Cyient DLM Limited (CYIENTDLM) Earnings Call Transcript & Summary

July 21, 2026

NSEI IN Information Technology Electronic Equipment, Instruments and Components earnings 65 min

Earnings Call Speaker Segments

Operator

operator
#1

Ladies and gentlemen, good day, and welcome to the Cyient DLM Limited Q1 FY '27 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]. Please note that this conference is being recorded. I now hand the conference over to Mr. Krishna Bodanapu, Non-Executive Chairman, Cyient DLM Limited. Thank you, and over to you, sir.

Ganesh Venkat Bodanapu

executive
#2

Thank you, Tarun. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Krishna Bodanapu, Non-Executive Chairman of Cyient DLM Limited. I welcome you to our Q1 FY '27 earnings call -- joining me today are our Managing Director and CEO, Mr. Rajendra Velagapudi; and our CFO, Mr. R. Subramanian. Before we begin, I would like to remind you that certain statements made during this call may be forward-looking in nature and subject to risks and uncertainties. A detailed disclaimer is available in the Investor website section posted on our website. The Q1 FY '27 performance reinforces the message that I shared in our previous earnings call that the underlying strength of our business remains strong, and the investments we've made over the last few years are translating into tangible results. The quarter was marked by continued geopolitical uncertainties evolving demand patterns and disruptions across global supply chains, including the ongoing developments in the Middle East that added further complexity to the operating environment. Despite these challenges, Cyient DLM remained firmly focused on execution, customer commitment and long-term value creation. I'm particularly proud of how our teams responded with proactive planning, strategic inventory buildup of critical components, alternative sourcing initiatives and close collaboration with our customers and suppliers. These actions enabled us to maintain uninterrupted execution and consistently meet our delivery commitments, further strengthening customer trust and confidence in Cyient DLM. Our strong performance during this quarter is a testament to the resilience of our business model, the depth of our customer relationships and most importantly, the dedication and commitment of our people who committed to deliver exceptional excellence in a challenging global environment. One of the most encouraging aspects of our performance has been the continued momentum in order book. We closed the quarter with the highest ever order book in the company's history providing strong revenue visibility and reaffirming customer confidence in our capabilities. Order inflow remained extremely strong during the quarter, resulting in a robust book-to-bill ratio of 1.5x. This underscores the sustained strength of demand across our target markets and reflects the success of our continued investments in customer engagement, engineering excellence and operational capabilities. Equally encouraging is the return of growth across our key business sectors, aerospace, defense and industrial, all of which delivered healthy performance and continue to present attractive long-term opportunities. The increasing diversification of our revenue mix across these sectors enhances the resilience of our business and strengthen the foundation for sustainable growth. We have also made significant progress since strengthening our commercial organization. Leadership -- key leadership hiring has now been mostly completed including the addition of Rama Alapati as the Chief Strategy and Growth Officer. This enhances our go-to-market capabilities and positions us to deepen customer engagement, expand into new opportunities and accelerate on our ambitions for growth. While growth remains at 3 priority, profitable growth continues to be our primary objective. I am pleased that we now have sustained double-digit EBITDA margins for 4 consecutive quarters. This consistency reflects our focus on operational excellence, improving revenue quality, disciplined cost management and increasing value-added engagements with customers. Looking ahead, we remain excited about the opportunities emerging across our target markets, rising electronic content, supply chain diversification initiatives increasing investments across our focus sectors and the broader outsourcing trend continue to create a favorable demand environment. With our differentiated design-led manufacturing model, strong customer relationships and growing execution capabilities, we believe Cyient DLM is well positioned to capitalize on these opportunities. Most importantly, we have entered FY '27 with strong momentum. The first quarter delivered healthy performance across revenue growth, profitability and order intake, supported by a record order book, a strengthened leadership team and a robust business pipeline, we are confident in our ability to continue creating long-term value for our customers, employees and shareholders. I would like to thank our continued -- I would like to thank our customers for their continued trust, our employees for their unwavering commitment and our shareholders for your ongoing support and confidence in our vision. We remain optimistic about the opportunities before us. The foundations we have built, the capabilities we have strengthened and the momentum with which we ended FY '27 gives us confidence that Cyient DLM is well positioned for its next phase of profitable and sustainable growth. Before I hand over to Rajendra, on behalf of the Board, I want to thank him for beautifully turning around the business. to a situation where we can now be confident in sustained growth for the future. We have an order book, we have the people and we have the customers that will support this accelerated growth. With that, I will now like to hand over the call to Rajendra, who will take you through the business and the operational highlights in more detail.

