Pennar Industries Limited (513228) Earnings Call Transcript & Summary
May 26, 2023
Earnings Call Speaker Segments
Operator
operatorLadies and gentlemen, good day, and welcome to the Pennar Industries Limited Q4 FY '23 Earnings Conference Call, hosted by PhillipCapital (India) Private Limited. This conference call may contain forward-looking statements about the company, which are based on the beliefs, opinions and expectation of the company as on date of this call. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict. [Operator Instructions] Please note that this conference is being recorded. I now hand the conference over to Mr. Vikram Vilas Suryavanshi from PhillipCapital (India) Private Limited. Thank you, and over to you, sir.
Vikram Suryavanshi
analystThank you, Ryan. Good morning, and very warm welcome to everyone. Thank you for being on the call of Pennar Industries Limited. We are happy to have with us management of Pennar Industries for question-and-answer session with investment community. The management is represented by Mr. Aditya Rao, Vice Chairman and Managing Director; Mr. Shrikant Bhakkad, Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer; Mr. Manoj, Head Corporate Affairs; and Mr. K M Sunil, Vice President, Investor Relations. Before we start with the question-and-answer session, we have opening comments from the management. Now I hand over call to Mr. Aditya for opening comments. Over to you, sir.
Aditya Rao
executiveThank you, Vikram. I hope I'm audible. Please let me know if I'm not.
Vikram Suryavanshi
analystYes, you are audible, sir. Yes.
Aditya Rao
executiveThanks. My thank you to the moderators and our stakeholders for joining the call today on Pennar Industries Q4 and FY 2023 financial results. The structure we will follow will first cover our profitability, our liquidity and our growth. Post that, our CFO, Mr. Shrikant Bhakkad, will present his analysis of our results. We will take questions from all of you after that. So for the overview, we recorded net sales of INR 668.4 crores for the fourth quarter. Our PBT for the fourth quarter was INR 30.63 crores. For the financial year, we recorded net sales of INR 2,894 crores, and our PBT was INR 98.44 crores. This represents growth of about 27.7% in net sales and about 76% in PBT. Cash profit, which we generated for the year prior to payment of taxes, was INR 140 crores. And the PBDT was [ INR 160.4 crores ], which represents growth of 48.5%. We had committed that our PBT would be the highest ever after accounting for extraordinary items in previous years, and we are -- I'm glad to know that we have achieved that with a PBT of INR 98.44 crores for the year. And if you look at our cash profit reserve, that is also the highest cash profit in the quarter at INR 140 crores. The PBT, we generated INR 30.63 crores for the quarter was at a margin of 4.58%. As committed, we expect further improvements in our PBT margin as we continue to move from lower-margin revenue profile to higher-margin revenue. And this also has an effective increase in our capital efficiency. Our cash PAT for Q4 was INR 41.1 crores, which we generated a margin of 6.15%. Moving to liquidity and capital efficiency. Our working capital days as on March 31 was at around 75. Our growth for the year was 19.8%. And the annualized growth was substantially higher, which was good. Now we had indicated that we had wanted to see a ROCE of about 20% being achieved by March 2023. And again, we're glad to have achieved it just like we hit our profit targets. Our target for the next financial year is to achieve a ROCE of 22%, and working capital, our target is 72 days. Moving to growth drivers, what's going to drive our revenue and our profitability growth in the future. For the next quarter and for the financial year, our PEB division, our U.S. subsidiary PGI, our Body in White division and our Engineering Services business all have well-baked business plans, which are -- with a degree of confidence, we are sure that they will continue to drive revenue and profitability growth for us for the next few quarters, for the next financial year. We are continuing to work on growth projects for our hydraulics, a large diameter tube and our module business. And we are hopeful that once these business unit CapEx is -- these assets get commissioned, they will also continue to be significant drivers of our revenue growth once completed. So that completes my summary of our performance for the quarter and the financial year, covering profitability, liquidity and growth. I will now hand over the call to Shrikant for his comments.
Shrikant Bhakkad
executiveThanks, Aditya. Welcome to the shareholders on the fourth quarter and the year ended financial '23 earnings call. The key metrics for the year, predominantly revenue has increased from INR 2,265 crores to INR 2,894 crores, which is a growth of 28%. Broadly, if you see the revenue, this is coming in consolidation as well as standalone. The increase in revenue in standalone is INR 294 crores, and in subsidiaries, it is [ INR 335 crores ], which gross up to INR 694 crores. The increase in the U.S. business is presently -- from the metal buildings division. What we have in India, it is coming from the BIW vertical, PEB vertical and ECD division what we had in the last year. EBITDA has increased from INR 188.42 crores to INR 254.62 crores, which is 35%. And in terms of percentage, it has increased from 8.31% to 8.8%, which is 50 basis points higher than last year. PBT was at INR 98.43 crores. We are also happy to inform the shareholders, we have reached the highest-ever profit after removing the exceptional items, which was there in 2017/'18. Just to take you through the movement of the balance sheet and cash flows. Movements in terms of PPE is the major when compared to last year to current year. This is on account of the BIW capitalization, which we had last year, INR 55 crores, and in India and in the U.S. around close to INR 15 crores. Even with the increased sales, we are able to reduce our betas, which [ was around ] [indiscernible] from INR 425 crores to INR 381 crores. This was a decrease of INR 44 crores. And in terms of number of this, this has helped up get our working capital days as well, which is close to 20 days. You see the increase in inventory. Increase in inventory predominantly is for the quarter -- subsequent quarters that we have taken. In terms of liabilities, the reduction is in the equity share capital is due to the buyback that we had in the last year. Overall, in terms of long-term borrowings, there is no movement, and it is from INR 98.59 crores to INR 98.82 crores. The increase in the short-term borrowings that you see from 489 to 522 days, it is because of the increase in the working capital. Overall, working capital number of days as adjusted [indiscernible] 75 days when we take the gross working capital. As we discussed, we are in the process of shutting down our lower-margin businesses, part of it, and which is helping us improve our top line -- and which is basically improving the bottom line, sorry. With the better working capital measures, we are also able to reduce our finance cost or finance cost as a percentage of our total cost, has come down below 3%. But as we see the revenue increasing, the finance cost will be as a percentage of the gross revenue. It will continue to be 3% and net revenue around 3.3%. The other income includes foreign exchange fluctuation, duty drawback, income from mutual funds and certain write-back of the old debtors and provisions which we have collected. Our ROC has improved from 14.7% to 19.98% for the full financial year, and our ROE has improved from 5.69% to 9.68%. We are sitting at the highest ever cash balance of INR 172 crores, and if you add up the investments that we have in the mutual funds, it is close to INR 199 crores. So with this, I close my comments and hand it over to the moderators for the Q&A session.
