Tata Motors Q2 Results: Net profit declines over 11%, revenue slips 3.5%

Tata Motors- the country's leading auto major released its September quarter earnings on Friday (November 8). For the review quarter, the company's profit before tax came in at Rs 5,768 crore, while the net profit for the quarter is recorded at Rs 3,343 crore.

Zee Business analysts estimated PAT to log a healthy growth of 32 per cent and come in at Rs 4,950 crore in comparison to Rs 3,764 crore reported in the same quarter last year. 

Revenue during the quarter slipped 3.5 per cent on-year to Rs 1,01,450 crore. The same in the year-ago period was at Rs 1,05,129 crore. Analysts, however, anticapted a marginal increase of 0.9 per cent in revenue to Rs 1,06,039 crore.

On the operational front, EBITDA has been reported at Rs 11,600 crore. Zee Business estimated adjusted EBITDA to come in at Rs 14,712 crore.

EBITDA margin also took a sharp hit year-on-year and declined 230 basis point to 11.4 per cent.

The company's Jaguar Land Rover business also reported a degrowth in revenue by 5.6 per cent to £6.5 bollion. As highlighted last quarter, JLR performance was impacted by temporary supply constraints which resulted in EBIT margins of 5.1 per cent (down 220bps), added the company's release.

CV pr commercial vehicle revenues were down by 13.9 per cent but EBITDA margins improved to 10.8 per cent, up 40 bps on-year on favourable pricing and material cost savings despite adverse volumes.

PV revenues were down by 3.9 per cent but EBITDA margins were steady at 6.2 per cent (down 30 bps) through mix improvements and cost reduction actions

Ahead of the company's earnings today, shares ended nearly 2 per cent lower at Rs 805.7 per share on the BSE.