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#3

Thank you, Krishna. So good evening, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. I will take you the next few minutes to walk you through the Q1 FY '27 business updates for Cyient DLM. I'll keep the discussion simple and clear and I will focus on 3 messages. First, the EMS market continues to offer a large and structurally attractive growth opportunity. Second, Cyient DLM has a clearly favored strategy across strengthen, expand and transform. And third, we are seeing tangible business highlights resulting in growth of the business. So with that framing, let me start with the industry outlook, then move to our strategic initiatives and finally cover the key business highlights before closing. If you look at the electronics manufacturing, the services market is in a genuinely attractive phase and importantly, the opportunity ahead of us is expanding rather than maturing. Today, the global EMS market sits at roughly $625 million to $650 billion. But the potential we are planning against is close to $1.1 trillion by 2033. So we are not building for the market as it exists. We are building for a market that nearly doubles for the coming decade. The blended CAGR across the market is around 6% plus and it is meaningfully higher in high reliability segments where we choose to play. That distinction matters for us. We are deliberately not changing commodity, high-volume, low-margin work. We are positioning where complexity, reliability and engineering content command a premium. Let me highlight the structural -- the trends driving this. First, the electronics content for product is rising across the board more compute, more sensing, more connectivity in virtually every device. The second driver is the growth in AI and infrastructure. is creating new demand for compute infrastructure, data center systems, power electronics, advanced hardware, networking and related supply chain ecosystems. While this market will evolve over time, it is clear that AI infrastructure will increase the need for sophisticated electronic manufacturing capabilities. We are, therefore, treating this as an important area to understand, evaluate and selectively participate in where we can build a differentiated right to win. The third -- the supply chains are rationalizing. The China plus one shift is redistributing manufacturing globally, and that footprint realignment plays directly to supply chain resilience, which our customers now treat as a strategic priority, not an after part. And the last one on the semiconductor side, the chiplets 2.5 and 3D packaging and high-bandwidth memory are all raising the complexity of back-end equipment, test and assembly, exactly the kind of high mix, high reliability work we were big for. Our core segments remain aerospace and defense, industrial, and our focus is also on the semiconductor capital equipment, medical and automotive, with a sharp focus on power electronics. But beyond the court, we see 2 clear new lanes opening, the lane 1 is robotics, which needs high reliability subsystems, control electronics and test assemblies. Lane 2 is infrastructure and data centers, where AI is generating electronics heavy, high complexity hardware that has been newly well suited to specialized EMS players like us. So the takeaway from this slide is the core business is attractive and durable and adjacencies give us room to grow into. So this naturally leads into how we intend to capture this our long-term strategic road map. As we mentioned in the past, we coined it as SET, Strengthen, Expand and Transform. The first phase strengthen is where we are today. This is the foundation we bank on. We operate across 4 industries, aerospace and defense, medical, industrial and automotive, which focus on -- this is our proven core stack, and it runs at margins of roughly 9% to 11%. This is the base reliable, established and the platform, everything else is built on. The second phase Expand our FY 27 to FY '29. The strategy here is elegantly simple, same stack with the 2 new sectors. We take the capabilities we have already proven and extend them into 2 new industries, robotics and AI data center, taking us from 4 industries to because we are leveraging the same core stack into higher-value sectors. Margins step up roughly to 11% to 13%. We are not reinventing our capabilities. We are pointing them at more attractive end markets. The third phase Transform is FY '30 and beyond. This is where we build a product and platform more. We stay across our 6 industries but layering expanded BTS products and new platforms. This is a shift from being a service provider to warning product and intellectual property, and that's what yields margins to roughly 13% to 18%. So the true line of this slide is a deliberate progression widen the industries we serve and steadily elevate the value we deliver, moving up the margin curve at East stage. Now let me bring this down to what we actually delivered this quarter because strategy only matters if it shows up in execution. So the headline is, I think as Krishna said, our order book. We recorded our highest ever order book at INR 2,598 crores. That is a strong signal of demand and confidence from our customers. Order intake for the period stood at INR 551.9 crores with a healthy book-to-bill ratio of 1.5. And importantly, that was driven by both existing customers, deepening their engagement and the new customers coming on board. On customer diversification, we added 2 new logos during the quarter across the industrial and automotive segments. That matters because it broadens our base and reduces concentration, which is exactly the direction our strategy calls for. On capability and capacity, we completed the expansion of our build to specifications to lap from 6,000 square feet to 15,000 square feet, more than doubling that footprint and giving us headroom for the product platform development that underpins the transform phase mentioned earlier as part of our strategy. And we are seeing continued momentum in our BTS product platforms with a strong order pipeline from our key customers. On quality and certifications, we completed the Nat cap audit for cable harness assembly for our Mysore unit. Nat Cap is a demanding aerospace grade certification, and it reinforces our credibility in the high reliability work that sits at the heart of our positioning. So taken together, to summarize altogether, the EMS market opportunity is large and expanding, and we are deliberately positioned in its high reliability, high value segments. We have a clear strategic strategy to widen our industry coverage and step up our margins over time. And this quarter results, record order book healthy book-to-bill new logos and expanded our lab capacity. This was a quarter of solid tangible progress against the road map I just described. So as you have seen, we have started the FY '27 with a strong momentum, driven by disciplined execution and healthy demand across our key segments. The strong order intake demonstrates our readiness for future growth. As we move forward, we will continue to expand our focus on new industry segments such as AI infrastructure, data center technologies, robotics, which require high reliability electronics manufacturing, and we'll continue to strengthen our position in build to specifications in highly complex and regulated industries such as aerospace and defense and health care. So thank you again for your time and for your continued confidence in Cyient DLM. With that, I will hand it over to RMS, our CFO.

