple EVs. To support this, our aim is to enable a network of over 1 lakh charging points across India by 2030, along with our dealers and charge point operators. For promoting inclusive mobility in mass segment cars, the company launched the WagonR with an option of a swivel seat. Seemingly a small feature, but extremely customer-friendly, swivel seat is specially designed to offer greater convenience to senior citizens and persons with disabilities, bringing the joy of mobility to them.

Drawing inspiration from Suzuki Group's corporate slogan, "By your side," this initiative aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal that aims to reduce inequality. The company continued to expand its sales and service footprint. During the year, the total sales outlets increased to over 4,600 and service touchpoints increased to over 5,900 across the country. The company has also set a new benchmark in green logistics by dispatching over 600,000 vehicles through railways in the financial year, which is a growth of about 18.5% over the previous year. Interestingly, in the past decade, Maruti Suzuki's share of rail mode in outbound logistics has grown exponentially, going from 5.1% in 2016 to 26.5% in financial year 2025-2026, significantly reducing carbon emissions, the country's oil imports, and easing road congestion.

Now I come to the financial results. The company recorded its highest ever quarterly sales of 676,209 units, up 11.8% from quarter four of the previous financial year. This is for the quarter. Domestic sales were at 538,994 units and exports at an all-time high of 137,215 units. During this period, the company achieved record net sales of about INR 501 billion, compared to about INR 389 billion in the same period a year ago. Operating profit, EBIT for quarter four of this year increased by 30.4% over quarter four of the previous financial year, reaching an all-time high of over INR 44 billion.

Despite the growth in operating profit, net profit declined by 6.9% year-over-year to nearly INR 36 billion, primarily due to mark-to-market impact, which my colleague, Arnab, will explain in his part. Before coming to estimation of results, I want to reiterate that Suzuki Motor Gujarat Private Limited, which was a wholly owned subsidiary in Gujarat, it got amalgamated with Maruti Suzuki starting December 1, 2025. The appointed date as per the scheme of amalgamation is 1st April 2025. The financial statements for the relevant periods have been restated for the purpose of comparison. I'll explain the broad reasons for the financial performance. Investors look out for a sequential comparison. I'll give you the analysis on a sequential basis.

The overall sales volume grew by 1.3% and the net sales grew by 5.4%. Sequentially, the operating profit margin, EBIT, has expanded to 8.8% of net sales compared to 8.1% in quarter three of the financial year. There were several favorable factors. Lower employee costs of about 100 basis points. If you would recall, in quarter three, we had a one-time provision on account of new labor courts. Comparing with that, quarter four was lower by 100 basis points. The discounts were lower by about 50 basis points. Favorable foreign exchange movement by 30 basis points. Favorable fixed cost incidence of about 50 basis points due to inventory accretion. These were the positive factors. They were partially offset by some adverse factors. The adverse commodity prices of about 80 basis points.

Higher new model expenses of about 60 basis points. The other expenses were higher by 20 basis points, largely on account of some lumpiness and seasonality associated with other expenses in CSR, R&D expenses. At the PAT level, at the net profit level, the hardening of bond yields resulted in mark-to-market impact of approximately INR 7.5 billion on our invested surplus. I now come to the highlights of the full- year 2025- 2026. The company recorded highest ever annual sales volume, net sales and net profit. The company sold a total of 2,422,713 units in financial year 2025- 2026, compared to 2,234,266 units in the previous year.

The company registered record net sales of over INR 1.74 trillion in financial year 2025- 2026, a growth of 20.2% over the previous year. The company achieved its all-time high net profit of over INR 144.4 billion in financial year 2025- 2026, compared to net profit of about INR 142.9 billion in the previous year. Along with profits come dividends. The board of directors recommended its highest ever dividend of INR 140 per share of a face value of INR 5 per share, compared to INR 135 per share in the previous year, 2024/ 2025. With that, ladies and gentlemen, we are now ready to take your questions, your feedback, and any other observations that you may have. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you very much. We will now begin the question- and- answer session. Anyone who wishes to ask a question may press star and one on their touch-tone telephone. If you wish to remove yourself from the question queue, you may press star and two. Participants are requested to please use handsets while asking a question. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now wait for a moment while the question queue assembles. Our first question comes from the line of Gunjan Prithyani from Bank of America. Please go ahead.

