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Q1 26/27

Aug 13, 2026

Summary

Q1 FY 2027 saw record revenue and EBITDA, with PAT up 216% year-on-year, driven by strong growth in all segments and the consolidation of Minda VAST. Flash Electronics and EV-related revenues surged, while margin pressures from input costs were largely offset by operational efficiencies.

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, good day and welcome to Minda Corporation Ltd Q1 FY 2027 earnings conference call hosted by Anand Rathi Shares and Stock Brokers Limited. As a reminder, all participant lines will be in listen-only mode, and there will be an opportunity for you to ask questions after the presentation concludes. Should you need assistance during this conference call, please signal an operator by pressing star then zero on your touch-tone phone. Please note that this conference is being recorded. I now hand the conference over to Mr. Mumuksh Mandlesha from Anand Rathi Shares and Stock Brokers Limited. Thank you, and over to you, sir.

Mumuksh Mandlesha
Analyst, Anand Rathi Shares and Stock Brokers Ltd

Yeah. Thank you, Nirav. Good evening, everyone. On behalf of Anand Rathi Shares and Stock Brokers, I would like to welcome the management team of Minda Corporation and thank them for this opportunity. Today we have with us Mr. Aakash Minda, Executive Director, Mr. Ajay Agarwal, Group CFO and President of Finance and Strategy, and Mr. Nitesh Jain, Lead Investor Relations. I shall now hand over the call to the management team for the opening remarks, post which we will open the floor for the Q&A. Over to you, sir.

Aakash Minda
Executive Director, Minda Corporation Limited

Thank you, Mumuksh and Anand Rathi for hosting this call. Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to the quarter one FY 2027 earnings conference call of Minda Corporation Limited. I hope all of you are doing well. It is a pleasure to connect with you today to discuss the company's performance for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, and share the key developments across our businesses. The global economy continues to navigate an evolving environment marked by geopolitical developments, changing trade dynamics, and persistent uncertainty across several regions. Despite these challenges, India remains one of the fastest-growing major economies, supported by strong domestic demand, improving infrastructure activity, and continued policy support for manufacturing. Turning to the automotive industry, the sector delivered a strong performance for the quarter, recording its highest-ever first-quarter production volumes.

Overall, industry production grew by around 22% on a year-on-year basis, driven by positive demand conditions, improving exports, and resilient consumption across both rural and urban markets. The two-wheeler segment grew by approximately 23%, driven by strong scooter demand and exports momentum. Electric two-wheeler adoption also continued to accelerate, with registrations crossing 5 lakh units for the first time in a single quarter. Passenger vehicles grew by approximately 17%, led by strong demand for utility vehicles and premiumization and exports. Key industry trends such as electrification, premiumization, and increasing preference for SUVs continued to gain momentum. Three-wheelers recorded growth of approximately 39%, and commercial vehicles and tractors grew by approximately 15% each during the quarter. Overall, the demand conditions remain positive across major vehicle segments. On electric vehicle penetration in the two-wheeler segment, it reached to about 10.6%, and the passenger vehicle penetration reached to about 7.5%.

While vehicle demand remained very good, the quarter remained challenging from input cost perspective. Higher prices of key raw materials, supply chain and logistic-related disruptions, manpower-related disruptions, and wage increase impacted the automotive component industry and put pressures on margins. Now, coming to Minda Corporation. During the quarter one FY 2027, the company surpassed consensus estimates, delivering its highest-ever quarterly revenue of INR 1,846 crore, a growth of 33.2% on year-on-year basis. The company reported EBITDA of INR 212 crore with a growth of 35.4% on year-on-year basis. EBITDA margin stood at 11.5%. PAT reached to INR 206 crore with a growth of 216% on a year-on-year basis. On the associate company, Flash Electronics. Flash Electronics has continued to deliver strong performance during the quarter, with revenues reaching INR 533 crore in quarter one, with an EBITDA of INR 82 crore and EBITDA margin of 15.4%.