R. Subramanian

executive
#4

Thank you, Rajendra for the business overview. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I'll now take you through the financial performance for Q1 of FY '27. We are pleased to report a strong start to the year with the DLM Group delivering its strongest first quarter performance to date. Revenue for the quarter stood at INR 3,738 million, reflecting a robust 34.3% year-on-year growth. This growth was supported by healthy order book, improved execution, execution momentum and continued demand across our business segments. On profitability, EBITDA increased to INR 392 million, registering a strong 6.2% year-on-year growth. Importantly, our EBITDA margin improved to 10.5% representing an expansion of 147 basis points year-on-year. This margin improvement reflects the benefits of operating leverage, better revenue mix and disciplined cost management. Profit after tax for the quarter was INR 163 million, which is more than double compared to the corresponding period last year with 118.2% year-on-year growth. Consequently, the PAT margin improved to 4.4%, expanding by 168 basis points year-on-year. The strong PAT performance was driven by revenue growth, margin expansion and a healthier business mix. Our order backlog also remained strong at INR 25,989 million, increasing by INR 1,832 million quarter-on-quarter. This represents the highest order book level achieved so far and provides a good visibility for revenue execution in coming quarters. Overall, Q1 FY '27 reflects a strong operating and financial performance backed by healthy order intake, first time revenue growth, margin expansion and a record order book. We believe this position us well for continued growth throughout the year. Moving to the KPI trends. We would like to share quarter-wise of our revenue, normalized EBITDA, normalized EBITDA margin and normalized PAT performance. Starting with revenue. We delivered INR 3,738 million in Q1 FY '21 compared to INR 2,784 million in Q1 FY '26, reflecting a strong year-on-year growth trajectory Revenue also remained ahead of the previous quarter with Q1 FY '27 continuing the growth momentum seen in Q4 FY '26. On normalized EBITDA, we reported INR 392 million in Q1 FY '27 compared to INR 251 million in Q1 FY '20, while EBITDA was lower sequentially compared to INR 431 million in Q4 FY '20. -- it remains significantly higher on a year-on-year basis, reflecting a strong operating performance. Our normalized EBITDA margin stood at 10.3% in Q1 FY '27, improving by 147 basis points year-on-year from 9% in Q1 FY '26. Importantly, we now have consistently delivered double-digit EBITDA margins for 4 consecutive quarters, which reflects the continued strength in our margin profile. On profitability, normalized PAT stood at in INR 163 million in Q1 FY '27 compared to INR 75 million in Q1 FY '26, meaning PAT has more than doubled year-on-year. This improvement is aligned with the strong revenue growth and improved margin performance during the quarter. Overall, Q1 FY '21 started on a strong note with healthy revenue growth, sustained double-digit EBITDA margins and a significant year-on-year improvement in fact. Let me now take you through the key operating and working capital metrics. Starting with our order book, we continue to see strong momentum in business intake. Our order book increased steadily from INR 21.3 billion in Q1 FY '26 to INR 26 billion in Q1 FY '27, rating the highest level in company's history. This provides strong visibility for future revenue growth and reinforces the confidence of our customers in Cyient DLM capabilities. On inventory, our days of inventory outstanding stood at 164 days in Q1 FY '27 compared to 153 days in Q4 FY '26. While inventory level increased sequentially, they remain significantly lower than the levels seen during the much of FY '26 and are aligned with our business growth and aggregation requirements. Base of payable outstanding reduced over last 3 quarters and stood at 63 days in Q1 FY '27. This reflects normalization of supplier payment cycles and continued strengthening of our supply relationships. Days of sales outstanding remained broadly stable at 77 days in Q1 FY '27 compared to 74 days in Q4 FY '26, demonstrating, continued discipline in collections despite higher business volumes. Customer advances stood at 15 days in Q1 FY '27 compared to 18 days in Q4 FY '26. While advances moderate during the quarter, they continue to support our working capital profile. As a result, net working capital base stood at 161 days in Q1 FY '27 compared to 145 days in Q4 FY '26. This increase was primarily driven by the movement in inventory and customer advances as we continue to support a growing order book and the future execution requirements. Overall, while working capital remained elevated during the quarter, the business continued to maintain a strong order backlog and a healthy growth trajectory, positioning us well for the future revenue conversion. Let me now take you through the revenue mix of Q1 FY '27 across the industry segments, product categories in [indiscernible]. From an industry perspective, aerospace and industrial continued to be the largest contributors to revenue. Aerospace accounted for 42% of Q1 FY '27 revenue, while our industrial contributed 32%. Together, these 2 segments from the majority of our business mix during the quarter. Aerospace and Industrial also delivered strong year-on-year growth of 40% and 90%, respectively. The different segment contributed 9% of revenue and recorded 33% year-on-year growth. MedTech accounted for 16% of revenue with growth remaining broadly flat year-on-year. Auto and others contributed the ban is 1% of the revenue mix. Moving to the product that are mix. BBA continued to demine the largest contributor accounting about 48% of Q1 FY '20 revenue. the PCA business maintained a high share and delivered 21% year-on-year growth. Boswell was the second largest product category, contributing 21% of revenue, but delivered strong year-on-year growth of Mechanical and others contributed 10%, while cables accounted for 1%. The other categories also improved B2S. From a geographical mix perspective, rest of the world continues to account for the major share of business 94%, while India contributed 6%. The higher world share was driven by all of our focus segments in aerospace, medical and defense and industrial customers outside India. Overall, the Q1 FY '17 revenue profile reflects healthy next across key industrial segments, continued strength in PCB and Brockton and a strong international revenue contribution, led by demand from aerospace medical industrial customers. Q1 was a strong quarter from both growth and a profitability standpoint. As I explained in key highlights on earlier, our revenue increased by 34.3% year-on-year to INR 3,738 million. EBITDA grew faster than revenue at 56.2%, reaching INR 392 million, while EBITDA margin improved by 147 basis points to 10.5%. Employee costs increased in line with the business expansion and capability building, while other expenses remained aligned with revenue growth. Material costs were higher due to the business mix and procurement related to [ BTS ]. Importantly, finance costs reduced by 29% year-on-year, owing to lower working capital borrowings. Profit, we saw tax more than doubled through INR 22nd PAT increased to INR 163 million, representing a growth of 18% year-on-year. PAT margin improved to 4.4%, up 168 basis points from the previous year. Overall, the quarter reflects a strong operating performance, improved efficiency and healthy growth, healthy earnings growth. Q1 FY '27 has been an excellent start to the year with a record first quarter performance across revenue, profitability and revenue grew 34%, EBITDA grew 56% and at more than 1 year-on-year. Our record INR 26 billion order book provides strong visibility and reinforces confidence in our growth outlook. We as a company remain focused on execution, margin improvement and converting the strong demand pipeline into sustainable shareholder value. Thank you, and we look forward for the questions.