Operator
operator[Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from Mayur Liman with Profitmart Securities.
Mayur Liman
analystCongratulations on the good set of numbers, sir. Sir, I just...
Aditya Rao
executiveMayurji, can I request you to speak up a little bit? Sir, your voice is not audible.
Mayur Liman
analystOkay. Sir, no problem. Now it is good?
Aditya Rao
executiveYes, it's better. Go ahead, sir, please.
Mayur Liman
analystOkay. I just want to guidance on the -- what are the key steps we are taking towards the railway and tube to scale up the revenue?
Aditya Rao
executiveOkay. You -- the 2 of the revenue streams you mentioned were railways and tubes. Railways in the current quarter is doing well, and we expect the next quarter also, it will do well. But however, as I've been mentioning in previous conference call, our growth drivers right now are the BIW division, PEB, engineering services, PGI and the subsidiaries, all of them are poised for driving our bottom line growth and our capital efficiency strongly. Railways, most of it coming from well, the Railway Board. I don't have a lot of transparency into how sustainable these revenue streams are. So in the short term, it's doing well. It will do better than what it did in the last few quarters in Q1 and Q2. But I don't have a sunlight for you in terms of an [ abject ] addressable market value proposition for railway, which will scale over the next few years. So as of right now, we are not deploying any additional CapEx into railways. Our existing assets' capacity utilization increase will result in revenue growth. That's for railways. For tubes, at the other end, I think the large diameter tube project is something we find very compelling. We think our markets in India, both in India and as an export market of the U.S. are very, very strong, and we've had an uptick in our tube supplies to the U.S. as well. So I'm quite confident that once we complete the implementation of the project, we will be able to see a dramatic increase in our tubes revenue and our tubes output. So that is projected to be completed in this financial year.
Mayur Liman
analystOkay, sir. And second question on the Ascent business, what kind of movement do you see in the Ascent business -- Ascent Building business? And which things give you the confidence about the future performance of [indiscernible] and build?
Aditya Rao
executiveSo Ascent is a metal buildings business in the U.S., and it has, as I'm sure you're aware, done very well last year, and we expect it to do better than that this year as well. Our capacity increase over there is being commissioned. We are adding a beam line. We're also adding other supportive capital assets. Our order book there is quite strong. It's been growing for the last 3 or 4 months. I know there's been talk of a U.S. recession or a decrease in our potentially in addressable markets. But from what I see, and as I mentioned last time, maybe the tech sector, we are not in that sector, so I can't really comment intelligently about that. But where we are present, which is the nonresidential construction sector in the U.S., I think it's as strong as it is. So we expect a very strong Q1 and a very strong financial year. So just increase of order book combined with an increase in our capacity in the U.S. will make sure Ascent will continue to do well. So did that answer your question or...
Mayur Liman
analystYes, sir. And the last question, how do you see the FY '24 in terms of the order book side and the domestic and the international business side, specifically Europe side?
Aditya Rao
executiveYes. So I will break that up into domestic versus international, which is not actually the standalone versus consolidated. It doesn't actually break up that way because there's a lot of exports. But from a market point of view, our order books are -- PEB are at a record high. Our order books in Ascent are also at a high, as I mentioned. Our orders in solar are quite strong. Railway is also going up, but there's caveats to what we're projecting as far as railways is concerned. So we don't see addressable market decline, which is what results in order book decline, which is what results in revenue, say, profitability not being able to scale. So in our growth drivers, we don't see a decrease there. Both the domestic and international revenue streams we have will continue to do well, and we are projecting that, that is -- there is good, strong, consistent addressable market and order books that are there for us for both the domestic and international business. From an attribution business, I think whatever the percentage we've been seeing, the significant majority of it will be domestic, and some of it will be international, say, about -- around 30%. So that trend will continue. We don't expect higher growth in international or exports versus domestic. Both are growing. Both are doing -- are performing as per our expectations.
Operator
operatorOur next question comes from [ Venkat Subramanian ] with [ Organic Capital ].
