Cummins India Limited

Quarter ended Jun 2026

2026-08-06 Transcript PDF
Moderator

Thank you very much. W e'll now begin the question -and-answer session. The first question is from the line of Parikshit Kandpal from HDFC Securities.

HDFC Securities

Congratulations on highest ever top line, quarterly top line. So my first question is on the demand side. So given you have done such a phenomenal revenues in this quarter. So just wanted to

understand on the ground, how is the demand? How are you able to supply to the demand? Are you in any way, I mean, not able to cater to demand or losing market share to t he competition because of this? Is there any capacity constraint in supplying the QSK60 or QSK95? Has the lead time increased? So just on the product side, I want to understand from you on the production side, how are you catering to demand? Are we losing out any orders because of shortage of the capacity?

Thanks, Parikshit. From a demand side, I'm presuming you're asking me a question about power generation, but I will give you answer for power generation perspective. So, from a power generation perspective, demand, we continue to see strong in the market, both CPCB IV+ range and in the higher range, different segments, but still continue to see demand coming in. From a supply perspective, capacity on the higher end, there are a few players in the market, and everybody is facing the same situation as we are. Demand is outpacing supply for everyone. And we have been putting in efforts to increase capacity at those s pecific nodes. So largely, we are able to cater to the demand in the market. But like I said, it is a similar situation for everyone in the market in the high horsepower space, where we are continuously adding capacity and demand is outpacing the addition of capacity that we are able to do. Are we losing orders? Well, the market is very competitive. And everybody who's playing in this market tries their level best to get the orders. So losing orders is not just a function of whether we are able to supply it or not. It is a function of various other factors, customer preferences and the relationships of organizations with the customers. From our perspective, our relationships with all our end customers are very strong. Our distribution business in the aftermarket gives us the capability to cater to aftermarket needs, the reliability of our products in the market. So we see that helping us continuously. I hope that answers your question.

HDFC Securities

And just on the commodity, so we have seen the commodity prices, especially the pig iron going up almost on a Y-o-Y basis on a full year basis about 14% to 20%. So just wanted to understand, I mean, your earlier comment at the start of the call and even in the press release about the commodity impact on the margins. So, what kind of pricing actions we have taken, especially in Q1 and the start of Q2, so which will help us mitigate the impact on the gross margins of this commodity inflation?

Yes, you're right. Commodity has been impacting. Major commodities, steel, pig iron, aluminum, copper significant increases. And commodity-related cost inflation also has been impacting the West Asia crisis, labor shortages at our supplier, all of those ha ve impacted us in the quarter. Now yes, we have taken some price increases and price is quite dependent on market conditions and how market accepts some of the price hikes. We do continue to adjust pricing, we have taken one, and we will continue seeing how the market adjusts to this price increase and then see how best to manage the cost inflation and the price increases going forward.

HDFC Securities

But do you think from Q2 onwards, we'll have the gross margins coming back to the historical levels, almost like we have done in the past 36%, 37%. So do you think that this pricing action will result in the impact from Q2 onwards or this slow grind reversal on the GPM?

I think the commodity increases at this point , in time are very unprecedented than ever in the past. And freight, by the way, as well has also been a challenge. Freight costs have been increasing. There are continuous supply chain issues that we see and continue to manage. So some of these issues will continue. Price, as I mentioned, we will see how the market reacts to it and we then take some more, if needed. Will the margins reach historic level? What I can say is our ability to manage commodity increases, inflation increases and also trying at the same time to manage our costs, we are getting better at that. So will we be able to improve our margins? Yes. I will not be able to say whether we will hit historic highs or not , because these are unprecedented times in terms of commodity increases and inflation coming at the same time.

HDFC Securities

Just wanted to wish you all the best. I think under your leadership, you have delivered phenomenal returns to the shareholders and created wealth and hope it will continue post your departure. I wish you all the best.

Moderator

Next question is from the line of Jonas Bhutta from Birla Mutual Fund.