Operator

operator
#5

[Operator Instructions]. Our first question comes from the line of Gaurav Shukla with Synvestors.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#6

Congratulations on good set of numbers. But I want to understand the FS is a price -- and the last con call, you said that approval which you are not can do.

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#7

So we're not able to hear the speaker very well. Could you repeat the question.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#8

Sir, I want to understand the effect of which the prices are going on and in last con call, you said that rate approvals in some business are not done. Are they happen or until now pending?

R. Subramanian

executive
#9

Stage effect of [indiscernible] and 2 is we last time said that from Israel, we still had some orders, et cetera, pending, and we are seeing delays. How is that it changing.

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#10

Okay. Gaurav this is Rajendra here. So on the West as credit, yes, I think still it is there going on. But -- as earlier, I think the Cristal pointed in terms of our planned execution and ensuring that we will be keeping some of the inventory for a long run. I think those are the things really help us to welcome the current challenges what we have in the West Asia basis. What we are seeing, even now today is there is -- there are some delays in the logistics in terms of shipments. And we are also seeing some of the costs going up due to these state crisis at this point of time. But as we are already well planned in terms of our execution. So we have not seen any of those challenges in Q1. And we also just put a plan together to ensure that those things won't impact much in Q2. And to other point about the earlier the Israeli things which we are seeing that we are seeing the momentum in terms of the order intake. That's what we had a good order intake we had from the deli customers. And we see the continued momentum in Q2 and beyond also going forward.

Operator

operator
#11

Our next question comes from the line of Vipraw Srivastava with Phillip Capital.

Vipraw Srivastava

analyst
#12

Great set of results. Just quickly on the new entry into the data center side, AI side, -- just want to tell deeper there, any discussion with the hyperscale, which is happening currently or at a very early stage and in coming quarters, you'll give us more information. Any thoughts on the AI data center entity for the company?

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#13

Yes. So I think we just started this at and we have our sales directors on board in this quarter. I think we'll be probably giving some updates in the next 1 or 2 quarters about where we are focusing and where are we today in terms of our momentum in the data centers.

Vipraw Srivastava

analyst
#14

Okay. That makes sense, sir. And sir, secondly, given the West Asia prices, which has been hampering our growth at least last year, -- does it have any problem now or it's fully resolved? What are your thoughts on that?

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#15

I mean, as I said just before to have question from Gaurav, I think just West Crisis is still there. has not gone. But the planning have done to ensure that we'll be getting some of the inventories holding that wherever we have some challenges for some of the materials. I think that planning has really helped us for the outcome. And similarly, I think in the Q2 also, we have planned that, so we don't see much of that at this point of time.

Vipraw Srivastava

analyst
#16

Right. And the last question from my end. The company is also entering into the semicon side where you mentioned that testing and assembly the last end is also in high demand because of the play. So any thoughts on that? What kind of product profile you're looking to enter on the semicon side? And what kind of time line can we expect in terms of finally that coming in the P&L?

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#17

So I think what -- I think we have already -- I think probably some time back, we just mentioned that we are working with the semiconductor capital equipment from other customers. we are continuing -- so we are seeing some of the robust growth plans in that area. So we'll be continuing working towards that and where we are building some of the products for the -- for our customers in the semiconductor capital equipment. Okay. So that's what basically I mentioned in my earlier one.

Vipraw Srivastava

analyst
#18

Just a follow-up, sir. Any thoughts on time line, I mean, when can it materially impact the P&L next year, next to next year on thoughts on that?

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#19

I think we will be seeing some of the growth coming in, in that area. So over the next 6 to 12 months, we'll be seeing more of the revenue growth, which probably in turn will also give us some leverage in terms of the markets.

Operator

operator
#20

Our next question comes from the line of Deepak Krishnan with Kotak Institutional Equities.

Deepak Krishnan

analyst
#21

Sir, maybe I just wanted to delve a bit on similar question. So we have this expanded target wanted to just pick up brains in terms of how do you see the overall growth CAGR for the company in this time frame, 26% to 29%. And how much of the contribution would be from AI data centers or what takes in, say, '29 in terms of revenue? And where are we in terms of client approvals and how long after point approvals, do things come into numbers? Second, maybe in the transform phase, when you say margins would be 1% to 18% steady said, what are you looking at B2S to an overall contribution to revenue? And what would be the margin delta between, say, what we do today in B2S so that we can at least see how we price the gap to about 13% to 18%. And then I'll come up with a follow-up question.