During the quarter, the company further strengthened its growth initiatives through an investment of INR 63 crore in its group companies, including Spark Minda Wheel Mobility Solutions, Spark Minda HCMF for sunroofs, and Spark Minda- Toyodenso joint venture for switches to support its future growth and expansion. These new businesses and investments are on track as per their plan. On the EV penetration, at Minda Corporation, EV percentage as revenue is close to 10%, which has grown by 40% on year-on-year basis. At Flash Electronics, the EV revenue constitutes to about 30%, with a year-on-year growth of about 90%. At Minda Corporation group level, it is close to about 14%. The company also started consolidation of Minda VAST into Minda Corporation from this year onwards, which will further strengthen its presence in the passenger vehicle segment.

Minda VAST joint venture brings an extensive portfolio of vehicle access solutions and includes products like inside and outside door handles, lock sets, steering column locks, latches, immobilizers, passive entry solutions, power access solutions, et cetera. The integration will combine the company's established presence in India with our joint venture partner, WITTE, with their global technology to further enhance Minda Corporation vehicle access systems portfolio. The company's performance continues to be guided by the following key pillars of growth, which are growth in organic business by increasing share of business in existing customers. Second, by adding new customers. Third, exports. Fourth, premiumization of existing products. Fifth, new product launches by way of joint ventures and technical agreements. Last, not the least but most important, investment into R&D and technology of our Spark Minda Technical Center.

Looking ahead, the company remains committed to executing its strategic priorities with focus on enhancing its systems solutions offering, strengthening customer relationships, and investing in new technologies. The company's key priorities remain on disciplined capital allocation, expanding its presence in high growth segments, and advancing its R&D capabilities that will drive the long-term value creation for all its stakeholders. With that, I would now like to invite Mr. Ajay Agarwal, Group CFO and President, Finance and Strategy, to take you through our detailed financial performance and key highlights for the quarter. Over to you, Ajay. Thank you.

Ajay Agarwal
Group CFO and President of Finance and Strategy, Minda Corporation Limited

Thank you, Aakash. Very good afternoon to all of you. I am on slide number two. Slide number two gives you a reference with respect to our history of Minda Corporation Limited. In financial year 2026, our revenue stood at about INR 9,000 odd crore and accounting consolidated revenue stood at INR 6,185 crore. Our manufacturing footprint includes 42 plants with over 23,000 employees across our various plants and offices across the globe. Minda Corporation's focus on R&D and innovation remains very strong. With that being focused, we have filed so far 335 patents, out of which 150 patents have already been granted. Moving to slide number three. Slide number three talks about the overall automotive industry. The Indian automotive industry, as we all know, entered quarter one with extremely strong momentum, delivering one of its best quarterly performance in the recent years.

The production volume reached a tad lower than 10 million units, registering a growth of 22% year-on-year. This strong performance was supported by healthy domestic demand, improving exports, and a resilient consumption across both rural and urban markets. The two-wheeler segment delivered our strongest performance, with production reaching close to about 7.25 million units, marking a 23% year-on-year growth. Scooter led this momentum, growing with 32%, and motorcycles recorded a healthy 18% growth. We are equally encouraged to see acceleration in electric mobility. EV two-wheeler registration crossed 5 lakh mark for the first time in a single quarter, signaling that mass adoption of EVs in the two-wheeler segment is steadily moving from aspiration to reality. Quarter-on-quarter industry, while it saw growth flattish about 0.3%. Speaking about Minda Corporation's performance in quarter one, I am on slide number four.

We registered our highest ever quarterly revenue of INR 1,846 crore, reflecting 33.2% year-on-year growth. We also registered highest ever quarterly EBITDA, and for the first time, we crossed INR 200 + crore EBITDA in a single quarter with a margin of 11.5%, registering a 19 basis point improvement year-on-year basis. Also, we added lifetime order book of approximately INR 2,500 crore during the quarter. Like I said, in this quarter, we filed seven patents, taking our total filing to 335 plus. Moving to slide number five. We recorded the revenue of INR 1,846 crore, increased from INR 1,386 crore in quarter one last year, representing a growth of 33% year-on-year, and on a sequential basis, 8% growth over the previous quarter. Delivered highest ever EBITDA of INR 212 crore, reflecting a growth of 35% year-on-year with a margin of 11.5% with an improvement of 20 basis points.