Unknown Analyst
analystCongratulations on running a really tight ship from -- under challenging circumstances. A couple of questions from my side. In the year that's gone by, what are the areas that have kind of made you happy? And what are the areas that you could have potentially improved? Two, there is a fair amount of excitement in the railways addressable area in the domestic market. You, having gone through what you have, are quite circumspect there. So you wanted to concentrate in the railway assets on some of the export opportunities or some more value-add opportunities, et cetera. Where are we with respect to that? And thirdly, we had a small tuck-in in Europe for -- which was one of our customers who we thought could open up some dose on the aviation side. So if you can just give some update on that.
Aditya Rao
executiveThank you. Thank you, sir. So the happy and sad areas of last year. What was happy was that we achieved our financial metrics. I wouldn't say sad, but I take it more as a challenge. Some of the areas, I think, that we should work on is further improvements in capital efficiency. I think aspirationally, 20% ROCE is not appropriate, Aspirationally, our cash profit base of 6% PAT -- cash PAT margins are not appropriate. I think we have to head to a place where we are better in terms of margins, add more value to our products, have good, long sustainable markets. So that exercise is ongoing, and it's a challenge. I think with BIW coming on, with our U.S. business going, with engineering services increasing, with hydraulics increasing, it was large [indiscernible]. All of these are high-margin businesses. All of these are capital-efficient businesses. So I think our long-term -- medium-term growth is to hit 30% ROCE. We're right now quite confident '22, '23, '24, but over the next 2, 3 years, steady measured improvements in these 2 metrics. So we push our PBT margin up, and we push our gross margin up is [ not ] good, and that's the challenge ahead of us. And we're quite -- every team, I can commit to you that we are very enthusiastic about having to work on those areas. I think we are thinking that we will see. It will be hard work, but we are committed to achieving it. Railways, as you mentioned, yes, I talk with some of our competitors. I talk with people who are in other businesses, related businesses for the railways. And yes, I definitely see that there's some amount of energy there. But at least the model that we follow, sir, is good, strong addressable markets with strong assets. If you have both of those, you will always have revenue, and you'd always have profitability. Whenever we see companies not doing well or failing on revenue or profitability, it's either because their addressable markets are not strong or their assets are not strong. There's no other reason really for those. There may be some governmental issues, but that's not relevant right now. So in that vein, single customer, Railway Board controlling the gross capital formation, orders being given state-owned entities, competing with them. The approval base is RDSO. That's -- I don't believe that is a playing ground for us. I don't think that's where we want to build our base. But as you said, we are exploring our export markets. And the railways business is doing well in the sense that if you were to compare Q1 to Q1, if you were to Q3, Q4, growth is there. And it remains a good margin business. I'm just saying that for us, it's not just what happens in this quarter or next quarter. I would like us to think of what happens over years, right? Where is -- what is Pennar going to look like 5 years from now? That's a more important question. On your last question on Cadnum, sir, it has -- I'm happy to report it has turned profitable. Early days still, but I am quite confident we have a new CEO for that business as well. [ Mr. Patel ], who's joined us and from a large multinational aerospace firm. And I think we will -- we are committed to growing that business, and it's profitable now. And by the end of the year, I think it will start contributing to our -- there will be profitability as well. But these are small businesses and addressable markets right now. Over time, they will become more mature. For this financial year, our growth drivers will continue to be, as I mentioned, PGI, PEB, BIW, engineering services. And by the end of the year, hydraulics, large diameter will also start pushing. So there are multiple growth verticals, 4 or 5, which are looking very promising. All the order books look good and strong. India looks strong. U.S. looks strong for us in the markets represented. So I think we'll do the work to make railways and our aerospace BU into something that follows the same paradigm.
Unknown Analyst
analystWonderful. Wonderful. Happy to hear. A couple of more. One, if CFO can report on an ongoing basis, the write-offs that we did as of about 4, 5 -- 3, 4 years ago and what the recoveries on that have been. And on a regular basis, report on ECL provisions and then recovery thereof on a consistent basis, I think it will be useful.
Aditya Rao
executiveShrikant, do you want to answer when you can do that?
Shrikant Bhakkad
executiveYes. We've actually report those numbers as part of other income, does that cover up, but we'll give you broad numbers there. I think this INR 13 crores is what the number that we have, which is collected whatever we have provisioned earlier years. And ECL provision continues to be higher. So you will have this -- because of the standard where it is, you will have the higher provisions, which will come in the current year as well. But by next year, this will moderate off, and you will not see the further increase in those provisions again.
Unknown Analyst
analystUnderstood. And lastly, Aditya, on the engineering services side, which is the software support that we provide out of Hyderabad and [ Gujarat ]. How are the numbers scaling up there? What kind of additions have you seen? That looks like a fairly large opportunity. What kind of focus do we have there? And what are the challenges there?
Aditya Rao
executiveGood question, sir. I think, as you mentioned, it is a key focus area for us. The markets we are typically -- we are chasing in that includes building and commission, modeling, structural engineering, automotive, BIW design and also plant engineering. So those are the 4 verticals where we provide engineering services, design services, product development services. It's doing very well from a percentage growth point of view. But both -- I mean all of these together represent, from a revenue point of view, only about INR 70 crores, INR 80 crores. So it's small, even though the margin is substantial. Our goal is that since a lot of these markets are quite big, right? That's why I say addressable markets are [ key here ]. If you're addressable market, if your quote activity is high, then your order book will be high, then your revenue will be high. So on that basis, we are right now expanding our business development team, both in Europe and also in India. U.S., right now, we are not, but that will also come into play by -- over the course of this year. But there's a lot of work in progress happening in this business. But one thing I can tell you right now, we are very bullish about it. It's going to continue to see very good growth. I'm proud of the job that [ Suman ] and his team have done on this business. And I'm sure this will also become -- it's a high-margin business. It's about 20%. I'm certain this will start becoming a key profit vertical for us very soon as well. But yes, that's the status right now.