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#22

I think in the expand phase. So when I said about the expand phase, I think some of the new things which you mentioned about the robotics and the data centers and infrastructure I think that is the area where we'll be focusing in FY '28 and 27 to 29, okay? So that will be taking some time for us to see the revenue coming in, but the order intake is where we'll be seeing it in this year itself. okay? So I think as you said, we already have the people on board. I think so we are driving that growth in those new areas. So that will really probably give us some leverage in terms of the margin expansion there, too. And coming back to your other thing on the transfer side. So you just mentioned that is one of the B2S, we already have our internal plans, both I mean, in terms of your experience stage, which you earlier asked the question about what percentage of the revenue will be coming from these industries and also these new segments. So we already have the plan of actions in that and what will be our CAGR growth going to for the next 2 years. And also for Fy '30 and beyond, the plan what we have for the B2S, the percentage of revenues coming from the PTL senior it at ENP.So based around that, that's where we have just arrived at the margin profit ratio, what we mentioned there yes.

Deepak Krishnan

analyst
#23

Sure. Any range or a data center, the vote that you could give and by FY '20 and what percentage? And maybe just another question. Given you're a net exporter, what factors drove to an FX loss in this particular quarter, if you could set off highlight that as well? Maybe both these 2 questions, if you could get that.

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#24

I think as I said, we are not giving that guidance, how much of that growth will be coming from these new sectors, okay? As I said, that is an internal thing which we are -- which we have a plan of actions to take. So we'll probably -- once we have some new customers in the area, then definitely, we'll probably let you know in the next 2 to 3 quarters.

R. Subramanian

executive
#25

On ForEx, let me try and answer that. last quarter, the last month was rupee appreciated a bit. So as you know, our balance sheet is pretty exposed in terms of our business is on the export side today, large both on exports and imports. So the net impact is what you are seeing on the balance sheet with the sector the last 1 month where the impact has seen.

Deepak Krishnan

analyst
#26

Sure, sir. Maybe just 1 follow-up. Also, order book, any sort of range that you want to end the year with in terms of book-to-bill ratio? So book-to-bill ratio will be at the same thing where we are today at 1.5x. So we will be at that number for the year.

Operator

operator
#27

[Operator Instructions]. Our next question comes from the line of Ashruvi Gupta with Trinetra Asset Managers.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#28

Congratulations on the numbers. So I wanted to understand, we see that the medtech segment growth is quite flat. So I wanted to understand why is that? And also how do we see that progress for the rest of the year?

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#29

Yes. I think the the med tech is where we have some seasonal impact in terms of one of our customers right now, which is there. And in terms of the growth for the med tech, yes, I mean, we don't see any of the concern. We have the pipeline which is available right now in our sales pipeline. We already have some of the opportunities in that part sector. So we don't see a challenge anything in terms of the med tech there right now.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#30

Sir, how much of the pipeline is coming from MedTech.

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#31

Medtech is the same what we have today in terms of our revenue mix, maybe around the 17% to 20% range is where we have today our sales cycle for the med tech.

Operator

operator
#32

Our next question is from the line of Bala Subramanian with Arihant Capital.

Balasubramanian A

analyst
#33

Pipeline, nearly INR 4,000 crores, what is the breakup in terms of vertical like carrospace difference, center sale and MedTech -- and that platform is legacy Alan and in 2.

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#34

I mean if you're looking at the distribution of the order book or order intake you were asking on the order book you are looking at?

Balasubramanian A

analyst
#35

Sir order pipeline, sir?

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#36

So order pipeline.

Balasubramanian A

analyst
#37

We have nearly INR 4,000 crores.

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#38

Order pipeline no, INR 4000 is

R. Subramanian

executive
#39

No, it is more than that.

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#40

We don't -- as mentioned on order billion. That is the order intake.

R. Subramanian

executive
#41

So -- where are you getting the number of order for

Balasubramanian A

analyst
#42

No, sir, that's a future pipeline is around $0.5 billion let's say, any were INR 4,000 crore to INR 5,000 crore range.

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#43

No, I think we have more than that out of pipeline, okay? So the number, I don't know if we did you get that one, but we have a substantially higher pipeline -- their pipeline at this point of time, yes. very, very healthily. Yes. And we report order book and order intake and order pipeline is obviously much. That's something which we don't report on disposer. -- actually, I'm trying to understand if we have a new growth vectors like AI and data centers and robotic side.

Balasubramanian A

analyst
#44

So I'm trying to understand that point of time. You could explain in terms of platform side, whether like the legacy businesses like aerospace, defense and industrial and medtech and how that lane on linked to. So how the things are moving up in terms of our pipeline.

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#45

Yes. I think -- see, if you look at the various segments, what you have aerospace defense, close to around 48% will be there in aerospace and defense. -- in terms of the pipelines, what we have. And close to 40%, roughly less than 40 roughly on the industrial equipment side, capital equipment side. And the balance is predominantly coming from medical and yes, is basically coming from the medical industry and automotive is a small one there.

Operator

operator
#46

Our next question is from the line of Praveen Sahay with PL Capital.

Praveen Sahay

analyst
#47

Many congratulations for a good set of numbers. My first question is related to the ROW sales because they are 40% of the growth on the Y-o-Y side, we are seeing but there would be some element of a rupee depreciation as well. So in the same currency terms, how was the growth there?

