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Consumer stocks · Large cap · NSE
Aditya Birla Lifestyle Brands Limited (ABLBL) operates in the lifestyle and fashion segment, managing a portfolio of brands across various channels including retail, wholesale, and e-commerce, with a focus on both established lifestyle brands and emerging businesses.
full bear SMA stack · SMA20 -11.1% / mo · RSI oversold · MACD + · near 52W low · sector -4.6pp vs Nifty 500 (3M)
Latest mapped FPI equity flow was not positive. View sector evidence
Adjusted completed-session prices, rebased to 100
Weak fundamentals, management evidence is still limited to a financial-only Trust Lite signal, price trend argues for patience, and recent execution is consistent.
Fundamental lens: valuation, quality, growth, balance sheet, and cash flow.
Revenue +11.1% · PAT +20.8% YoY
Price trend and sector-relative-strength timing.
Legacy margin-of-safety estimate; the revised evidence label remains in shadow validation.
Financial-only signal; management claim evidence is not sufficient yet.
Fundamentals, quarterly history, margins, returns and balance-sheet evidence
Rev +11% YoY · PAT +21% YoY · margin expansion · operating leverage
| Metric | This quarter | YoY | QoQ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | ₹2,046 Cr | +11.1% | -5.9% |
| EBITDA | ₹308 Cr | +17.1% | -12.5% |
| Operating margin | 15.0% | +100 bps | -100 bps |
| PAT | ₹29 Cr | +20.8% | -47.3% |
| PAT margin | 1.4% | +12 bps | -111 bps |
NDF means not disclosed in the current structured filing feed. It is intentionally not treated as zero.
Updated 21/10/2026
Trend interpretation, Stage 2, relative strength, volume and indicator evidence
Signals are conflicting — long-term trend down. RSI 27. Wait for confirmation.
Mechanical read from the price + indicator series above. Not a recommendation — technical setups can reverse without warning, especially around earnings and macro events.
U-Score 41 · legacy U-Score band WATCHLIST · valuation evidence and comparable companies
Top U-Score contributors and drags from the latest stored fundamentals.
Consumer franchises can deserve higher multiples, but only when growth quality supports them.
This shows the stored score trend when snapshots exist, and also compares the latest stored nightly score with a live recompute from current fundamentals and price.
12 stored score snapshots. Latest stored move: +0 points.
Business-comparable peers in Consumer — ranked by industry, sub-sector, theme-tag overlap, market cap, and U-Score similarity. Green cells mark the best available peer metric in this table.
Growth engines, risks, management commitments and evidence-backed delivery
ABLBL reported strong Q4 FY26 results with 12% revenue growth and 14% EBITDA growth, driven by double-digit performance in both Lifestyle Brands and Emerging Business segments, alongside significant normalized PAT growth of 58%.
The company demonstrated robust performance in Q4 and FY26, with consistent double-digit revenue and EBITDA growth, strong retail LTL, and significant profitability improvements across segments. Strategic expansion and channel momentum support the underlying thesis.
Latest issuer-disclosed distribution across 4 reported categories.
Revenue up by 12% led by strong multi-channel performance across brands.
Emerging business overall revenue up 18% YoY led by strong retail performance.
Double digit YoY growth across e-com & departmental store business.
Ongoing celebrity and sports led associations reinforcing brand relevance; larger store facades building dominant & impressive brand presence.
Net addition of 33 stores in Q4; 300+ gross store additions in FY26.
Accelerated network expansion with 230+ gross store additions in FY26.
50+ gross additions in FY26, now available at 210+ stores.
Added ~1500 counters in FY26, present across ~38000 trade outlets and 100+ exclusive stores.
Growing preference for comfort-led, multi-occasion wear and increasing influence of tech in formal wear.
Accelerated adoption of Tech and AI, integrating intelligence across operations and value chain, with hyperlocal fulfilment as a key focus.
Geopolitical factors at play causing some disruptions towards the end of Q4.
No wedding dates in Jan, with Feb–Mar dates more clustered vs last year, impacting sales.
Issuer guidance and extracted claims are tracked against later reported outcomes. Treat these as management statements, not IndiaPulse forecasts.
The investor presentation consistently compares Q4 FY26 to Q4 FY25 and FY26 to FY25, highlighting year-over-year growth rates for all key financial and operational metrics.
ABLBL sales for Q4 up 12% vs LY; FY26 overall sales up 7% vs LY.
EBITDA grew 14% vs LY in Q4; FY26 EBITDA grew 13% vs LY.
Overall ABLBL margin at 17.2% in Q4; FY26 margin at 17.0%, up 80 bps YoY.
PAT normalized up 58% vs LY in Q4; FY26 PAT normalized up 61% vs LY.
Management has 'kick started aggressive expansion engine for medium term'.
Seamless demerger and GST transition with limited operational impact.
VH Innerwear is 'on path to breakeven'.
Hyperlocal fulfilment is a key focus for integrating intelligence across operations.
| Checkpoint | Current evidence | What to verify next |
|---|---|---|
| Retail LTL Growth | 6% (Q4 FY26) | Sustained double-digit LTL growth across segments, especially in small towns and emerging businesses. |
| EBITDA Margin | 17.2% (Q4 FY26) | Continued margin expansion, particularly in the Emerging Business segment. |
| Store Additions | 33 net stores (Q4 FY26), 300+ gross stores (FY26) | Pace of network expansion and utilization of new stores. |
| Emerging Business Profitability | 4.2% EBITDA margin (Q4 FY26) | Path to breakeven for VH Innerwear and overall profitability trajectory of emerging brands. |
Verification checkpoints are IndiaPulse research interpretation, not investment advice.
Trust asks: does management behaviour match later outcomes? Higher is better, but confidence and evidence depth matter as much as the number.
Limited evidence: Claim history is still being built. It ranks around the 59th percentile of the scored universe and 63rd percentile within Consumer. Main check: balance sheet trust is weak at 40/100.
This is a financial-behaviour screen, not a claim-tested management reliability verdict.
Financial behaviour is scored, but management claims do not yet have enough outcome checks.
overall median 67 · Consumer: 63rd pctile, median 66 · Large: 35th pctile, median 73
21 documents have extracted text, but claim history is not strong enough yet.
0 claims extracted · No contradicted claim yet
Read Trust alongside U-Score, result consistency, and technical trend. A cheap stock with weak Trust needs a larger margin of safety; a high Trust score does not make an expensive stock attractive by itself.
Read low sub-scores as due-diligence warnings, not automatic sell signals.
Trust Lite uses financial behaviour only. Prefer claim-tested Trust when enough concall claims have later outcomes.
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