Birla Mutual Fund

I have 2 of them. Firstly, on what we see as related party transaction approvals that have come in for the current year imply a very sharp increase and particularly in exports to the U.K subsidiary of the parent. If you can help us understand how does this sort of play out? Is this approval valid only for the current year or this kind of export is for a bulk period of maybe 2 to 3 years? How should we think of this sizable increase in the RPT approvals that you're taking for the current year? That's question one.

Jonas, I'll answer the question and then you can ask me the other one. So from a related party transaction purposes, this is only for the current year. The approvals that we have taken are only for the current fiscal year. The intent is to ensure that we h ave adequate flexibility to support any export opportunities that come our way instead of seeking repeated approvals from the shareholders. So this is what we do as a prudent governance practice. I don't think you should read any more into it than that.

Birla Mutual Fund

Okay. The reason I ask is, every time you guys take this approval, the actual export sales are above those numbers. So I was just trying to understand whether this time around also, it's something that you already are aware of in terms of an order book com ing in from the U.K. subsidiary or this is purely in anticipation, like you mentioned?

Birla Mutual Fund

Sure, sure. The second question was on the distribution piece. We've seen very strong growth in the last 5 years. The sales of this segment have sort of grown at 20%-plus kind of CAGR. I know it's wrong to look at this 1 quarter, but this quarter, that gro wth has sort of come off to 14%, which is still healthy. If you can remind us what are the drivers or levers still left in this business? That can support, if not a 20% growth, but at least a mid-teens growth. Is that possible or now are we seeing some bit of peaking in terms of penetration of the installed base, tapping of the installed base, etc.?

I think, as you rightly mentioned, you should not read too much into 1 quarter. Because I do believe that the distribution has more possibility of all the things that I have been mentioning until now, higher penetration, ability to serve customers as a one -stop shop end-to -end, our digital solutions, all of those coming in, all those things are on track. And this is more a quarterly situation. Please also remember that we had a higher base earlier. And the next thing is that when commodity increase, freight issues, all of these happen, supply disruption sometimes cause us to deal with lower parts availability. So do not read too much into this quarter. DBU business absolutely has the potential to grow at 20% growth over this year and the next few years as well.

Birla Mutual Fund

Perfect. Great. If I can just squeeze in 1 quick one on exports. This quarter, was it impaired because of these freight challenges or this was the normal run rate as it was as per target in the sense what you sort of budgeted for the first quarter?

This is normal. Remember that the West Asia crisis is actually leading to some of our exports not going to the Middle East as anticipated. There are other markets where we are getting some of this.

Moderator

Next question is from the line of Aditya Mongia from Kotak Institutional Equities.

Kotak Institutional Equities

The first question that I had was on just the employee cost metrics, some clarification over there, given that employee count as per annual report was flattish. It seems to be a fairly large increment. And I'm asking you in context whether there are any one -offs inside because the parent has suggested some incentives that have a finite life being paid to employees by them?

Aditya, the employee costs, yes, you're right. The count is flat. So there are 3 things impacting the employee cost in this quarter. First is the annual merit increase that gets effective April 1, 2026. So there is an impact of that. Then we do true -up of our variable comp factor , based on which direction the company is going and where it is expected to land at. So we do a true-up in this quarter, which has been done and there is an impact of that. And then there is some actuarial credit, which was booked in the last quarter. This resulted in you seeing a lower cost. So, there are 3 impacts in the employee costs.

Kotak Institutional Equities

The second question that I had was more on the export story. I wanted to get a sense that when in the annual report, the mention is made about the company finally entering into Europe with Euro 5 certification, expanding presence inside North America and t hen again, getting inside Chile, a few other things. Should one think through this as a good phase for exports? And I'm saying, so because typically exports go up in jumps. They stagnate and then they grow. Are we entering into a phase wherein the expectations are that exports will start growing, let's say, at a high single digit or low double- digit pace from here on?

Difficult to say that Aditya. Difficult to say because as I was mentioning in the answer to the earlier question, Middle East exports are not that strong for obvious reasons right now. The other markets have been pretty decent, like Europe, Asia Pacific and so on. I would not say don’t read too much into it because, yes, this is a little lumpy quarter-on-quarter.

Moderator

Next question is from the line Renu Baid from IIFL Capital.