R. Subramanian

executive
#48

We -- in terms of reporting normally, we do the reporting in INR -- in terms of Dollar growth rate. Okay. We can give the numbers separate in terms of we can get back to you on it. Yes.

Praveen Sahay

analyst
#49

Okay. Second question, sir, is related to the -- as you had a report, the negative -- your operating cash flow is still negative. So what's the prime rate reason? And when do you expect the working capital to normalize?

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#50

Yes. As I explained to you earlier, the negative free cash flow is essentially coming up from higher inventory and lesser customer advances. And we have talked about it earlier as a company, we're growing, and we need to keep making sure that the growth is well set in terms of inventory because Inventory is something what we need to do as a leading indicator. We have to stock enough to make sure during this difficult time, our revenue is not impacted in any way. And we're happy to say that, that's something which we've been able to achieve as you can in the results, okay? So as long as we have this growth, these investments which we need to do it. But once we have the growth and the inventory coming under control, which we are working on, the cash flow will turn positive, and that's what we are all working towards.

Praveen Sahay

analyst
#51

Okay. Last question is regarding the B2S platform. So when do you expect a meaningful revenue contribution from B2S product -- and what would be the margin compared to the EMS business?

R. Subramanian

executive
#52

Probably you'll be seeing. I mean we already started having some revenues coming from them in the B2S. So we will be seeing it substantially a good revenues from them in the next 1 year to 18 months. That's what we are seeing in the revenues. And in terms of margins, as I said, so overall, when you just look at the combined one, you'll be getting original 250 to 300 bps additional margins when we have a consolidated EBITDA margins due B2S to the various opportunities.

Operator

operator
#53

Our next question is from the line of Sameet Sinha with Macquarie.

Sameet Sinha

analyst
#54

Yes. So in context of the strength that you saw in the first quarter, can you talk about any sense of guidance for the year? I know last time you said I didn't give hard guidance, but you said sequential growth -- and second -- my second question is in terms of your revenue increase sequentially but gross profit and gross margins declined. Is that a mix issue? Is there a tariff reimbursement can you talk about that, please?

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#55

Yes. I mean in terms of the Q2 and going forward, we will be seeing a similar momentum in the range, okay? So we don't see any major concern on the momentum in terms of our revenues and order intakes. And in terms of the grass margins, what you said, even there is a slightly higher and lower than the last quarter because of some of the investments that we have made into our organization. So the investments are where we already -- we have already budgeted and we already kept it because that is the one thing probably which is just driving up our gross margins slightly lower.

Operator

operator
#56

Our next question is from the line of Santosh Seshadri with Avendus Spark.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#57

So can you walk us through in detail on your...

Operator

operator
#58

Sorry to interrupt Santosh, but your voice is slightly echoing. I request you to please use the handset mode while asking a question.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#59

Is it better now?

Operator

operator
#60

This is much better.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#61

Yes. So my first question is on the targets to drive margin expansion in the medium term. Can you provide us some color on how much of that margin expansion is coming from new categories like semiconductor equipment, servers and robotics. And also how much of the expansion is coming from operating leverage?

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#62

As I said earlier, in the expansion phase, we will continue to do what we are doing it. right? And those are the industries that we are behind the focus. We -- that is our desire code. We'll continue that. We'll sustain that. And the new industries like data centers and robotics, coupled with some of the semiconductor capital equipment. I think those are the things, which probably expand us between FY '27 and 29, which will be giving us the margin -- I mean, the EBITDA margins of 11% to 13%.

R. Subramanian

executive
#63

If I may add, I think today, the margin expansion or the -- what you're seeing is essentially because of filling the hopper and the operating leverage. What Rajendra talked about is in terms of what is going to come in the future, which will be added in addition to that part.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#64

Just to follow up on that. So what product categories are we specifically targeting within a data centers? Because just if I look at the margins of some of the global players in the AI server segment, it's in the mid-single digits. And given that we are anchoring on some of these new segments for long-term margin expansion. So is it just the product margin product category difference that is driving up margins? Or do you see any event cost advantage for Indian players?

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#65

No, it is not an inherent cost advantage or anything. This is basically the products which we will be working out, which we're working for this AI and data centers and also the robotics, which is basically high profile margin business. So we have coming. So as I said, we have -- I mean, we had the strategy and we have the strategy in place. We have put those act items, which are those products which we will be working in these areas, in these new sectors. And what are the revenues we are going to have for the next 2 years and how that margin profile is going to be. So based on that, this is what we have put in there, where we will be going to be in FY '27 and FY '28 and in the expand phase.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#66

Got it. And one final question. So in terms of winning businesses in these new categories like robotics and -- do we -- so is it something that can be delivered with the existing capability? Or do we need some sort of acquired capability to gain exposure in these segments?

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#67

I think for all this, we can use our existing capabilities. And probably, we need to have some of the experienced people in some of the areas in terms of application engineering. So that's where, I think, we are working out. I mean, we have some of the people on board and some we probably will be getting the people on the board. But otherwise, the existing missionaries will be subtrend for us to execute that.

Operator

operator
#68

Our next question is from the line of Deepak with Unifi Capital.

