FACT shares slump 10% as Q4 net profit slides 27%

Fertilizer and Chemical Travancore’s weak bottomline was on account of a 26.2 percent year-on-year fall in Q4 revenue

Shares of Fertilizers and Chemicals Travancore (FACT) nosedived 10 percent on May 5 after the company reported a 26.9 percent on-year decline in net profit for the fourth quarter of FY23 at Rs 165.60 crore.

The weak bottomline was on account of a 26.2 percent year-on-year (YoY) fall in revenue, which came in at Rs 1,248 crore, down from Rs 1,692.50 crore in the year-ago period, the company said in an exchange filing on May 5.

EBIDTA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation) also declined 37.9 percent YoY to Rs 184.1 crore from Rs 296.6 crore in the same quarter last year. Operating margin also contracted to 14.7 percent in January-March period as against 17.5 percent in the year-ago quarter.

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