IIFL Capital

Congratulations for the strong performance. Shveta, my first question is, last year, when we closed the year, you were expecting fiscal '27 to be a moderate year. And as we see 1Q has been pretty strong growth in volumes. So how do you read the volume outl ook for fiscal '27? And your key comments in terms of the key end market outlook. Do you see positive surprises to come by in the second half of the year as the external volatility eases out? What would be your reading into it? That's the first question.

Renu, so I would answer this in 2 parts. For the domestic market, we see from an end market perspective, power generation growth to be pretty strong. We have seen that in this quarter. I am basing my optimism based on the orders we are generating today. So across be it manufacturing, data centers, residential, commercial realty, all those, we see decent order velocity in the power generation space in domestic market. And for now, we continue to see that. We need to be very watchful of inflation in the regions because that can impact some of these orders going forward. For now, we have not seen that happen. but need to really watch it. Then mining, last year, if you remember, we were not seeing enough mining tenders, especially the coal mines coming in. But now slowly and steadily, tenders are coming in. So mining is better this year. Marine is a lumpy business. It comes in some quarters, it doesn't in some quarters. So it will remain like that. And construction is flat in this quarter, if you see. And construction, there are no new road highway, national highway construction tenders coming in. All the rural road construction is going on. So it's a mixed bag on the construction side. So we do see good demand in power gen, decent in construction, decent in mining. Railways has been strong. You have seen that in the last 2, 3 quarters. And for now, railways has been strong.

So yes, in the domestic market, end segment for now, we continue to see that demand. Exports is difficult to say and has been and continues to become difficult with the geopolitical situation. That is how I would put it.

IIFL Capital

And secondly, I know it's difficult to comment on the near-term gross margin mix given that the cost structures are behaving. But the fact that we see growth coming in the high HP segment pretty strongly. Data center is a strong driver for us. So, if you take a 2-year view, where do we see the gross margin stabilizing? Are they r everting back to 35%, 36% range or you think that exports coming up, margins could have further tailwinds? How do we see a medium -term outlook on the material margin front?

Renu, I can tell you, it's a very difficult question to ask and answer. Given the way the situation, both on supply side and demand side is developing both domestically and in the export in a 2- year time frame, I may not be able to give you an answer of where the gross margins will land. What I can tell you is that our endeavour definitely is to be at the kind of gross margins, which we think Cummins really should have. So that is our endeavour , and that is what we'll work towards try and get better at managing commodity, try and get better at anticipating some freight supply kind of challenges, manage our costs even better than we have done. So I think definitely, there is scope to improve our margins here on.

IIFL Capital

Sure. And lastly, quickly, if I can ask, any updates on new product launches, which are planned for second half of the year, especially in the railway and the other part of the business?

Renu, you will get to know as soon as we are ready to announce those.

Moderator

Next question is from the line of Umesh Raut from Nomura.

Congrats for a very good set of numbers on domestic side. My first question is pertaining to your comment that you made in today's AGM that probably in the future, you are planning to supply components for data center market in U.S., especially towards Cum mins Inc. So I wanted to understand scope for you in exports market on these particular lines, what all you can offer to your related party or parent entities. And at the same time, if suppose there is an incremental demand in other Asian countries , as well as with respect to other geographies because of data center capacity expansion, would that be catered through India operations?

Umesh, there was no specific comment that we are starting components exports to the U.S. Let me clarify here. We are catering to the data center market in India domestically and since we are a global integrated supply chain, we do manufacture components and engines which go into our different plants. Now this was not specific to the data center. This is not specific to U.S. And this is nothing new. We have been doing this for a long period of time. So I don't think there is any incremental demand coming from that. This is business as usual.

Moderator

The line for the participant dropped. We move on to the next participant. Next question is from the line of Ankur Periwal from Axis Capital.

Axis Capital

Congratulations on a strong revenue growth. Just double -clicking on the revenue growth first. You did allude towards the growth outlook on the industrial side. One, how has the bigger ones, railways and construction sort of picking up in terms of demand across the HHP or the mid and the low end range. And secondly, within power gen, if you could help us better understand what led to the sharper growth? Was it more led by data center or products or what led to the growth there?