Operator
operatorOur next question comes from [ Gaurav Agarwal ] with [ Ninety One Capital ].
Unknown Analyst
analystSir, if I see the difference between your consol and standalone on a quarterly basis, so last quarter, the revenue was from the subsidiary. It was around [ INR 156 crores ], which has reduced to around INR 113 crores now. So one thing is how much of this difference between consol and standalone is related to the engineering business getting in the Ascent U.S. there?
Aditya Rao
executiveSo most of the change that you see is because of Ascent. So let me describe this -- describe the why of this in a little more detail. So in India, we follow the financial year, which is Q1 starts in April, and Q4 obviously, end in March as you're aware I'm sure. So in the U.S., all of our subsidiaries follow and frankly business there usually. January to December is the model that is followed. More importantly, Q4 tends to be the strongest quarter for us in India, usually, not in India, for most Indian companies. Whereas in the U.S., Q4 -- or what we call Q4, is actually Q1 for them, is a time to take stock, make budget plan. There's also a lot of inclement weather at least in the markets that we are present in. So effectively, Q1 tends to be the weakest thing. So it's within a year cyclical variation that you see. Most of our subsidiary income, as I said, comes from PGI. And you will see this number performing better this year -- substantially better this year than last year. And at this point in time, on the basis of our order book being where it's at, which is higher by almost 30% from just 2 months ago, our U.S. order book, I'm not projecting a decline in this year's Ascent's revenue. But you will see these quarter-quarter variations because the strongest quarter for India is actually the weakest quarter for U.S. businesses. So that's the reason you see the revenue attribution going around. Going forward, I think we've done the math. And we think 70%, 75% will be India. 25%, 30% will be outside. That's what we have typically seen from a revenue point of view.
Unknown Analyst
analystOkay. And sir just to get a bit more clarity. So last year, in FY '23 full year subsidiary numbers are INR 600 crores revenue. So when you say they will do much better, can it be a INR 1,000 crores business in FY '24?
Aditya Rao
executiveI will not be giving guidance, but I can assure you we will see double-digit growth in both our standalone and our consolidated businesses, which kind of answers your question, but yes.
Unknown Analyst
analystOkay. Okay. And sir, coming to your margins, again, on the subsidiary side, these is a lot of variability in margins. And if I see the EBITDA margins of the subsidiary numbers, it was at 4.8% in Q2. Then it was 10.7% in Q3. Now it is 12.7%. So now the revenues have declined, but the margins are improving. So sometimes, it doesn't add up. Even the employee expenses, they vary so much. The other expenses vary so much. So what exactly is the nature of business in those subsidiaries?
Aditya Rao
executiveSo our U.S. subsidiaries, I mean -- sorry, our international revenue has always been high-margin. I am not aware of any revenue stream we have, which is outside, which is low margin. That's point one. So any variations you see are just quarter-on-quarter scale impact, which is, as I said, the Q4 to Q1 variations. That does exist. From a point of view of what do our margins -- revenue-wise, what's happening and our margins are going up, that is a stated intent for us. We have, as you may be aware, exited our water EPC business. We have exited our retail business. We've exited our MMS business. These are all large contributors, I mean, hundreds of crores, right? I mean -- and the reason we have done this is because as we finish our order book in these businesses and get out of them, yes, some -- there is a minus from a revenue point of view. But there aren't businesses which we -- for whatever reason, we've not been able to generate sustainable margins or good growth margins on that. We've chosen where we want to grow our businesses, and those are doing well. So since these are higher margin, you will see impacts where our margins consistently tend to improve. That's something that's a statement of intent for us and what you -- not just one quarter. If you see the last, I would say, the 7, 8 quarters, you would see that trend, and that trend will continue. As of right now, for the next financial year also, we are focusing on margin improvement. Revenue also will increase. I think we are -- we have several growth vectors in play, as I mentioned. So our PEB business alone is projecting from last year to this year, we are looking at. Even from a run rate right now point of view, it will be at least a 25%, 30% growth. So I'm optimistic that you will continue to see revenue and profit growth on a yearly basis. Quarter-on-quarter, U.S. versus India, that I wouldn't -- I don't see that as something as a concern.
Operator
operatorOur next question comes from [ Ankur Kumar ] with Alpha Capital.
Unknown Analyst
analystCongrats for a good set of numbers. Sir, my question is on this -- our plan to increase margin and reduce low-margin [ products ]. So what kind of profit growth can we expect for the coming year?
Aditya Rao
executiveWe'll not be giving guidance, but you can have -- I can comfortably commit double-digit growth for Q1 and for the financial year -- next financial year.
Unknown Analyst
analystAnd would that mean as in our revenue will continue to go down because in this Q4, it has gone down because we are looking for high-margin products?
Aditya Rao
executiveNo, our revenue will go up as well. We will have -- for Q1, we will see double-digit growth in revenue compared to last year, and we will also see growth in profitability. For the reasons I explained previously, that's a Q4 impact, but -- and also the revenues that we are dropping away, as we said, we're removing the low-margin business. There's an end to that, right? I mean we've almost exited MMS business. It's almost done. So the future impacts of these are quite good. So I don't believe that you have to worry about our revenue going [ downward ]. It's -- revenue growth is important. It's a stated objective for us that we increase our addressable market, thus increasing our asset base, thus increasing our revenue. And that's how we increase it. You can't keep increasing margins also forever. And margin inclines -- margin increases are extremely difficult. But I can comment on whatever revenue we have will be good quality, sustainable and good margin revenue. So you can -- we can commit to revenue growth next quarter, if that's your question.