Gunjan Prithyani
Analyst, Bank of America

Hi. Thanks for taking my question. My first question is on the cost headwinds and thanks for giving that margin growth. Can you please give us more color on how do we think about incremental cost headwinds? You mentioned it was 80 basis points in quarter four, but looking at where the commodities are and the seeing the pricing that is, you know, that is due, how should we think about the cost headwinds going into the next one or two quarters? Maybe, you know, what are the mitigating factors that we are sort of working through to make sure that the margins, you know, sort of remain in a range? Or maybe you just give us some guidance on how do we think about margins.

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

Thanks, Gunjan. Though you asked only about margin, but I'll speak about both demand scenario and margins, because just now we had a press conference along with the chairman. One thing that he mentioned was that fortunately, the impact does not seem to be much. The demand sentiment seems to be good. Margins, of course, some prices like commodity, energy, gas prices do go up in such times, which is possible to understand. We've been seeing commodity changes in the past also. We also believe that once the West Asia crisis is over, many of these cost pressures would return, would lapse. Yes, there is some pressure, but we are taking it as part of regular business.

Gunjan Prithyani
Analyst, Bank of America

Okay. I mean, just any sense on like, do we see a similar sort of cost headwind going into quarter one as well? You know, 80 basis points was what we took in quarter four. I'm just trying to understand, you know, while these are temporary and would get normalized, any sense that you can give and is there a mitigating action like, you know, since discounts are coming down, any pricing move that can help you offset the commodity impact?

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

A lot of mitigation actions are in progress. In fact, like, management spends a lot of time on this. One, of course, is, the first thing is we have to ensure that there is no disruption in our production operations. Whether it is gas supplies or alternate fuels, et cetera, and arranging them from the lowest possible source, diversifying our portfolio, that is one part. Second, fortunately, the demand scenario is good, so we have a focus that our utilization should also continue to be high. We are fortunate today we have pending orders, but we want that situation also to continue. Volume buoyancy should be good. That helps a lot. Of course, we are trying to arrange, all the commodities at the lowest possible cost, diversify our supply chain. All those mitigating factors continue.

It will be difficult to put a number.

Gunjan Prithyani
Analyst, Bank of America

Mm.

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

In such a situation, some cost headwinds do come and it's part of business.

Gunjan Prithyani
Analyst, Bank of America

Okay, good. My second question is on the, you know, more on the, you know, emission regulations now. You know, I'm assuming the CAFE norms what we've seen are near, you know, near final version. Some sense on how are we thinking about the CAFE norms? What does it mean in terms of the powertrain mix? You know, I'm particularly interested in sort of understanding what is the EV salience that we need in the block of three years or two years, the way CAFE norms define it. You know, recently there's also a lot of noise around this flex fuels, E85. You know, you can talk us through the, you know, the readiness on this and what sort of portfolio cost impact we see because of flex fuels.

You know, a bit more on these, emission regulations.

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

Okay. CAFE is essentially an energy efficiency. It's Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency. It's an energy efficiency regulation. The final draft is yet to be notified. It's not right to make a premature commitment. Whatever we have seen till now seems to have a good balance across multiple technologies, powertrain technologies to reduce carbon. They have encouraged all technologies, which is a positive. It's showing in the current war, where biofuels, like CBG or compressed biogas or ethanol, is coming to the rescue when crude oil imports come under pressure. I should also tell you that Maruti Suzuki models are inherently far more efficient than any in its peer group. If you compare any like to like model, we would be about 20% more efficient.

That way, the company is always positioned from a technology perspective, positively for energy efficiency. Your next question was on flex fuel. We have the technology, whether it is for ethanol blending increase or for flex fuel vehicles. We have the technology, we'll support the government whenever the need arises.

Gunjan Prithyani
Analyst, Bank of America

What, I mean, what can be the cost increase because of flex fuel, like, in terms of the on for upgrading the engine or component change? Any preliminary idea around that?

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

First of all, let me tell you, there are two distinct movements happening in ethanol. One is all cars on the road, which is something like we are talking about sales of 5 million cars a year or all the park, which is about 3 crore cars in the population. The government is thinking of increasing the minimum blending from something like E20 to E21, E22, something like that, or maybe till all the way up to E25. That is one clear action. The other clear action is launching models that can take any blend of ethanol and gasoline from 0 to 100.

It won't be a meaningful volume by number because such models we need dispensing pumps in the country that will span the entire network. We need more models. We need parity between ethanol and petrol price. All those factors will take some time for flex fuels to develop. It is like a futuristic plan. The volumes will be minimal at this stage. It will grow. Say five to 10 years from now it will become a meaningful volume. Nothing immediately. It does not affect our cost structure.

Gunjan Prithyani
Analyst, Bank of America

Okay, got it. I'll join the dots with you. Thank you, sir.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Chandramouli Muthiah from Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead.