Ankur, on the rail side, we have consistently been seeing for the last few quarters, good orders coming in and good execution. And we will continue to see that based on the orders that we see currently. On the construction side, we largely see this quarter was flat to the same quarter last year, and slightly lower than the last quarter. So construction largely is flattish. And there is a slowdown due to monsoons that is now anticipated. So that is about the rail and construction. Power generation, yes, you're right. There was some data center project execution in this particular quarter, which we saw yes.

Axis Capital

Sure, Shveta. And second bit, your earlier comment wherein you did highlight that the demand has been holding up pretty strong and especially led by the HHP part of the business. And you also mentioned that we had taken one price hike starting early this q uarter, Q2, that is? Will it be fair to say that as we speak today, all the RM inflation has been passed through given the demand has been strong and logically, price increase would have been easier to take o r are we still sort of contemplating, taking a hike depending upon the volatility and what's the thought over there?

Ankur, there's always a lag when the cost hits us and when the price realization actually starts happening. So price realization will start happening a few months down the line because we do run backlogs in our power generation business. I did mention that there is strong demand, and we are constantly in this space of supply catching up with demand. So, there are backlogs because of that, and hence, price realization takes at least a quarter. So, we will we be able to recover all commodity increases through this price rise? No. So we will have to see, and that is what I said, commodity increases, we try and see what are the best ways of passing that on to the market. Price is one. Our own cost control value engineering methods are another. We're working on both. And if required, we will then, based on the market absorption, see how we can do another price increase as and when needed and if needed.

Moderator

Next question is from the line of Amit Anwani from PL Capital.

Amit. From a BESS perspective, we are still in the process of getting orders. We have already installed the BESS at one of our own plants, our own rebuild center in Phaltan. We have installed this BESS as a demonstrator and we are getting our customers to see and experience that. Very close to getting some orders, but nothing more to share yet on that.

Amit Anwani

Second question, I think in the last call, you highlighted about the inquiries picking up at an accelerated pace for the data centers, I think, from October onwards. And we have been hearing a lot in terms of probable delays. So just wanted to understand your color how has been the inquiry pipeline in the past 3 months. Anything you would like to highlight in terms of the data center inquiry pipeline in domestic market? Are the customers able to take these price hikes or is this also impacting flow of orders? Any sense on the data center perspective in terms of inquiry book and execution?

Sure. Yes, the data center inquiries as they had picked up in the last few quarters, the momentum continues, very strong momentum on the data center side. And our execution has also been strong. Please remember, these are all big gensets. So they take time for delivery as well. So we are not only generating inquiries for this year, but we are now talking about the next year and the year after that. And price increases as far as data center goes, I think, for data centers, it is really important to work on lead times and ability to supply when they have the site readiness, those are more critical, more important for data centers than the price. Of cou rse, price is a conversation, but lead times and having genset available when their site is ready is more critical.

Amit Anwani

Yes. Lastly, anything on the capex because you talked about the long pipeline? What's the capex and utilization levels for this year and next year? Any color?

Our utilization level is between 70% to 75%. So it has been consistently going up. And the capital investment is in line with what we have been doing in the last few years in our existing plants.

Moderator

Next question is from the line of Rahul Gajare from Macquarie.

Macquarie

I wanted to ask you that we have seen last year where the Gulf market was down this quarter also, we've seen that reflected in the LHP genset. I want to know, there must be these orders which are expected to be delivered. So is it right to assume that once the West Asia crisis or the disturbance settles, you will have a bunched-up delivery to Gulf region. Is that right to think?

No, Rahul. That is not. Because whatever we are not able to fulfill the market in the Gulf will try and fulfill with whatever availability they have from their own region. These orders do not stay that long.

Macquarie

Okay. Fair enough. And I just wanted to double check this number. The HHP number that you quoted was INR296 crores for this particular quarter?

Moderator

Next question is from the line of Shirom Kapur from Jefferies India.

Jefferies India

I just wanted to ask you ; you commented that Cummins took a couple of price hikes at the beginning of this quarter. But just wondering whether 1Q also saw any price hikes that you've done to pass on this increase in commodity costs? And specifically on data centers as well, given these are longer lead time orders, how have you been able to take any price hikes here? Have you been able to get any better pricing on these given the commodity cost increase? That's my first question.