This strong performance in EBITDA as well as in revenue clearly reflects our disciplined cost management and continued improvement in operational efficiency. We also noticed that the margin was partially impacted due to higher commodity prices, rise in labor costs, as well as increase in freight expenses. Importantly, a large portion of these headwinds, thankfully, was offset by operational efficiency and our operating leverages. Most of you know we unveiled our Vision 2030 in September of 2025. We remain firmly committed to our vision and are confident of achieving our targeted revenue and EBITDA margin as we continue to execute on our strategy and discipline consistently. From a PAT perspective, we reported a PAT increase of 216% year-on-year from INR 65 crore to INR 206 crore in this quarter.

I would like to highlight that increase in PAT includes an exceptional gain of INR 106 crore due to consolidation of Minda VAST with Minda Corporation Limited. Moving to slide six, speaking about business vertical performance, mechatronics and aftermarket, the segment delivered the strongest year-on-year growth of 33%, supported by robust domestic demand in two-wheeler as well as passenger vehicle segments. The growth was further aided by the premiumization of our existing product portfolio, enabling us to strengthen both revenue as well as value contribution in our businesses. Information and connected systems, this segment delivered an impressive 34% year-on-year growth, led by strong performance in wiring harness and instrument cluster business. All in all, the growth was driven by increased share of business with our existing customers, along with expansion of our customer base through new customer acquisition, premiumization, as well as exports.

Moving to slide seven, the product- wise, the revenue- wise mix is led by wiring harness division contributing to 32%, vehicle access contributed 25%, die casting 15%, and cluster business contributed 16%, and rest of the other contributed about 12%. Mobility- wise split, two-wheeler and three-wheeler contributed 46% of our top- line, commercial vehicle contributed 27%, passenger vehicle contributed 19%, and aftermarket contributed 8% during this quarter. While Aakash [inaudible] spoke briefly on Flash Electronics, Flash Electronics also did quite well from quarter one perspective. It delivered a revenue of INR 533 crore, registering a growth of 42% year-on-year basis. The EBITDA margin stood at 15.4%, and PAT margin stood at 6.6%. You would notice that there was a marginal dip in the EBITDA vis-a-vis last quarter. The margin was primarily impacted by higher commodity prices and higher labor costs.

Suffice to say that the company has a back-to-back pass-through arrangement with its customer, which provides a mechanism to mitigate the impact of these costs pressure over time, plus it has plans to see how they can recover the higher costs, both from commodity as well as on the labor side from its customer. Slides 10 and 11 represents our consolidated profit and loss and historical financial statement, and rest of the slides speak about several of our recognition, what we have received from various bodies, and I will not go over through that. Looking ahead, as we continue to invest in our growth through new product categories, strategic partnerships and R&D, our focus remains on expanding our footprint in high growth areas like electric vehicle, strengthening our customer relationships, and building on our leadership in key technology-driven segments.

Thank you, and I will now hand it over to the operator for Q&A session.

Operator

Thank you very much. We 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 remove yourself from the question queue, you may press star and two. Participants are requested to use handsets while asking a question. Ladies and gentlemen, we will wait for a moment while the question queue assembles. Participants, you may press star and one to ask a question. The first question is from the line of Raghu nandan NL from Nuvama Research. Please go ahead.

Raghunandan N.L.
Analyst, Nuvama Research

Congratulations to the entire team and especially to Ajay, sir, on delivering strong margins in challenging times. Firstly, in clusters and wiring harness, over a period of time, the company has been indicating order wins both in two-wheeler and four-wheeler segments, can you indicate how you see the major ramp up or execution of orders supporting sales performance in FY 2027 and 2028?

Aakash Minda
Executive Director, Minda Corporation Limited

Yeah. Thank you, Raghu. So again, I would be happy to share that our wiring harness division has grown more than 30% on a year-on-year basis for the quarter one, as well as our instrument cluster division has grown more than 35% on a year-on-year basis in quarter one. So this is the same momentum which is expected to continue over the upcoming quarters, going into FY 2028 as well. As you know that we have won orders in the past few years across vehicle segments and across product portfolios as well as across domestic as well as exports. So now we are seeing those products coming into the new launches, as well as some of the new order wins from new customers and existing share of business that we have penetrated.

Raghunandan N.L.
Analyst, Nuvama Research

Thank you for that, sir. If you can also highlight the order wins during the current quarter, which categories or segments do they relate to mainly?