Chandramouli Muthiah
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Hi, good evening, and thank you for taking my questions. My first question is just around the growth outlook for the domestic passenger vehicle industry and also what you think could be the growth outlook on exports, just given how the macro seems to be evolving. I think at the FADA, looking ahead conclave three months back, the industry thought that passenger vehicles should be able to grow between 5%-7% in FY 2027. The macro seems to have changed. You did mention that the demand remains to be pretty good. There's not been much impact. I just want to understand how you're thinking about industry growth, both domestic and export for FY 2027.

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

Our chairman just mentioned, first of all, this time we will be thinking of utilizing our new plants. Obviously, the two new plants that come up with a steady state capacity of 500,000 units total, they will need a ramp up. Effectively, one can expect that we'll have an additional volume of about 250,000 cars available this year over the previous year. The broad expectation that our chairman also conveyed is about 10% growth in this year as compared to the last year. Of course, the situation is dynamic, so but this is the initial expectation. This is above the estimates of industry that you mentioned about.

Chandramouli Muthiah
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Sorry. Just to clarify, the 10% growth, you think is industry volume growth expectation?

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

Domestic.

Chandramouli Muthiah
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Domestic industry volume growth expectation for FY 2027.

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

Mm-hmm.

Chandramouli Muthiah
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Got it. Got it. That's helpful. Just related to that, my second question is on the upcoming capacity. I think you did mention that there'll be 250,000 units which will come on board sometime in FY 2027.

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

Could you speak louder, please? I'm missing.

Chandramouli Muthiah
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Sure. Is it better now?

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

Slightly better.

Chandramouli Muthiah
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Yes. Second question is just around capacity. You mentioned that there will be 250,000 units of additional capacity coming on board in Gujarat later this fiscal and you've already operationalized.

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

One in Kharkhoda, Haryana, the other in Gujarat.

Chandramouli Muthiah
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Yes. Yes. Just related to that, last year when you had put the first greenfield in Kharkhoda, there was, I think, cumulative 60 basis points of startup costs because you had to build up utilization over a period of time. Where at this stage it looks like you do have good visibility around demand. I just want to understand if there will be any startup cost to be expected in these down three capacity additions that you're doing in Kharkhoda and in Gujarat.

Arnab Roy
CFO, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

Yeah. Look, there will be some ramp up definitely for the Kharkhoda phase II plant. We do not expect anything significant because as Rahul explained, the demand outlook looks good.

Economies of scale should be able to broadly take care of that startup cost. We don't expect anything significant. If anything, the demand output stays positive. Of course, we'll have to keep monitoring the macro environment and the other variables that are mentioned here.

Chandramouli Muthiah
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Sorry, that's helpful. Last question, just bookkeeping questions around the other income outlook. It looks like you had a INR 750 crores mark-to-market notional impact on other income this quarter. If bond yields were to remain constant, do you think this completely reverses next quarter? Also just the other bookkeeping questions are around export revenue and the re-register retail number, Maruti's retail number for the quarter.

Arnab Roy
CFO, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

Yeah. First, let me answer your mark-to-market question. I think others will also have this question. Overall, if you see because of the hardening of the interest rates and when we talk about hardening of interest rates in our portfolio, there are several kind of benchmark rates which has a weighted average impact, whether it is the one-year G-Sec or the one-year corporate bond or the commercial paper. On a blended basis, if one looks at it, we had almost a 46 basis point impact this quarter. This 46 basis point translates to about INR 750 crores hit in the quarter. If you compare it to a sequential we were nearly flat, so the entire thing is reflected sequentially. If you compare on a YoY basis, YoY we were positive by about INR 350.

On a YoY comparison, this is a INR 1,075 crore hit. Which is quite significant. That's the reason you see the other income quite significantly down and when you are comparing the PBT of this year versus last year on a full- year basis. This is something which you have to keep in mind. As you see, as of yesterday, yes, some amount of reversal has already happened. Roughly about 35% of this is already reversed on, you know, yesterday's basis, and this is an everyday moving number, so we'll have to keep monitoring it. That's on the mark-to-market, roughly.

In terms of our overall credit quality, just to give you a thing, I think our credit quality remains very robust, and I think we are at a more than 99.5% AAA rated security, so that remains quite robust. The long term it is completely secure. Short term, of course, we are exposed to the interest rate changes because of the macroeconomic environment. Your second question was on exports, right?

Chandramouli Muthiah
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Um, uh-

Arnab Roy
CFO, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

Yes.