Deepak Lalwani

analyst
#69

Congrats to the management on a good recovery. Sir, my question is around the order inflow. Actually, this INR 550 crores order inflow run rate that we saw in this quarter. I just want to understand how much is it from the existing business, which is our core business, that is aerospace, defense, medical, et cetera. And from the new logos that you've onboarded last year, basically, I want to understand how much scale have you achieved from the sales efforts we did last year? And how much more can we lose out from the new logos addition? So that's the first question. Next thing is this INR 550 crores. Were there any lumpy one-off orders in this? Or this should be the new sustainable run rate for the company? And can 1 extrapolate this run rate for the full year? So that's the next question. And sir, thirdly, you mentioned AI data centers and robotics in your slide. So can you just give some details on what products and data centers that you're targeting or robotics that you're targeting, what capabilities that you've built in. So I just want to hear the strategy that you guys have in place to get the business from these 2 new segments that you're targeting?

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#70

Okay. I think in terms of the order intake, which we had, there was no lumpy order intake in that -- that was all, as you see from our existing customers, plus the new customers, okay? So -- and also your other question is are you going to maintain the similar things for the year, as I said earlier, so probably we'll be there at 1.5x of the book-to-bill ratio in that range for over the year also. And the other thing which we asked about is on mix between the new segment from the existing customers versus the new customers who we added in the last 1 or 2 years. So if you look at that one, probably close to around 70% of that is where it is from our existing customers and the balance 30% is from the new customers whom we added in the last 4 equipment, at least in the last 4 to 6 quarters.

R. Subramanian

executive
#71

And I take that to extend that to a question you asked, there's a lot of opportunity still with those customers.

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#72

Yes, absolutely. There's a lot of opportunities from that existing on the new customers there. And the other thing which you asked about, I think earlier also I just mentioned about on the AI and data centers. I said we have the people on the road. We have put the strategy in place. Probably just we'll come back to you in the next 2 to 3 quarters when we will be seeing the products which we are going to focus. And as I said, we don't need any additional CapEx for that. So existing mission [indiscernible] for us to execute any of those products which we are looking at. And we also, as I said, we have some people on board who are probably working with our new prospects in these areas going and talking with them. So I think it is going to be the expansion plan from FY '27 to FY '29, okay? So this is what we just want to just make sure that the focus is there -- that's where the growth is going to be, and that's where I think you'll be seeing both the revenue growth and also expansion margin intact.

Deepak Lalwani

analyst
#73

Okay. Sir, just on the order inflow run rate, you mentioned 1.5x order book to revenue. So we are already at that rate today. So if I assume that you're going to grow at a healthy 20%, 30% this year, your order book is already INR 2,600 crores, which is more than 1.5x. So what kind of number that we should look at in terms of order inflows for this entire , if you can help us understand that would be useful.

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#74

So probably, I think -- we're not giving that guidance in terms of the number right now. As I said, you'll be seeing it we'll be having 1.5 what I will just say that we'll be there for the year. Yes. So I think the guidance is we are not giving that where you are going to be, what the order book is going to be by the end of the financial year.

R. Subramanian

executive
#75

Deepak RMS here, I think agenda talked about aspirational revenue growth rates and the book-to-bill ratio. I'm sure you're good enough to calculate.

Operator

operator
#76

Our next question comes from the line of Aditya Pal with MSA Capital Partners.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#77

Congratulations on the great set of results. A question for Rajendra. So just wanted to quickly understand because if I see over the last 3 years, right, there's been a lot of defense going very fast. -- then petering out and then completely vanishing from FY '25 number and because of the bell order than industrial seeing the up and down. But part of all this aerospace is the 1 place where we've continuously grown over the last 3 years on a quarterly run rate, we've expanded wanted to understand what is the strategy? How are we able to grow and maintain the space and also a large customer like Honeywell, Aerospace and [indiscernible]. They are more and more talking about that they want to expand outsourcing from India. How have we placed on that. So it's a bit of under what has worked and how are we placed? So a bit of a strategic question rather than a guidance question.

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#78

I think we are as probably I just mentioned earlier, so we are very well placed on the Aerospace side. I think Honeywell, we just mentioned about some of the big work which we had won several years back. I think that is where now right now, some of the initial builds are happening. So we'll be seeing the ramp-up coming on those things in the next 18 months. So that's where we'll be seeing a big growth coming from the Honeywell Aerospace, so I think we are -- I mean, we have a very good engagement with them at various levels. And that account and you also said about the tillers, I think both of the accounts is there, we'll be seeing an extraordinary growth in this year.

R. Subramanian

executive
#79

If I may just add to that. The aerospace business is a double-edged sword. It's very, very difficult to get into. But once you are in your in. And we are fortunate that we're pretty much in with every single major OEM or significant Tier 1 that buys any electronics. I mean, obviously, Rajendra mentioned 2 Thales and Honeywell, those are the large ones. -- but there's also many, many others. So I think it was a deliberate choice. And now, of course, for the first few years, Aerospace is always an investment but it was a deliberate choice to build a very strong aerospace business because aerospace and defense gives you a steady revenue stream on which we can build many other things. Like -- look at the data center business. The reality of that is it is up now. It will go down. That's just how some of these technology-related businesses work. But aerospace, what really differentiates us a strong aerospace capability because -- that's a boat that's impossible to -- or it's very, very difficult to reach for a new entrant, and we're in the marine very strongly placed in the mode. So I think that's a very key element for us, and that's why I just want to highlight that.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#80

Understood. Understood. Just last question from my side, if I come back in the queue. So one on the aerospace. So SkyDrive has started receiving a lot of certifications from the aerospace or airplane authorities. And it is one of the large B2S pipeline. How are we -- how the discussion is going over there? Do you think that it can crucify much sooner than expected. And second is on the entire defense spend. And this, again, ties to that, we are in I would say, each and every European defense at this point of time. How are we seeing that pan out?