Unknown Analyst
analystGot it, sir. And sir, on balance sheet side, our debt is increasing, and also, we have not been paying dividends for the last couple of years. So any thoughts on those 2 things?
Aditya Rao
executiveOverall debt is flat to my knowledge.
Shrikant Bhakkad
executiveOverall, I just take you through borrowing number. In terms of borrowing, INR 98.59 crores to INR 98.82 crores. That's the long-term borrowing. That's flat. In terms of borrowings, that is an increase of INR 489 crores to INR 522 crores. So when you look at the numbers, you have to look at -- because all the current liability in numbers are predominantly working capital numbers, and working capital will grow up as the revenue goes up. So what you will have to see here is finance cost as a percentage of our total revenue, which we intent to cover between 3% to 3.3%. That's a broad range that we want to give because in certain months does change. So the overall borrowing numbers are flattish. We have not increased our borrowing substantially.
Aditya Rao
executiveAnd to your other questions on -- I mean we generated a lot of cash also. Shrikant, I think it's INR 199 crores. Almost, let's say, close to INR 200 crores in cash also has been generated. So debt equity also is looking better. Dividends, corporate actions. The Board will take a call, so we are reviewing. And if we have anything, we would share. It would not be appropriate for me to say anything on that, but we have the buybacks. I would say, we have completed a series of buybacks. In the last buyback, we completed was about 1.5 years -- 1 year ago. This last year itself, when we did that, it's an average price of about [ 45 ]. We are substantially higher than that. So I believe we've had some success in our [ corporate action ] systems. But yes, anything on dividends or anything as the Board has decided, I will share with you.
Unknown Analyst
analystGot it, sir. And sir, the last thing one on this ROCE calculation, you are saying that we are at 20%. So it would be great if you can put that calculation in the PBT going forward.
Shrikant Bhakkad
executiveOkay. That's -- somehow, it's there. We will conclude that. It is EBIT divided by working capital that have been input. I'll share you the calculation as well.
Aditya Rao
executive[ In terms of ] calculation, EBIT divided by capital employed, we'll get that to you.
Operator
operatorOur next question comes from Deep Gandhi with Astute Investment Management.
Deep Gandhi
analystSo sir, most of my questions are around the [ PEB win ]. So initially, I just wanted to check with you that in the quarter, if I see your quarter-on-quarter revenue in this business, so it's actually [ degrown ], and we've also seen some reduction in margins. So if you can highlight what was the reason for this.
Aditya Rao
executiveYes, so as I mentioned, that would be our U.S. business versus overall. But what I can tell you is that PEB business is actually -- and we see it as a star performance in this quarter. I mean revenues in India are at the highest level ever. Margins have also increased substantially. As I mentioned, Q1 is a time to take stock in the U.S. We also have PEB in the U.S. Even there, the order books are at a high. So I would say you look at it in terms of the year-end question, sir. But from a quarter point of view, Q1 -- but the U.S. is always going to be weak for [ us ]. In India, it's the side of the picture of that. Q1 is actually looking -- sorry, Q4 has been quite strong, and Q1 is even stronger.
Deep Gandhi
analystSo sir, can you break up this number in terms of what was the Indian revenue specifically for PEB and the margin so we can get a sense what has been the growth?
Aditya Rao
executiveSure. Our revenue for the last quarter for India versus U.S.
Shrikant Bhakkad
executiveYes.
Aditya Rao
executiveIf you have these numbers, [ Shrikant ], the PEB versus [indiscernible].
Shrikant Bhakkad
executiveOn an average, last year, we did USD 7.25 million currently, which has fallen to USD 6.5 million. So that's the decrease that you see in the U.S. business versus the India business, as the overall year number where we have increased from INR 554 crores to INR 725 crores, which includes the other stuff also, which is -- if you take only PEB business, it is [ INR 394 crores -- INR 396 crores ] versus [ INR 590 crores ] in the India.
Deep Gandhi
analystSo this number you have given for Q4 FY '23 versus Q4 of FY '22, right?
Shrikant Bhakkad
executive[indiscernible] The INR 590 crores, that's for the full financial year, PEB business in [ India ].
Deep Gandhi
analystOkay, okay, sure. And what kind of margins you do in the Indian business?
Aditya Rao
executiveWe generate -- well, the operating contribution margins are about 14%, and we expect to improve those substantially. So another bit look at any growth that comes in from [indiscernible] double digit from a profit drop point of view. So...
Deep Gandhi
analystThis 14% is only for the PEB division, right, the margin?
Aditya Rao
executiveThat's correct.
Shrikant Bhakkad
executiveYes. That's correct.
Deep Gandhi
analystOkay. Okay. Sure, sir. Sir, my next question is, so you have shared this number that you have a INR 750 crores of order book for PEB. So if you can highlight how many the number of customers from whom you've got this INR 750 crores orders.