Yes. So price hikes in quarter 1, no. We did not take price hikes at that point in time. And data center is an order-to-order discussion with customers. It's not a blanket price increase; it really depends on what the volume of the order is? When is the delivery required? When do we start engaging with the customer? What is the customization level required? Price differs from one data center customer to another and from order to order.

Jefferies India

Understood. Just secondly, more of a bookkeeping question, if you could share the breakups between within domestic power gen across, MHP, LHP, HHP and also within industrial, the breakup across segments for this quarter? And also how much data center contr ibuted to your power gen sales this quarter?

Yes, let me do that. So for power generation domestic, the low horsepower sales in this quarter was INR77 crores. The medium range is INR248 crores. The heavy duty is INR125 crores, and the high horsepower, the range after that is the remaining. And data centers out of this, in this particular quarter, was 40% of overall power generation revenue.

Jefferies India

Understood. And also on the industrial revenue breakup?

On the industrial: The Construction segment, INR 148 crores, rail INR145 crores. Compressor INR52 crores. Marine INR50 crores and then the remaining is mining, defense and others.

Moderator

Next question is from the line of Mohit Pandey from Citi.

My first question is on distribution. So you earlier indicated that there's scope for 20% plus growth this year and next year. So I just wanted to delve a bit deeper there. So are retrofitting mandates also something that has scope going forward? That woul d be one. And if you could share more co lor around the reach levels, et c., how much juice is left there? That would be second, yes?

Mohit, distribution business is retrofit and opportunity, absolutely, because some of our assets do have a long life. Sometimes also retrofitting when we want to control emissions. So yes, there are opportunities around both rebuilding our own engines and retrofitting our assets for managing emissions and things like that.

The distribution demand will likely come from more service contracts, more penetrations, rebuilding our own engines and also selling more through our own distribution channel so that we can provide more services and a one-stop solution to our customers. I did not understand your question on resellers. If you can repeat that, that will be helpful?

Sorry, that was not resellers, that was reach?

Reach? From a distribution perspective, Mohit, we actually have excellent reach already. We have, between us and our dealerships, 3,500 trained engineers and 450 touchpoints in the country. At this point in time, our distribution business promises to all o ur customers, specifically critical customers. Critical customers are the likes of, say, hospitals that a service engineer will reach them within 2 hours of logging a complaint. And all the other customers, our service engineer will reach them within 4 hours of logging a complaint, although we work very proactively and try and ensure that our customers do not have to call us and we reach them before they call us. But in case they do, a 2-hour and 4-hour service guarantee for critical and other customers in a country like India, which is very vast spread. So that is the kind of reach that our distribution business has already.

Okay, ma'am. And then possible to give some color on how do gross margins vary between power gen and industrial. Any qualitative color if at all possible?

No, Mohit. I won't be able to give you that split.

Moderator

Next question is from the line of Kartik Kohli from Kotak Institutional Equities.

Kotak Institutional Equities

I have 2. One on the understanding of how distribution revenues are shaping up in context of data centers.

Moderator

Kartik, sorry to interrupt, we're losing your audio in between. Can you speak a little louder, please?

Kotak Institutional Equities

Am I audible now?

Moderator

Yes, go ahead.

Kotak Institutional Equities

Yes. So my question is more on distribution side of things. I wanted to understand how much contribution are you seeing in distribution coming from the data canters, that you've already put in place? Because from what I understand you have more comprehensive contracts while signing up with hyperscalers and that sort. So any color on that?

Kartik, the revenue in the distribution business when we provide comprehensive contracts to any customer, even if it is data center or other customers, they start coming after warranty period gets over, which is 2 years after installation of our gensets at their site. So as you can see, our data center revenues have been growing beyond the normal growth rate in the last 2 quarters. So once they come out of warranty, we will start seeing larger impact on

the distribution revenue at that point in time. For now, it is just like any other segment, and we are getting that kind of revenue on the distribution side.