Chandramouli Muthiah
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Export revenue is about $1.24 billion for the quarter. Sorry, just the retail numbers, Maruti's retail volume number for the quarter. I think last year, fourth quarter we did 430 thousand units. Just checking this year what the retail number is for 4Q.

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

Last year, which is the figure you have?

Chandramouli Muthiah
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

450,000 units for 4Q, MSIL domestic retail.

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

We have 415,000. This was for last year, fourth quarter.

Chandramouli Muthiah
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Yeah.

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

This year, fourth quarter was 468,000, about 700 units, approximately.

Chandramouli Muthiah
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Okay. Got it. Thank you very much and all the best.

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

There's a 12.9% year-on-year growth in the quarter, in retail sales.

Chandramouli Muthiah
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Makes sense. Makes sense. Thank you very much and all the best.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question is from the line of Raghunandhan NL from Nuvama Research. Please go ahead.

Raghunandhan NL
Analyst, Nuvama Research

Good evening to you. Thank you for the opportunity. Sir, firstly, if you can indicate, growth or the share for rural-urban in FY 2026, and also if you can talk about the trends for first-time replacement additional buyers for full- year FY 2026.

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

See, we've stopped kind of making so hard a line between urban and rural because the boundaries are blurring now. It's a very heartening thing that the rural India is integrating with the urban India. There are increasingly consumption trends which were earlier associated with urban India that are now being seen in rural India. We don't monitor that figure anymore. Of course, we keep the distribution network as extensive as possible.

Raghunandhan NL
Analyst, Nuvama Research

Noted, sir. How are you seeing the trend in the first-time buyers, the share increase?

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

Happy to share that the first-time buyer is about 51% in Q4. 18% is about repeat purchase. 31% is additional car in the family.

Raghunandhan NL
Analyst, Nuvama Research

How has the share increased, sir? How should we look at it? How has the share of first time increased in comparison to pre-GST cut?

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

Pre-GST cut. In H1, the Q4 figure of 51% was actually around 42%.

Raghunandhan NL
Analyst, Nuvama Research

Noted, sir. Noted.

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

H1 was about 42%, Q3 was at 48%, and Q4 at 51%.

Raghunandhan NL
Analyst, Nuvama Research

Noted, sir. Thanks, thanks for this.

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

It is a very clear.

Raghunandhan NL
Analyst, Nuvama Research

Just on the-

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

Sorry to interrupt. It is a very clear signal that the government's intended support to the first time buyers is showing results.

Raghunandhan NL
Analyst, Nuvama Research

Got it, sir. Thanks. Thanks for sharing this. This also aligns with that 130,000 small car orders which you mentioned is pending. Just a bookkeeping question for Q4. Can you share the discounts, blended discounts number for Q4?

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

What we can share with you is that there was almost about a 0.5% reduction on account of discounts in the quarter sequentially.

Raghunandhan NL
Analyst, Nuvama Research

Got it, sir. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

EBIT expansion because of this.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question is from the line of Kumar Rakesh from BNP Paribas. Please go ahead.

Kumar Rakesh
Analyst, BNP Paribas

Hi. Good evening and thank you for taking my question. My first question was for fiscal 2027, the model launch plan that we have. I understand that you cannot be speaking specifically about the models, but if you can give some sense on how many new nameplate addition and model refreshes you are targeting across ICE and separately for EV.

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

We have a good lineup, a healthy lineup and we'll keep our customers enthralled. We need to improve our market share, but we'll keep the excitement also on. Across categories we will have new models. We have spoken about seven more SUVs all the way through the end of the decade. Let the excitement continue.

Kumar Rakesh
Analyst, BNP Paribas

Sure. Can we imply that, going by that runway, we should be having one new model nameplate addition every year? Is that fair expectation?

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

One model development is about four years lead time, so it's not necessary that we space it out equally all the time. There may be lumpiness around it, but there are seven SUVs and other models all the way to the till the decade end.

Kumar Rakesh
Analyst, BNP Paribas

Got it. On the EV side, e Vitara now is launched in the domestic market as well. I understand earlier you had indicated the aspiration to become the largest EV manufacturer in the country, which would include export as well. How is the product doing in the domestic market and what's your aspiration for the domestic market in the EV space?

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

Thanks for that question. In fact, in my opening message, I mentioned that we are happy that wherever we have sold that car, the customers are very happy. This is both in India and in our export markets, so that bodes well. Currently, of course, we have, we are constrained by production capacity. Starting July, when our 4th plant in Gujarat comes up and there's a gradual ramp up, we'll keep increasing our supplies. We are also targeting that the customers to whom we give these cars and we, you know, we fit home chargers, et cetera, they should be totally satisfied and delighted customers. Till the time we have lower numbers, at least we should focus on customer delight 100%.