Aditya Rao
executiveSo it's pretty diverse. As of right now, I mean, Reliance is like about INR 200 crores is just from Reliance. But it's actually INR 750 crores as of March 31. I apologize if I misspoke. On a right-now basis, it's closer to INR 830 crores. So it's a lot of customer. It's not 1 or 2 or 3 or even 4. I think you would see more than 40. Yes, more than 40. And as of right now, we're active at 30 projects across India. And in the U.S. also, it's around 10 sites right now. So yes.
Deep Gandhi
analystSo if you can just share the number how much of this INR 830 crores is from say, top 5 customers?
Aditya Rao
executiveI'll try to get you that information. We -- a lot of times, our customers don't want -- I mean they're okay with us telling the market that we've received orders from them, but the exact order value is something we sometimes -- are important. I do need the clearance to give you customer-wise breakup. But my request would give us some time to check and get back to you on this. However, the overall numbers, which is INR 830 crores order book, and many customers is what you can take right now.
Deep Gandhi
analystOkay. Sir, my next question is, if you can also highlight what kind of capacity you have for PEB currently. And what was your utilization in the current financial year?
Aditya Rao
executiveSo capacity right now is about -- I mean if you include everything in India and the U.S., we're at about 7 [indiscernible] capacity, which means we can now put out close to about 8,000 to 9,000 tonnes a month. If -- I mean if you want to look at it, but it's not fully appropriate to take the -- only the tonnage number because it's a system, right? It's not just product. It is not the weight of a product, and there's different kinds of products that go into it. The system is engineered. It's structured engineering. But from a capacity utilization point of view, I think that was your question capacity and capacity utilization. We are at around 65%, 70%, and we're trying to bump that up now. We're adding capacity as quickly as we can also, frankly, in PEB because the transfer of some order book to revenue can be a lot better than it is right now. That's one of the reasons we're very confident of projecting growth both in revenue and profitability for PEB and other businesses. It's just the rate at which we have, we are booking orders, and our current order book is quite strong. And what we're seeing in the market is that this will persist through this financial year. So we are quite confident.
Operator
operatorOur next question comes from Darshil Pandya with Finterest Capital.
Darshil Pandya
analystMajority of the questions are answered. Just one question. What's the total order book across segments as on 31st March [indiscernible]?
Aditya Rao
executiveI don't believe we have that number. So I will have to add PEB plus railways plus solar plus other. I would have to add that up, but rather than -- allow me to get back to you the number, but it's a large number. It would be...
Darshil Pandya
analystAs of last quarter, it was INR 2,500 crores a said by you.
Aditya Rao
executiveYes, it would be in that framework. Do bear in mind that only 50% of our revenue is order book. The other is what we call scheduled revenue. So it's an indicator of where our revenue is going, but it's not absolute. You will get a half of the picture of where our revenue is going.
Darshil Pandya
analystAbsolutely. And sir, one last question. That was -- on the last call, you said that you -- maybe 5% of [indiscernible] you aspired in a year, 1.5 years. So what's the guidance now?
Aditya Rao
executiveSo you would have seen consistent progress on that. I mean, in the last quarter, our PBT margin was 2.58%. So we expect to grow that in -- over the course of this year as well. So one of the things that we can -- I think we're making on these calls, we typically may come effectively. One of the things we are going to hard commit to you is that we will continue to work on margin improvement. It's stated goal, and we are hard at work in making that happen. So yes, aspirationally, 5%, which we will -- as 1.5 years is what we had said in the last call, we are well on track to achieve that.
Operator
operatorOur next question with Ankur Agrawal with RC Wealth Solutions Private Limited.
Ankur Agrawal
analyst[Foreign Language]
Aditya Rao
executiveSo employee costs are getting higher. Do you want to take that? Yes, okay. Go ahead.
Shrikant Bhakkad
executiveYes. See, as, [ let's say ], the way that we've told revenues decreased because of the cyclical business in the U.S. in the Q1, the PEB business has come down. But the -- in terms of employee benefits, they are more or less flat in terms of last year to current year. If you see March '22 versus March '23 is what you are seeing quarter-on-quarter number, but this has already increased the revenue in the last quarter. So it has already increased to INR 70 crores. And from there, it has increased to INR 81 crores. So employee benefits, we are deploying new -- nationally new manpower for our expansion. And that's the reason we have hired certain people, and that's the cost that has been included here.
Ankur Agrawal
analyst[Foreign Language]
Shrikant Bhakkad
executiveAnd we have given out onetime bonuses for the profit share in the U.S., and that has been achieved in the Q4. So that...
Aditya Rao
executive[Foreign Language] I mean it's not going to keep increasing. It will be flattish from now.
Ankur Agrawal
analyst[Foreign Language]
Shrikant Bhakkad
executiveSee other expenses broadly consists of [indiscernible] charges, freight cost and the store [ at state ] consumption that we have. So there was a decrease of the provisions that we have made from last year to current year by around INR 10 crores. And there is also job work and erection expenses, which has reduced from last year to current year. And as we have stated our objectives to increase the margin expansion, so we are carefully looking at each cost and spending that amount.
Operator
operatorOur next question comes from [ Vignesh Iyer ] with [ Sequent Investments ].
Unknown Analyst
analystCongratulations on good set of numbers. My question is on the 2 orders that we received on -- if I'm not wrong on 17 Feb for INR 850 crores and 8 May for [ INR 680 crores ]. And both the orders, I mean, the notice taken has to be executed within 6 months. So just to understand the nature of those orders, so it is more on this margin-accretive orders like PEBs and BIWs? Or it has some orders related to railway and all?