Aakash Minda
Executive Director, Minda Corporation Limited

They are again split across our divisions and products, all in vehicle access, castings, wiring harnesses, instrument clusters, as well as new energy and electronic segments as well. It is spread all across and again in ICE and EV and passenger vehicles, two-wheelers, commercial vehicles, domestic and export. There is an evenly split all across for a continued equal momentum across the organization.

Raghunandan N.L.
Analyst, Nuvama Research

Good to hear that, sir. Secondly, the share of passenger vehicles has reached almost 20% of revenue, also supported by Minda VAST. For Minda VAST, can you indicate approximately how much was the revenue and EBITDA in Q1, and how do you see the growth prospects for this segment, both in revenue and margin going forward?

Aakash Minda
Executive Director, Minda Corporation Limited

Yeah. Sorry. For the financial, I will ask Ajay to share, and on the business side, I will come back.

Ajay Agarwal
Group CFO and President of Finance and Strategy, Minda Corporation Limited

Yeah. Minda VAST has also done quite well in the quarter. It has grown by 22% during the quarter. It is largely a passenger vehicle or a four-wheeler company, and with its consolidation, our overall revenue has grown from 15% to 19%. If I look at from a contribution of margin perspective, in quarter one previous year, it had delivered a margin of 6.5%, and this quarter it has delivered a margin of 8.4%. Overall, I think we are very happy with the performance of Minda VAST, and we are continuously working to see how we can bring it at par with overall Minda Corporation's margin level for Minda VAST too.

Raghunandan N.L.
Analyst, Nuvama Research

Good to hear that, sir.

Aakash Minda
Executive Director, Minda Corporation Limited

Coming to the business front, particularly on the Minda VAST per se. Currently, we are offering as a kit value band to the tune of about INR 8,000 to about INR 12,000-INR 13,000 in a kit value. However, with the products that are being under developed and already being offered to the customers coming from our joint venture partner as well as our internal R&D systems, this could very well go to X in the upcoming years. That is where we are working on, and of course, this is not dependent on one single particular customer. This is again spread across the passenger vehicle segments from all the OEMs in India as well as if you are exporting to Europe as well on various product lines that come into this, particularly in the areas of, as I mentioned earlier, locking systems, latches, door handles, and smart vehicle access.

Raghunandan N.L.
Analyst, Nuvama Research

Noted, sir. Thanks for sharing the kit value details and the 2x jump expected in future. On Flash, Ajay, sir, thanks for highlighting the margin drivers for future and the impact in the quarter. Can you indicate how do you see the growth prospects ahead? Earlier, we were looking at 20% kind of a growth in this business. But given the sharp EV acceptance, do you think growth prospects can be much stronger? Would you look at a 30% growth for full- year?

Ajay Agarwal
Group CFO and President of Finance and Strategy, Minda Corporation Limited

Yeah. See, we have to build capacity as well. There is a strong demand, there is a strong momentum as we see in the industry from an EV perspective. But I think the company is destined to deliver a strong double-digit growth in the range of 20%-24%. That is what we are targeting insofar as Flash is concerned. We are not only happy with the performance insofar as growth is concerned, but we are equally tracking how we maintain a profitable growth business. You would have noticed that margin delivery for Flash this quarter has dipped a little bit, and in my statement, I did mention that it is largely on account of high labor cost as well as inflationary trend of commodity. We are very confident that on a longer-term basis the company should maintain a margin anywhere between 16%-17% on a longer term basis.

Raghunandan N.L.
Analyst, Nuvama Research

Got it, sir. Thank you so much. Very useful. I will fall back to the queue.

Operator

Thank you. Participants, you may press star and one to ask the question. Next question is from the line of Jyoti Singh from Haitong Securities. Please go ahead.

Jyoti Singh
Analyst, Haitong Securities

Thank you, sir, for the opportunity. Sir, two questions from my side. One is on the CapEx. In FY 2026 was the highest ever. What is the for FY 2027 CapEx guidance, and also if you can drive on the detail side allocation to EV specific capacity versus core business. Another on the Turntide motor controller, what kind of SOPs and the Pune die casting plant that is coming, and what is the expected capacity utilization trajectory we are seeing from this business? Third question from earlier participant side that you mentioned very well, that we have seen dip in margin in Flash because of the high commodity cost and labor cost.