Kotak Institutional Equities

Understood. My second question is more broad based. I wanted to understand if you can in some way quantify what is your market share in data centers within India? And in the past that you've been discussing the topic of data centers, especially in context of QSK78 and 96-liter engines. The discussion has been more around the fact that once you start seeing a pipeline, you will go ahead with expanding domestic capacities to manufacture these engines in India. So are you seeing that pipeline becoming strong enough for you to take a decision and expand. That will be my second and last question.

So I won't be able to give you the answer to the market shares because we do not have any syndicated market research for that. Now on the data centre, what I can tell you is that since we comprehensively cater to data center customers, even before they start floating their requests, we work with them to help them understand how our products can help them as they are putting up their sites and to understand their requirements better. And then we stay with them throughout the lifetime through our distribution business. Also very strong products like you rightly mentioned, QSK60, QSK78 and QSK95. That is the reason a lot of data center customers prefer us, but I do not have market share. And on capacity, India market is still largely QSK60. We are seeing momentum and ask of some more QSK78 and some QSK95, but still largely the India volume is QSK60. So we haven't reached the point where we would need to establish capacities yet of 78 and 95 liters and we continue to evaluate that.

Moderator

Next question is from the line of Teena Virmani from Motilal Oswal.

Motilal Oswal

Shveta, congrats for good revenue growth. My question is related to the Power Gen segment. We've seen a very healthy growth in the Power Gen segment, but we see the split. The growth in the non-HHP segment is looking closer to around 5%, in quarter 1, on a year-on-year basis. And I believe this will be volume-led growth if the pricing increase has happened from Q2 onwards. So do you think that this volume growth has a scope of further improvement in the coming quarters?

Teena, I absolutely agree that this volume growth has scope to grow.

Motilal Oswal

And how much can that be, like in line with the 12 GDP growth.

Very difficult, very difficult, Teena. This is a highly competitive market with more than 10 or 12 competitors in the market. Extremely difficult to say what the growth could be. I am saying from a Cummins focus and endeavor perspective, definitely higher volumes in that range is something we are looking for.

Motilal Oswal

Understood. And my second question is related to exports. So which geographies are doing well for you. Like this quarter, we have seen the number growing on a sequential basis, although Middle East is still smaller and may not have contributed much in the current quarter. But which are the geographies which are growing well, and which are the end user segments , from these geographies which are driving this particular growth in exports, particularly for the HHP side.

So Teena, largely Europe and Asia Pacific and some demand from Middle East was also there, which we were able to cater to, but this is largely Europe and Asia Pacific. I won't be able to tell you which customer segments because we sell into distributors in these markets who then sell to the end customers.

Motilal Oswal

But not any specific areas like whether it is telecom or whether it is manufacturing or whether it is DC and all?

We won't be able to say because our sales are into distributors.

Motilal Oswal

Sure, sure. That's it from my side, and all the best for your future endeavors.

Moderator

Thank you. Next question is from the line of Sandesh Shetty from HSBC.

Congratulations for a stellar quarter in terms of revenue. My first question is on industrial part. Ma'am, we've seen that rail run rate has been really good. How do you see this going forward? Like you introduced a couple of new products like hotel load c onverters and everything. How has been the reception? And how do you see rail outlook going forward?

Yes. Rail has been growing good order board and good execution from our end. So largely, the applications where we have been getting orders are power cars and diesel electric tower cars. Diesel-electric tower cars are used to make and maintain electrical overhead lines on t he rail tracks. We continue to see that growing and power cars actually provide what is called the hotel load on different rail carriages. So for now, for this financial year, we do see those growing. Hotel load converter acceptance has been pretty good as we have seen. But that was our first product in that space, and we are working on other products for the Indian Railways as well.

And congratulations for your stellar tenure. And I just wanted to understand what's the way forward from a leadership perspective? How should we look at that?

Thanks for the question, Sandesh. So Cummins management is involved and they are absolutely looking to appoint a rightful successor for me.

Atul Tiwari

Ma'am, what was the contribution of data center to domestic power gen revenue in first quarter of FY26?

In first quarter of FY26 data center was 23% of overall power gen revenue.

Moderator

Atul, do you have any follow-up question?