Aditya Rao
executiveSo I can't do any specific orders because we do [indiscernible] describing our overall order book. But typically, the orders book we declare is a blend. So it consists of high margin or what we would call higher-margin businesses, which have -- where we get an operating margin of almost 28%, but also includes some of the lower-margin revenue. It's a blend. So I wouldn't be able to commit on the entire amount that you mentioned, but what I can tell you is that the trend is that we are only accepting orders and across all of our businesses, which have a certain market -- certain margin profile, which allows us to scale, allows us to meet our overall PBT requirements. And if it doesn't fit that, as it has not in some of our revenue streams, we have over the last year. So no, we're not exiting any other business, but we have exited business in the past, which don't fit that profile. So specific to the order book we declared, I will not be able to comment on the margin profile because it will be a blend, but it would be what the overall margins you see for the company, what they are at, it will be at the same profile.
Unknown Analyst
analystBut just to understand that the blend has improved, right? I mean we are going more margin-accretive businesses than we used to, right?
Aditya Rao
executiveThat's correct.
Unknown Analyst
analystOkay. And what -- another thing is we have made a PBT margin of 4.58% for quarter 4. Just to understand it, will it maintain -- I mean this is more like a base, right, maybe quarter-to-quarter?
Aditya Rao
executiveSorry. So your question was in Q4, 4.58%, that is accurate. What was your question on our [indiscernible]?
Unknown Analyst
analystI want to understand going ahead for each quarter, it will be more or less like a base, right?
Aditya Rao
executiveThat is our goal, yes. I can say that. But -- and yes, for Q1, what I tend to provide is, I'm not quite guidance, but what I do tell you is if we -- if you ever see a decline in our profit margins, I will absolutely guide you. But as of right now, our Q1 looks stronger than our Q4. So that should answer the question. So yes.
Operator
operatorOur next question comes from [ Bora Fajteva ] with [ Further Investments ].
Unknown Analyst
analystMy question is just regarding the EBITDA margins, which is 10% in this Q4. This, I want to ask, can we maintain these EBITDA margins for the whole financial year '24?
Aditya Rao
executiveOur EBITDA margin is not something we target. We target net PBT margins. EBITDA obviously differs from that in terms of added depreciation and interest costs as well. So we don't have an EBITDA target in mind. So we will not be in a position to commit that we'll maintain 12%. But I can't -- I don't see a reason how -- why we would decline. I mean our depreciation is on the higher side, and our interest costs are stable and tend to be around the same line. As Shrikant said a few questions ago, 3%, 4%. So if our PBT margins are going up, then obviously, that can't happen with our EBITDA margin going down, right? So it's a calculation. So yes, I can say that we are not looking towards substantial EBITDA margin declines. But what we will -- what we're committing to you is the net profit margin.
Unknown Analyst
analystOkay. And sir, how many years do you see we can achieve a milestone of INR 4,000 crores revenue for the company?
Aditya Rao
executiveWe'll not be able to give revenue guidance. But thus far, the projects we have put in place already gives us an ability to reach that. So we just try to execute right now. So revenue comes from, I think, large addressable market and having assets, as I mentioned, right? So our markets are all quite big, and that capacity has increased to a point right now also where that isn't unachievable. So yes, but that is the goal. So more than that also. It's not just 4. We are not going to sit at INR 4,000 crores. But over the course of the next 1.5 years, I'm sure you will see us achieve that from a run rate point of view. INR 330 crores, I think, is the math. INR 330 crores per month gives us INR 4,000 crores. We are [indiscernible] to achieve that. And in the medium term itself, you will see us achieve that on a monthly basis.
Operator
operatorOur next question comes from Deep Gandhi with Astute Investment Management.
Deep Gandhi
analystJust continuing with my previous question. So you had highlighted PEB capacity, the total capacity which is -- so I missed that number, if you can highlight that again?
Aditya Rao
executiveCould you say that again sir? You said PEB capacity.
Deep Gandhi
analystYes. The total capacity which you have in PEB division currently. I missed that number.
Aditya Rao
executiveYes. So 8 beamlines, and as I said, you can apply a multiplier for a beamline of about 1,000 to 1,200 tonnes. But it depends a lot on the kind of projects you're undertaking, how much [ framing ] tonnage. There is secondary framing tonnage. There is primary framing tonnes. There is -- so it's not easy calculation, but it's not a standard calculation, but I think I mentioned 8,000 to 9,000 tonnes of our capacity, and you can -- that's where we're at right now. That's [indiscernible] numbers.
Operator
operatorOur next question comes from [ Hari Kumar ], an investor.
Unknown Attendee
attendeeAm I audible, sir?
Aditya Rao
executiveYes, please go ahead.
Unknown Attendee
attendeeMy question is regarding this with our focus on specific segments -- like, are we content we'll be market leaders or compete more actually with the entrenched players both nationally and internationally, sir?
Aditya Rao
executiveYes, sir, in the [indiscernible].
Unknown Attendee
attendeeAre we focused on this global market apart from PEB?
