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Kirloskar Oil Engines manufactures engines, gensets, and power systems for B2B (Power & Energy, Industrial, Aftermarket) and B2C (Fluid Dynamics - pump sets). It also operates a Financial Services segment through its Arka Group subsidiary.
SMA20 +2.0% / mo · MACD −
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Weak fundamentals, management evidence is still limited to a financial-only Trust Lite signal, price trend is neutral, and recent execution is consistent.
Fundamental lens: valuation, quality, growth, balance sheet, and cash flow.
Revenue +13.5% · PAT -20.1% 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
PAT -20% YoY · margin compression · Rev +14% YoY
| Metric | This quarter | YoY | QoQ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | ₹2,000 Cr | +13.5% | -5.5% |
| EBITDA | ₹300 Cr | -8.3% | -20.2% |
| Operating margin | 15.0% | -400 bps | -300 bps |
| PAT | ₹111 Cr | -20.1% | -28.4% |
| PAT margin | 5.5% | -234 bps | -178 bps |
NDF means not disclosed in the current structured filing feed. It is intentionally not treated as zero.
Updated 19/10/2026
Trend interpretation, Stage 2, relative strength, volume and indicator evidence
Signals are conflicting — long-term uptrend intact. RSI 36. 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 38 · legacy U-Score band WATCHLIST · valuation evidence and comparable companies
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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.
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Kirloskar Oil Engines reported 13% YoY consolidated revenue growth in Q1 FY27, driven by B2B. However, consolidated PAT declined 17% YoY and 28% QoQ, with significant margin contraction across B2B, B2C, and Financial Services segments, raising profitability concerns.
Despite healthy domestic B2B revenue growth, the sharp decline in consolidated PAT and margins YoY and QoQ is concerning. Profitability erosion across all segments, coupled with increased inventory and payables days, suggests operational inefficiencies or pricing pressures. The slowdown in international markets adds further pressure.
Latest issuer-disclosed distribution across 3 reported categories.
Continued market share gains across domestic Powergen.
Double digit growth across all the business segments in domestic market.
Strong domestic expansion with key channel appointments in new markets.
Drive to grow Secured granular retail business continues.
Broad based domestic demand across the market segments.
Slow down in international markets due to geopolitical uncertainties in the middle east region.
Export market experienced slow down due to geopolitical pressures (B2C).
Consolidated PAT declined 17% YoY and 28% QoQ, with margins contracting across all segments.
Standalone inventory days increased to 64 from 44, and payables days to 81 from 60 YoY.
Geopolitical uncertainties in the Middle East region impacting international sales.
AFHPL Consolidated PAT for Q1FY27 stood at ₹6.9 Cr, down from ₹10.1 Cr YoY.
Issuer guidance and extracted claims are tracked against later reported outcomes. Treat these as management statements, not IndiaPulse forecasts.
YoY comparison is essential for understanding the underlying growth trends and seasonal impacts in industrial and B2C businesses. QoQ analysis provides insight into sequential momentum, margin pressures, and execution efficiency.
13% YoY growth in Q1 FY27.
5.6% in Q1 FY27 vs 7.6% in Q1 FY26.
₹114.6 Cr in Q1 FY27, down 18% YoY and 25% QoQ.
64 days in Q1 FY27 vs 44 days in Q1 FY26.
Business continues to focus on reach and expansion with key channel appointments in the new markets.
Drive to grow Secured granular retail business continues.
| Checkpoint | Current evidence | What to verify next |
|---|---|---|
| Consolidated PAT Margin | 5.6% in Q1 FY27. | Watch for stabilization and improvement in profitability margins. |
| B2B Segment Profitability | Segment results for B2B declined 18% YoY and 25% QoQ. | Watch for recovery in B2B segment results and margin. |
| Financial Services PAT | ₹6.9 Cr in Q1 FY27, down 31% YoY. | Watch for improvement in Financial Services PAT and AUM growth. |
| Working Capital Cycle | Standalone inventory days at 64, payables days at 81. | Watch for improvement in inventory and payables days. |
Verification checkpoints are IndiaPulse research interpretation, not investment advice.
Planned rollout of products in Q3 FY '26 is expected to further enhance the company's competitive position across the domestic power generation business.
"planned rollout of our products in Q3 FY '26, which we expect will further enhance our competitive position"
The company is working towards strengthening the performance of the Fluid Dynamics business in coming quarters.
"work towards strengthening our performance in coming quarters"
Initiatives such as new product introductions and B2C restructuring are expected to position the company for steady and sustainable growth over the long term.
"These initiatives are expected to position the company for steady and sustainable growth over the long term."
Outcome check: Revenue YoY averaged 24.9% across 2 later quarter(s).
Trust asks: does management behaviour match later outcomes? Higher is better, but confidence and evidence depth matter as much as the number.
Limited evidence: Management has 0% delivered/partly-delivered outcomes on 1 checked claims, with 1 adverse claim outcome. It ranks around the 75th percentile of the scored universe and 73rd percentile within Industrials. No major sub-score weakness stands out.
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 · Industrials: 73rd pctile, median 68 · Large: 55th pctile, median 73
80 documents have extracted text, but claim history is not strong enough yet.
1/3 claims checked · 1 contradicted/failed claim
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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