Some are clear and you can say peer is going to list in the coming weeks, and they are maintaining EBITDA margin well above because of lower employee costs, and they are keeping on a contract basis. Can we keep this kind of clause and hire employee on a contract basis to help to gain margin?

Aakash Minda
Executive Director, Minda Corporation Limited

So, ma'am, I think we will go one by one. First, starting from the bottom when it comes to Flash Electronics. We understand the business on how the customers and how the suppliers and the entire ecosystem is working. We are doing across our divisions, verticals, plants, taking all the measures for bringing in more variability and bringing in more cost competitiveness, as well as the best efficiencies in our operations, whether you call automation, whether you call localization, or whether you call managing the commodity inflation. These are all time lag effects, which in the next quarter, as we mentioned, we are going to come back when the indexation continues to be aligned with our customers. Second, you asked us about the Turntide. On the Turntide, we have already won businesses, and the SOPs are expected to happen from the month of October and November.

That is already in line. The production is already set up. The facilities are there in place. Now the lines are being all tested. On the capacity utilization across the group, it is depending on die casting or wiring harness, et cetera. We continue to increase capacities while the next few quarters look to be very good, as well as our long term basis. On an average, you can say typically our group is capacities at about 77%-80%, depending on a particular plant or depending on a particular product line. On the CapEx front, I will ask Mr. Ajay to share with you some numbers.

Ajay Agarwal
Group CFO and President of Finance and Strategy, Minda Corporation Limited

Yes. We have given a guidance that during this fiscal year, we intend to spend about INR 400 odd crore in CapEx across various businesses. We have not allocated money specifically towards EV or ICE, but it is fairly spread across our business vertical as well as the divisions.

Jyoti Singh
Analyst, Haitong Securities

Okay. Thank you, sir. Just missing one point here. On the employee cost side, if we see consolidated basis also our employee cost is higher. Just if you can comment on that front.

Ajay Agarwal
Group CFO and President of Finance and Strategy, Minda Corporation Limited

Well, I think, if you look at each and every line item, you would find a very divergent view across each of these parameters. But from a margin delivery point of view, which can actually consolidate your employee cost, your raw material cost, your many other costs leading to EBITDA delivery, I think we are falling in quartile one of our industry. And I think from a margin perspective, we have already given a longer term target to deliver 12.5% margin by 2030. Today, last year, we delivered about 11.7%. This quarter, we are trending at 11.5%, and we are seeing that during the rest of the year, if we can maintain a margin anywhere between 11.5% to 12%, we will be good.

Jyoti Singh
Analyst, Haitong Securities

Okay, great, sir. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Next question is from the line of Vipul Kumar from Nandola Financial Aid Services. Please go ahead.

Vipul Kumar
Investor, Nandola Financial Aid Services

Hi. Congratulations for the great set of numbers, sir. My question was regarding the phase ambitions which company had already discussed in the September on call. The company was targeting 3x revenue by FY 2030, supported by assuming 8% industry growth, premiumization, new product launches and export initiatives. However, based on our calculation, this lever still leave a revenue shortfall of around INR 3,000 crore to INR 3,500 crore by FY 2030. So what is the additional growth lever or initiative do you see to contributing this gap and achieve the revenue target by FY 2030?

Aakash Minda
Executive Director, Minda Corporation Limited

Vipul, I am not sure where your numbers are coming from. However, what we have shared is that we are going to reach our INR 17,500 crore on the five or six pillars, which is on account of the growth of existing businesses in terms of the current volume that the industry is growing. Number two is on the premiumization of the products. Number three is exports. Fourth is new product launches and other opportunities to the tune of about INR 4,600 crore. We are well in line where we are working organically on how we are growing by the tune of about 30%, right? And then continues to be inorganic opportunities that we work on in the industry, as and when the opportunity comes.

We have set ourselves a target, and I think we are very well aligned by the order book, by the new partnerships that we are putting in place, which are coming into start of production, and continue to work for the inorganic opportunities.

Vipul Kumar
Investor, Nandola Financial Aid Services

Okay. Thank you so much.