Aditya Rao
executiveSo we intend to be a market leader in all of the -- our addressable market is represented. So yes, that applies to PEB. We're right now #2 or #3 in India. It's between us and [ Intera ] that is #1. Our goal is to be -- a market leader doesn't necessarily mean #1 in terms of revenue. We want to be a cost market leader. We want to be a profit market leader. So that is absolutely on our target so far, and we intend to achieve that. And that's our goal. We do need to be relevant, and if your market share is 5%, 4%, then you can't be relevant. So both internationally and in India. I was talking to our CEO in our U.S. business yesterday, who is here, and he has also told me very similarly that we have to target market leadership in the U.S. as well. So -- and the U.S. market is much, much bigger than Indian market. It's about 5x the size of Indian market from a PEB point of view. The same applies for hydraulics. The same applies for our Body in White division, which is why I'm saying in such large addressable markets that we have plenty of headroom to grow. I mean our competitors are all -- not a great thing -- in a way, it's bad, but it's also good in a way, but all of our competitors are bigger than our [indiscernible]. I mean Kirby 2, 2.5x our size. In hydraulics, [indiscernible] many times our size. BIW is a multi-thousand crores -- companies exist in India in that field. So our markets are not going to prevent us to go. We just have to make sure we set our assets up, build good operating teams, get good orders and execute well, and we will scale revenue tremendously. So that's our base plan over the next few years.
Unknown Attendee
attendeeBut in your internal to focus on [indiscernible].
Aditya Rao
executiveYes. What I'm saying applies to domestic, international. For a purpose of stand-alone consolidation, yes, but everything is wholly owned. So really for us, we see it as markets, whether it's being serviced to export sort of India, or we are manufacturing the [indiscernible]. It's a market. We have really -- it's very centralized from a point of view of seeing how growth comes. So...
Operator
operatorOur next question comes from [ Dilip Kumar Sahuh ], an investor.
Unknown Attendee
attendeeAm I audible?
Aditya Rao
executiveYes, [ Dilip ]. You go ahead, sir.
Unknown Attendee
attendeeYes, yes. So Mr. Aditya, this is regarding the renewable order from a power PSU. Last con call, you said that based on which, it will take some time. So if those -- are those things ironed out? And is it executable this financial year, this large power sector PSU renewable order that we got sometime there?
Aditya Rao
executiveYes, sir. That is accurate. We had a large order that came in. The execution of that order has started. So revenue on that has started. I don't believe it will complete in this financial year. That's my current understanding. So I do not believe that order will be a powerful driver of our revenue or our profitability in this fiscal. But revenue started. It's very capital-efficient, I could say, because of the way the working capital versus the profit is set up. So I'm quite confident that it will -- the revenues will start coming in. But we don't currently plan for it to be a big driver of our revenue for this financial year. But revenue has started. That's the difference from last quarter this quarter.
Unknown Attendee
attendeeSure, sure. And it's a very unique -- different kind of project from what we have been doing traditionally. So is the execution going smoothly? Or is it like -- I mean what is the learning there?
Aditya Rao
executiveYes, it's a good question. My request, allow me to say that it is part of a margin profile, and it will -- it's part of our -- it's not very different from what we've done historically. But yes, we are moving towards businesses, which are manufacturing, engineering businesses, which are higher-margin, which are scalable, which don't depend on government or PSUs. And no question. I mean I'm sure there are many companies bigger than us who do -- many are -- who are very good at those things, and more respect to them. But for us, private fixed capital formation, diverse number of customers, customers in automotive sector, customers in infrastructure space, customers in the engineering space, that sort we'll focus on, and that market is big enough. If we just execute in those markets, it's enough. So we don't need these PSU orders. So going forward, no, we don't intend to book -- to grow those orders, that order book.
Unknown Attendee
attendeeSure. So a lot has been spoken about employee expense and all that. My simple query is in '22, we have 9.1% employee cost to operating revenue. '23, it is 10.7%; Q4, 12%. My question would be, what would be a base compared to operating revenue? Is it 10% is a good base? Or is it going to be higher?
Aditya Rao
executiveIt would be lower than 10%. This quarter is an aberration because of what Shrikant has also mentioned. [indiscernible] did very well with the corporate share, which was recorded entirely in the fourth quarter. That's the reason for it. You will see a bit below 10%. I do want to mention, we don't have an [ abject ] control because our businesses are different, right? So our engineering services business, our employee cost is [ 35% ]. So it's very difficult for us to say that this -- we will keep it at 9%, we will keep it at 10% because different businesses respond differently, which is why what is important for us is that we monitor ultimately, what are we getting from a capital efficiency point of view and from a PBT point of view. So we have PBT targets. We have contribution targets. We have ROCE targets. We have C-ROSS contribution, those targets. So those if we had, we will be in good shape, and we will cover our base goals, which is the measure of performance and profitability, liquidity and growth. All 3 will come in. If we said 10%, then it's aggressive. We get a really good engineering order, which is a 30% margin. But the employee cost for that, that execute will rise to 25%. Should we do it? Not overall but for that orders, right? So we should still do it, right? So that's the metric we would use. So monitors on PBT, monitors on capital efficiency, monitors on growth rates, this absolutely should be monitored, but do give us some leeway to take the [ right issue ] and [ right cost ] on this as the revenue growth profile -- as revenue profile of the company also goes towards the higher-margin businesses, which does mean higher employee costs also, both in the U.S. and in India.
Operator
operatorLadies and gentlemen, we have reached to the end of the question-and-answer session. I would now like to hand the conference over to the management for closing comments.
Aditya Rao
executiveThank you. I'm grateful for your support. We would not be able to do this. But for you, candor and your guidance, I'm thankful for this. We are committing that we'll continue the path we're on and continue to scale revenue, profitability and capital efficiency. Thank you, everyone, for your presence today and for your questions.
Operator
operatorThank you. On behalf of PhillipCapital (India) Private Limited, that concludes this conference. Thank you for joining us, and you may now disconnect your lines.
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