Kumar Rakesh
Analyst, BNP Paribas

Got it. Thanks. Just one final question on the margin side. I understand you spoke about that there are a lot of moving parts to the margin and things are dynamic. Once we are past through these Middle East conflict and part of it getting reversed and we potentially taking some pricing feet as well, in a quarter or two we should get back on a trajectory of margin expansion and potentially in the direction of 10% EBIT margin, which we have targeted to reach to by 2030. Is that a fair expectation?

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

It's always difficult to give out a guidance on margins. What I can tell you is the quarter four EBIT was to estimate. I mean, the Bloomberg consensus estimate was 8.8%, and that was where the figure was, the actual figure also. As you rightly said, there are many moving parts. I would also add to that a market leader has the privilege of having multiple moving parts, multiple levers to help margins. We are very confident and optimistic that, subject to these headwinds of the war, the commodities and the energy prices, after that is over, we'll come back to a healthy trajectory.

Kumar Rakesh
Analyst, BNP Paribas

Thanks a lot.

Operator

Thank you. The next question comes from the line of Arvind Sharma from Citi. Please go ahead.

Arvind Sharma
Analyst, Citigroup

Thank you, sir, for taking my question. First would be, on QoQ basis, ASPs have increased a fair bit. How sustainable it is and what are the drivers for this ASP increase, both on quarter basis?

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

Sorry. Sorry, I was on mute. We do believe that there is still headroom for ASP because the upward segment, you know, models, there is some headroom. There is some upward room in ASPs.

Arvind Sharma
Analyst, Citigroup

From the 40 levels as well?

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

Yes.

Arvind Sharma
Analyst, Citigroup

Uh-

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

For example, EVs have to increase in the future, so that will help ASPs.

Arvind Sharma
Analyst, Citigroup

Sure. And on the balance sheet, just two points. What is the CapEx plan for these two expansions for FY 2027? Also just saw that inventory was fairly high at this year-end. Any special reason for that?

Arnab Roy
CFO, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

Overall on the CapEx for FY 2026- 2027, we are looking at a INR 14,000 crore CapEx for the full- year. I think, it will be primarily driven by these two plants. On the inventory, no, I don't think we have a significant increase. If you look at our total network stock versus this, I think we are at a fairly good level. We are much lower than the industry in terms of our overall network stock.

Arvind Sharma
Analyst, Citigroup

I meant the inventory on the balance sheet.

Arnab Roy
CFO, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

Yeah, there'll be always small timing issues, but let me just quickly see that once. Yeah, of course, sure.

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

We'll come back on this while he has a look on the inventory. We can have the next question.

Arvind Sharma
Analyst, Citigroup

Sure. Thanks so much.

Operator

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Amit Hiranandani from PhillipCapital. Please go ahead.

Amit Hiranandani
Analyst, PhillipCapital

Yeah, thanks, team, for the opportunity and congrats for reasonable set of numbers despite the input cost pressures and other challenges. My first question, I wanted to just reconfirm that you said the domestic PV industry to grow by 10%. Are we right in understanding this?

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

No, no. We are speaking about Maruti, not the domestic PV industry. I am talking about Maruti Suzuki expectation.

Amit Hiranandani
Analyst, PhillipCapital

Understood. It's clear. Secondly, on the export situation, what are your plans to deal with the present export situation?

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

If you can help me predict the war, I can predict the exports numbers. We are at a healthy position. We have built a good franchise across countries. We are on a steep ramp of path and we want to have at least the current numbers. There is so much of uncertainty that it's not responsible to give out a figure.

Amit Hiranandani
Analyst, PhillipCapital

All right. Understood. Thank you, sir. All the best.

Operator

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

Rahul Bharti
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

Sorry, there was one question which needs to be.

Arnab Roy
CFO, Maruti Suzuki India Limited

Yeah. Let me come back on the earlier inventory question before we close. I think, see it's a combination of predominantly, various raw material and working products, not too much on the FG side of it, because, I mean, the production in the coming period is, has a quite steep outlook. There were a bunch of GITs in there, bunch of kind of a stock which is needed for the production for the coming periods. As you know, we are ramping up the capacity in the coming two quarters, a lot of preparatory work had to be done. Which is predominantly the composition of the inventory.

Operator

Thank you. With that, ladies and gentlemen, this, it brings our conference call to an end. On behalf of Maruti Suzuki India Limited, we thank you all for joining us. You may now disconnect your lines.

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