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#81

I'm starting the difference then -- sorry, -- you're asking about the different spending.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#82

Yes, point One is on Skydive B2S and because they are getting certification much faster than expected, how -- because they will have to start making their aircraft. And the -- is there a possibility that we start booking the BIS revenues much sooner than expected on Skydive, if those are the discussions that's going on. And on the defense side, specifically on the European defense because the reason I'm asking this is that because we are, I would say, in each and every defense company in the Europe, maybe by systems, software and Talend then we also onboarded a few other different companies over the last 4, 5 quarters. How are we looking that panning out? So 2 questions, both on aerospace and defense.

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#83

I think the one which you mentioned about is one of the fan customer, which we mentioned earlier, they're all the which we are working on with them. And as I said, we are doing it currently, the engineering designs for their products for BTS products. And that will be probably taking another year to and 18 months for us to come into the production line, okay? So that is the one which is probably very high end, and it is a long term for us, as Krishna said those are the customers once we come in and particularly if they are on the build to stack I think we are the ones who will be doing it throughout the life cycle of the product, we'll be maintaining the product there, okay? So that way, I think that is one business which we are very, very strong with that customer in Japan. And the other ones, which you said about other aerospace customers. I think we continue with them. So we are working with them the value that we provide. I think in terms of the the....

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#84

Next -- the second part is on the European defense. I just pay that I understood that Krishna and you also spoke in detail. But on the European defense, are we seeing a lot of negotiation pipeline building up on that side?

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#85

Yes, I think there is one right now, which we -- there is also a part of a build to spec, which we are working out with 1 of the European defense organization. So property at this point of time, that is there in our order pipeline. So we are working now.

Ganesh Venkat Bodanapu

executive
#86

Is your question specifically B2S for European defense?

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#87

No, it is on the demand trend.

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#88

Okay. So on the European demand something we said I think 1 other thing which you already mentioned is Thales -- so we are working on with them. There is again a different customer. So we continue -- I think we are very, very strong in terms of our engagement with them, the value of what we provide to them. And we also have other defense customers in Europe, which probably I don't want to name it at this point of time based on the con equipment which we have with them. So we are working on the build-to-print apart from what I said earlier is the build-to-spec even another one going on. But build-to-print is continuing the momentum is still there, I think, very, very strong momentum, both in North America and Europe.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#89

Understood. If I can just..

Operator

operator
#90

sorry to interrupt your request

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#91

This one is last, if it's possible. Yes. SP1 Sir, on Altec, because our strategy on MedTech is a mother strategy where we also deal of early stage start-ups in the product in 1 with IT, is there any probity that we can start with defense technology in North America?

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#92

Yes. That's what I think we have now 1 project going on right now for 1 of the defense customers there. We have the tar facility, which as we said, is the ITAR certified one. So we are working out with a few more other U.S. defense customers there. So it is still at the early stages of our pipeline. But we see a value there, what we can bring into our customers in U.S., the different customers in U.S.

Operator

operator
#93

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now take one last question, which will be from the line of Anil Mehta with Equirus Securities.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#94

Congratulations for a good set of numbers. Sir, my first question is that as we are doing an expansion phase in FY '27 to Fy'29, particularly in the AI data center and robotic project I just wanted to know in that segment, particularly in which product side that we are answering is from a aside or cooling side or power supply side at least, if you can share the light on that? Secondly is that how much incremental CapEx, particularly for the expansion phase and from the transformation phase that we are going to expect over the next couple of years. So these are 2 questions.

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#95

So I think as I said probably earlier, so I think we're still working out on that to we have the strategy in place. I think the team is in place right now. So Cloud will be let you know in the next 2 to 3 quarters, where the focus, which are the product lines we are working, going to work and which are working out in that area, both in the AI data centers and the robotics. Okay? And the other one is the CapEx cut. The CapEx, I think, as you said, whatever we have today, closely around 1.75 to 2x of the revenue. So we don't need any such additional CapEx apart from a regular annual CapEx, which we'll be working out for our running the business.

Operator

operator
#96

I would now like to hand the conference over to Mr. Krishna Bodanapu for closing comments. Over to yo sir.

Ganesh Venkat Bodanapu

executive
#97

Thank you very much, and thank you, everybody, for joining the call this evening. Obviously, it's been a very good quarter. And again, I want to compliment Rajendra and his leadership team for delivering an excellent set of results. also I want to assure you that I think a lot of the challenges of the past have been overcome. We find ourselves in a very good position, both with the core business, which is aerospace, medical, defense and industrial, but also with some of the expansion that we're looking at, which includes semiconductor equipment data centers, et cetera. So I think we find ourselves in a good spot. So thank you for the patience. Thank you for the support. We'll again speak next quarter, but I want to assure you that we will keep our focus on delivering again continuing to deliver a good set of results going forward. Thank you.

Rajendra Velagapudi

executive
#98

Thank you.

Operator

operator
#99

Thank you. On behalf of Cyient DLM Limited, that concludes this conference. Thank you all for joining us. You may now disconnect your lines.

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