Atul Tiwari

No. I don't.

Moderator

Next question is from line of Prathmesh Salunkhe from Nippon India Mutual Fund.

Nippon India Mutual Fund

One correction, I'm not from the mutual fund side of the business. I'm from the life insurance side of the business. But again, the question is on the pricing front. As you rightly said that the competition has been growing the industry, right? So I just wanted to know the 2 price hikes which you took in this quarter. How has the response been from the distributors and other channels? And has it become slightly more difficult to pass the prices on?

Prathmesh, we have only taken one price rise at the beginning of quarter 2. So we are yet to see how it gets accepted in the market, and that's what I have been mentioning. We have to wait and see how that gets absorbed in the market.

Nippon India Mutual Fund

All right. So would it be possible for you to share what percentage of price hike you guys took?

No, it will not be possible for me to share that information.

Nippon India Mutual Fund

All right. No problem. So my second question was on the data center side of the business. So the offtake for the data center operators has become a problem for them. I mean the end customer offtake for them. So what we have seen is the execution has taken an impact on the data center side of it, EPC execution. So just wanted to know, has it happened yet if an end customer has come to you and told you, okay, can we hold on to a delivery of, let's say, one DG set and postpone the deliveries for the same on the data center side of the business?

Prathmesh, we actually have not seen that. And quite the opposite, where all the data center customers are wanting us to prepone our deliveries to them.

Nippon India Mutual Fund

So largely, the volume and the execution has gone up.

Moderator

Next follow-up question is from the line of Aditya Mongia from Kotak Institutional Equities.

Kotak Institutional Equities

Just a question on the royalty and the support services. The proportion of which as per FY26 as the proportion of sales have gone up to 2.5% and indications are it's going to go further up in fiscal '27. Is this more a catch -up from a low base in this line item o r are there specific technologies that the company investing inside? And if it's the latter, could you give us a sense of what to expect from a revenue perspective?

Aditya, nothing like that. Actually, we had some different royalty percentages for different services, which used to range between 1% to 8%. We have standardized it to 4%. That's all. What you're seeing is a little standardization of royalty and nothing more.

Kotak Institutional Equities

Understood. The other question that I had, which was linked to data centers was, as we see through the annual report, the purchases done with CTIL appears to be increasing quite rapidly over the last 3 to 4 years. Is this something that has linked up to your requirement to deliver to your data center customers. And if so, should one then assume that there would be lower margins because while we say QSK60 is localized, the value addition is getting divided between CTIL and Cummins India?

So we choose what is the best path to market and the best path to market for our power generation business has been through CIL, and we try and manufacture in CIL what we can. And if there is scale in some other entity to produce some other components for us, we do it in that entity. So it's really based on giving the best possible output to both the market and take advantage of scale and whichever entity we can take advantage. It's truly just based on that, Aditya. So do not read anything more into it.

Kotak Institutional Equities

I'm sure, just a last question from my side. Basis what you have shared on data centers and their contribution in the way it has changed. It seems as if of 35% growth in power gen, almost 30% came from a large portion, data centres. The remaining business actually have grown single digit. Could you give us a sense, is this more a function of capacity constraints or market share losses or how things move , the residual business in power gen beyond data centers and while the numbers are weak?

So data center has grown faster in this particular quarter as compared to all others. There is a little bit of supply constraint that we faced. So it's a function of that.

Kotak Institutional Equities

So, market share beyond DC is broadly intact?

I cannot share anything on market share, unfortunately.

Moderator

Thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, in the interest of time. We'll take that as our last question. I would now like to hand the conference over to Ms. Shveta Arya for closing comments.

Thank you. Thanks all of you for your active participation and engagement during the call today. As we look ahead, we believe that strong demand in various end markets will sustain. At this time, inflationary pressures and supply chain constraints are like ly to continue and are sha ping our operating environment. Our focus will remain on operational efficiency, cost management and supply chain resilience while continuing to serve our customers reliably. With this, I close this call. Thank you once again, all of you for joining us today.

Moderator

Thank you very much. On behalf of Cummins India Limited, that concludes this conference. Thank you for joining us, and you may now disconnect your lines. Thank you.