Operator

Thank you. Next question is from the line of Sahil Jain from Yashiv India Holdings . Please go ahead. Sahil, may I request to unmute your line and proceed with your question?

Sahil Jain
Investor, Yashiv India Holdings

[inaudible]

Operator

Sahil, sorry, your voice is breaking terribly. Can I request you to come in a better reception area? We lost the participant. The next question is from line of Devesh Kayal from Boring AMC. Please go ahead.

Devesh Kayal
Analyst, Boring AMC

Yeah. If you can just share the split of Flash revenue into domestic and exports or international, this 42%, sorry, revenue split, and then how both have grown, domestic and international both.

Ajay Agarwal
Group CFO and President of Finance and Strategy, Minda Corporation Limited

About 10% of the revenue comes from their international business, which is the footprint that they have in Europe. Again, 90% of this is from the manufacturing footprints in India. However, their exports from India is continuing to grow on quarter- on- quarter and year- on- year basis with the businesses that they are booking, particularly in the areas of forging business or mechanics business.

Devesh Kayal
Analyst, Boring AMC

And this exports would be how much? Because, so international would be 10% from the Germany and Hungary plant, and exports would be how much?

Ajay Agarwal
Group CFO and President of Finance and Strategy, Minda Corporation Limited

The exports would be somewhere about 12%-15%.

Devesh Kayal
Analyst, Boring AMC

Understood. Overall, or at a company level, how our exports order book has shaped up?

Ajay Agarwal
Group CFO and President of Finance and Strategy, Minda Corporation Limited

It's about 8%-10%.

Devesh Kayal
Analyst, Boring AMC

8%-10% of total order book?

Ajay Agarwal
Group CFO and President of Finance and Strategy, Minda Corporation Limited

Yes.

Devesh Kayal
Analyst, Boring AMC

Okay. Yeah, that is it from my side.

Ajay Agarwal
Group CFO and President of Finance and Strategy, Minda Corporation Limited

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Next question is from the line of Sanjay from Amazon Capital. Please go ahead.

Speaker 10

Yes, sir. Sir, can you just tell me how much incremental revenue growth you had because of the merger of Minda VAST?

Ajay Agarwal
Group CFO and President of Finance and Strategy, Minda Corporation Limited

About INR 125 crore.

Speaker 10

INR 125 crore?

Ajay Agarwal
Group CFO and President of Finance and Strategy, Minda Corporation Limited

Yes.

Speaker 10

It had a positive impact on top- line, but overall margin went down a bit because of this merger. Is that correct as understanding?

Ajay Agarwal
Group CFO and President of Finance and Strategy, Minda Corporation Limited

Yes. But the other way to look at, in last year's first quarter, it delivered a margin of 6.5%, but in this quarter, it delivered a margin of 8.5%. Therefore, in my opening statement also, I made a mention that improvement in EBITDA is one of our key priorities to see if we can bring Minda VAST performance at par with overall Minda Corporation's performance from EBITDA delivery standpoint.

Speaker 10

Sir, is it possible for you to share the same margin number for Q4 FY 2026 for Minda VAST?

Ajay Agarwal
Group CFO and President of Finance and Strategy, Minda Corporation Limited

Q4, it would also be in the range of same 6.5%-7%.

Speaker 10

Understood. Thank you, sir. If you can just help us lastly, that is the cost inflation related issue more or less kind of handled with your customers and your agreement, et cetera, and going forward, it will be more of operating leverage and all those benefits will trickle down to margin?

Ajay Agarwal
Group CFO and President of Finance and Strategy, Minda Corporation Limited

Yes, like I said, most of our indexed commodity has a back-to-back arrangement with our customer. It could have some bit of lag for a quarter or two, but we do have arrangements with the customer. There will be pressure, but given that these are all exceptional times, we have to support customers will also support us.

Speaker 10

Understood, sir. Thank you so much, sir.

Operator

Thank you. Next question is from the line of Shubham Bhadra from Ambit Asset Management. Please go ahead.

Shubham Bhadra
Analyst, Ambit Asset Management

Hi, sir. Thanks for taking my question, and congratulations on a very strong set of numbers. Largely, I had a couple of questions. Firstly, on the share of profit from associates and JVs that we report. Last quarter, we reported around INR 31 crore, and this quarter we have reported around INR 18 crore. If I adjust for the Flash share in this, roughly last quarter, we booked around INR 7.5 crore of PAT, and this quarter it has fallen down to INR 70 odd lakhs. Could you I believe some element of this would be because of VAST consolidation, but what other reasons would be driving this PAT margin compression?

Ajay Agarwal
Group CFO and President of Finance and Strategy, Minda Corporation Limited

It's largely because of excess depreciation in case of Flash. Last year, in quarter four, Flash's contribution in PAT was about INR 25 crore. In this quarter, the contribution is about INR 18 crore- INR 19 crore.

Shubham Bhadra
Analyst, Ambit Asset Management

That is right. Correct. That is right. I am excluding that. So INR 25 crore and INR 18 crore, if I exclude, then last quarter, share of profit loss from JVs apart from Flash would have been around INR 7.5 crore. And this quarter that has come only INR 70 lakhs. The difference is significant. What is the reason for this?

Ajay Agarwal
Group CFO and President of Finance and Strategy, Minda Corporation Limited

The other difference is Furukawa as well. Last year, in quarter four, Furukawa had contributed INR 5 crore to our PAT line item, whereas in this quarter, it had contributed only INR 80 lakhs. All in all, that is why you would see a dip on overall basis. From INR 31.5 crore it gone down to INR 18 crore.

Shubham Bhadra
Analyst, Ambit Asset Management

And sir, this is a temporary one quarter blip or the Furukawa business should now continue clocking INR 80 lakhs a quarter?

Ajay Agarwal
Group CFO and President of Finance and Strategy, Minda Corporation Limited

In my view, it is temporary. Again, because of commodity, because of labor cost and several other escalations. I think largely we need to see the two important companies, one being Flash, the other being Furukawa. In Furukawa, we hold only 17.5%, whereas the business size is also quite small. Flash, we hold 49%. We believe that Flash will be back on track in the next one or two quarters.

Shubham Bhadra
Analyst, Ambit Asset Management

Got it, sir. Sir, secondly, we were supposed to have SOP of the sunroof business starting in Q2, if I am not wrong. Is that on track?

Aakash Minda
Executive Director, Minda Corporation Limited

Yeah. The product customer trials have already been done. They have been approved in the first go itself. So yes, that is completely on track.

Shubham Bhadra
Analyst, Ambit Asset Management

Got it, sir. Thank you. That is all from my side.

Operator

Thank you. Participants, you may press star and one to ask a question. Next question is from the line of [Neil Mehta from Riachuk Finance]. Please go ahead.

Speaker 12

Hello, sir. Congratulations on a great set of numbers. Last quarter, you had said that for passenger vehicles EV side, Flash had already developed a motor and was in active discussion. What are the updates there and how do you see this specific segment panning out? Can you shed some light on the industry as well?

Aakash Minda
Executive Director, Minda Corporation Limited

Okay, so first of all, on the industry per se, passenger vehicle, we believe there is going to be a coexistence of all powertrains, whether it is ICE, CNG, gasoline, EV, hybrid, et cetera, plug-in hybrid, all those things are going to be having coexistence. Number two is, the EV penetration, as I mentioned, in the passenger vehicle is somewhere about 7%-8%, which is consistently growing quarter- on-q uarter and year- on- year. So that is a great sign for the complete industry at large. However, if I look at the global markets, that comes to a plateau after a certain penetration of the passenger vehicles. But in the India market, that is continuously growing and at least expected to grow until FY 2030 because we are very behind compared to the global benchmark of the penetration.

On the electric vehicle powertrain per se, there are a couple of initiatives that we have done as Flash Electronics. We have already developed our motors across segments, which are magnet-less motors. Some of them are also under testing with customers. As well as now, for the passenger vehicle, we are working with one of the customers in order to explore how we can work together and while the engagements are ongoing for the testing part. There are two, three other partnerships that also we are looking forward to complete our portfolio for the electric vehicle mobility for the passenger vehicle side. So once those happens, we will of course, come back to you.

Speaker 12

Thank you. Also, we have seen your passenger vehicle share in the revenue has increased much faster than the other end markets. So, two, three years down the line, do we see passenger vehicles at par with two- and three-wheelers or the current split will be the par?

Aakash Minda
Executive Director, Minda Corporation Limited

We are working on organically, number one, in order to increase our passenger vehicle penetration into our overall portfolio. The recent order wins that we have done in the past few quarters, as well as currently and ongoing, and the joint ventures that we are doing are all leading up to the higher segment of passenger vehicle. Overall at a group level, the products such as high voltage wiring harnesses, die casting products in the EV four-wheeler side exports, as well as now the Minda VAST, the sunroof, and the power tailgates, the instrument clusters that are already going into the or under development as well for the passenger vehicle side. These are some of the products which are definitely taking shape.

Recently there have been a couple of order books in our electronics, such as shark fin antenna and other areas which are leading up to the increase organically for our passenger vehicle penetration.

Speaker 12

Thank you, sir, and all the best.

Aakash Minda
Executive Director, Minda Corporation Limited

Thank you.

Operator

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Raghunandan N.L.
Analyst, Nuvama Research

Thank you, sir, for the opportunity again. On the switches side, considering the order of INR 1,000 crore, how do you see the ramp-up happening in FY 2027 and 2028? By when can we see annual revenue of INR 150 crore-INR 200 crore? Do you think FY 2028 or FY 2029 we can reach that kind of an execution?

Aakash Minda
Executive Director, Minda Corporation Limited

Raghu, the lifetime order book is higher than INR 1,000 crore, which is a lifetime order book. The SOPs are underway. The SOP is expected to happen in quarter four FY 2026 or quarter one FY 2028. The first year, which is FY 2028, next year, we expect it to reach somewhere again about INR 150 crore. At the peak of the current orders that we have should be in the next year, which is FY 2029. These are again all the orders that we have currently with our anchor customer. We are then going to start working towards further expansion into various other customers and other initiatives that we are looking at in place.

Raghunandan N.L.
Analyst, Nuvama Research

Noted, sir. In terms of cross-selling to Flash, can there be INR 50 crore-INR 70 crore of revenue from Minda cross-selling to Flash this year? If you can also talk about how the ramp-up can happen over the next few years.

Aakash Minda
Executive Director, Minda Corporation Limited

Yes, the ramping- up is happening. Of course, as you know that these are technical products, so they need approval from the end customer. There are, again, two, three major product lines. One is, again, castings, which has already started, in fact, from this month. Number two are, again, the wiring harnesses, which are undergoing some of the testings. Then, of course, there are other synergies, particularly from the system solutions offering to our customers. While there are some of the confidential projects that are ongoing, there is a lot of engagement with the customers jointly, that both the companies are coming forward and under development.

Raghunandan N.L.
Analyst, Nuvama Research

Noted, sir. Continuing on Flash, the revenue growth year-over-year for EV is at 90%, as you indicated in the opening remarks, and this is much higher than the growth seen in the underlying industry. Can you talk about whether the content has increased or whether new customers have been added? Which product on the traction motor side, has there been any new addition which has led to this kind of a growth?

Aakash Minda
Executive Director, Minda Corporation Limited

Yes. It's primarily because of the new products that have been launched. Number two is the other segments that have been entered into. Outside of two-wheelers now it's three-wheelers, as well as now moving into the other segments. Of course, the kit value is continuously increasing by way of consolidation of the more products like you see, two-in-one, three-in-one, et cetera. These are some of the factors and the reasons why Flash is increasing, and further penetration into the existing customers.

Raghunandan N.L.
Analyst, Nuvama Research

Very helpful, sir. Thank you so much.

Operator

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Aakash Minda
Executive Director, Minda Corporation Limited

Thank you very much, and I would like to really thank Anand Rathi for organizing this call, and thank everyone for joining today. We remain highly confident of our growth trajectory industry at large, both in near term and long term, driven by strategic investments and unwavering commitments to advancing our products and technologies. We are committed to creating value for our shareholders and stakeholders, and we are totally in line to achieving our Vision 2030 by way of localization, backward integration, and investment into technology and into our customers. We are investing deeply in our capabilities, capacities, and competencies across divisions and across platforms. I hope we have been able to respond to most of the queries today. For further information, we request you to please get in touch with our IR team. Thank you, and have a great day.

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